Kate Temple, painter, printmaker and installation artist, was born in France and raised in the countryside of southern New Hampshire.

She received her BFA in printmaking from Carnegie Mellon in 1988 and went on to complete a four-year training in color, based on the work of Goethe and Liane Collot d’Herbois. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally in many galleries and museums including Wave Hill, Riverdale, NY, The International Print Center NYC, Goethe Institute NYC, Parrish Art Museum, Southhampton, NY, the Mattress Factory Museum, Pittsburgh, PA, Birmingham Art Museum, England and the Castello di Corigliano D’Otranto, Italy.

Her installation Elemental Correspondence was featured in a book, Installations: Mattress Factory 1990-1999, published in 2001. Her most recent installations You/Me and ragni metaforici were created and exhibited in Puglia, Italy in August 2010. You/Me is now a permanent site-specific piece in the town of Martignano. Her printwork was recently seen in the exhibiton Of Weeds and Wildness: Nature in Black & White at the Mandeville Gallery, Union College, NY in March 2011.

She is represented in corporate and private collections and has won numerous awards for her work including an Individual Artist Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts.