Lady K Fever
Bio
“Lady K Fever” Kathleena Howie is an award winning Canadian born inter-disciplinary artist based New York City since 2004. Internationally renowned for her large-scale graffiti/street art installations experimenting with painting, installation, conceptualism, performance, and writing. In 2020 she was awarded the B.R.I.O award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own) from the Bronx Council of the Arts. A professional trained dancer, she transitioned into performance and street art while studying theatre, film and directing at Gastown Actor’s Studio in Vancouver 1994-1999.
She has been included in ground breaking projects : All Along the Watchtower (Marcus Garvey Park, West Harlem Art Fund 2016); When you cut into the present the future leaks out (No Longer Empty, Old Bronx Courthouse, Bronx 2015); TedX CUNY: Access Art (West Harlem Art Fund, Harlem 2015); Couturemonials (Model: Art in Odd Places, New York 2013), Graffiti Research Lab (MOMA, New York 2008); Born Again: Eight Artists Respond (Longwood Art Gallery, Bronx 2011); B-girl Be (Intermedia Arts Minneapolis, MN 2005/2006); The Graffiti Hall of Fame (Harlem 2003-04); and Artropolis 93 (Riot Grrlz, Vancouver, Canada 1993).
Her artworks have exhibited: Dubbed: Lady K Fever (Bronx Council on the Arts: Longwood Art Gallery 2015), Bronx Lab: Style Wars (Bronx Museum, Bronx 2012), Lady K Fever (Masterworks Museum, Bermuda 2011), Figure8 (El Museo del Barrio 2008) and Propaganda (Corridor Gallery, Rush Arts 2006).
She has curated: A Timeline of Hand styles: signatures from the 1960s to present day (No Longer Empty, Old Bronx Courthouse, Bronx 2015); The Art of Peace (Peace December, Al Iman Community Center, Parkchester Bronx 2015); Peace in the Streets (Citizens Committee & Bedford Park Mosholu Community Association 2015); The Bronx Graffiti Art Gallery (Double Trouble, Gustiamos Bronx 2014); Outside the Box: Graffiti + Streets +Art (Andrew Freedman Home, Bronx 2013); Made from Love (Bronx Museum project space, Bronx 2007); and History in the Making II & III (Aurora Gallery, New York 2004-5).
Her writing has been published in 12-ounce Prophet, USA; Backspin Magazine, Germany; and her art in the New York Times, Wall Street Journal, New York Post, Daily News, In the magazines: Studio (Harlem 2011), Mass Appeal (Brooklyn 2007), Backspin (Germany 2005), and Trace (international 2006) and in the books: Street Messages (2015), Graffiti Women: Street Art from Five Continents (2006) and Burning New York: Graffiti NYC(2006).
A sought-out educator with 20 years experience, Lady K Fever has worked with the Bronx Museum, Sugar Hill Children’s Museum, and Hush Hip Hop Tours. Museum of Art and Design, Studio Museum in Harlem, Queens Museum, Guggenheim, El Museo Del Barrio, The Laundromat Project, and a multiple recipient of Bronx Council on the Arts; Arts in Education Grant.
Solo Exhibitions
Reimagine @ Montefiore Hospital, Children’s Hospital at Montefiore 2018
Dubbed: Lady K Fever, Longwood Art Gallery, Solo Exhibition 2015
All Along the Watchtower: Dubbed in Reflections, Marcus Garvey Park, NYC Parks Dept & Marcus Garvey Public Art Initiative, Manhattan, NY 2016
Dubbed in Bermuda: Lady K-Fever, Masterworks Museum, Bermuda, 2011
Group Exhibitions
Trucks of Art, DSNY, NYC Sanitation, New York, NY 2019
Presence, Women in Street Art, Hi Arts Gallery, PS 109 Art Space, Manhattan, NY, 2018
Sense: Illuminated Chakras, Art in Odd places, Manhattan, NY 2017
El Museo @Blackburn: Paper Hotshots, Blackburn 20/20 Gallery, Manhattan, NY 2017
When You Cut into the Present the Future Leaks Out, No Longer Empty 2015
Tedx @ Cuny: Access Art: 2014
Style Wars-Bronx Lab, Bronx Museum of the Arts, NY, 2012-13
Graffiti Hall of Fame, Jackie Robinson Complex, New York, 2013
Couturemonials, Model: Art in Odd Places, New York, 2012
Born Again: Eight Artists Respond, Longwood Art Gallery, New York, 2012
Figure 8, El Museo Del Barrio, Manhattan, New York, 2008
Design and the Elastic Mind: Graffiti Research Lab, Museum Of Modern Art, New York, 2008
Site Specific Installations
Ode to the 4 Train, Councilman Andrew Cohen, ArtBridge & Gunhill Jerome BID
What Do Youth Have to Say? NY Department of Transportation: DOTARTs & Bronx Museum
The Mystical Adventures of Botanicals, Masterworks Museum, Bermuda,
Heal Our Hearts, extension, Masterworks Museum, Bermuda
Dubbed in Flight, NY Department of transportation: DOTARTs, Bronx Museum, NY
Mosholu Murals @ Moshulo playground, NYC Parks Dept, Friends of Mosholu Parkland, NY
Curatorial Projects
- A Timeline of Hand Styles: Signatures from the 1960’s to present, Old Bronx Courthouse, Bronx Graffiti Art Gallery & No Longer Empty , 2015
- Peace in the Streets, Neighborhood Improvement Grant, Citizens Committee of New York, Bedford Park/Mosholu Community Association,2015
Residencies
Children’s Hospital at Montefiore, Pediatric psychiatric youth empowerment series, July- August 2018
Masterworks Museum, Bermuda, Summer 2017
Masterworks Museum, Bermuda, July to September 2011
Grants & Awards
2020 B.R.I.O Award (Bronx Recognizes Its Own), Bronx Council on the Arts, Bronx, NY
2018 AIM: Artist in the Marketplace, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, NY
2018 Su Casa Grant, Bronx Council on the Arts, NY Dept. of Aging, Bronx NY
2016 Grant: Neighborhood Improvement, Citizens Committee for NY, Friends of Mosholu Parkland,
2015 Award: Excellence in Community Service from Assemblyman Jose Rivera
2015 Grant: Neighborhood Improvement, Citizens committee for NY,Bronx, NY
2009 Grant: Bronx Council on the Arts: Arts in Education- Environmental Science/Social Studies
2008 Grant: Bronx Council on the Arts: Arts in Education - Environmental Science/ Global History
2007 Grant: Bronx Council on the Arts: Arts in Education- Geography
Lectures
Guest Artist, City Harvest Leadership Summit 2015, New York
Guest Artist, Exponential Finance 2015, The Laundromat Project, New York
Guest Artist, BX 200 Virtual Artist Studios, Bronx Museum, Bronx New York
Guest Lecturer, Reading the Streets, Bronx Lab, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
Guest Artist, 1040 Lounge Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
Panelist, Graffiti Women Book, Brooklyn Museum of the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
Guest Speaker, Pepatian’s Hip Hop Academy, Bronx, NY
Guest Speaker, Cleveland Public Arts & Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, Cleveland, OH
Recent Publications and Bibliographies
Street Art NYC(Streetartnyc.com), Scenes from the studio of Bronx Based artist Lady K Fever, 11.27.17
Bronx Times, Lady K Fever’s Murals At Mosholu Playground, 09.23.17
The Royal Gazette (Bermuda), Writing on the Wall, 07.31.17
Street Messages, Nicolas Ganz, Documenta Press, Germany, 2016
ArtNet, Don’t Miss New York’s 20 Hottest Public Artworks This Summer, 08.18.16
ArtNet, New York’s 15 Can’t-Miss Summer Public Art Installations, 07.15.15
The New York Times, Seeking a Role for the old Bronx Borough Courthouse, 07.13.15
Hyperallergic, In the Bronx, a Pop-up Art Show Is a Lightning Rod for Fear of Gentrification, 07.13.15
Hyperallergic, Art-Minded Feminists Become Wikipedians for a Weekend, 03.12.15
Wall street Journal, Art under Pressure, A Tag-Team Art Competition Launches in the Bronx, 03.7.14
Complex Magazine, The Bronx Museum's Street Art on the Grand Concourse, 09.30.13
The Studio Museum in Harlem Magazine, Educating through Art, Fall/winter 2008
Graffiti Women: Graffiti and Street Art from Five Continents, Nicolas Ganz, Abrams, 2006
Burning New York, Jim and Karla Murray, Ginko Press, 2006
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