EDUCATION

1981-85 Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, CFA
1978-79 Pennsylvania State University, University Park

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009 Princeton University, Bernstein Gallery, Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs
2008 Schmidt Dean Gallery, Philadelphia
2008 Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2007 Blanden Memorial Art Museum, Fort Dodge, IA
2005 Schmidt Dean Gallery, April, Philadelphia
2005 Named for..., Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2003 Schmidt Dean Gallery, February, Philadelphia
2000 Schmidt Dean Gallery, December, January, Philadelphia
1999 Sarah Morthland Gallery, December, January, NYC
1998 Schmidt Dean Gallery, February, Philadelphia
1997 Sarah Morthland Gallery, April, NYC
1995 Schmidt Dean Gallery, December, Philadelphia
1992 Jessica Berwind Gallery, November, Philadelphia
1990 Jessica Berwind Gallery, October, Philadelphia

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2011 Single Fare 2: Please Swipe Again, Sloan Fine Art, NYC
2010 Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art Benefit, Sotheby's, NYC
2010 PULL, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2010 Philadelphia Story, Woodmere Art Museum, Philadelphia
2009 Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art Benefit, Sotheby's, NYC
2009 Legacies, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum, Philadelphia
2008-10 The Animal Kingdom, North Dakota Museum of Art, Grand Forks
2008 EFA Open Studios, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
2008 Anna Kustera Presents…, Anna Kustera,  NYC
2008 Metamorphosis, Abington Art Center, Philadelphia
2007 Beholder, Salmagundi, curated by Katherine Chapin, NYC
2006 Wyeth in Context, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia
2006 Salon 2006, New York Academy of Art, NYC
2005 Scope Miami, Schmidt Dean Gallery, in Miami
2005 Visitors from the East, curated by Chapin Sloan for Billy Shire Fine Art, Los Angeles
2005 Animal Tales, DFN Gallery, NYC
2004 Inaugural Exhibition, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2004 MFA Faculty, New York Academy of Art, NYC
2003 Open Studios, Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, NYC
2002 Take Home a Nude, New York Academy of Art benefit, Sotheby's, NYC
2002 Snapshot, The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT
2000-01 Personal Visions, Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University
1997 Radix, two-person exhibition, April, NYC
1997 Group show curated by Barbara Krulick & Stefania de Kennesey, March, The Kitchen, NYC
1995 Manna Benefit, exhibition and auction with catalog, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia
1994 Works on Paper ’94, Beaver College, Glenside
1993 A Corps Perdu, Gallerie Guillaume Daeppen, Basel, Switzerland
1992 Line as Language, Southern Alleghenies Museum
1992 Biennial '92, Delaware Art Museum
1991 Found Ground, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, Philadelphia

SELECTED AWARDS

2008 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio NYC
2005-07 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio NYC
2003-05 Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, Studio NYC
2001 Special Opportunity Stipend, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts
2000 MacDowell Residency
1998 Pennsylvania Council on the Arts Painting Fellowship, Mid Atlantic Arts Foundation
1998 MacDowell Residency
1996 MacDowell Residency
1995 Disciplinary Winner in Painting, Pew Fellowships in the Arts
1990 Sponsored for Painting in Iceland, Dr. Anthony and Beatrice Garvan

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2010 Roche, Sarah. The Philadelphia Story, exhibition catalog, Woodmere Art Museum, ill., p.5
2009 Tapley, Brendan. Animal Energies, MacDowell News, Vol. 38, No. 2, Winter 2009, ill., p. 10
2009 Paintings by Kate Javens, Princeton Weekly Bulletin, Vol. 98, No. 28, June 1, 2009, ill., p. 4
2009 Dube, Ilene. Running with Bison, Time Off, June 5, 2009, ill., p.7
2008 Newhall, Edith. Galleries, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 9, 2008, ill, p.H7
2008 Burdick, Fineman, Skove. Kate Javens, American Beasts, monograph, Blanden Art Museum Publications, hardcover, 156 pgs. 
2005 Chapin, Sloan. Visitors from the East, exhibition catalog, Billy Shire Fine Arts, 2005, ill.
2005 Fineman, Mia. Kate, Javens, New Paintings, exhibition essay, Schmidt Dean Gallery, 2005
2005 Newhall, Edith. Menacing Moths, Larger than Life, The Philadelphia Inquirer, April 15, 2005, ill.
2005 Feaster, Felicia. Animal Magnetism, Arts/Visual Arts,Atlanta. March 9, 2005, ill.
2003 Sozanski, Edward. Heroic Horse, The Philadelphia Inquirer, March 14, 2003, ill
2001 Seymour, Robin. Personal Visions, exhibition catalog, Palmer Museum of Art, 2000
2000 Temkin, Taylor, Rosenberg. 20th C. Painting and Sculpture from the Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia Museum of Art Publications, 2000, ill.
2000 Mangravite, Andrew. Review, Art Matters, Nov., 2000, ill.
1998 Brown, Gerard. Art in Review, Philadelphia Weekly, Feb. 18, 1998, ill.
1997 Review, The New Yorker, Vol. LXXIII, No. 12, May 12, 1997
1997 West, Judith. Artists to Watch, Seven Arts Magazine, February, 1997
1995 Sozanski, Edward. Art, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Weekend, Dec. 20, 1995
1992 Sozanski, Edward. Exhibitions, The Philadelphia Inquirer, Nov. 6, 1992
1992 Binai, Paul. Line As Language, exhibition catalog, Southern Alleghenies Museum, 1992, ill.
1991 Torchia, Richard. Found Ground, exhibition essay, Levy Gallery, Moore College of Art, 1991
1991 Bohn, Don Chant. On View, New Art Examiner, February , 1991, ill.

SYMPOSIA AND LECTURES
2010    PULL, artists panel, Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta
2007    Kate Javens, American Beasts, exhibition lecture,Blanden Art Museum,
2007    Commencement Speaker, East Senior High School, West Chester, PA
2006    Wyeth in Context, artists panel, moderated by Michael Taylor, Philadelphia Museum of ArtA
2000    Alliance of Artistic Communities, opening speaker, Manchester, NH, hosted by the MacDowell Colony

PUBLISHED

2003 Illustration, RBS Gazette, Komar & Melamid, Vol. 3, No. 1, p. 4
2002 Illustration, RBS Gazette, Komar & Melamid, Vol. 2, No. 1, p. 2
1997 Cover images, Triquarterly Review, 97
1996 Cover images, The Plum Review, No. 9
1993 Writing, The Drunken Boat, Boat Rocker Publishing, Vol. 1, No. 3, p. 15

FEATURED

2010 Video interview, PULL, Marcia Wood Gallery Print Project, Tomorrow Picture
2007 Video interview, New York Studios; a documentary, Jon Nissenbaum
2000 Photographed, Flash Forward, Fortune, Vol. 142, No. 8, October 9, 2000, p.196
1998 Video interview, Biographies Live: Women & The Arts, Educational Management Group
1997 Video interview, MacDowell: An American Artists' Colony, New Hampshire Public Television

COLLECTIONS

Permanent public collections:

The Blanden Memorial Art Museum
Connecticut College Print Collection
The Palmer Museum of Art of The Pennsylvania State University
The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Museum
The Philadelphia Museum of Art
The Telfair Museum of Art

Represented in private collections in the US and Europe, including HRH The Prince of Wales.

Corporate collections include:

Merck & Co.
Pfizer Inc.
Aronson, Johnson & Ortiz LP