Kathleen McShane awarded a 2025 Guggenheim Fellowship

The Cranbrook Academy of Art is proud to celebrate alumna Kathleen McShane (MFA Printmaking 1990) on being named a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow, joining the centennial class of distinguished artists, scholars, and thinkers recognized by the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation.

McShane’s work spans drawing, sculpture, painting, textile, and mobile, characterized by reductive abstraction and conceptual forms that play with spatial ambiguity and psychological depth. Her practice often begins with drawing and expands into multidimensional pieces that challenge traditional boundaries—cut, folded, and collaged to become physical, layered explorations of meaning and form.

A former studio assistant to Pat Steir and Sol LeWitt, McShane has exhibited at the Brooklyn Museum, The Drawing Center, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and more. She currently lives and works in Fayetteville, Texas.

Now celebrating its 100th year, the Guggenheim Fellowship honors individuals with exceptional creative ability and achievement, supporting their independent work under the “freest possible conditions.” McShane is among 198 Fellows selected from nearly 3,500 applicants in 2025.

Congratulations to Kathleen McShane on this incredible honor!

“Openland”, 22 x30”, watercolor, ink on cut and collage papers, with Ellen Bahr photographic element, 2024

Learn more:

Announcing the 2025 Guggenheim Fellows – The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation

Print Media at Cranbrook Academy of Art