Katherine Kavanaugh constructs site -specific outdoor and indoor installations which sometimes incorporate video.  She also makes drawings and uses photography in her work.

Recent exhibitions include: a solo exhibition at Stevenson University; the bi-annual sculpture competition at the Evergreen House of Johns Hopkins University; the Arlington Arts Center, Arlington, VA; the Art Museum of the Americas, Organization of American States, Washington, DC; the Ellipse Art Center, Arlington, VA; the Hemicycle Gallery at the Corcoran Museum of Art in Washington, DC; and the Rosenberg Gallery, Goucher College.   She has been in several residencies including the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts; the Oberpfalzer KunstlerHaus in Schwandorf, Germany; the Klotz Château in Rochefort-en-Terre, France.

 Among the awards she has received are three Maryland State Arts Council Grants; a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Creative Fellow for a VCCA residency; and a finalist for the Virginia Commission for the Arts, Individual Artist Fellowship Award for Sculpture. 

Katherine grew up in Northern Minnesota and has lived in Louisiana and Virginia.  She currently lives in Baltimore and is on the faculty at the Maryland Institute College of Art.