Kate R. Hanrahan (b. 1985, Pennsylvania) is an artist and educator based in Maine. She graduated from the Savannah College of Art and Design with a BFA in Painting in 2007. After living in New Orleans for fifteen years, she relocated to Maine in 2024. Hanrahan has shown her work nationally in cities such as Atlanta, Savannah, Boston, New York, and New Orleans, as well as internationally in Canada and France. In 2015, she took part in Brandan “BMIKE” Odum’s Exhibit BE which became known as the largest single-site street art exhibit in the American South. Some of her public art works are featured in the book, New Orleans: Murals, Street Art & Graffiti, Volume One, compiled by Kady Perry. In 2023, Hanrahan’s work was acquired as part of the permanent collection of The Carrollton in New Orleans.
Over the years she has worked across the mediums of painting, drawing, paper cut-outs, photography and installation. Steeped in symbolism, her work maps personal explorations of how memory moves in us, juxtaposed to the concept of linear time. Weaving dreamlike inner landscapes, ambiguous figures, plants and animals emerge and disappear into the surface, sometimes taking on the characteristics of one another. Hanrahan’s paintings are vivid, imaginative, yet quiet. They are a place where possibility becomes the heart of time. You can usually find her with her dog Minnow, swimming, wandering the woods, working on her house or painting in her studio on the harbor in Rockland, Maine.