Kate R. Hanrahan (b. 1985, Pennsylvania) is an artist 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, Milwaukee 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 by Arts New Orleans as part of the permanent collection of The Carrollton New Orleans.
Over the years she has worked across the mediums of painting, drawing, paper cut-outs, photography and installation. Her paintings are often steeped in symbolism, weaving dreamlike inner landscapes where memory and curiosity converge. Ambiguous figures, plants and animals, emerge and disappear into the surface, sometimes taking on the characteristics of one another. Vivid, imaginative, yet quiet, Hanrahan’s work is a place where each possibility opens up a new space in time.