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In December, 2007, Kavanagh exhibited nine figurative sculptures in Miami’s Design District during Art Basel Miami
Beach. Earlier in 2007, Kavanagh participated in OPEN 10, the 10th annual International Exhibition of Sculptures and
Installations in Venice-Lido. Co-curated by Achille Bonita Olivia, Allana Heiss and Chang Tsong-zung, under the
Auspices of Arte Communications and the Italian Ministry of Cultural Heritage, OPEN 10 featured the work of 46 artists
from 21 countries.
In 2005, Kavanagh was honored to represent the US Virgin Islands at the 51st INTERNATIONAL ART EXHIBITION– LA BIENNALE DI VENEZIA. Five bronze sculptures from her Shape of Time series were the focal point of an exhibition
that brought attention to the Virgin Islands and the seminal treatise on art history written by her father, George Kubler,
in 1961. Also in 2005, one of her large bronze castings, Vertical Edge Form II, was awarded the first F. Scott Fitzgerald
prize by John Hightower at the Port Warwick Art & Sculpture Festival in Newport News, Virginia. Vertical Edge Form II
was recently installed in the courtyard of the Dwight School in Englewood, New Jersey.
Kavanagh has had five solo exhibitions in New York City. Her sculptures have been shown at the Salmagundi Club,
New York, NY, SOFA Chicago, Chicago, IL, The Desert Art Collection, Palm Desert, CA, the Washington Art
Association, Washington Depot, CT, the Gallery of Contemporary Art at Sacred Heart University, Fairfield, CT, the
Abigail Adams Smith Museum, New York, NY, the Discovery Museum in Bridgeport, CT, the Audubon Birdcraft Museum
in Fairfield, CT, the Stamford Museum and Nature Center in Stamford, CT, the University of Hartford Museum in Hartford,
CT and the Yale Medical School Art Gallery in New Haven, CT. In 2000, Kavanagh won the Amidor Memorial Award for
Stone Sculpture at Art of The Northeast at the Silvermine Guild Arts Center in New Canaan, CT.
Kavanagh received an AA from Pine Manor, a BA in Art History from Barnard College and an MA from Columbia
University. Listed in Who’s Who In American Art, Kavanagh is a member of the Connecticut Women Artists, a colleague
of the National Sculpture Society and a member of the National Association of Women Artists. She is represented by the
Blue Mountain Gallery, 530 West 25th Street, New York, NY 10001, and by METAKAOS Pte Ltd, 51 Goldhill Plaza,
#23-04/07, Singapore 308900
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