Kathleen Thum received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore and her MFA from Bowling Green State University in Ohio. Thum’s widely exhibited drawings, paintings and wall installations, explore the ongoing shifting of power between mankind and earth. Selected group exhibitions include “Transforming Politics” at the William King Museum of Art in Abingdon, Virginia and “southXeast” at Florida Atlantic University in Boca Raton, Florida. Her recent solo shows include exhibitions at University of Central Florida in Orlando and at the Turchin Center for Visual Arts at Appalachian State University in Boone, North Carolina.
Thum has been awarded several fellowships to attend artist residencies, such as the Jentel Artist Residency in Wyoming. Thum presented her artwork at the 2018 International Petrocultures Conference, a multi-disciplinary conference on oil cultures and energy humanities, in Glasgow, United Kingdom and in the 2016 Petrocultures Conference in St. John’s, Newfoundland.
Thum currently teaches Drawing as an Associate Professor in the Art Department at Clemson University in Upstate, South Carolina and is the Graduate Coordinator for the MFA in Visual Arts Program at Clemson University.