Kate Donoghue is a figural and narrative-based painter from Michigan. Her practice memorializes liminal moments within personal yet shared, culturally learned experiences in order to observe and critique their significance beyond normativity. Donoghue adapts both personal and found documentary and advertisement imagery into haunting, layered vignettes which contemplate gender identity, objectification, and performativity through an American cultural lens.

In 2022, Donoghue received her BFA in Art & Design and Minor in Museum Studies from the University of Michigan. Her Thesis Project Boys’ Life earned the Integrative Project Award, which recognizes exceptional thesis processes and outcomes. She is a recipient of the Stamps Creative Work Award in 2020, Anderson Ranch Residency Award in 2021, and the Emil Weddige Award for Painting in 2021. Donoghue is currently pursuing her MFA in Painting at the Cranbrook Academy of Art in Bloomfield Hills, MI.