About
Kerry Hirth was born in the Midwest and currently lives and works near Columbia, Missouri. Her work explores the translation of music to visual art.
Kerry's work has been presented in gallery exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as closer to home, where she is represented by Hilliard Gallery in Kansas City.
She collaborates with musicians, with some noteworthy past projects including:
Kerry's work has been presented in gallery exhibitions nationally and internationally, as well as closer to home, where she is represented by Hilliard Gallery in Kansas City.
She collaborates with musicians, with some noteworthy past projects including:
- Live demonstration with the Missouri Symphony Society orchestra
- Curated program at Experimental Sound Studio in Chicago on the relationship between improvisational jazz and the visual arts
- Creating artwork for the first Mugellini Festival in Macerata, Italy
- Collaborating with the composer James Funkhouser on an exhibition of drawings and new music based on the poetry of W.B. Yeats
- Creating backgrounds for live performance
Kerry is a recipient of an artist fellowship from the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center in Nebraska (2012). She was a member artist of ARC Gallery and Educational Foundation-Chicago for six years (2010-2016).
Kerry's approach to music and visual art has been shaped by her unique academic background. She received a BA in Philosophy with minor in music performance in 1994 from the University of Missouri-Columbia. During that time, she did archaeological illustrations of Mayan artifacts on site in Belize for the University of Texas-Austin and performed french horn at the Aspen Music Festival for two seasons. She received an MA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1998, and subsequently graduated from law school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, working as an attorney in public interest law in Missouri and Illinois. She also received an AAS in Computer Networking from Moberly Area Community College. Her experiences with professional music performance and the study of analytic philosophy contribute significantly to her approach to time and place in her work.
In addition to exhibitions and collaborations, Kerry has done numerous private, public, and corporate commissioned artworks. She created a painting for permanent installation in the atrium of the University of Missouri's Bond Life Sciences Center in 2019.
Kerry works full-time as an artist in her studio "Mount Erebus Workshop" adjacent to her home, where she lives with her husband Andy Hirth and animal companion, Reyna. She values her local community of artists.
Kerry's approach to music and visual art has been shaped by her unique academic background. She received a BA in Philosophy with minor in music performance in 1994 from the University of Missouri-Columbia. During that time, she did archaeological illustrations of Mayan artifacts on site in Belize for the University of Texas-Austin and performed french horn at the Aspen Music Festival for two seasons. She received an MA in Philosophy from the University of Colorado-Boulder in 1998, and subsequently graduated from law school at the University of Missouri-Columbia, working as an attorney in public interest law in Missouri and Illinois. She also received an AAS in Computer Networking from Moberly Area Community College. Her experiences with professional music performance and the study of analytic philosophy contribute significantly to her approach to time and place in her work.
In addition to exhibitions and collaborations, Kerry has done numerous private, public, and corporate commissioned artworks. She created a painting for permanent installation in the atrium of the University of Missouri's Bond Life Sciences Center in 2019.
Kerry works full-time as an artist in her studio "Mount Erebus Workshop" adjacent to her home, where she lives with her husband Andy Hirth and animal companion, Reyna. She values her local community of artists.