Caitlin Berndt
Foundation studies professor
Education
- M.F.A., art, University of Washington
- B.F.A., painting, Maryland Institute of Art
Credentials
- Professor of foundation studies, Fall 2023–present, Savannah College of Art and Design, Savannah, GA
- Adjunct professor, 2014–23, CUNY City College of New York, NY
- Adjunct professor, 2020–21, Adelphi University, Garden City, NJ
- Adjunct professor, 2012–15, Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA), Baltimore, MD
- Adjunct professor, 2014–18, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, NY
- Adjunct professor, 2014–22, Immaculata University, Immaculata, PA
- Adjunct professor, 2011–12, University of Washington, Seattle, WA
Awards, recognitions, and honors
Selected residencies and fellowships
- The Vermont Studio Center Residency
- Independent Program, Benjamin Tritt, New York, NY
- The Jerusalem Studio School, Independent study, Israel Hershberg, Jerusalem, Israel
- Trinity College, Trinity-in-Barcelona Visual Arts Program, Barcelona, Spain
- International School of Art, Montcastello di Vibio, Italy
- Maryland Institute Summer Study Abroad Fellowship, Sorrento, Italy
Selected awards and honors
- Vermont Studio Center Grant Artist's grant
- Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grant
- Painting appeared on Artworks television program
- Fulbright Candidate, Recommended by the National Screening Committee of the Institute of International Education (IIE) for a fellowship to Spain
- Painting Department recognition Award Maryland Institute Achievement Award
- Maryland Institute Achievement Award Reba Stewart Memorial Scholarship Claire Gaskins Harper Scholarship
- A.R.T.S Merit Award (four-year scholarship)
- Fanny B Thalheimer Scholarship (four-year scholarship)
- A.R.T.S Scholarship (four-year scholarship) Academic Honors Scholarship (four-year scholarship)
- Maryland Award (four-year scholarship)
- Trustee Scholarship (four-year scholarship)
- Best Painting, Goucher Art Exhibition, Goucher College, Baltimore MD
- Maryland Distinguished Scholar Award (matched by Maryland Institute for four consecutive years)
Publications and presentations
Selected exhibitions
- Make Me Belong to You, Good Naked Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Metafiguration, Tops Gallery, Memphis, TN
- Small Works, Soft Times Gallery, San Francisco, CA
- National Juried exhibition, First Street Gallery, NYC, NY
- Prince Street Gallery National Juried Exhibition, Prince Street Gallery, NYC, NY
- Variance, I Like Your Work (virtual, juried exhibition), Brooklyn, NY
- Real or Imagined, Attleboro Arts Museum, National Juried Exhibition, Attleboro, MA
- Faculty Exhibition, Adele and Herbert J. Klapper Art Gallery, Adelphi U., Garden City, NY
- Transcendence, Local Project, LIC, NY
- New Wave, Anna Zorina Gallery, NYC, NY
- Huggers, Friday Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
- Another Time After (3-person show), NO.4 Studio, Brooklyn, NY Art Hamptons, Urban Gallery and Books, Bridgehampton, NY
- Painting 319, Group Exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
Selected lectures and speeches
- Visiting artist and critic, M.F.A. Program, Western Connecticut State University, CT
- Artist Lecture, Advanced Painting Student Reviews, Union College, Schenectady, NY
- Source Presentation, School of Art, UW, Seattle, WA
- Lecture on Artwork, Painting I, MICA, Baltimore, MD
- Speech, Scholarship Benefactors Luncheon, MICA, Baltimore, MD