Kathleen Sweeney, a multimedia artist, writer, and Assistant Professor of Media Studies at The New School, NY, has exhibited her artwork internationally. Projects have been funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, NYSCA and Ford Foundation, with art residencies at Virginia Center for the Arts, Mind and Life Institute Europe, and Cill Rialaig, Ireland. A native New Yorker and lifelong environmentalist, she relocated to the woods of Roxbury, NY in 2021.

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Multimedia exhibitions and presentations include South by Southwest, Seville CulturalCenter, LA Center for Digital Arts, Zentrum fur Kunst und Medientechnologie, ColumbiaUniversity, UC Santa Barbara, Union Theological Seminary, Tulane University, AtlantaFilm Festival, Northwest Film Center, Ithaca College, 911 Media Arts Center and many other venues. She has led youth media programs at Dia: Beacon and Garrison ArtsCenter and served as creative communications consultant to many non-profits, authors, artists and documentary filmmakers on including EcoWatch, Garrison Institute, StablePlanet Alliance. The author of Maiden USA: Girl Icons Come of Age, she has published articles and photography at Afterimage, Indiewire and The Nation blog.

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Current work weaves practices of open awareness awe walks, foraged forest materials, plant pigment watercolor, birch bark bookmaking, collage, creative writing, photography and inspired by the Catskills ecosystem. A 2024 recipient of an Individual Artist Grant from the Delaware County Arts Council, she published The Book of Awe Project:Wandering and Rewilding, which launched with a solo exhibition at Diamond HollowBooks, Andes, NY, August-Sept 2024. Her work has been included in upstate NY exhibitions at 1053 Gallery, ArtUp!, Roxbury Arts Group and Longyear Gallery, with recent video art screenings at Termite TV, Philadelphia.

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Her first group show curated at Bushel Collective, "The Symbiocene Era: ArtistsEnvision Environmental Symbiosis" in Fall 2024, featured the work of 11 women artists exploring multimedia nature collaborations.

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Kathleen recently received a Community Arts Grant from the Delaware County ArtsCouncil/Roxbury Arts Group for Symbiocene Era: Mycelium, Soils and Roots at BushelCollective, October 25-December7, 2025. A 2025 Faculty Research grant for the exhibition from The New School funded workshops at Omega Institute and Kremer Pigments.