Catherine Widgery, born in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, received her B.A. from Yale University in 1975 where she graduated cum laude, with special distinction in Fine Arts and was awarded the Walker Prize. She lived one year in Italy in 1973-74 where she attended the Tyler School of Art in Rome and then spent two years in London before returning to the U.S. to live in New York for a year. She received three fellowships at the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, the Millay Colony and Yaddo before moving to Montreal in 1979. It was during her 20 years in Montreal that she began creating large, permanent site-specific public art installations while continuing her experimental, often fragile, studio works. Her exhibit Lost Sense at the Royal Ontario Museum in Toronto, in 1998, received international recognition and traveled for three years to venues in the U.S. and Canada, appearing on the covers of SCULPTURE, World Sculpture News and ESPACE. In 1999, she moved to Truro, Massachusetts, where her recent exhibition Nevertheless was the inaugural exhibit of the newly renovated Provincetown Art Association and Museum. She has had over 25 solo exhibitions in Canada, the U.S., and Europe as well as numerous group exhibitions in these countries. Her work appears in the collections of the Musée d’art Contemporain du Montreal, the Musée du Quebec, and the Canada Council Art Bank among many other public and private collections. In 2002 she was elected member of the Royal Canadian Academy and has been awarded numerous grants for her studio work from the Conseil des Arts et des Lettres du Quebec. In addition to her exhibitions she has completed twenty-eight public sculpture commissions in the U.S. and Canada. Her recent major installation in Denver, Pass Through the Land, was featured on the cover of Landscape Architecture magazine as well as in four other publications. Her work Trail of Dreams, Trail of Ghosts, in Santa Fe, New Mexico, was selected as one of the outstanding public art works in 2003 by the Americans for the Arts at their conference in Washington, D.C., in July 2004.