WERRING CONTEMPORARY
KATE BROCKMAN
Kate Brockman is an English-American sculptor based in Philadelphia, PA. She began her formal art training at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts (PAFA) in 1986, focusing on figurative sculpture and the human form. She studied with Evangelos Frudakis and Myron Barnstone and has exhibited extensively in solo and group exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad, including the James A. Michener Museum, the Reading Public Museum, the Salmagundi Club, and the National Sculpture Society's Annual Awards Exhibition at Brookgreen Gardens. Her work is held in national and international private collections and in the permanent collections of PAFA's Fellowship, the Harriet Tubman Museum, Culver Girls Academy, and the Reading Public Museum.
An award-winning artist, Brockman has received numerous honors throughout her distinguished career, including two Elizabeth Greenshields Foundation grants, the Alex J. Ettl Grant and Gold Medal from the National Sculpture Society, and most recently, First Place in Sculpture in the 2025 Portrait Society of America International Competition, the Fellowship of the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts Award for Sculpture, First Place in the Wayne Art Center Spring Open Juried Exhibition, and the Michael Gressel Memorial Award from the Hudson Valley Art Association. She was also awarded First Place at the 2024 Fellowship Annual Exhibition at PAFA and was recognized as a finalist in both the Portrait Society of America International Competition and the Art Renewal Center International Salon.
A passionate bronze caster, Brockman built her own foundry after graduating from PAFA and continues to cast all of her own work. After a hiatus to raise and homeschool her daughter, she returned to full-time studio practice and has since garnered widespread recognition for her powerful figurative sculptures and portraits.
Brockman is a Fellow of the National Sculpture Society and served on its Board of Directors. She taught sculpture at the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts for nearly two decades and remains an influential voice in contemporary figurative sculpture.