Kathy Richland began her career forty years ago photographing children and grew to be a celebrated Chicago-based portrait photographer. Her work has been published in the Newsweek, Time, People Magazine, Chicago Reader, Chicago Magazine, and Reader’s Digest. Her photographs have been exhibited at various Chicago locations such as the LaSalle Bank, the Chicago Historical Society, the Chicago Cultural Center, Gallery 312, and the Union League Civic & Arts Foundation.

She has taught at Columbia College and published the book “The People are the News” with Grant Pick in 2008. Kathy’s Powerful Women series demonstrated her fascination with portraiture of middle-aged women of social prominence and is featured as a part of the Midwest Photographers Project at the Museum of Contemporary Photography in Chicago.

Member ASMP American Society of Magazine Photographers (ASMP) 1989-Present

EDUCATION
2003 Master of Fine Arts, University of Illinois Chicago
1970 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Boston University, Boston, MA

WORK
2003-2009: Adjunct Photography Instructor, Columbia College
1972-present: Freelance Photojournalist and Corporate Photographer

PUBLICATIONS
Chicago Reader
Chicago Magazine
Newsweek
Time
People Magazine
Reader's Digest
PR Week

CLIENTS
Erikson Institute
Chicago Children's Museum
Chicago Botanical Garden
Chicago Community Trust
Merit Music Program
John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation
Facing History & Ourselves
Ravinia Festival
Heartland Alliance
Children's Memorial Hospital
Abbott Laboratories
University of Chicago Magazine
Northwestern University Alumni Magazine

EXHIBITS & AWARDS
2008 "The People are the News", book by Grant Pick, photography by Kathy Richland
2008 Installation at Erikson Institute, Graduate School of Early Childhood Education. Chicago
2006 Finalist Award Winner : Illinois State Committee of the National Museum of Women in the Arts Competition
2003 Suburban Fine Arts Center, Highland Park, IL "Tangential Pleasures" group show
2003 Museum of Contemporary Photography: Midwest Photographer's Project
2003 Winner, Union League Civic & Arts Foundation Scholarship Competition
2003 University of Illinois Chicago collection, Vice Chancellor for Administration
2003 1R Gallery Group Show "Subtle, not so subtle"
2003 College of Architecture and the Arts bldg, University of Illlinois Chicago
2000 City 2000 Project, Exhibited: Chicago Water Tower, 312 Gallery, Chicago Cultural Center
2000 Chicago Historical Society "Choosing to Participate"
1999 Temple Sholom, Chicago
1996 25th Anniversary Reader Retrospective
1996 ASMP Exhibit - The Domestic Element, Lab One, Chicago
1993 Anne Frank Exhibit- Chicago Cultural Center
1992 Chicago Women in Philanthropy, group show, LaSalle Bank, Chicago
1992 Travelers and Immigrants Aid traveling exhibit (one-person show) Harold Washington Library, Sulzer Library, Daley Center, State of Illinois Building
1992 United Way traveling group exhibit, State of Illinois Building
1990 "Twenty Years at the Reader" anniversary exhibit at the American Center for Design Gallery