Kathy Prendergast

Kathy Prendergast (born 1958), is an Irish sculptor, draftsman, and painter.

Life Prendergast was born in 1958 in Dublin. She studied at Manor House School, Raheny, and pursued third-level studies at the National College of Art & Design, graduating in 1983. She then went to the Royal College of Art, London, from 1983 to 1986.

She won the Best Young Artist Award in 1995 representing Ireland at the Venice Biennale, having first shown ten years earlier in Paris. Prendergast was also the inaugural recipient of the David and Yuko Juda Foundation Prize.

Prendergast is particularly known for her City Drawing project which she began in 1992. She detailed pencil maps of the world's capital cities, and now the work is part of the permanent collection of the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in galleries around the world. She has lived in London since 1983. Prendergast is a member of Aosdána.

Exhibitions Unit 7 Gallery, London (1987) Douglas Hyde Gallery, Dublin Camden Arts Centre, London Memento Metropolis, Copenhagen (1996) Tate Gallery, London (1997) Robert Miller Gallery, New York (1998) Irish Museum of Modern Art (1999)