Kathryn Warden is a portrait artist who lives and works in County Down, Ireland.

Kathryn Warden has exhibited at The Royal Ulster Academy and The Royal Hibernian Academy.

Her work is held in Queen’s University Belfast, The Bar of Northern Ireland and University of Auckland, NZ.

She enjoys the challenge of capturing not only a physical likeness of the subject, but also the true essence of the person. Her portraits have a sensitivity and intimacy that give the work great emotional value.

Biography

b. 1967, Belfast

• 2025 Royal Ulster Academy, 144th Annual Exhibition
• 2025 Permanent Collection Bar Library, Belfast, Lord Justice Horner
• 2025 Boyle Arts Festival, invited exhibitor
• 2025 Collection University of Auckland
• 2024 Permanent Collection Queens University, Baroness Foster of Aghadrumsee
• 2024 Royal Ulster Academy, 143rd Annual Exhibition
• 2024 Boyle Arts Festival, invited exhibitor
• 2024 Royal Hibernian Academy, 194th Annual Exhibition
• 2023 Royal Ulster Academy, 142nd Annual Exhibtion
• 2022 Boyle Arts Festival, invited exhibitor
• 2021 Royal Hibernian Academy, 191st Annual Exhibition
• 2021 Battletown Gallery, Local Artists Unlocked Exhibition
• 2020 Royal Ulster Academy 139th Annual Exhibition
• Portraits for NHS heroes (Bloomsbury, 2020) 
• 2019 Royal Ulster Academy 138th Annual Exhibition
• Manchester Art College, Foundation Art & Design