Katherine Scherer

​A native of Alexandria, Louisiana, Katherine Scherer studied photography at Louisiana State University in Baton Rouge and California State University in Hayward. She has been an artist member of Baton Rouge Gallery – center for contemporary art since 2002. Her portfolios include Society of St. Anne, Serenissima (Bella Venezia), From the Seashore, San Miguel de Allende, and Native Soil.

 

In addition to Baton Rouge Gallery, Scherer’s photographs have been exhibited at the Contemporary Art Center of New Orleans; Louisiana State Archives, Baton Rouge, Naomi Silva Gallery, Atlanta; and the Stephen Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles. In 2011, she was invited to present her Society of St. Anne portraits at the Bordello Galeria in San Miguel de Allende, Mexico, and in 2019, the Hammond Regional Art Center presented a Twenty-Year Retrospective of this work. In 2016, her work was featured in the Capitol City Contemporary 3: Photography Invitational at the Louisiana Art & Science Museum in Baton Rouge, and is included in the Capital One art collection in Metairie, Louisiana, through a commission by Ann Connelly Fine Art. 

 

Scherer has received two Louisiana Division of the Arts Artist Awards and a Louisiana Cultural Economy Foundation Award. In February 2020, her photograph, Chieftain, as chosen as the cover art for Country Roads Magazine. Her newest portfolio of photographs, Día de los Muertos, taken in San Miguel de Allende, was first on view at Baton Rouge Gallery in July 2024.