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Cate Woodruff (born Pamela C. Woodruff on June 13, 1958) is an American artist, photographer, actor, director and writer. As an abstract photographer, she uses homemade lenses, reflective and transparent surfaces to create photographic works that blur the boundaries of form, revealing light, reflection and energy not usually perceived.

Her work has been exhibited internationally in galleries in Chelsea, New York City; Williamsburg and Bushwick, Brooklyn, NY; Woodstock, NY; Berlin, Rome and Sardinia, Italy, among other venues. She creates sculptures and installations with her photographs and uses projections in collaboration with her husband composer/percussionist David Van Tieghem's interactive sound and music.

She is represented by Gallery PMA..^[1] in Sardinia, Italy and by Davidson/Pivot Gallery ^[2] in Chelsea, NYC. She lives and works in NYC, the Catskill Mountains and in Sardinia, Italy.

Woodruff was born in Boston, MA. She is the great-niece of painter Herbert Tschudy ^[3], Curator at the Brooklyn Museum from 1925 to 1946. Tschudy was the first to curate a contemporary art exhibition in an American museum, at the Brooklyn Museum. Cate's mother, Marcia Shick Woodruff, graduated from Wellesley College. Her father, Robert Arnold Woodruff, graduated from Harvard University Medical School and became a practicing psychiatrist ^[4]. He was later inducted into NASA's Apollo Program as an astronaut, among a group of scientists.

In 1980, Woodruff moved to the East Village in NYC after receiving a BFA in Theater from Webster University in St. Louis, while also studying with The London Academy of Music and Dramatic Art (LAMDA) through New York University. She worked as a print model for fashion photographer Gösta Peterson and Henri Bendel on Madison Avenue and as Peterson's studio assistant, developing photographs for publication.

In 1984, she took the first of several lead roles at the Milwaukee Repertory Theatre ^[5]. In 1986, she became a company member of the international avant-garde touring company Theatre X ^[6], collaborating with artists, actors, writers and directors such as Ed Paschke, Robert Kushner, Flora Coker, Mac Wellman, Len Jenkin, John Schneider and Wesley Savick ^[7]

In 1987 Woodruff became a founding member of Robert Brustein's Institute for Advanced Theatre Training at Harvard University and co-founded ART Mondays ^[8] at the American Repertory Theatre in Cambridge, MA with R. J. Cutler and Wesley Savick, and worked as an actor with director Richard Foreman and writer Arthur Kopit in END OF THE WORLD WITH SYMPOSIUM TO FOLLOW. ^[9] at American Repertory Theatre

In 1993, Woodruff returned to NYC, and became a spokesperson on Japanese television. She continued to work in experimental theatre with Mabou Mines and New York Theatre Workshop. While performing at the Ontological-Hysteric Theater in LOVE TROUBLE by Jeff Jones, Woodruff and Van Tieghem met and began collaborating musically ^[10] and on a production at Mabou Mines, MANHATTAN KAIDAN, written and directed by Woodruff, for which Van Tieghem wrote the score. They were married in 1996. Their daughter, actress Zoë Van Tieghem ^[11] was born in 1998.

In 2001, the family moved to Woodstock, NY, where Woodruff designed furniture and made art and video installations, as owner of Woodstock Furniture Gallery^[12], while also working as a photojournalist, journalist and editor with online news sites Truthout and Reader Supported News. Becoming year-round Artists-in-Residence at Byrdcliffe Colony ^[13] from 2008 to 2012, Woodruff worked in varied mediums of drawing, painting, writing, video, installation, music and photography. She was a member of the Garden Goddesses art group ^[14] with Portia Munson and in 2011 and curated the group show, Living Here, at KTD Monastery ^[15]

In 2012 Cate opened an art studio in Bushwick, Brooklyn, showing her camera-based light work and video art at MoMA - NYC ^[16], in Bushwick Open Studios ^{[17] [18]}, Sideshow Gallery ^[19], David and Schweitzer Contemporary ^[20], Resobox Gallery ^[21], Soho20 Gallery Chelsea ^[22], Soho Photo Gallery, The Muroff Kotler Gallery of Visual Arts at SUNY Ulster ^[23], Red Dot ^[24]and in Europe at Apothiki Gallery - Paros, Greece ^[25], Gallery PMA ^{[26] [27]} - Cagliari, Sardinia, Italy, as resident artist at Galerie Huit, Arles France and Fellini Gallery - Berlin, Germany. She collaborated with David Van Tieghem through the Emily Harvey Foundation ^[28] in Venice, Italy on sound installation and music composition. Her photography and video work is part of the International Center of Photography's permanent collection and was exhibited by ICP on Governors Island ^[29]. Her first major permanent public installation was installed in 2017 in the lobby of NYU Langone Medical Center.

Cate studies with Khenpo Karthar Rinpoche, a senior lama of the Karma Kagyu school of Tibetan Buddhism at Karma Triyana Dharmachakra in Woodstock, NY.

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•   Cate Woodruff Website

• 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 400 metres
• 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's 800 metres
• 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's heptathlon
• 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's high jump
• 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's long jump
• 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's shot put
• 1994 World Junior Championships in Athletics – Women's triple jump
• 1994 World Junior Figure Skating Championships
• 1994 World Karate Championships
• 1994 World Matchplay Darts
• 1994 World Rowing Championships
• 1994 World Sports Acrobatics Championships
• 1994 Yemen civil war
• 1994 Ykkonen - Finnish League Division 1
• 1994 Ykkonen – Finnish League Division 1
• 1994 Ykkönen
• 1994 Ykkönen - Finnish League Division 1
• 1994 Ykkönen – Finnish League Division 1
• 1994 Yokary Liga
• 1994 Yokohama Flugels season
• 1994 Yokohama Flügels season
• 1994 Yokohama Marinos season
• 1994 Young Critics Circle Awards
• 1994 Yuba City mosque arson
• 1994 Ålandic European Union membership referendum