A Match Made in Heaven: Katherine Bernhardt x Jeremy Scott
American fashion designer Jeremy Scott (b. 1975, Kansas City, Missouri) and contemporary artist Katherine Bernhardt (b. 1975, St. Louis, Missouri) are both known for their creative work that engages with themes of consumer and popular culture and irreverent humor. A Match Made in Heaven: Katherine Bernhardt x Jeremy Scott is the first exhibition to explore the shared references that unite Bernhardt’s paintings and Scott’s iconic looks.
Bernhardt is known for her colorful, energetic canvases that juxtapose symbols of everyday life, such as Windex, the golden arches of McDonalds, and Lucky Charms cereal, with imagery sourced from pop culture, such as the Simpsons characters, E.T., and the Pink Panther. Scott’s fashion designs, created for the Italian design house Moschino (2013-2023), adidas, and for his namesake brand, Jeremy Scott, adapt pop culture iconography into haute couture.
Barrett Barrera Projects is the exclusive touring partner for A Match Made in Heaven: Katherine Bernhardt x Jeremy Scott. Curated by JoAnne Northrup for its debut at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art in 2025, the exhibition has been adapted by BBP for its upcoming multi-city tour.
The exhibition presents over 120 looks by Scott and nearly 40 paintings by Bernhardt, offering a dynamic pop culture experience for museum visitors. A Match Made in Heaven is adaptable for gallery spaces ranging from 5,000 to 10,000+ square feet and we are accepting bookings as early as Fall 2026.
Documentation
Artists
Katherine Bernhardt
Katherine Bernhardt (b. 1975 St. Louis, Missouri) lives and works in St. Louis. She received a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1998 and an MFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York, in 2000.
Bernhardt’s boundless visual appetite has established her as one of the most energetic painters working today. Her trust in the fundamental underpinnings of painting gives her the freedom to depict anything she wants, and the democratizing surfaces of her canvases work without illusion, perspective, logical scale shifts, or atmosphere. With Bernhardt’s blunt yet lyrical approach, each painting has the feel of a complete thought that engages rich and raucous free association.
Jeremy Scott
Jeremy Scott (b. 1975 Kansas City, Missouri) lives and works in Los Angeles. He studied fashion design at Pratt Institute in New York, graduating in 1996, before relocating to Paris, where he debuted his eponymous label in 1997 to immediate international acclaim. Scott was appointed Creative Director of Moschino in 2013, where his irreverent approach to fashion, consumer culture, celebrity, and pop iconography brought renewed global attention to the house.
Known for his fearless wit and instinct for spectacle, Scott has built a design language that collapses the boundaries between high fashion, mass culture, humor, and desire. His work embraces fashion as a democratic visual language, transforming everyday symbols into theatrical declarations of identity and excess. Across his own label, Moschino, and his long-running collaboration with Adidas, Scott has become one of contemporary fashion’s most recognizable provocateurs, celebrated for designs that are exuberant, subversive, and immediately iconic.
Touring
- Availability
- Currently available for new bookings through 2030
- Exhibition Footprint
- 5,000 - 10,000+ square feet
- Touring Details
- Single source lending for all objects, mannequins, and speciality pedestals
