Kitty Wales received a MFA in Sculpture from the University of Arizona, and a BFA in Sculpture and Art Education from Boston University. She has work in the permanent collections of the Gala Museum in Azerbaijan, the DeCordova Museum + Sculpture Park, the Duxbury Art Complex Museum, the New England Bio Lab in Beverly, Auburn Park in Cambridge, the Meditech Corporation Headquarters in Canton, and Fall River, Massachusetts, the Fuller Craft Museum in Brockton, the South Shore Conservatory in Hingham, Massachusetts, the Fidelity Corporation in Boston and New Bedford, and The Windsor School in Boston. She was the 2007 first place recipient of the Virginia A. Groot award for Sculpture, and has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council, the Coleman Foundation, The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts, and the Berkshire Taconic Community Foundation. She has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the US, as well as in Paris, France, Berlin, Germany, Kleinsassen, Germany, and Baku, Azerbaijan.
She has taught sculpture and drawing in Colleges and Universities in and around New England and the Southwest, including as Assistant Professor and Senior Lecturer in Sculpture at Boston University for over 25 years.
She lives and works in Belfast, Maine and is represented by The New Era Gallery in Vinalhaven, Maine.