Selected Solo and Two Person Exhibitions:
2022 “Synthetic Garden”, 490 Atlantic, Brooklyn, NY
2019 “In the Precipice”, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2019 “False Positives”, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Garden of Mutei”, Garis & Hahn, Los Angeles, CA
2016 "Isabelle Menin and Karen Margolis", Muriel Guepin Gallery, New York, NY
2016 "Sonograms", Wallace Anderson Gallery, Bridgewater University, Bridgewater, MA
2015 "Pulse, Miami", Garis & Hahn, Miami Beach, FL
2014 "Salon Zurcher", Garis and Hahn, Paris, France
2014 "Containments", collaboration with M Missoni and Garis and Hahn, New York, NY
2012 “I am what is missing” RoCA/Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY
2009 “The State of All Things” Slate Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2009 “Mindscapes - New works by Karen Margolis & Daniel Zeller”, Dieu Donne, New York, NY
2007 “Apophenia” 511 Gallery, New York, NY
2005 “Insistent Ambiguity” APT.3, Brookline, MA
2005 “Light & Line” Art Sites, Greenport, Long Island
2001 “Population” Delaware Center for the Contemporary Arts, Wilmington, Delaware
Public Art Commissions:
2023 “Dark Matter” Science/Life Building, New York, NY
2023 “Tohubohu” 64 Pleasant Street Science/Life Complex Lobby, Colossus Creative Co, Boston, MA
2023 “Continuum” Amtrak, Metropolitan Lounge, Moynihan Train Hall, curated by Debra Simon, New York, NY
2020 The Flag Project”, Rockefeller Center, New York, NY August, 2020
2020 “Scorched”, Art on Paper Fair, public art installation with K. Imperial Fine Art, Pier 36, New York, NY March 5-8, 2020
2019 Art in Embassies Program, U.S. Embassy, Banjul, The Gambia
2018 "Cerebration", MTA Arts & Design, Mosaic installation 86 Street Subway Station, N Line, Brooklyn, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions:
2023 “Textures”, Octavia Gallery, New Orleans, LA
2023 “We used to kneel in the Dirt: An Exploration of Ritual”, curated by Diana Colon, Mingying Lu, Yuxuan Sun, Kexun Zhang, Pfizer, Brooklyn, NY
2023 “Paroxysm” curated by Alison Pirie, Westbeth Gallery, New York, NY
2022 “Natural Curiosities”, K. Imperial Fine Arts, San Francisco, CA
2022 “Paper Cuts”, Reeves House Visual Arts Center, Woodstock, GA
2022 “Elemental Fictions”, curated by Jessica Nissen and Lowell Boyers, Coral Door, New York, NY
2022 “Making Sense without Consensus”, curated by Hayler Ferber, Anita Goes, Luciana Solano, Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2021 “Towards the Light”, curated by Pema Rinzin, Kate Oh Gallery, New York, NY
2021 “PAPER: every which way”, K.Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2020 “Indelible: works in Ink from Pierogi Gallery”, Schick Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY
2020 “Volta, New York”, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2020 “Art on Paper”, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2020 “Indra’s Net”, curated by Suzanne Kammin, Kathryn Markel Fine Arts, New York, NY
2020 “Cut up/Cut out”, Phillips Exeter Academy, Lamont Gallery, NH
2019 “Small Works”, Foley Gallery, New York, NY
2019 “Cut up/Cut out”, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo, TX
2019 “Cut up/Cut out”, Leigh Yawkey Woodson Art Museum, Wausau, WI
2019 “Art on Paper”, K. Imperial Fine Art, New York, NY
2018 “Cue Art Foundation 2018 Benefit Auction, Cue Foundation, New York, NY
2018 “Cut up/Cut out”, Pensacola Museum of Art, FL
2018 “Obsessed”, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2018 “Civil Discourse”, Kibbee Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2018 "Change without change", curated by Jaynie Crimmins, Brooklyn Cluster Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018 "Among Friends", Curated by B.Dary, P.Fabricant and A.R.Brock, Dumbo open studios, Brooklyn, NY
2017 "Pulse, Miami", K. Imperial Fine Art, Miami Beach, FL
2017 "Inner Circle", K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2017 “Cut up/Cut out”, Bellevue Arts Museum, WA
2017 "Art on Paper", K. Imperial Fine Art, New York, NY
2016 "Cut up/Cut out", Bedford Gallery, San Francisco, CA, traveling exhibition through 2020, United States
2016 "Pulse, Miami", Garis & Hahn, Miami Beach, FL
2016 "Paper Biennial Rijswijk 2016", Rijswijk Museum, The Hague, Netherlands
2016 "Pulse, New York", Garis & Hahn, New York, NY
2016 "PAPER: folded, torn, stitched and cut", Bryant Street Gallery, Palo Alto, CA
2015 "Exquisite, Exquisite", LABspace, Hilldale, NY
2015 "Working the Unit" curated by Jeanne Brasile, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2015 "Home Improvement", Rock Street 2015, curated by Deborah Brown and Leslie Heller, Brooklyn, NY
2015 "Volume 1", Schema Projects, curated by Mary Judge and Enrico Gomez, Brooklyn, NY
2015 "Apparent Order", Garis and Hahn, New York, NY
2014 "Double Blind", Garis and Hahn, New York, NY
2013 "Drafted", Schema Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2012 "Extrapolate: Suggestions of Tony smith" Pierro Gallery, South Orange, NJ
2012 “Knot Your Average Knit” City Without Walls, Newark, NJ
2012 “Bootstrap Festival” NYFA/New York Foundation for the Arts, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “The Cambrian Explosion” Zora Art Space, Brooklyn, NY
2011 “Divergent Affinities” Wexler Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2011 “Pushing Paper” A.D. Gallery, University of North Carolina, Pembroke, NC
2010 “Fire Works” Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ
2009 “Drawings” McKenzie Fine Art, New York, NY
2009 “Pierogi flatfiles” Temporary Art Gallery, Berlin, Germany
2009 “The Armory Art Fair” Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
2008 “The Sarah-Ann & Werner H Kramarsky gift of Contemporary American Drawings” Pollock Gallery,
Southern Methodist University, Dallas, TX
2007 “Out of Sight” Slate Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2007 “Pierogi flatfiling” Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany
2007 “Rocky Mountain Invitational” Nicolaysen Art Museum, Casper, WY
2007 “Aporia” L.A.C.E., Los Angeles, California
2006 “Art on Paper” Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, North Carolina
2006 “Fantastic Routes” curated by Alejandra Villasmil, simultaneous exhibitions at Roger Smith Art Lab,
New York City and Galeria Galou, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2006 “Aporia/Heuristics” curated by Annabel Daou and Greta Byrum, EFA gallery, New York, NY
2006 “The Armory Art Fair” Dieu Donne Papermill, New York City, NY
2005 “Structuring Perception” curated by Elizabeth Grady, NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2005 “Drawing Networks: Abstraction and the Scientific” Rowan University Westby gallery, Glassboro, NJ
2004 “Breathing Space” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York
2004 “Diving into the Details” NURTUREart Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
2003 “Remix” Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York
2003 “Plastic Gardens” Josee Bienvenu Gallery, New York, NY
2003 “In the Making: Contemporary Drawings from a Private Collection” Fine Arts Center, UMass, Amherst
2003 “Define Line” curated by Lisa Hatchadoorian, Metaphor Contemporary Art, Brooklyn, New York
2002 “Paper Remix I” Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY
2001 “PAPER” The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, Connecticut
2001 “RE: DRAWING” Kenise Barnes Gallery, Larchmont, New York
1999 “36th Juried Exhibition” The Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, New York
Grants/ Awards:
2023 TATI, training in best practices working with students with disabilities
2015 Nominated for Anonymous was a Woman Award
2011 NYFA Boot Camp for artists
2011 LMCC BFA workshop for artists
2000 Dieu Donne Workspace Program
1998 The Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
Books/ Publications:
2021 Watercolor Artist, “Feelings on Display”, C.J. Kent, Spring 2021, Pages 62-69
2017 Dimensional Cloth Art: Sculpture by Contemporary Textile Artists, Andy Stanton
2017 Cultures without Culturalism, Karine Chemla and Evelyn Fox Keller, Cover
2016 Art By Nature Magazine, "Down the Rabbit Hole", number 4
2016 Making Art from Maps, Jill K. Berry
2015 Interalia Magazine, "Rhythms of Life", September issue
2015 Hopper, John, Inspirational, Issue 4,
2015 Zoomonfashiontrends s/s 2016 Traces, Nuova Libra, Cover and page 101
2015 Rooms, http://www.roomsmagazine.com/we-create/#/a-conversation-with-karen-margolis-from-rooms-16-superluminal/
2014 Paper Play, Sandu Publishing, Pages 26-27
2011 Survival of the Beautiful, Rothenberg, David, Pages 267-268
1999 New American Paintings, Number 20, Pages 108-111
Selected Bibliography:
2021 Shim, Kuni “Interview with Karen Margolis”, Art Terms Magazine, April 7, 2021
2020 Behringer, David, “9 Incredible Objects from Armory Art Fair Week 2020” Design Milk, March 25, 2020
2019 Yaniv, Etty, “In the Precipice – Karen Margolis at Foley”, Art Spiel, November 3, 2019
2019 “Beautifying NYC One Mosaic Panel at a Time”, Tileletter, October 1, 2019
2019 Beck, Amy, “Carve out Time for a Micro-Vacation at the Woodson Art Museum”, Wisconsin Central Time News, April 16, 2019
2018 Culotta, Alexis, “Karen Margolis and the Deconstruction of Apparent Order”, The Culturalite, August 14, 2018
2018 Cowan, Katy, “Garden of Mutei”, Inspiration/Art, Creative Boom, 6/4/2018
2018 Marks, Anna, "Vibrant map artworks mirror...", Design Exchange, 6/3/2018
2018 Osberg, Annabel, "Karen Margolis' Garden of Mutei", AEQAI, May 13th, 2018/ published in April/May 2018
2018 Oliver, John, "Colorful Tapestries created from Burned, Threaded and Decorated Paper", FREEYORK, April 2018
2017 Johnson, Jacqueline Bell, "Looking Back: Art Palm Springs 2017", Art and Cake, 3/27/17
2016 Martins, J Fatina, "Karen Margolis' Sonogram A Living Narrative", Artscope Magazine, May/June 2016, p 76-77
2015 Marobin, Nichka, "Strato-Sfera: Margolis vs. Ganch", Art Jewelry Forum 10/10/2015
2015 "Artist on our Radar", Harper's Bazaar, Japan, September Issue
2015 Bischoff, Dan, "Work the Unit', The Star-Ledger, 6/26/15
2015 Renin, Loic, "Karen Margolis takes a dive into water color", http://www.topcoatmagazine.com/covering_canvas1109a.html
2015 ROOMS 16: Superluminal, "Karen Margolis"
2015 www.wgsn.com/.../Art.../WGSN_SS15_Insp, Grown, "Molecular works by Karen Margolis"
2014 Kirchgasler, Rachel, "Karen Margolis" American Craft Council, blog,The Week in Craft: December 3, 2014
2014 the jealouscurator.com/blog/2014/11/26/karen-margolis/
2014 Garcia, Isel, http://www.luxxeliving.com/m-missoni-s-s-2015-resort-collection-and-karen-margolis-sculptures.html,
2014 Harris, Taylor, "Karen Margolis Discusses M Missoni Sculpture Project", WWD issue 10/16/2014
2014 Bryans, Breanne,"Scientific Art or Artistic Science?", bleedforart.com 9/6/14
2014 Watson, Stephanie, "Science meets art: Karen Margolis", ArchiEXPO trends 3 April 2014
2013 Milk Decoration, No3, p 112, 116, Mars/Avril/Mai 2013
2013 Mazzoleni, Barbara, "The Wonderful Works by Karen Margolis", blog, Patternprints Journal 2013/09/03
2013 Morris, Lin, "Karen Margolis", blog, February 25, 2013
2012 poppiloops.weebly.com/blog--links/karen-margolis, 15/06/2012
2012 Kratzer, Emily, "I am what is Missing", lohud.com powered by the Journal News 3/31/12
2011 Lin, Wen Wen, “Enso Inspiration: Karen Margolis” art-in-action-artivists.blogspot.com 6/8/11
2011 Carmel, David, "Show and Tell" Nature 7 April 2011, Vol 472, page 37
2011 http://onasecretmission.blogspot.com/search?q=karen+margolis, 4/4/11
2009 Sanchez, Jennifer, “Karen Margolis…” miss-sanchez.blogspot.com 8/9/2009
2009 Daniel A. Rabuzzi, “Redifining Drawing” lobsterandcanaryblogspot.com 7/2/09
2009 Chris Rywalt, “Karen Margolis…” crywalt.com/blog/ 6/18/09
2007 Myers, Holly, "Art with no worries -and no real pieces", Los Angeles Times, 7/20/07
2007 Myers, Holly, “Artists are limited only by imagination….” Calenderlive.com 7/20/07
2006 Patterson, Tom, “A Profusion of Pleasure: Size doesn’t matter…” Winston-Salem Journal 12/31/06
2006 Russo, Peter, "Gallery Notes" PULP issue 49, Spring 2006
2001 Wasserman, Burton, “Out of Tradition at DCCA” Art Matters 10/01
2001 Zimmer, W., “On Paper, a show that measures up” The New York Times 3/18/01
2001 Streitfeld, L.P., “Transformations at The Aldrich” The Advocate & Greenwich Time 2/11/01
2001 Zimmer, W., “The Content Isn’t New But the Processes Are” The New York Times 2/4/01
2001 Merkling, F., “Shows Shine” The News-Times Weekend 2/2/01
1999 Huberty, Erica-Lynn, “The Verdict: Remarkable” The Southampton Press 12/23/99
1999 Slivka, Rose C.S., “From the Studio” The East Hampton Star 12/9/99
Selected Public Collections:
Werner and Sally Kramarsky Collection, New York
Hood Museum, Dartmouth College, New Hampshire
Pfizer, New York
Pollock Gallery, Southern Methodist University, Texas
Amerada Hess Corporation, New York
Coventry Health Insurance, Pennsylvania
JoAnn Gonzalez Hickey Collection, Syzygy, New York
Cummins, Inc., headquarters, Indianapolis, IN
The Ritz Carlton, Lake Tahoe, CA
Royal Caribbean Cruises, Symphony of the Seas, Miami, FL
Education:
Colorado State University, BS Psychology
New York Microscopical Society, Certificate in Microscopy
Art Students League
Parsons School of Design
School of Visual Arts, Digital Sculpture
Teaching/Projects/Other Experience
ART BEYOND SIGHT
Special Projects Consultant for 25th Anniversary of Americans with Disabilities Act
· Consultant to ABS to develop programs for artists with low vision and blindness.
· Organized and implemented events for 25th Anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act.
· Liaised with Mayor's office for People with Disabilities and Chinatown Partnership to create ADA 25th Anniversary
Festival, bringing cultural organizations into lower Manhattan to engage with neighborhood and present accessibility.
THE LIGHTHOUSE INTERNATIONAL
Studio Art Instructor
· Conceived and implemented program to teach studio art to blind and visually impaired teenagers.
· Planned and curated an exhibition of artwork produced in this program.
CHILDREN’S MUSEUM OF MANHATTAN
Artist
· Transformed stories into sculpture installations for Dr. Seuss Exhibition.
UNITED CEREBRAL PALSY CENTER
Art Instructor
· Taught painting and ceramics to participants in evening program.