About

Karen Rose is a half Mexican painter with over 30 years of experience in New York City, San Francisco, and Raleigh. She has a BA from UC Berkeley and an MFA from The School of Visual Arts in New York. Her practice includes a printmaking residency at La Maldita Estampa in Barcelona, supported by a North Carolina arts grant. Additionally, she was awarded a Kivunim Fellowship to Morocco, where she studied inter-religious and cross-cultural coexistence with a diverse group of 40 educators, 3 rabbis, and a Bedouin Palestinian peace activist. She recently had solo shows of her Border Paintings at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station, CA and Diamante Arts & Cultural Center in Raleigh, NC. The Durham Convention Center is showing 10 of her large-scale Mexican Border and North Carolina paintings July through December of this year, courtesy of the Durham Arts Council. Karen Rose teaches art at the Urban School of San Francisco and lives and paints in both Richmond, CA and Raleigh, NC.