About

Karen Rose is a half Mexican artist with 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. She was also awarded a Kivunim Fellowship to Morocco, where she studied inter-religious and cross-cultural coexistence with 40 educators, 3 rabbis, and a Bedouin Palestinian peace activist. A visual essay of her 42-foot painting, "San Francisco North Bay 360 Degree View: A physical piece of virtual reality," will be published in the Panoramic & Immersive Media Studies Yearbook for the International Panorama Council this year. She has had solo shows at Gallery Route One in California and Diamante Arts & Cultural Center, Triangle Cultural Arts, Eyes on Main Street, The Edge Gallery, the Durham Convention Center and the NC Botanical Gardens in North Carolina. She is a member of the Inter-Latin American Artist Collective of North Carolina. Her paintings celebrate landscape and a Mexican sensibility of color while undertaking themes of immigration. Rose teaches art at Urban School of San Francisco and recently completed an art residency at Guadalupe Elementary through SFArtsEd. She paints and lives in both Richmond, CA and Raleigh, NC.