About

Karen Rose is a half Mexican painter working in Richmond, CA and Raleigh, NC. 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. 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. Last year she 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 Arts Council hosted her solo show “From Mexico to North Carolina” at the Durham Convention Center. She was invited to become a member of the Inter-Latin American Artist Collective of Durham. 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. SFArtsEd is currently showing three of her political landscape paintings accompanied by a video interview and she has an upcoming show of her series celebrating Latino farmworkers in Wilson, NC. Her political paintings celebrate landscape and a Mexican sensibility of color while undertaking themes of immigration.