About

Karen Rose is a half Mexican artist 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. 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 of her Border Paintings at Gallery Route One in Point Reyes Station, CA, Diamante Arts & Cultural Center in Raleigh, NC and the Durham Convention Center. 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. Her Mexican American grandparents were lifelong farmworkers in the San Joaquin Valley and she is exhibiting a series of farm paintings on both coasts in their honor. Her photography and video work are an important part of her practice. Rose teaches art at Urban School of San Francisco and recently completed an art residency at Guadalupe Elementary through SFArtsEd.