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 by the International Panorama Council this year. She currently has a solo exhbition at the Post Montgomery Center in San Francisco, and has had solo shows at SFArtsEd Gallery and Gallery Route One in California and in North Carolina at Diamante Arts & Cultural Center, the Durham Convention Center, and the NC Botanical Gardens. Rose teaches art at Urban School of San Francisco. She paints and lives in both the Bay Area and Raleigh, NC.