KAREN HAMPTON
2022 American Craft Council Fellow
Alcalde, New Mexico
SOLO EXHIBITION
2025 Say A Little Prayer, Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2023 Dots in the Universe, Kouri + Corrao Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
2022-2028 Public Art, Metro Los Angeles
Homage to Paul Revere Williams
High in the Sky
Los Angeles through my soul’s eye
2022 Origins, Crisp Ellert Art Museum, Flagler College, St. Augustine, FL
2019 The Light of Freedom, Mansfield Art Center, Mansfield, OH
2018 The Light of Freedom, Carrington Art Gallery, Sandusky, OH
2018 WATER, Puerto Rico…Flint, is a human right
Michigan State University Union Art Gallery, East Lansing, MI
2017 Shapeshifter, Jack Bell Gallery, London, England
2016-17 Karen Hampton: The Journey North, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Oahu, Hawaii
2016 Abolitionist Tale, Jack Bell Gallery, London, England
2015 Karen Hampton: The Journey North, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2 PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2019 Photographic Evidence in Textiles, galleryFRITZ, Santa Fe, NM
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Bahia Reverb, Art and Practice & CAAM, Los Angeles, CA
2022-23 Adornment/Artifacts, Transformative Arts, Curator: Jill Moniz, Los Angeles, CA
2021 The Ambiguities of Blackness, Curator: Dr. Lizzetta LeFalle Collins, Minnesota Street Project Foundation, SF, CA
2020 Craft in America, https://www.craftinamerica.org/object/karen-hampton-we-will-never-forget-2018
2019 Domestic Matters: The Uncommon Apron, Peters Valley Art Center, NJ
2019 Telling, Making, Doing: Women’s Work, Quotidian Project Space, DTLA, CA
2018 Holding Up 1/2 the Sky, Roberts Project, Culver City, CA
2018 THE AUDACITY OF ART, galleryFRITZ, Santa Fe, NM
2018 galleryFRITZ opening, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Made in Cotton, California State University, Domingo Hills, Los Angeles, CA
2017 Crossing Generations, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, Oregon
2017 Material Connections, Jane Lombard Gallery, New York, New York
2017 Women Art & Fiber: Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Underground Railroad,
University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, MA
2016 Made in Cotton, LA Artcore Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Le Penseur, Jack Bell Gallery, London, England
2016 1:54 Contemporary African Art Fair, Brooklyn, NY
2016 The Art of the Story, Platt and Borstein Galleries, American Jewish Museum, Los Angeles, CA
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AWARDS, COMMISSIONS & PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
2025 Black Artists + Designers Guild, Makers Award
2023 Tia Collection,
2023 Faculty Fellow in Sustainability Focus Indigo, MassArt, Boston
2022 Fellow, American Craft Council
2020 Faculty Fellowship Grant, MassArt for continued research in St. Augustine, FL
2020 Acquisition: Chapman University, Orange, CA
2020 MOVING FORWARD: 4-part webinar series Dialogues with and between African American Textile Artists, funded by the Craft Future Fund, The Center for Craft, Ashville, NC
2019 Women and The American Story, New York Historical Society Education Guide
2017 Acquisition: Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
2017 Craft Think Tank, American Craft Council, Los Angeles, CA
2016 Acquisition: Honolulu Art Museum, Honolulu, Hawaii
2016-2020 Artist in Embassies, US State Department, Kampala, Uganda
2015 Acquisition: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2015 Cultural Engagement International (CEI) Fellowship Program, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
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2010 - present
2010 - present
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