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Professional info
 

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, CA

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2010 - present

2010 - present

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