Professional info

Born 1958 Los Angeles, CA

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA & Lansing, MI

EDUCATION

1992 BA, New College of California, San Francisco, CA

2000 MFA, UC Davis, Davis, CA

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

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

2016 Karen Hampton: The Journey North

Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii

2016 Abolitionist Tale Jack Bell Gallery, St. James, London, England

2015 Karen Hampton: The Journey North

Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

2005 Material Matters: Three: Masterful Approaches to Fiber, 2005

Textiles, Wood and Glass,

Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA

2004 Family Stories: The Printed Quilts of Karen Hampton,

Thomasville Community Center, Thomasville, Georgia

2002 Memories, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA

2000 The Plantation Yard, Thesis Show

Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento CA

2000 Karen Hampton

Design Gallery, UC Davis, Davis CA

(currently known as Design Museum)

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2018 Opening Exhibition

gf Contemporary Gallery, Santa Fe, NM

2017 Made in Cotton

California State University, Domingues Hills, Los Angeles, CA

2017 Crossing Generations

Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art, Portland, CA

2017 Material Connections

Jane Lombard Gallery, NYC, NY

2017 Women Art & Fiber, Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Underground Railroad

University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA

2016 Made In Cotton

LA ArtCore, Los Angeles, CA

2016 The Art of the Story, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA

2012 Innovators & Legends

Thru Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI

2015 Schweinfurth Memorial Art Center, Auburn, NY

University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY

Colorado State University , Fort Collins, CO

Figge Art Museum, Davenport, IA

108 Contemporary Gallery, Tulsa, OK

2011 Intimate Stitches, FiberPhiladelphia, Philadelphia, PA

2011 The Sky’s the Limit, Gateway Art Center, Mount Rainier, MD

2011 Invisible Lineage, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA

2008-12 Howard University Faculty Show, Washington,DC

2007 Conscious Concepts, Baulines Craft Guild, Master Annual

Artworks Downtown Gallery, San Rafael, CA

2007 “Breaking Ice: Bay Area Artists Consider the African Diaspora"

SF Artworks Gallery, San Francisco, CA

2007 Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA

2006 By the Hand: A National Juried Exhibition Traditional

and Innovative Craft, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2002 Looming Large - Contemporary Weavers of the Vanguard

Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA

2002 California Design 2002, San Francisco. CA

2001 BEYOND THREAD - (a) mending social thought, Braunstein/Quay Gallery,

San Francisco, CA

2000 Fiber 2000: Indigo-Bridging Cultures, Chicago, IL

1997 Reflections In Time, CVA Gallery, Oakland CA

1995 The Seeing Soul, Bay Area African American Artists, Oakland Museum

Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA

1995 Odun de, Odun de, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA

(now California College of the Arts)

1994 African – American Craft National, Louisville, Kentucky

AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS

2015 Acquistion: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College,

Clinton, NY

2015 Instituto Sacatar Fellowship, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil

International Residency/ Department of Cultural Affairs

Los Angeles, CA

2011 Purchase Award Prince George’s County Parks & Planning,

Prince George's County, MD

2008 Eureka Fellowship Fleishhacker Foundation

San Francisco, CA

2008 Career Development Grant Marin Arts Council, Marin County, CA

2000 Ellen Hansen Prize, UC Davis, Davis CA

For Artwork addressing issues of Bravery and Independence in Women

1999 Jastro Shield Research Fellowship, UC Davis, Davis CA

"African American Women Weavers during Slavery"

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY

2015 Karen Hampton, The Journey North, The Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art

Hamilton College, Clinton, NY

2012 Innovators and Legends, Generations in Textiles and Fiber

Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, Michigan

2012 Textile Society of America: 13th Biennial Symposium

Stitching Race: A tool for historical memory

2011 Invisible Lineage

San Jose Museum of Quilts & Textiles

San Jose, CA

2006 Textile Society of America: 10th Biennial Symposium

Historical Memory and Empathy in Studio Art Classroom

2002 Craft of Northern California, Alcove Books

2000 Women Designers in the USA Diversity and Difference 1900-2000,

Pat Kirkham, Editor, Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative

Arts, Yale University Press

2000 Textile Society of America: 7th Biennial Symposium

AFRICAN AMERICAN WOMEN: PLANTATION TEXTILE PRODUCTION

FROM 1750 TO 1830

TEACHING

2017 Michigan State University, Lansing, MI

Assistant Professor, Critical Race Issues Resident Artist , ATD

2007 - 2011 Howard University, Washington, DC

2000 – 2007 College of Marin, Kentfield, CA

2002, 2005 California College of Art

WORKSHOPS AND RESIDENCIES

2015 Sacatar Foundation, Itaparica, Bahia, Brazil

( 7-week residency) Researched Rendieras Culture in Saubara, Brazil

2014 St. Mary’s Art Center, Virginia City, Nevada

(8-week residency)

2014 Storytelling through Thread with Karen Hampton

Fowler Museum (Workshop), UCLA, Los Angeles, CA

2014 Long Beach State University (Lecture), Long Beach, CA

2013 Palomar College (Lecture), Carlsbad, CA

2012 Air Studio- Artist in Residency, Paducah, Kentucky

3-week residency

1994 Artist in Residence; Oakland Museum, Oakland, CA

CURATORIAL PROJECTS

2007 Children’s Views of the San Francisco Bay, Bay Area Discovery

Museum, Sausalito, CA

2006 Faces from Haiti, Bay Area Discovery Museum, Sausalito, CA

2006 Manzanita Memory Project, Marin City, CA

2006 Learning to See, Canal Alliance, San Rafael, CA

1997 Violence Project, Mural Billboard, Oakland, CA

1997 Heritage Quilt Workshop, Zaccho Dance Theatre, San Francisco, CA

LECTURES: HISTORICAL NARRATIVE TEXTILES
2012 Harriet Tubman Underground Railroad Conference, Cambridge, MD