Karen Bell
photography
Born in Brooklyn, NY
Lives & works in New York, NY
SELECTED ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS:
2017 Still Life, Nature Art Gallery, Raleigh, NC
2016 Flotsam & Jetsam; Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY
2015 Translucent; Alex Ferrone Gallery, Cutchogue, NY
2014 Flotsam & Jetsam: Bryant Library, Roslyn, NY
2014 Flotsam & Jetsam: Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
2014 What I see: Westhampton Beach Free Library, WHB, NY
2010 Flip Side: Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
2009 Color Field: Florida School of the Arts. Palatka, FL
2008 Verdant Ground: Catskill Art Society, Livingston Manor, NY
2006 Southern Light Gallery, Amarillo, TX
2005 Further Into Landscape: Recent Photographs, A.I.R. Gallery II, NYC
2001 FROM A ROUGH GROUND: two-person with paintings by Dale Emmart,
Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, New York
1999 NEW PHOTOGRAPHS: Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY
1997 After the Fires and Other Images: Delaware Arts Center, Narrowsburg
1996 Renewed Landscapes: 55 Mercer Gallery, NYC
1990 The Garden School: East Hampton, N.Y.
1988 A.I.R. Gallery: New York City; Emerging Artist Space
1986 Photo Illuminations; window installation, 480 Broome St., NYC
1980 New Photographs: Hunter College Gallery, N.Y.C.
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2021 rfotofolio.org Portfolio Selected for the 2021 Call for Portfolios
2021 Members Juried Exhibition: Griffin Museum of Photo, Winchester,MA
2019 Abstraction; Griffin Museum of Photography, Satellite Gallery, Boston, MA
2018 Visual Metrics; Griffin Museum of Photography, Satellite Gallery, Boston, MA
2017 Aviary; Griffin Museum of Photography, Satellite Gallery, Boston, MA
2016 Circle; Alex Ferrone Gallery, Cutchogue, NY
2015 Wild at Heart: Our Affair with Nature; ArtSpace, Raleigh, NC
2014 PHOTOBOOK 2014: Davis-Orton Gallery, Hudson, NY,
then Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA
2013 Drawn to Water: Photoville, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Faculty/Student exhibit – Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC
2011 Governors Island Open Studio/Gallery Exhibit, Governors Island, NYC
2011 Just…Air: Alliance Gallery, Narrowsburg, NY; co-curated with Dale Emmart
2009 Alonzo Davis Fellowship Exhibit: Sande Webster Gallery, Philadelphia,PA
2009 Benefit for Elizabeth Murray: Sue Scott Gallery, NY, NY
2009 Focus on Photography: Gallery North, Setauket, NY
2008 Men at Work: 1212 Gallery, Richmond, VA
2008 Generations 6; A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
2007 Focus On Photography: Gallery North, Setauket, New York
2007 Elegy For Eden: Lobby Gallery, Durst Building 1155 6th Avenue, NYC
2006 Israeli Forum for Ecological Art; virtual presentation in Mevaseret Zion, Israel
2006 Looking Back from Ground Zero: Images from the Brooklyn Museum
Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, New York August 2006 – January 2007
2005 Small Works – Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Bond Gallery, 5 Rivington St., NYC
2005 Center for Book Arts 30th Anniversary Invitational, New York City
2004 Prints & Photographs –Atlantic Gallery, New York City
2003 Interior/Exterior: 5 Perspectives on Landscape Photography
Phillips Exeter Academy, Exeter, NH - organized by Karen Bell
Catalog essay written by Barbara Head Millstein
2003 Artist Members Show, Center for Book Arts, New York curated - May Castelberry & Roberta Waddell
2002 Other Places, Whitney Art Works Greenport, New York
2002 Grounded, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, 115 Wooster St., NYC
2001 Digital 2001, Digital Photography Exhibit, NY Hall of Science, Queens
2001 Summer Exhibition - Rosenberg & Kaufman 24 W. 57th St., NYC
2001 FOUR SQUARED, Whitney Art Works, Greenport, New York
2000 LAND, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, 115 Wooster St., NYC
2000 Generations II:A Survey of Women Artists at the Milllenium, AIR Gallery
1999 Spatial Relations, Rosenberg & Kaufman Fine Art, Wooster St., NYC
1998 New York - A Century of Grit & Grandeur, Rockland Center for the Arts
West Nyack, New York
1997 GENERATIONS, A.I.R. Gallery, NYC
1996-97,98 Kathy Kennedy/ PHOTO WORKS, NYC
1994 Critics' Choice; 10 Artists Selected from the O.I.A. Salon Show, NYC
1994 Salon Show, Organization of Independent Artists, NYC
1993 Rhode Island School of Design, Alumni Exhibition
1991 FRAGMENTS, Art In General, New York City
1990 Ellis Island Photographic Project, Ellis Island, N.Y.
1990 BRUT: White Columns, New York City
1989 The College of New Paltz, SUNY, Part of Women In The Arts conference
1989 CUNY Research Foundation, NYC, Curator and exhibitor
1988 ABC-NO-RIO Gallery, New York City
1987 Santa Fe Center for Photography, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1986 YAWGOOG SCOUT RESERVATION, a video tape, aired on cable TV
throughout New England as part of Mixed Signals, a program of
artist videos sponsored by New England Foundation/Arts
1986 YAWGOOG shown at The Kitchen, New York City
1985 NAKED, Boulder Center for the Arts, Boulder, CO.;
1985 VIDEO ON PAPER, Film/Video Arts, New York City
1983 Museum of Art, Rhode Island School of Design; MFA exhibition
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS:
2005 New York Public Library, Prints & Photographs
2004 Herbert Hoover National Historic Site, West Branch, IA
2003 Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld, LLP
2002,01 The Brooklyn Museum Of Art, Brooklyn, New York – artist books
1999 Pfizer Pharmaceutical
1992 The Brooklyn Museum Of Art, Brooklyn, New York - photographs
1992 National Park Service, Ellis Island Immigration Museum
PUBLICATIONS:
1993 Organization of Independent Artists - Quarterly
1989 Ellis Island, Aperture Books; edited by Susan Jonas
BIBLIOGRAPHy:
2003 Portsmouth, NH Wire, Nov 26 – Interior/Exterior -Karen Marzloff
1996 The Village Voice, Sept. 18 -Choices, Edited by Vince Aletti
1991 The Village Voice, May 7- Choices, Edited by Vince Aletti
1991 The Binnewater Tides, Fall - Nature/Culture As Rocks/Hard Places,
by Beth Haber, critic in residence at Women's Studio Workshop
1985 The Middletown (Conn.) Press; ARTSBEAT - August 2
1983 The Providence Journal; Channing Gray - May 27
AWARDS & GRANTS:
2022 Awarded Residency, VCCA
2011 Swing Space, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, awarded 5-month workspace on
Governors Island
2007.08.09,11 Fellowship, VCCA, Sweet Briar, VA
2007,2009 Elected President, Fellows Council, VCCA (re-elected in 2009)
2004 Artist in Residence, Moulin a Nef, Auvillar, France
2004 A.I.R. – Herbert Hoover Nat’l Historic Site, National Park Service, West Branch, Iowa
2000-2001 Faculty Technology Development Fund, New School University, NYC
to create a digital video about 2 New York photographers
2003,2002 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1998,93 Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1992 Fellowship, Yaddo; Saratoga Springs, New York
1985 Video Artist-In-Residence, Women's Interart Center, N.Y.C.
EDUCATION:
1983 Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, R.I. - Master of Fine Arts, Photography
1975-76 The New School, NYC; studied with Lisette Model and Phillippe Halsman
1974 Ohio University, Athens, Ohio - Bachelor of General Studies, Cum Laude
PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE:
2015 Co-Director, along with Dale Emmart, of Plein Air Portugal - summer retreat/workshop
2014 - Leader of private photography workshops: Seeing New York Through the Lens
2005 - Instructor: Photography, Brooklyn Botanic Garden, NYC
1995 - 2015 Part-time Faculty, Photography, Parsons/The New School, NYC
1993 -97 Part-time faculty, Photography, Fashion Institute of Technology, SUNY, NYC
1993 Visiting Lecturer, Fine Arts Department, RISD
1987-1988 Faculty, International Center of Photography/MIDTOWN, N.Y.C.
1985-87 Part-time faculty, Photography, Seton Hall University, South Orange, N.J.
1985-1986 Visiting Lecturer, Film/Video Department, RISD
1985 Produced, filmed, edited YAWGOOG SCOUT RESERVATION, a video
documentary about The Boy Scouts of America, with Kristine Diekman