Karen Mahan (b.1971, USA)
EDUCATION
2004 M.F.A. in Painting, The New York Academy of Art, New York, NY
1994 B.A. in Liberal Arts (Art History, Studio Art, English), Virginia Tech, Blacksburg, VA
AFFILIATIONS
2022-2023, 2023-2024 Turps Banana Correspondence Course
since 2021 New York City Crit Club
since 2022 studio The Artists Lofts in Round Hill, Va
The Art Students League of New York, Life Member (since 2004)
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
Upcoming 2025, January "New Work", Brambleton Library, Loudoun County Public Library, Ashburn, Virginia
Upcoming 2024, July "The Other Side of the Rainbow" Rust Library, Loudoun County Public Library, Leesburg, Virginia
March- June 2024 Ashburn Library, Loudoun County, Virginia
2024 Solo Show, “The Other Side of the Rainbow”, Gallery One, Loudoun County Government Building, Leesburg, Virginia
2023 “Meet us at Twilight”, Two person show with Philippa Beardsley, curated by Emily Royer, Launderette Records, Philadelphia, PA
2023 The Wine Kitchen, Leesburg, VA
2022 King Street Coffee, Leesburg, VA
2021 Loudoun Arts Film Festival, “Lee Grunewald Pop up” Middleburg, VA
2019 King Street Coffee, Leesburg, VA
2017 Art Salon at the 73rd annual Waterford Fair, Waterford, VA
2017 Single Fare 4, Highline Stages, New York, NY
2013 Dark & Scary Salon Show, Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2013 Single Fare 3, RH Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Single Fare 2, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
2010 Deck the Walls, NY Academy of Art, NYC
2010 Single Fare, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
2009 Deck the Walls, NY Academy of Art, NYC
2009 Benefit: A Postcard Show, Prishka Jushka Gallery, NYC
2005-2008 Crane Street Studios at 5 Pointz, Open Studios, Long Island City, NY
2006 Druid's, Hell’s Kitchen, NYC, solo show
2005 Take Home a Nude, Philips de Pury Auction House, NYC
2005 Metropolitan Museum of Art, Employee Art Show, NYC
1999-2001 The Art Students League of NY-Peter Cox class shows
1999 Cork Gallery at Lincoln Center for the Performing Arts: Group Show for the Scholarship Recipients from the Art Students League of NY
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2019 Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
2018 Tyrone Guthrie Centre at Annaghmakerrig, Newbliss, Co. Monaghan, Ireland
2014 Cill Rialaig Project, Dun Geagan, Ballinskelligs, Co. Kerry, Ireland
2013 Cill Rialaig Project, Dun Geagan, Ballinskelligs, Co.Kerry, Ireland
MISCELLANEOUS
2004 Head of the Art Department, Summer Program (GirlSummer), Emma Willard, Troy, NY
2003 Security Guard, Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY
1998 Administrative Assistant, Office of Ronald S. Lauder, New York, NY