Karen Kang

Join us at SOFA New York (May 29, 2008) to see works from this artist.

Karen Kang, a New York based sculptor working primarily in stone, is known for her simple and sensitive abstract forms. Jonathan Goodman’s review in Sculpture magazine said, “Kang’s intensely lyrical approach to art and nature is in no way anachronistic or deliberately antiquated”.

Karen has expressed elements of playfulness in her new piece “The Price is Right,” a plaster temple that rests upon a stone foundation embedded with 7 doors created with odds and ends she picked up while walking through Central Park and various other parts of New York. This piece will be exhibited at the 11th SOFA in New York in May 2008.

Below is a brief biography:

• 1970 Born Seoul, South Korea
• 1992 Columbia University (BA), New York, NY
• 1993-1994 Belles Artes, San Miguel de Allende, Mexico
• 1994-1999 Art Students League, New York, NY
• 1996-1997 Sculpture Teacher – JASA and YM&YWHA, New York, NY

Solo Exbibitions

• 2003 Under Grace, Kickstart Gallery, New York, NY

Group Exhibitions

• 2008 Grace of Isolation, Hanging Around Gallery, Nashville, TN
• 2008 11th Sculpture Objects & Functional Art NY Fair, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY
• 2008 Concours Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
• 2008 Generative Creativity, BMCC Tribeca Performing Arts Center, New York, NY
• 2007 Concours Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY
• 2006 Small Monuments, Gallery Peter Schuijren, St. Geertruid, The Netherlands
• 2006 Small Monuments, Galerie MK21, Hamburg, Germany
• 2005 Tunnels and Bridges, Ceres Gallery, New York, NY
• 2005 23rd BWAC Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition, Empire-Fulton Ferry State Park, Brooklyn, NY
• 2005 Touchstones, Blum Gallery & Farrand Gardens, College of the Atlantic, Bar Harbor, ME
• 2005 Sculpture Participating with Place, Hawk Ridge Farm, Pownal, ME
• 2003 Restoration: Teen Challenge Benefit Art Show, World Trade Art Gallery, New York, NY
• 2002 Open Studios, Crane Street Studios, Long Island City, NY
• 2001 NY City Artists, Art Gallery Balsamo, Chichester, NY
• 2001 New York Underground, Silvestre Gallery, Surf City, NJ
• 2000 Nessa Cohen Exhibition, Cork Gallery, Lincoln Center, New York, NY
• 1999 Transcending Boundaries, Monarch: Contemporary Art Center, Tenino, WA
• 1999 New Sculptures by Karen Kang & Jesse Salisbury, Tunk River Sculpture & Gardens, Steuben, ME
• 1999 Nessa Cohen Exhibition, Brewster Arts Ltd., New York, NY
• 1996-1998 Concours Exhibition, Phyllis Harriman Mason Gallery, New York, NY

Residencies & Symposiums

• 2005 3 Month Residency, Larvikite Quarry, Larvik, Norway
• 2004 First International Sculpture Symposium, Damariscotta, Maine

Grants & Awards

• 1998 Nessa Cohen Grant - Art Students League, New York, NY
• 1997 Nessa Cohen Grant - Art Students League, New York, NY
• 1996 Merit Scholarship - Art Students League, New York, NY

Publications

• 2006 Reviews: New York: Karen Kang, Sculpture, Vol.25 No.2, Washington, DC, March 2006.
• 2005 Sculptor Karen Kang Exhibits Sculpture with BWAC, Hankook Il bo, New York, September 27, 2005.
• 2005 Meet Sculptor, Karen Kang, Joongang Il bo, New York, September 23, 2005.
• 2004 Between a Rock and an Art Place, Lincoln County Weekly, Maine, July 15, 2004.
• 2003 Korean-American 2nd Generation, Karen Kang, Private Art Show, Joongang Il bo, New York, April 26, 2003.
• 2001 New Artists’ Passion in the Summer, Korea Central Daily News, New York, August 1, 2001.
• 2000 Sculptor Karen Kang Exhibits at Lincoln Center, Korea Central Daily News,
• 2000 New York, February 4, 2000.
• 1999 Women Celebrate Art, The Olympian, Washington, August 19, 1999.
• 1999 Art Seen, Bangor Daily News, Maine, June 10, 1999.

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