Biography and Resume

Born: Hamburg, Germany

Batten earned a Master of Fine Arts from Hunter College, New York and a diploma in Fine Arts from St. Martins/Central School, London, England. Among the many grants which she received, are a Pollock-Krasner in painting, an Artists' Fellowship from the New York Foundation for the Arts in painting, from the New York Metropolitan Authority to provide a ceramic mural for the NY subway system and from the New York Council on the Arts to create a mural park in New York City. Batten has been showing her paintings at the June Kelly Gallery, New York for the last twelve years and in Zurich, by Galerie a-16. Her work is in the permanent collections of the Federal Reserve Bank of New York, the Continental Insurance Company, Salomon Brothers Inc., Pfizer Inc., Reliance National and the Hotel Millenium in New York. Her teaching credit include Parsons School of Design, where she taught eleven years, New York City Community College, College of New Rochelle and Norwich University, Montpelier, Vermont.
Education

  MFA, Hunter College, New York
  BFA, Saint Martins, London

One-Person Exhibitions

2006 My New World, June Kelly Gallery, New York
2003 Manhattan, Works on Paper, The Durst Organization/Show Walls, New York
2002 Karin Batten, Pfizer Inc., New York
2000 Karin Batten New York From Above, The Lobby Gallery, New York
1999 Inside the Sea, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1996 Karin Batten: Paintings, 850 Third Avenue Lobby Gallery, New York
1995 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1994 Paintings by Karin Batten, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
Karin Batten, Consulate General of the Federal Republic of Germany, New York
1993 Karin Batten (USA) Bilder X-TRA, Zürich
1992 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, New York
Karin Batten New York, Galerie a16 Zürich
1991 Drawings, Galerie 20 Fine Arts, Paris
1990 New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, NY
1988 New Paintings: Karin Batten & Stan Brodsky, June Kelly Gallery, NY
1984 Karin Batten, 1984 Gallery, Lansing, Michigan
Unholy Alliance, Caldwell College, New Jersey
Contamination, Partisan Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
1982 Alternative Liste, Berlin Atombilder aus Disneyland, Galerie 70, Berlin
1981 Contamination, Gallery 1199, NY
1979 New Works, 22 Wooster Gallery, NY

Group Exhibitions


2007/2008 Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York
2007 Remembering Ruth: 25 Years of Giving (Ruth Chenven Foundation), NoHo Gallery, New York
2006 Its About Real Estate, Michael Ingbar Gallery, New York
2005 Change I, Federico Secondo Galleria, Bari, Italy
2002 Karin Batten Paintings, Online Virtual Exhibition, postpicasso.com
2002 Re-imagining New York, North Dakota Museum of Art, ND
2001 The New York City Skyline, Michael Ingbar Gallery, NY
1999 Summer Tides, Nabi Gallery, Sag Harbor, NY
1997 Dialogue Est/Ouest, Centre d'Art du Puy Guérin, Vayolles, France
1996 Promenade Art Show, BACA/The Brooklyn Arts Council, NY
1995 Visual Evidence, presented by Art Initiatives, The New York Law School
1994 Sensual Landscapes, The Shirley Fiterman Gallery, BMCC, City University of NY
1993 7th Annual Women in Visual Arts Exhibition, Erector Square Gallery, New Haven, CT
13 Emerging Artists, The Viking Gallery, LTD., Merrick, NY
New Works, Fine Art Gallery of Southwest Louisiana, Lake Charles, LA
1991 The Hoyt Institute of Fine Arts, New Castle, PA
1988 New York City: Works by 21 Artists, One Penn Plaza, NY
The Changing Face of Soho, Arts for Transit, MTA, NY
1986 The La Lucha Murals, Museum of Contemporary Hispanic Art, NY
1985 Arresting Images, 10 on 8, New York
La Lucha Continue, La Plaza Cultural, NY
1984 FacultyShow, Parsons Exhibition Center, NY
Abstractions, The First Women's Bank, NY
Adieu 84-Variierte Phantasmen, Deplanenkunsthalle, Berlin
1983 New Beginnings, The Pentonville Gallery, London
Municipal Gallery, Burlington, Vermont
Terminal New York, US Army Terminal Brooklyn, NY
1982 Ben Shahn Gallery, Wayne New Jersey
1979/1981 Faculty Show, Parsons Exhibition Center, NY
National Drawing ‘79, Holman Art Gallery, Trenton State College, NJ
1975 New Talent, Galerie Ariadne, New York

Collections


Pfizer Inc., New York
Davidson College, Van Every/Smith Galleries, Davidson, NC
Galerie 70, Berlin
Thumb Gallery, Ltd., London
The Federal Reserve Bank of NY, East Rutherford, NJ
Reliance National, New York
Hotel Millenium, New York
Salomon Brothers Inc.,New York
Continental Insurance Company, New York
Philipp Brothers Inc., New York
European Illustration, Publishing House, London

Reviews and Articles

2004 Site Matters: The Lower Manhattan Cultural Council's World Trade Center Artist Residency, 1997-2001, book by Moukhtar Kocache, Erin Shirreff, Liz Thompson
2002 Windows on the World, Local Life Arts, 8/9/02, Carol Graham
2002 Farm is Haven for Anxious Artist, Brattleboro Reformer, Vol9NO.165, Willow L. Dannible
2002 North Dakota Museum of Art, University of North Dakota Alumni Review, 8/9/02
2002 “The Long Good-Bye”, New York Magazine, Aric Chen, New York
2002 “New Yorker of the Week” interview with Tanya Valle on NY1 television
1997 “Festival Des Arts Dialogue Est/Ouest,” catalogue, Anne Guiet, Vayolles, France
“New American Paintings,” The Open Studio Press, Vol. 2, No. 4
1996 “Art Calendar,” Barb Dougherty, Upper Fairmount, MD
1995 “Karin Batten,” catalogue essay by David Bourdon, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1994 das neue, Anke Schröder, Hamburg, Germany
1990 “Karin Batten”, essay by Margaret Sheffield, June Kelly Gallery, New York
1988 “Penn Plaza Art,” The Westsider, N. F. Karlins, New York
“The Arts Community,” Daily News, Joan Shepard, New York
1984 “Scandal in the Art Department,” The Kettle, Linda Kosenski, Caldwell, New Jersey
“Feast for Art Lover's Eyes,” Lansing State Journal, Lansing, Michigan
1983 “Karin Batten,” New Beginnings, Geoff Evans, London
1982 “Holocaust Visionen,” Art Das Kunstmagazin, Gabrielle Von Arnim, Hamburg, Germany
“Al zeigt abgesetzte Ausstellung,” Der Tagesspiegel, Hamburg, Germany
“Versuchskaninchen,” Die Tageszeitung, Berlin
1981 “Karin Batten,” The Guardian, Carol Leven, New York
“Open Season,” The Village Voice, Lucy Lippard, New York
“Contamination,” catalogue essay by Alice Neel, Gallery 1199, New York
“Art Comes to the Environment,” The Aquarian, Diane Umansky, New York

Grants & Awards


2008 Ragdale Foundation, Lake Forest, Illinois, residency
2006 Byrdcliffe Arts and Crafts Colony, Woodstock, NY
2005 Residency, Hambidge Center, Rabun Gap, GA
2002 Residency, The Hall Farm Center for Arts & Education, Townshend, VT
2001 Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant, New York, NY
Artists' Fellowship Inc., emergency fund grant, NY
Residency, Studioscape in the World Trade Center, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, NY
1998 Artists' Fellowship in Painting, New York
Foundation for the Arts, New York
1997 Residency, Cummington School for the Arts, MA
1996 1st Prize in the Promenade Art Show, BACA/The Brooklyn Arts Council, NY
1991 Emma Lake Artists' Workshop, Saskatchewan, Canada
1988 Residency, Cummington School for the Arts, MA
1987 New York State Council on the Arts, Artmakers, Inc., Metropolitan Transportation Authority, NY
Artmakers, Inc., North Star Fund, New York
Fellowship, Yaddo, Saratoga Springs, NY
1986 Fellowship, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Sweet Briar, VA
1985 Artmakers, Inc., North Star Fund, New York
1976 Finalist, Graduate Fellowship for Women, The Danforth Foundation

Teaching


1993-present
1974-1985
1981-1982
1976-1979
Norwich University, Vermont College, Montpelier, VT
Parsons School of Design, New York
School of New Resources, College of New Rochelle, New York
New York City Community College, New York

Lectures & Films

2007 Clear Blue Tuesday, Director Elizabeth Lucas, Painting as prop in movie
2002 Tribeca Film Festival, Panel Confusion in a Time of Uncertainty: Life After September 11th, Pace University, Michael Schimmel Center for the Arts, with Jon Stewart, Spalding Gray, Susan Sarandon and Wendy Wasserstein
1987 University of Vermont, Burlington, VT
1984 Caldwell College, NJ
1983 Fashion Institute of Technology, NY
1981 Parsons School of Design, NY

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