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I compose spontaneously and freely evoking
a tension between abstraction and figuration, between the depth of space and the flattening of perspective. Using mixed media and digital images, each painting unfolds by layering, burying, and rediscovering new forms that emerge. Resume Born: Hamburg, Germany |
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Education | |
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One-Person Exhibitions |
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| 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 |
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Group Exhibitions |
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| 2009 | Works on Paper, June Kelly Gallery, New York |
| 2007/2008 | Small Works, 80 Washington Square East Galleries, New York |
| 2007 | Remembering Ruth: 25 Years of Giving (Ruth Chenven Foundation), NoHo Gallery, NY |
| 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 |
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| National September 11 Memorial and Museum, New York 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, Books and Articles |
| 2009 | ON THE WALL book by Janet Braun-Reinitz & Jane Weissman, University Press of Mississippi/Jackson |
| 2008 | Interview with Jon Gordon on "Future Tense", American Public Media |
| 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 |
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Grants & Awards |
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| 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., MTA, 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 |
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Teaching |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |