Karin Batten was born in Hamburg, Germany and studied painting

and sculpture at Central Saint Martins College, London and received her

MFA from Hunter College (CUNY), New York City. She is represented by

June Kelly Gallery in New York City. For the last three years she has

been the director and curator of the Westbeth Gallery in NYC.

 

Batten has shown her work in solo and group exhibitions in

the United States and Europe. Her work is included in many permanent collections, and has received grants for public art from the NYC MTA,

two Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grants and an Artists’ Fellowship

in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts.