CV
Education
Master of Fine Art in Visual Art, CalArts, Valencia, CA
AOCAD, Sculpture/Installation (Honours), OCAD University, Toronto
Awards
2025 Artist in Residence, Pasadena City College
2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Concept to Realization
Netherland America Foundation Grant
2021 Guggenheim Fellowship
2020 Canada Council for the Arts
2019 Pollock-Krasner Award
2018/2019 Canada Council for the Arts
2017/2018 Fulbright US/UK Commission, UAL, London, Core Scholar Award, Central St. Martins
2013 West of Rome Public Art mini-production grant, Trajectory Object
2009 Durfee Foundation ARC Grant, Gold Flood
2003 Canada Council for the Arts
Solo and Two Person Exhibitions
2025
Karen Lofgren: Love to Pain, Pasadena City College, Boone Gallery
2023
Odd Fellows: Nao Bustamante and Karen Lofgren, Grave Gallery, Los Angeles
2022
Micrografia: Karen Lofgren and Catherine Wagner, Gallery Luisotti/Royale Projects
2018
What is to Cure, Royale Projects, Los Angeles
2017
Como lo cura, Lima, Perú
2016
Other Relevant Experience, Royale Projects Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2016
On the River, VOLUME at South of Sunset, Los Angeles
2015
Ritual Landscape, Royale Projects Contemporary Art, Palm Desert, CA
2014
Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050, High Desert Test Sites, Pioneertown, CA (artist book edition)
2013/2014
Karen Lofgren: Stabilizers, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2013
Blood Sister, Royale Projects Contemporary Art, Palm Desert, CA
2011
Be Like Water, PØST, Los Angeles (artist book edition, 35)
2010
Signs Point to Yes, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
2009
Gold Flood, Pitzer Art Galleries (artist book edition, 100)
2005
Believer, Machine Project, Los Angeles
Selected Group Exhibitions and Projects
2024
When the Summer Bullet Sings: Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles
David Hammons, JOAN, Los Angeles in the garden of David Horovitz
El Dorado (Myths of Gold) Part II, Americas Society, New York
Éclair, Spaghetto Silo, Athens, Greece
Alumni Collection Exhibition, Fulbright US-UK Commission HQ, London
2023
El Dorado (Myths of Gold), Art at the Americas Society, New York
Love Letter to a Surrogate, Guild Hall, NY, and Annenberg Beach House
Solve et coagula, Kentucky College of Art and Design, Louisville
2022
Restoration Action, Coaxial Arts Foundation, Los Angeles (with Ron Athey)
held open, Focus, Art Toronto
Out of Bounds, Torrance Art Museum
Ooze Out and Away, Onehow, Bozomag, Los Angeles
2021
Sleep and Altered States of Consciousness, Kunstverein am Rosa Luxemburg Platz, Berlin
100 Sculptures, Anonymous Gallery, NY
2020
Our Duty is to Experiment, PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne
100 Sculptures, NO Gallery, Los Angeles
Drive-By-Art, Los Angeles edition
Clinton Hill, Karen Lofgren, Joel Otterson, Royale Projects, Los Angeles
2019
On Equal Terms, PRISKA PASQUER, Cologne, Germany
Crosscurrents: Tracing Cultural Identity, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Todo en ti fue naufragio, Angels Gate Cultural Center, Los Angeles
Brave New Worlds, Palm Springs Art Museum (catalogue), CA
Come Together, Royale Projects Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2018
Focus California curated section, Art Toronto
Manifesto: A Modest Proposal, Pitzer College Art Galleries, Claremont
Undisrememberable Curios, PØST, Los Angeles
Note to Self, Royale Projects Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2017
And the Sky is Grey, Art Toronto FOCUS exhibition
The Fourth World, Institute for Art and Olfaction, Los Angeles
Knowledges, Mount Wilson Observatory, Los Angeles
Future Eve, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (catalogue)
2016
The First Horizons of Juno, MASS Gallery, Austin, TX
From Baroque to Bling: From the Collection of Donna MacMillan, Palm Springs Art Museum
Eternal Telethon by John Burtle, Biquini Wax, Mexico City, Mexico
Objects May Appear, Royale Projects Contemporary Art, Palm Desert
Hello My Name is, Royale Projects Contemporary Art, Los Angeles
2015
Self Actualizers: SYSTEM SYSTEM SYSTEM, solo project, Art Toronto (catalogue)
Living Together, collaboration with Jay Erker, East Side International, Los Angeles
Abstracted Visions, Cerritos College Art Gallery (catalogue)
2014
Packed and Jammed, Glendale College Art Gallery, Los Angeles
Cryptographics: a tribute to the Voynich Manuscript, Artslant at EXPO Chicago
Open House, The Property, Los Angeles
Study for Future Rock, solo project at Dr. Sun Yat Sen Garden, presented by the Vancouver Biennale
PRESENTS, Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles
Tender Buttons, Hockney Gallery, Royal College of Art, London
2013
No Dull Affairs, Onsite @ OCAD U, Toronto
Dig the Dig, LA Mart and Santa Monica Museum of Art
Looking Back At Tomorrow, Royale Projects, Palm Desert
2012
UAP (Agency of Unrealized Projects), DAAD Galerie, Berlin and e-flux
Dualities, Bank of America Plaza, Los Angeles
The Paranoia of Time, Carter & Citizen, Los Angeles
Don’t the Sun Look Angry at Me, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA
00:00 [RESET], Human Resources for Pacific Standard Time, Los Angeles
2011
I don’t know where but she sends me there, Royale Projects, Indian Wells, CA
Perpitube, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont
Get Hubbied, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
iced, Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art, Snug Harbor, NY
The Open Daybook, LACE (catalogue)
Believer, (solo project) Culver Center for the Arts/Sweeney Gallery, Riverside
2010
Open Arms, Summercamp project project, El Sereno
Slab in Temporary Space, Temporary Space, Houston
Room Mobile, See Line Gallery, West Hollywood
B538: Fifth Floor, Design Loves Art, Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood
2009
Veronica, Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont Colleges (catalogue)
Exquisite Corpse, Mihai Nicodim Gallery, Los Angeles
2008
A Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, LACMA (catalogue)
forming, storming, norming, performing, Circus Gallery
Slab at the Old LA Zoo
At the Middle of Nowhere, 533, Los Angeles
The Black Dragon Society, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
2006
Street Signs and Solar Ovens: Socialcraft in Los Angeles, Craft and Folk Art Museum, LA
Rocktobersurprisefest, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
Bleeding Edge Festival, Montalvo Arts Center, Saratoga, CA
Carter, Kate Davis, Karen Lofgren, Torbjorn Vejvi , Anna Helwing Gallery, LA
Hotel California, Glendale College Art Gallery, Glendale, CA
2005
S.E.L.F., Daniel Hug Gallery, Los Angeles
Christmas in July, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles
star left, Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, LACE
2004
High Desert Test Sites#4, Joshua Tree, CA
Bibliography
HYENA, Karen Lofgren and Penny Slinger collaboration, contributing artists/writers, Eds: Cindy Rehm and Adrienne Walser, HEXENTEXTE, Los Angeles, 2024
A Tree, contributing writer and artist: “Primordial Tongues or the Language of Non Automonous Beings” ; Ed: Marjolein van der Loo, Onomatopee Press, Eindhoven, NL, 2024
“Ten Art Shows to See in Los Angeles This August”, Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic, 2024
“Tragedy Plus Time: Arts Calendar February 15-21”, Shana Dambrot, LA Weekly, 2024
El Dorado: Myths of Gold, Aimé Iglesias Lukin, Tie Jojima, Edward J. Sullivan, Americas Society; New York, 2024; Distributor: DAP
“Fall Books: A Backpack Full of Poetry and History”, Shana Dambrot, LA Weekly, 2023
Karen Lofgren: emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living; Ed. Freek Lomme, Karen Lofgren, Henri Lucas; Design Willem Henri Lucas; contributors: Carmina Escobar; Marjolein van der Loo; Florencia Portocarrero; Set Margins’ Press, Eindhoven, NL, 2023
“LA’s Hottest New Gallery is in a Cemetery”, Matt Stromberg, Hyperallergic, 2023
“Hollywood’s Newest Art Space Takes Up Residence in Artist’s Future Burial Plot”; The Art Newspaper, February 18, 2023
Mousse Magazine, “Vaginal Davis Troubles at the Smile”, Dodie Bellamy, March 2022
Artforum (print edition), “Vaginal Davis”, Ana Teixeira Pinto, April, 2022
LA Times, “For Artist Ron Athey, a Timely Queer Communion at ICA LA”, July 9, 2021
“Brave New Worlds: Explorations of Space”, Terremoto Magazine, December 12, 2019
“Free Radicals Fulcrum Arts Symposium”, Shana Dambrot, LA Weekly, November 2019
“Art, Science, and Awe”, Pasadena Now, November 2019
Brave New Worlds, edited by Mara Gladstone, exhibition catalogue, 2019
“Brave New Worlds” Art & Cake LA, September 2019
“Palm Springs Art Museum Exhibition Pushes Viewers to New Vantage Points”, Kaylee Beam, Desert Sun, July 31, 2019
“Brave New Worlds: Explorations of Space, Bodies, Space, and Energy”, Jake Carver, Flaunt.com, May 29, 2019
Full Blede Issue Seven: “The Continuant”, January 2019
“Interview: Karen Lofgren on the Occasion of What is to Cure”, January 2019, Sascha Baumann
“Karen Lofgren’s Cure for the Common Patriarchy”, Shana Nys Dambrot, LA Weekly, Nov 28, 2018
“The Fourth World”, Shana Nys Dambrot, Art and Cake Magazine, October 22, 2017
“Where the Stars and Art Align”, Caroline Miranda, The Los Angeles Times, June 3, 2017, print ed.
Moskovsky Komsomolets, Moscow, “The New Urban Sculpture”, Smirnitskiy Yan, 2017
NOW Magazine, Toronto, “Shows We’d Love to See”, Rosemary Heather, January 18, 2017
“Future Eve” exhibition catalogue, Jared Baxter, Fellows of Contemporary Art, 2017
“Thanks for the Mammaries”, group catalogue, Bettina Hubby, Los Angeles Nomadic Division, 2016
“Karen Lofgren: Other Relevant Experience”, Cooper Johnson, Artillery Magazine, April 20, 2016
Abstracted Visions: Information Mapping from Mystic Diagrams to Data Visualizations; p. 52-53, James MacDevitt, 2015
“Karen Lofgren’s Trajectory Object Buried at High Desert Test Sites”, Droste Effect magazine,
Bologna, Italy, January 31, 2014
Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050: Karen Lofgren, artist publication in ed. of 500 designed by Willem Henri Lucas;
writing by Ben Ehrenreich. Los Angeles, 2014
“No Dull Affairs”, Caitlin Sutherland, Daily Serving, Toronto, August 2013: http://dailyserving.com/2013/08/no-dull-affairs/
“The desert, the edge of the city: Karen Lofgren at Royale Projects”, Jared Baxter,
Artslant Los Angeles, May 2013 http://www.artslant.com/la/articles/show/34969
Get Hubbied, artist catalogue edition, 2012; cover image and featured project
“Dispatches and Directions: On Artist Run Organizations in Los Angeles”, p. 118-119; Art 2102, 2011
Karen Lofgren: Be Like Water, artist book, print ed. of 35, 2011
The Open Daybook, ed. David Earle, Random House, 2010
A Field Guide to LACMA, ed. Machine Project, LACMA/DAP 2009; p. 31-32
Veronica, Ciara Ennis, Exhibition Catalogue, Pitzer College, 2009
Artforum.com “Critic’s Picks: Karen Lofgren”, Andrew Berardini, August 26, 2009
James Hardway, EP Album ‘oicho’ featuring “Downward Dog”, 2009
Karen Lofgren: Gold Flood, edition of 100 artist books, August 2009
IE Weekly, “Golden Rules: Installation Artist Karen Lofgren Taps Into Our Collective Unconscious”, Stacy Davies, July 30, 2009
LA Weekly “LACMA Deconstructed”, Gendy Alimurung, November 20, 2008
Mercury News “Villa Montalvo’s Bleeding Edge Festival”, Brad Kava, August 2006
CalArts Magazine, “Machine Project: No White Cube”, Margaret Crane, Spring 2006
LA Times, “Alchemy Yeilds a Subtle Magic”, David Pagel, August 26, 2005
Journal of Aesthetics and Protest issue 2, 2003 (cover art)
Visiting Artist, Lectures, Panels, Teaching
2024 Karen Lofgren: emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living Artist/Book Talk, Harvard Divinity School, Center for the Study of World Religions, Speaker series “Psychedelics and the Future of Religion”
2024 Ron Athey with CelesteX and Karen Lofgren, artist talk August 22nd, Murmurs LA
2024 Karen Lofgren and Vicente Telles with Edward J. Sullivan: Art at the Americas Society “In the Studio” series for exhibition “El Dorado: Myths of Gold”
2024 Karen Lofgren and Carmina Escobar book talk, Artbook Hauser & Wirth, Los Angeles
2024 Art Talk Tuesday: Karen Lofgren, Brand Library & Art Center, Glendale, CA
2023 Printed Matter/Hauser & Wirth, Talk on artist monograph emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living
2022 UC Santa Barbara, Visiting Artist
2022 Cognitive Activism Seminar, UCLA, presenting speaker
2021 Saas-Fee Summer Institute, New Glossary for a Sentient World
2021 Howlspace, panelist, on the meaning of voice
2020 ArtTable, Artist Talk
2020 Studio Visit (online), Fellows of Contemporary Art
2020 Vermont College of Art, Artist Mentor
2020 Live (online) Artist Talks, Priska Pasquer, Cologne
2018 What is to Cure conversation with Ron Athey, December 8, Royale Projects
2018 Saas-Fee Summer Institute, Co-presenter with Florencia Portocarrero, Los Angeles
2018 Artist Lectures/Presentations, Central St. Martins College, University of the Arts, London
2018 Visiting Artist, Sheffield Institute of the Arts, Sheffield Hallam University
2018 Visiting Artist, University of Central Lancashire
2017/8: Fulbright Core Scholar, Central St. Martins College, London
2016: Other Relevant Experience, artist talk with Robert Crouch
2015: Guest Speaker, UCLA Sculpture
2014: Guest Speaker, Pitzer College
2013: Visiting Artist, Idyllwild Arts
2013: Artist Talk and Panel, ONSITE at OCAD U for No Dull Affairs, OCAD University, Toronto
2013: Guest Speaker, Pitzer College
2012: Panelist: Mixed Marriage: Artists, Curators, and the Exhibition moderated by Ciara Ennis with Rebecca Morse, Holly Meyers, Rebecca McGrew, Carrie Paterson at Torrance Art Museum
2012: Guest Speaker, OTIS College of Art
2011: Artist Talk, I don’t know where but she sends me there, Royale Projects
2011: Panel Discussion: Get Hubbied, Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock
2011: Curatorial Project Objects for the Living, with Joshua Callaghan, Naotaka Hiro, Olga Koumoundouros, PØST
2011: Artist Talk for The Open Daybook with David Earle, LACE
2011: X-TRA Magazine, 1image1minute presenter
2010: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, exhibiting artist talk with Andrew Berardini
2010: Andrea Bowers, Olga Koumoundouros, Karen Lofgren; moderated by Liz Glynn at FOCA
2010: Occidental College Visiting Artist
2009: Pitzer College Visiting Artist
2007-09: Instructor, RCC
2005-07: Adjunct Professor of Art, Chaffey College
Collaborations/Collaborators/Props/Performances with:
Ron Athey
c-level
Cassils
Robert Crouch
Vaginal Davis
Zackary Drucker
Ben Ehrenreich
Jay Erker
Willem Henri Lucas
The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black