CV

 

Education

Master of Fine Art in Visual Art, CalArts, Valencia, CA

AOCAD, Sculpture/Installation (Honours), OCAD University, Toronto

 

Awards

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 Exhibitions

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

2023 

El Dorado (Myths of Gold), Art at the Americas Society, New York 

Odd Fellows: Nao Bustamante and Karen Lofgren, Grave Gallery,  Los Angeles

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

Micrografia: Karen Lofgren and Catherine Wagner, Gallery Luisotti/Royale Projects

Out of Bounds, Torrance Art Museum

Ooze Out and Away, Onehow, Bozomag, Los Angeles

Alejandro Diaz, Karen Lofgren, Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Joel Otterson, Royale Projects, 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 AngelesCraft 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

“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

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