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Selected Exhibitions: 1980 to the present
(one or two person shows indicated by *)
2004-2005: *“FIELDWORKS: SEED HOUSE (part 2)”, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, Nov - April 05. *“FIELDWORKS: SEED HOUSE (part 1)”, Project Row Houses, Houston, Texas, April - Oct. 2003: “PRISONER OF LOVE” CD Rom Project 2002: “AND SO IT GOES” Armory Center For the Arts, Northwest, New Town project, May - June. 2001: *“PRISONER OF LOVE” California Fresno State University, Conley Gallery, Jan - Feb. 2000: “CONFESSONS OF AN ARTS ORGANIZER” Performance installation, Hotel Show, Sept. 1999: “COLA” Award Recepients Exhibition, Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, May 11 - June 20. “SALT OF THE EARTH” Fresno, CA, July-August. “WHAT WILL YOU MISS?” Atlanta College of Art, Atlanta, Georgia, Sept - Oct. 1998: “THEN AND NOW” Terrain, SanFrancisco, CA. Feb - March 1998. “RENOVATIONS” at the Brewery Project, April 19 - May 15, 1998. 1997: *”FOR THE TIME BEING” Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, Arizona. December. “SaFARi” Old Los Angeles Zoo, FAR. September. *”Remapping Tales of Desire” Artspace, Sydney, Australia, June. ”118W/24N” Kulturzentrum bei den Minoriten, Graz, Austria. “LA SLIDE” The Living Room, Santa Monica, CA. February-March, and Gallery 25, Fresno, CA, July, August. 1996: ”BLESSINGS AND BEGINNINGS” Skirball Museum, Los Angeles, CA. Oct - Feb ‘97. “GROUND OF CONTENTION” Geffen Contemporary, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA August. “A PROMISE TO REMEMBER” Brea Gallery, June - August, Brea, CA. “PROJECTIONS: INTERMISSION IMAGES” Old Town Pasadena 8, Pasadena and Magic Johnson Theaters, Los Angeles. January-March. ”PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: MONTREAL” Concordia University, Montreal, Canada, Feb. ” WOMEN IN ACTION” Long Beach State University, March. “FOR THE TIME BEING” continues..... 1995: “COMMUNITY PROPERTY” Huntington Beach Museum, curated by Dan Talley, March-April. ”BROADCAST” Rio Honda College Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA., April-May. “ISSUES OF EMPIRE” Chapman University Guggenheim Gallery, January - March. “FOR THE TIME BEING” continues..... 1994: *”FOR THE TIME BEING” A public art project in the cities of Los Angeles, Pasadena, Santa Monica and West Hollywood, Dec - ?, 1994-8. Locations: Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, Plaza de la Raza, LA; Watts Towers Arts Center, LA; Cultural Affairs Dept., LA; Re:solution at LACPS, Hollywood; Municipal Arts Gallery, LA; West Hollywood City Hall, West Hollywood; Santa Monica City Hall, Santa Monica; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum, LA; Santa Monica AIDS Project, Santa Monica; Midnight Special Bookstore, Santa Monica; Jan Baum Gallery, LA; Gay and Lesbian Services Center, Hollywood; Highways Performance Space, Santa Monica; Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, LA Eyeworks, South Coast Plaza, Huntington Beach Art Center, Huntington Beach; Rio Hondo College, Whittier; Long Beach Museum, Long Beach. ”CONSTRUCTED VIEWS” Woodbury University, Los Angeles, Nov. “LOS AMERICANOS EN LA HABANA” University of Havana, Havana, Cuba. Oct - Nov. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: MARKET STREET” Market Street Public Art Project, Sept - Oct. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: CLARION” Clarion University, Clarion, PA, Sept - Oct. “FAR BAZZAR” Bingo building, Los Angeles, CA. May 1994. “THE FIFTH HAVANA BIENNIAL: ART, SOCIETY AND REFLECTION” May - June, 1994, Centro Wifredo Lam Center, Havana, Cuba.
1993: *”REMAPPING DESIRES” A Space, Toronto, Canada. “BACKTALK” Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum. “WOMEN AT WORK” Alverno College, Milwaukee, WI., and Nicolet Technical College, Rhinelander, WI. “COUNTER COLON-IALISMO” traveling exhibition. MARS Artspace/Heard Museum (Movimiento Artistico Del “Rio Salado), Phoenix, Arizona; Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mexico; Hostos Community College, New York, NY. 1992: “TELE MUNDO” Terrain, San Francisco, CA. “BREAKING BARRIERS” Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica, CA. “COUNTER COLON-IALISMO” traveling exhibition. Dinnerware, Tucson, Arizona; Diversworks, Houston, Texas; Mexic-Arte Museum, Austin, Texas; Galeria Posada and the Center for Contem porary Arts, Sacramento, Ca. “THIS IS MY BODY, THIS IS MY BLOOD” Herter Art Gallery, Univ. of Mass. Amherst, MA. “BEYOND 1992: Experiments In Cross-Cultural Collaboration” Projections In Public, A Space, Toronto, Canada. “VIEWS OF THE COLUMBUS QUINCENTENARY” pARTs gallery, Minneapolis, MN. “VANTAGE POINTS” Ca. State Polytechnic Univesity Art Gallery, Pomona, CA. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: NAAO”, National NAAO Conference, Austin, TX. “WOMEN AT WORK” Parkland College, Champaign Urbana, IL. *“POSTCARDS FROM PARADISE” Santa Monica Library, Santa Monica, CA. *“REMAPPING TALES OF DESIRE” The New Gallery, Santa Monica, CA. “1992: CONQUESTS DO NOT BELONG ONLY TO THE PAST” Projections in Public, Film in the Cities, St. Paul, MN. *“REMAPPING TALES OF DESIRE” Artists Space, New York, NY. “LOOKING IN/LOOKING OUT” Lankershim Arts Center, Los Angeles, Ca. “TRAVEL DOCUMENTS” San Francisco Camerawork, San Francisco, CA. #666666 “WORLD NEWS” Muckenthaler Cultural Center, Fullerton. “NIGHT IN FULLERTON” performance, Fullerton, CA. “UTOPIA: Envisioning A Dream” Forum Gallery, Jamestown, NY. “500 YEARS OF RESISTANCE THROUGH WOMEN’S EYES” Galeria Museo/Mission Cultural Center, SanFrancisco, CA. 1991: “CHOICE” A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY. “1992: CONQUESTS DO NOT BELONG ONLY TO THE PAST” Projections In Public, Intar Multicultural Gallery, New York. * “DISCOVERED” INTAR Multicultural Gallery, New York, NY. “WOMEN AS OBJECT ” San Francisco State University, Student Union Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA. “COUNTER COLON-IALISMO” Centro Cultural de la Raza, San Diego, CA. “FACULTY SHOW” California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA. “BURN TIME” Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., and Artspace, Auckland, New Zealand. “IMAGES AND ORIGINS: REFLECTIONS OF WOMEN PHOTOGRAPHERS” Los Angeles City Hall Bridge Gallery, Los Angeles, CA. “BUSZWORDS” C.E.P.A., Buffalo, NY. “A MULTICULTURAL READING ROOM” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: Grand Rapids” Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan. ARTtorneys at Work participant. “UNKNOWN SECRETS: Art and the Rosenberg Era” (traveling exhibition) Addison-Ripley Gallery and Brody’s, Washington, D.C.; Vermont T.W. Wood Art Gallery, Vermont College Art Center, Montpelier, Vermont. 1990: “ TAKING LIBERTIES “ The Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA. “A MULTICULTURAL READING ROOM” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA. “BUSZ WORDS” Bus poster project for the Los Angeles Festival, exhibited on LA County buses, Highways, Santa Monica, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, and William Grant Still Arts Center in Los Angeles. “MULTIPLES” Sept-Oct. Nexus Contemporary Art Center, and Chastain Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: Cleveland” SPACES, Cleveland Ohio. Curator/artist. * “ART PROTECTION SERVICES: ATKINSON AND ASSOCIATES, ARTtorneys For Art”. Installation and postcard campaign for the NEA Reauthorization. Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies (LACPS), Los Angeles, CA. “UNKNOWN SECRETS: Art and the Rosenberg Era” (traveling exhibition) San Francisco Jewish Community Museum, San Francisco, C.A.; Spertus Museum of Judaica, Chicago Ill.; Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado. 1989: “UNKNOWN SECRETS: Art and the Rosenberg Era” (traveling exhibition) Olin Gallery, Kenyon Col lege, Gambier, Ohio; Palmer Museum of Art, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Penn.; C.U. Art Gallery, University of Colorado, Boulder, Colorado; San Diego State University Gallery Gallery, San Diego, CA; Art Gallery, Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design, Los Angeles, CA. “FAREWELL” Nexus Contemporary Art Center,Atlanta, Georgia. * “ERA AFTER ERA” Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, California. “THE SUBJECT IS AIDS” Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia. * “ERA AFTER ERA” . XS Gallery, Carson City, Nevada. “CONTAINMENT” XS Gallery, Carson City, Nevada “AIDS: The Artists’ Response” Wexner Center for the Visual Arts, Univ. Gallery of Fine Art. Ohio State Univesity, Columbus, Ohio. 1988: “UNKNOWN SECRETS: Art of the Rosenberg Era” (traveling exhibition) Hillwood Art Gallery, Long Island University, Greenvale, New York; North Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, Mass. “BACK TO THE FUTURE” Lawndale Art and Performance Center Univ. of Texas, Houston. 1987: “LOOK AT ME” Works, San Jose, CA. “ARTISTS FOR AIDS ASSISTANCE” Installation, San Diego * “STORIES” Downtown Library window installation “ARTISTS BY THEMSELVES” Sushi, San Diego, CA 1986: * “FINDING VALUE” New Langton Arts, San Francisco, CA * “ADMITS TWO” Installation, San Diego, CA “ARTFURNITURE” U.S. Grant Hotel, San Diego, CA * “UNTITLED” studio installation, Artwalk, San Diego, CA 1985: * “SUBJECT/OBJECT” Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA) Los Angeles, CA * “INFORMATION CENTRAL” Artwalk, San Diego, CA public art project. 1984: “DEAR DAUGHTER...” Cal Arts 1983: *”REVIEW IN PROGRESS” Cal Arts, Valencia, CA 1982: “CERAMICS INVITATIONAL” West Hills College, Colinga, CA “CLAY CONJUNCTION” Fresno Arts Center, Fresno, CA 1981: *”UNTITLED” Permanent public wall installation, Birmingham Arts Centre, Birmingham ENGLAND “EXCHANGES” Matrix Gallery, Sacramento, CA “BREAD AND ROSES” Gallery 25, Fresno, CA * “NEW WORKS-Karen Atkinson” Pacific College, Fresno, CA “GROUP SHOW 81” Gallery 25, Fresno, CA “FEATURE” Local artists, group exhibition, Fresno Arts Center, Fresno *”A B C” Guarantee Savings and Loan, Fresno, CA “INVITATIONAL”, CA Fresno State University Fresno, Fresno, Ca.
2001: “DOWNTOWN”, with Joy Silverman, Side Street Projects, Los Angeles, CA. Oct - Dec 2001. 2000: “Projections: Intermission Images VI”, December 9, 1999 - March 8, 2000. Los Angeles artists meet the millennium with slides created by the artists projected in the movie theaters during intermission at the Laemmle Grande Theaters: Dorit Cypis, Aida Cynthia DeSantis, Christina Fernandez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Garland Kirkpatrick/ Helvetica Jones, M.A.M.A. (Deborah Oliver, Lisa Schoyer, Karen Schwenkmeyer), Steve Reinke, Alejandro Rosas, Connie Samaras, Katie Sivers, Darrell Walters, Mary Yoder. 1997: ”PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: JOHANNESBERG”, Johannesberg, South Africa, April, with Pat Ward Williams. 1996: “PROJECTIONS” with Sylvia Bowyer, Pasadena Old Town 8, Pasadena, and Sony Magic Johnson Theaters, Baldwin Hills, Los Angeles, CA. January, February, 1996. Catalog. 1995: “1945” with Dylan Tran, Side Street Projects, Santa Monica. 1994: “AS WE LIKE IT” with Barbara Smith, Side Street Projects and The New Gallery, Santa Monica. “DETOURS” Site Specific Installations at the 18th Street Arts Complex, Side Street Projects. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: SAN FRANCISCO” Market Street Public Art Projects. “JUST TAKE THIS: WOMEN/PAIN/MEDICAL HISTORIES” San Francisco Camerawork. “JUST TAKE THIS: WOMEN/PAIN/MEDICAL HISTORIES” Side Street Projects, April. 1993: “RAMBLIN’ REELS & MIGRANT MEDIA” Banff Center, with Sara Diamond and Sara Newman “ARTISTS’ WRITING READING ROOM,” Side Street Projects, Santa Monica, CA. Wiith Erica Bornstein. 1992: “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC:NAAO,” NAAO Conference project, Austin Texes, Oct “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC”, BEYOND 1992. A Space, Toronto, Canada. Oct. “1992: CONQUESTS DO NOT BELONG ONLY TO THE PAST” Projections in Public, Film In The Cities, St. Paul, MN. “1992: CONQUESTS DO NOT BELONG ONLY TO THE PAST” Projections In Public, INTAR Multicul tural Gallery, New York. Nov. - Dec. 1991: “AMENDMENTS: SAGAS AND TALES” Intersection for the Arts, San Francisco, CA. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: Grand Rapids” Urban Institute for Contemporary Art, Grand Rapids, Michigan. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: Cleveland” September 14 - Oct. 5, 1990. SPACES, Cleveland Ohio. 1988: “TABLEAUX: VIVANT MORTE” Co-curator. Installation, San Diego, CA. Supported by the NEA Museums Program. Catalog Essay. September. “PROJECTION TRILOGY: PERFORMANCES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS” Project Coordinator. Grant fromthe City of San Diego. Three performances in collaboration with film or video in three different neighborhoods. Projects took place on the street in a public place. 1987: “EDICT AND EPISODE: IMAGE AS MEANING” Curator. Installation, San Diego, CA. Supported by a grant from the NEA Museums program. Margaret Crane/Jon Winet, Jeanne C. Finley, Connie Hatch, George Legrady, Fred Lonidier, Carrie Mae Weems. Catalog essay with Dan Wasil. “THREE INSTALLATIONS” Nancy Barton, Leslie Ernst, Erika Suderberg. Installation, San Diego. “THE BIENNIAL” Co-curated with Dan Wasil. 29 artists in San Diego, Installation, San Diego. April. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: San Diego” Co-supported by Projected Light Collective and Installation, April. Projected at Archimatics, downtown San Diego. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC” Co-curated with Carol Hobson. A storefront rear screen projection project of artist’s work in slide form or film. A public work exhibited at night. 35 artists pro duced work. Bloomsbury City Flower Market, Los Angeles, CA. Co-sponsored by Foundation for Art Resources (FAR) and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), with a grant from Art Matters, Inc. N.Y. Feb. 1986: “FAMILY ALBUM” Co-curator. An exhibition at the Woman’s Building, Los Angeles, CA.
1998: “CALIFORNIA CULTURE NET SCREEN SAVER” commissioned by the California Arts Council, Dec. 1996: “PROJECTIONS: intermission images” Magic Johnson Theatres, (12 screens). February-March. Curated by Karen Atkinson and Sylvia Bowyer. “PROJECTIONS: intermission images” Pasadena Old Town AMC Theater, (8 screens). February-March. Curated by Karen Atkinson and Sylvia Bowyer. 1994: “FOR THE TIME BEING” (working title) Public artwork in 10 sites throughout Los Angeles, Dec. “FAR BAZZAR” site specific work at the Bingo Building, Los Angeles, CA. FAR. May. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: MARKET STREET” Market Street Public Art Project, San Francisco, CA. 1993: LAS FAMILAS COMMUNITY ARTS PARTNERSHIP PROJECT: Skid Row, Los Angeles. 1992: “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC:NAAO” Austin, Texas. “BEYOND 1992: Experiments in Cross-Cultural Collaboration” A Space, Toronto, Canada. “1992: CONQUESTS DO NOT BELONG ONLY TO THE PAST” St. Paul, Minnesota. 1991: “1992: CONQUESTS DO NOT BELONG ONLY TO THE PAST” Projections In Public, INTAR Multicul tural Gallery, New York, NY. Nov - Dec. 1990: “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: Cleveland” September 14 - Oct. 5. SPACES, Cleveland Ohio. “VISIONARIES OF THEIR TIME” ARTtorneys At Work, July 1990, poster distributed publicly in various cities across the country. 1987: “PROJECTION TRILOGY: PERFORMANCES IN THE NEIGHBORHOODS” Project Coordinator. Grant from the City of San Diego. Three performances in collaboration with film or video in three different neighborhoods. Projects took place on the street in a public place. “DOES YOUR CANDIDATE FOR CITY COUNCIL SUPPORT THE ARTS?” Public art poster project with Dan Wasil. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC” Co-curated with Carol Hobson. A storefront rear screen projection project of artist’s work in slide form or film. A public work exhibited at night. 35 artists produced work. Bloomsbury City Flower Market, Los Angeles, CA. Co-sponsored by Foundation for Art Re sources (FAR) and the Los Angeles Institute of Contemporary Art (LAICA), with a grant from Art Matters, Inc. N.Y. Feb. “PROJECTIONS IN PUBLIC: SAN DIEGO” Co-supported by Projected Light Collective and Installation, April. Projected at Archimatics, downtown San Diego. 1985: “UNTITLED” Public Project for California Arts Council, Art in Public Places Program, Santa Rosa State Building. 1982: “UNTITLED” Permanent wall installation, Birmingham Arts Centre, Birmingham, England. Visiting Artist Lecture and residency. 1981: “UNTITLED” Mural Project, Kings River Community College, permanent installation.
2005: “GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER” 10 week workshop, Side Street Projects, Fall. College Art Association Panel ON PROFESSIONAL PRACTICES, Feb. 2004. “GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER” 10 week workshop, Side Street Projects, Spring. 2004: "PRESS AND PUBLICITY" Panel, Center for Creative Innovation, Redcat, Fall. “GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER” 10 week workshop, Side Street Projects, Fall. “KEYNOTE SPEAKER” Art Careers Conference, Armory Center for the Arts, November. 2003: “GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER”, Society for Photographic Education Conference, Reno, Nev. October. “ GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER”, University Southern Califrornia, October. “GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER” 6 week workshop, Side Street Projects, Fall. “COMMUNITY: ROW HOUSE DISTRICT” Project Row Houses, August. 2002: “MONEY FOR ARTISTS” panel at CalArts, Valencial, CA. April 27. “GETTING YOUR SHIT TOGETHER” 10 week workshop, Side Street Projects, Fall. “What Redcat can do for Students at CalArts” panel for Board of Overseers, CalArts, April 26. 2001: MTA Public Arts Panel, Los Angeles. “VISITING ARTIST: KAREN ATKINSON” California State University Stanislaus, 2001. “PUBLIC ART” lecture, University Southern California, Art Department. 2000: “PRACTICAL CRITICISM” Curatorial Panel Moderator, Pacific Design Center, CalArts, April. 1998: “ART OF THE FUTURE” Governers Conference on the Arts, Los Angeles, December. “FOUNDATION ARTS” Armory Center for the Arts, College Fair, December. 1997: “VISITING ARTIST: KAREN ATKINSON” ACCA, Melbourne, AUSTRALIA, July. “ARTIST IN RESIDENCE LECTURE” Artspace, Sydney, Australia, May. “CURATORIAL PERSPECTIVES” California Institute of the Arts, Moderator and Organizer. With Tom Hill, Patricio Chavez, Julie Ault. April 21. VISITING ARTIST and Project, WITS UNIVERSITY, Johannesburg, SOUTH AFRICA, April. 1996: "VISITING ARTIST" UC Irvine, Art Department, May. “CONFESSIONS OF AN ARTS ORGANIZER” Claremont College, Pomona, CA. April. 1995: “TOUGH TERRAIN: MOUNTAIN CULTURE AND INTERNMENT” Performative presentation in collaboration with Sophia Isijiw, The Whyte Museum, Banff, CANADA. Nov. “VENICE ARTWALK: STUDIO TOUR”, Santa Monica, May. 1994: “GATHERING VOICES: CURATORIAL PERSPECTIVES” Naming a Practice Conference, Banff, CANADA, Nov. “SEXISM IN THE ART WORLD” Long Beach State University, Long Beach, CA, October. “THE ARTIST AS PART OF THE PLANNING AND DEVELOPMENT TEAM: Alternatives” Art in Public Places: A legacy for the twenty-first century” conference, Riverside, CA. April. 1993: “REMAPPING DESIRE” panel,. A Space, Toronto, CANADA, September. “REMAPPING TALES OF DESIRE” lecture/performance with Andrea Liss, A Space, Toronto, CANADA. “PUBLIC ART PANEL: DEPT. OF WATER AND POWER” Cultural Affairs panel for permanent public art project. “DESIRE: WHOSE TERMS”, workshop, A Space, Toronto, CANADA, September. “REMAPPING TALES OF DESIRE” Banff Centre for the Arts, Banff, Canada, July. 1992: “REMAPPING TALES OF DESIRE” lecture/performance with Andrea Liss, SPE Regional Conference. “ARTIST LECTURE” San Francisco Camerawork, “Travel Documents” San Francisco, CA. “LOOKING IN/LOOKING OUT” Moderator for panel discussion, Lankersheim Art Center, North Hollywood, CA. “CHANGING THE DIRECTION OF THE MAINSTREAM: Paths To Empowerment for Artists” Society For Photographic Education panel participant, Wash. DC. 1991: “VISITING ARTIST LECTURE” Urban Institute for the Arts, Grand Rapids, MI. “VISITING ARTIST LECTURE” Kendall College of Art and Design, Grand Rapids. “MANIFESTATIONS OF EMPOWERMENT IN ART PRACTICE” Panel coordinator and moderator, National Women’s Caucus for Art Conference, Washington, DC. ”EMPOWERING ARTISTS: THE ROLE OF ART SCHOOLS IN PREPARING STUDENTS TO BE IN CHARGE OF THEIR CAREERS.” Panel participant at College Art Association, sponsored by the Coalition of Women’s Art Organizations. Washington DC. 1990: “CONTEXT REVOLT: ALTERNATIVE STRATEGIES” University of Southern California, October. Lecture, workshop. “THE MODEL OF SUCCESS: NEW STANDARDS” panelist, Southern California Women’s Caucus For Art, Los Angeles Conference, October. UCLA. “COMMITTED TO PRINT: OPEN FORUM” Panel moderator, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport, CA. “MANIFESTATIONS OF EMPOWERMENT IN ART PRACTICE”, “CIRCUMVENTING OR EMBRAC ING THE MARKETPLACE”, and “WHAT INFORMS THE AESTHETICS OF THE SELECTION PROCESS?” Series of three panel discussions. Project Coordinator and moderator. Produced for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) with a Forums grant from the NEA. 1989: “ART AND POLITICS-THE 50’S/80’S PARALLEL”, A symposium with Rob Okun, Abraham Polansky, and Paul VonBlum. December. The Streisand Center, UCLA/Hillel, Los Angeles, CA. Panelist. GALLERY TALK, Karen Atkinson and Kim Abeles. Otis/Parsons Main Gallery. “THE ARTIST’S RESPONSE TO AIDS” Lecture/presentation. Otis Art Institute of Parsons School of Design. "VISITING ARTIST LECTURE". Western Nevada Community College, Carson City, Nevada. "EXHIBITING ARTIST LECTURE". XS Gallery, Carson City, Nevada. Guest Lecture. Carson City High School, Carson City, Nevada. Visiting Artist Lecture. University of California, San Diego. 1988: “CO-ARTS GRANTS PANEL” City of San Diego 1987: Visiting Artist Lecture. Design Institute of San Diego. San Diego, CA. University of Ca. San Diego, Visiting Artist Lecture. 1986: Visiting Artist Lecture. Design Institute of San Diego. San Diego, CA. Peer Review Panel on the Arts, for the City of San Diego Regranting Program “Eye on San Diego” television interview, San Diego, CA University San Diego, artist lecture at Installation. 1982: “BIRMINGHAM LIVE: KAREN ATKINSON” Radio interview, Birmingham Arts Centre, Birmingham, England. “KAREN ATKINSON, CALIFORNIA ARTIST” Visiting Artist Lecture, Birmingham Arts Centre,
Birmingham, England.1981: Visiting Artist Lecture, Pacific College, Fresno, CA Visiting Artist Lecture, California State University Fresno, Fresno, CA. Artist Workshop, Selma Council of the Arts, Selma, CA.
2005: "Getting Your Shit Together" Professional practices software for artists 2001: "Prisoner of Love" CD Rom 1996: "Projections: intermission images" catalog, Karen Atkinson and Sylvia Bowyer 1991: "Remapping Tales of Desire: writing across the abyss" Karen Atkinson and Andrea Liss
2005: "The Touch of the Past: remembrance, learning and ethics", by Roger Simon , book published 2005 2004: Review of PRH Houston Show 1998: "20 Years LACE" Radio Interview, February, 1998. 1997: "Gallery 25", The Fresno Bee, June 28, 1997 " LA Exhibit Spotlights Strange Pride" Melanie A. Markey, California State Univ. Northridge, March 13, 1997. "Art Pick of the Week: Blessings and Beginnings" LA Weekly, Jan 31 - Feb 6, 1997. 1996: "Portrait of the Artist Abroad" Los Angeles Times, December 15, 1996. "Roadshow in Art Exchange" Daily Variety, November 25, 1996. "Four Images in Cinema Slide Show Banned" Tanya Soussan, Pasadena Star News, February 5, 1996. "Trailer Park" Peter Frank, LA Weekley, Jan 26 - Feb 1, 1996. "A Project That Gives New meaning to the Term 'Art House'", Zan Dubin, Los Angeles Times, January 27, 1996. 1995: "For The Time Being..." Romalyn Tilghman, Arts Rag, Long Beach, CA, July/August 1995. "Gay Art Coming of Age" David S. Ethridge, The Blade, July 1995. "Art Alliance Brings Gallery to Theaters" Andrea Kowalski, Pasadena Star News, June 11, 1995. "Artists Writing in Public...And Other Words of Wisdom" Jack Becker, Public Art Review, Spring/Sum 1995. "Reinventando Cartografias de Deseo" Creación Magazine, Madrid, Spain: #13, April 1995. "Community", Community Properties catalog, Huntington Beach Arts Center, April 1995. "Life and Times" KCET, April 1995 "A Neighborly Display" Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Orange County, April 11, 1995. "Perusing Art for Art's Sake" Kirk Weiss, The Foothill Leader, March 11, 1995. "Meters Give Voice to People Running Out of Time" Lisa Lytle, Orange County Register, March 10, 1995. "Artists Attack Political Issues of Empire'" Daniella B. Walsh, Orange County Register, March 3, 1995. "Issues of Empire' Strikes Back" Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Orange County, Feb. 21, 1995 "Karen Atkinson's 'For The Time Being,' a public art project. Elizabeth Converse, Artweek, February 1995. "Meter Remade" Rosetta Brooks, Los Angeles Village View, January 20 -26, 1995 "Coining a Phrase With Talking Parking Meters", Los Angeles Times, Westside, Jan 12, 1995
1994: "Other Visions, Other Voices: Women Political Artists in Greater Los Angeles," Paul Von Blum, University Press of America, 1994. "Meet Me Out On The Street: Looking at SFAC's Market Street Program" Bruno Fazzolari, Artweek, October 20, 1994. "U.S. Contingent in Havana", Betty Klausner, Art In America, Oct. 1994. "Time Expired", Front page Weekend Independent, Sept. 3-4, 1994. "Color This" Artist Coloring Book, FAR, August 1994 "Tenant News" Traffic Report, summer 1994. "Side Street Initiates Nomad Web" High Performance, Summer 1994. "The Pedagogy of Commeration and Formation of Collective Memories" Roger Simon, Educational Foundations, 1994. 1993: "Lean and Mean: Survival of the Artist in the Nineties" Suvan Geer, Artweek, Dec. 16, 1993. "Sass and Class" Ann Sciold, The Independent, Sept. 16, 1993. "Voices Carry" Michael Darling, Santa Barbara News Press, Santa Barbara, Sept. 24, 1993. "Flesh and Blood" Pat Leddy, Artweek, Oct. 1993. "Forms of Insurgency in the Production of Popular Memories: the Columbus Quincentenary and the "Pedagogy of Counter-Commemoration" Roger I. Simon, Cultural Studies, Vol 7, No. 1, January, 1993. "By All Means: Prime Time Feminist Radio" guest interview, CUIT, Toronto, Canada, 1993. "Balktalk" catalog, Lucy Lippard, Diane Middlebrook, Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, 1993. "Text and Context" Suvan Geer, Artweek, July 8, 1993. "Read All About It" Susan Kandal, Los Angeles Times, June 3, 1993. "Corpuscular Politics" David Reville, Afterimage, February 1993. "Robert Farber, Ping Chong, Karen Atkinson & Associates" Richard Leslie, New Art Examiner, February 1993. "Beyond 1992: experiments in cross-cultural collaboration" catalog. A-Space, Toronto, Canada. 1993. "Counter Perspectives On The Quincentenary" interview on WBAI Radio by Lisa Knauer, December 6, 1993. New York 1992: "This is My Body, This is My Blood" catalog, curated by Susan Jahoda and May Stevens, Amherst, 1992. "Art crowd celebrates the election" David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, November 4, 1992. "Women At Work" catalog for Women At Work, curated by Dara Larson, Il, 1992. "Art" David Bonetti, San Francisco Examiner, August 14, 1992. "Women Step To The Installation Front" Meg Sullivan, Daily News, Aug 14, 1992. "Lofty Living" Santa Monica Outlook, July 2, 1992 "Counter Colon-ialismo" catalog, 1992. "1492 Revisited" KPBS television special, 1991-1992. Regional and National broadcast. 1991: "Two Faces of Columbus" Jan Breslauer, Los Angeles Times, Los Angeles, Oct. 6, 1991 "Spotlight On The Big Lie" Leah Ollman, Los Angeles Times, San Diego Edition, Oct. 2, 1991 "Hello world, Goodbye Columbus" Ann Jarmusch, San Diego Tribune, Sept. 27, 1991 "Artists explore the dark side of Columbus." Robert L. Pincus, San Diego Union, September 27, 1991 "Women Political Artists In Los Angeles: Karen Atkinson and Beth Bachenheimer," Z Magazine, April 1991
"Storefront art projections are a new image" Sara Albert, The Grand Rapids Press, Grand Rapids, Michigan. April 19, 1991 "Projections In Public" On The Town, Grand Rapids, April 1991 "Multiples" Review. Jerry Cullum, Artpapers, Atlanta Georgia, Jan./Feb., 1991 1990: "A Show on Behalf of Artists Liberties" Shauna Snow, Los Angeles Times, December 10, 1990 "Once Is Not Enough" Laura C. Lieberman, Afterimage, December, 1990, "Projections In Public: Cleveland" Review, Beth Chico, Dialogue, Nov./Dec., 1990 "ARTtorneys" Portfolio Magazine, Oct/Nov 1990, San Diego, CA. "Medium Explored as Political-Awareness Tool" Cathy Curtis, Los Angeles Times, Orange County Section, September 24, 1990 "Spaces 'fronts' public art" Helen Cullinan, The Plain Dealer, Cleveland, Ohio, September 21, 1990 "Multiple Personalities" Luanne Sanders, Creative Loafing, September 22, 1990, Atlanta, Georgia. "Multiples" catalog for Multiples exhibition, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta Georgia. September 1990 "Rooms With a View" Margaret Lazzari, Visions Magazine, Fall 1990, Los Angeles, CA. "Currents" Shauna Snow, Los Angeles Times Calender Section, Aug. 26, 1990 "The Scene" Shauna Snow, Los Angeles Times Calender Section, June 24, 1990 "ART Pick of the Week", Peter Frank, LA Weekly, June 8 - June 14, 1990 "Acting on Choices" John O'Brien, Artweek, June 7, 1990 "Her Art Helps Others Back NEA Funding at Photo Studies Center," Beth Kleid and Shauna Snow, Los Angeles Times, May 30, 1990 1989: Artist Interview, Jewish Network Television 1/2 hour special broadcast on Cable Television, featured artist for "Art and the Rosenbergs". 1989 "The California Art Review" Ed: Les Krantz, American References, 1989. "Rosenbergs Pictured in Art Exhibit" Frances Balcomb, Beverly Hills Today. November 14, 1989 "Art in the McCarthy Era" Judith Christensen, Artweek. September 30, 1989 "AIDS: The Artists Response" 1989. catalog "Unknown Secrets" Art New England. Boston Mass. Feb. 1989 "ERA AFTER ERA" catalog essay. Dan Wasil/Jon Winet. "Show opens at WNCC" Nevada Appeal, Carson City, Nevada. Jan. 1989. "New Exhibit at XS" Reno Gazette-Journal."Era After Era" at XS Gallery. Encore, January 1989. Reno, Nev. "Art and the Rosenberg Era: An Exhibit of Outrage." Genesis 2. Boston, Mass. 1989 "The Subject is AIDS" Exhibition catalog. Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta Georgia. 1989 1988: "Hot Art for Cool Times" The Boston Phoenix, November 1988 "The Rosenbergs: Collected Visions of Artists and Writers", Rob A. Okun, Editor, 1988. Book/catalog. "Conversation with Karen Atkinson and David Avalos." Artpaper, Vol 7, No.9. 1988. 1987: Susan Freudenheim, Interview/Article, San Diego Tribune, Sept. 23, 1987. Michael McManus, Review, Artweek, April 25, 1987. Robert Pincus, Interview, Article, San Diego Union, April 2, 1987. Dinah Berland, Review, Los Angeles Herald Examiner, Feb 13, 1987. New Langton Arts 1986, catalog. 1987. 1986: "Eye on LA" television interview, Family Album Exhibition. Robert Pincus, review, San Diego Union, April 3, 1986. Robert McDonald, review, Los Angeles Times, April 18, 1986. 1985: San Diego Weekly, Article, March 6, 1985. 1981: Review, Sacramento Bee, Nov 19, 1981. Review, Sacramento Bee, Aug 30, 1981. Article, Selma Enterprise, Aug 6, 1981. Article, Fresno Arts Center Newsletter, Spring 1981. David Hale, review, Fresno Bee, May 24, 1981. Interview, Fresno Bee, David Hale, May 10, 1981. Marjorie Del Parker, review, West Art, May 22, 1981. David Hale, review, Fresno Bee, May 5, 1981.
1984: MFA Degree: California Institute of the Arts, May 1984 Valencia, CA. 1981: BA Degree: California State University Fresno, May 1981, Fresno, CA. 1978: AA Degree: Reedley College, Dec 1978, Reedley, CA.
Arts Related Employment
Current GYSTInk, An artist-run business for artists, Getting Your Shit Together Workshops, since 2001 Current California Institute of the Arts, Art Faculty, Valencia, CA, Since 1998. 1994-2004 Artist Teacher for Vermont College, Montepelier, VT. 1992-2001 Founder and Director of "Side Street Projects," a nonprofit organization 1994 Artist consultant with Josten's Learning Corporation, San Diego, CA. 1993 - 1995: Co-coordinator (with Joe Lewis) for "Art As A Verb", the Arts Workshops, Community Arts Partrnership Project, Santa Clarita Valley and California Institute of the Arts. 1991 - 1993: Editor of the Journal, a publication of the Southern California Women's Caucus for Art. 1991 - 1993. Co-coordinator with Glenna Avila and Judy Baca, a collaborative project with Cal Arts and SPARC that included three semesters of visiting artists and workshops for high school age students that culminated in a public art project in Skid Row Los Angeles at the end of the third semester. Titled "The Bridge Project" 1988 - 1993: INOTECH. Editing, computer graphics and paste up for technical publications. Aug 1986-Nov. 1987 Associate Director of INSTALLATION, a non-profit gallery in San Diego, CA. Director of Programs and Exhibitions 1987 San Diego Arts Resource Center; an information resource center for artists and arts organizations. 1985 -87 Co-Editor Artsletter, publication including articles, artists projects and interviews, San Diego, CA 1980-82: Teaching positions at California State University Fresno, Pacific College and Reedley College.
Nellie Award, California Institute of the Arts Alumni Association City of Los Angeles, Declaration Artspace, Sydney, Australia Banff Centre for the Arts Banff Centre for the Arts