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Karen Reimer is represented by Monique Meloche Gallery in Chicago.
EDUCATION:
1989 MFA, University of Chicago
1982 BA, Bethel College, North Newton, KS
SOLO and 2-Person EXHIBITIONS:
2023 Boundless and Disorderly, with Louise LeBourgois, Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago
2022 The Map vs The Walk, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
2021 Sea Change, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
2019 Outside In: Phil Peters and Karen Reimer, LAXART, Los Angeles
2017 Droughtscape, “On the Wall” at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
2016 Shoretime Spaceline, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
2015 Geometry in Outer Space or Heaven, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
2012 Endless Set, Owens Art Gallery, Mount Allison College, Sackville, New Brunswick
Endless Set #1399, Gallery 400, University of Illinois at Chicago
Golden, Gahlberg Gallery, College of DuPage, Glen Elynn, IL
2011 The Domestic Partnership of Heaven and Hell, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
2008 Endless Set, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
2007 Embroideries 1999-2005, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
2005 Precursory Conditions and Operations, Riverside Art Center, Riverside, IL
2004 Boundary Troubles, Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago
2003 Karen Reimer and Scott Short, Schopf Gallery on Lake, Chicago
2002 Karen Reimer: Assemblages, Goshen College Art Gallery, Goshen, IN
2001 Cold Comfort, with C. Bacon, installation, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago
1999 Forgeries, Beret International Gallery, Chicago
1996 Postcard, with Todd Parola, Beret International Gallery, Chicago
1995 Karen Reimer, Bethel College Art Gallery, Newton, KS
1994 Know Your Poodle, with Sonny Venice, Beret International Gallery, Chicago
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS:
2022 Human/Nature, Weinberg/Newton Gallery, Chicago, and Harris Center for Public Policy,
University of Chicago, curated by Cyndi Conn
2021 Environmental Thematic, Expo Chicago, curated by Katie A. Pfohl
2018 Through Her Eye, Mana Contemporary, Chicago, curated by Ysabel Pinyol
2017 Infinite Games 50/50, Open House Contemporary, Chicago, curated by John Preus
Projects, Expo Chicago 2017, Chicago
2016 Unravelled, Beirut Art Center, Lebanon, curated by Rachel Dedman and Marie Muracciole
2014 Material Gestures: Cut, Weave, Sew, Knot, Rhona Hoffman Gallery, Chicago, IL
The Book Lovers Pop-Up Bookstore, De Appel art centre, Amsterdam
2013 A Study in Midwestern Appropriation, Hyde Park Art Center, curated by Michelle Grabner
2012 Wall Text, Logan Center for the Arts, University of Chicago, IL;
curated by Zachary Cahill and Monica Szewczyk
2011 Write Now: Artists & Letterforms, Chicago Cultural Center, curated by Nathan Mason
2010 Let’s Talk About Love, Baby, a traveling library, curated by Chido Johnson
2009 New Wave: Artists’ Books in the 21st Century, School of Creative Arts,
University of the West of England, Bristol
2008 The Matter at Hand, Memphis College of Art, Memphis, TN
Curiouser & Curioser!, McLean County Art Center, Bloomington, IL; curated by Alison Hatcher
2007 Raised in Craftivity, Greenlease Gallery, Rockhurst University, Kansas City, MO,
curated by Maria Elena Buszek
2006 New Embroidery: Not Your Grandma’s Doily, Museum of Contemporary Craft, Portland, OR,
curated by Namita Wiggers
Data Mining, Wallspace Gallery, New York, curated by Joe Scanlan
Not I: A Samuel Beckett Centenary Celebration, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2005 Amorphous Solid, Durand Art Institute, Lake Forest College, Lake Forest, IL
2004 Stalemate, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, curated by Domonic Molon
Baltimore/Chicago, Decker Gallery Maryland Institute of Art, Baltimore,
curated by Kerry James Marshall
fitter, happier, DePaul University Art Museum, Chicago, curated by Matthew Girson
2003 Pins and Needles, Kohler Art Center, Sheboygan, WI
2002 The Devil is in the Details, Galberg Gallery, College of Dupage, IL, curated by Anthony Elms
2001 Con/Textual, Chicago Cultural Center
Spelling, The Rye Art Center, Rye, NY
2000 Artist’s, We Like, Wall Street Project Room, New York
Julie Laffin, Darrel Morris, Karen Reimer, Barat College Art Gallery,Lake Forest, IL
1999 Chicago, West Virginia State University Gallery, Morgantown, WV
1997 N.E.W. S: Jennifer Kraus, Karen Reimer, Levant Tuncer, Gallery A’pert, Amsterdam
1996 Vorfruhling, Galerie cb, Vienna, Austria
1994 Know Your Poodle, with Sonny Venice, Beret International Gallery, Chicago, IL
1993 Mixed Messages, Forum for Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
A Sequence of Forms, Installation, Illinois State Gallery, Chicago, IL
1992 Not Working in L.A., Nomadic Site, Pasadena, CA, curated by Pae White
1991 Animal/Vegetable/Mineral, Installation, N.A.M.E Gallery, Chicago, curated by Gary Cannone
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2022 Shannon Stratton. “The Map is Not the Territory,” Salina Art Center, KS. Catalogue.
Lorene Yue, “Climate Change Action is focus of Human/Nature art exhibition,”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 10, 2022
2018 Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino, eds., Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now,
University of Chicago Press.
2017 B. David Zarley, “Kitsukuroi-Inspired Lines Offer Caution and Hope: A Review of
Karen Reimer at Monique Meloche,” NewCity, October, 2017.
Zarley, David. “Kintsukuroi-Inspired Lines Offer Caution and Hope: A Review of
Karen Reimer at Monique Meloche,” Newcity. October 10
https://art.newcity.com/2017/10/10/kintsukuroi-inspired-lines-offer-caution-and-hope-a-review-of-karen-reimer-at-monique-meloche
Snodgrass, Susan. “Karen Reimer: Shoretime Spaceline“, Textile: Cloth and Culture.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dxmEgArj2CcGXuYNzesj/full
2016 Jacob Wittich, “Hyde Park Art Center exhibition transforms building into beach,”
Chicago, Sun-Times, May 21, 2016.
Elizabeth Lalley, “Nostalgia Over Chicago’s Manmade Shoreline,” NewCity, June 18, 2016.
2015 Lorelei Stewart, ed., Karen Reimer: Endless,, Gallery 400 UIC/Whitewalls, Chicago.
Authors: Lauren Berlant, Penelope Dean, Judith Russi Kirshner. Catalogue.
2014 Annette Gilbert, ed., Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature, Luxbooks Gmbh, Weisbaden
2013 Claudine Ise, “Appropriating what, specifically?,” Chicago Tribune, Arts and
Entertainment, Section 4, Nov.7, 2013, p 4
2012 Jayne Wark, Karen Reimer: Endless Set, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New
Brunswick, Canada. Catalogue.
Steve Ruiz, “Review: Karen Reimer/Gallery 400,” Newcity, Sept. 04,
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2022 Shannon Stratton. “The Map is Not the Territory,” Salina Art Center, KS. Catalogue.
Lorene Yue, “Climate Change Action is focus of Human/Nature art exhibition,”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 10, 2022
2018 Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino, eds., Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now,
University of Chicago Press.
2017 B. David Zarley, “Kitsukuroi-Inspired Lines Offer Caution and Hope: A Review of
Karen Reimer at Monique Meloche,” NewCity, October, 2017.
Zarley, David. “Kintsukuroi-Inspired Lines Offer Caution and Hope: A Review of
Karen Reimer at Monique Meloche,” Newcity. October 10
https://art.newcity.com/2017/10/10/kintsukuroi-inspired-lines-offer-caution-and-hope-a-review-of-karen-reimer-at-monique-meloche
Snodgrass, Susan. “Karen Reimer: Shoretime Spaceline“, Textile: Cloth and Culture.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dxmEgArj2CcGXuYNzesj/full
2016 Jacob Wittich, “Hyde Park Art Center exhibition transforms building into beach,”
Chicago, Sun-Times, May 21, 2016.
Elizabeth Lalley, “Nostalgia Over Chicago’s Manmade Shoreline,” NewCity, June 18, 2016.
2015 Lorelei Stewart, ed., Karen Reimer: Endless,, Gallery 400 UIC/Whitewalls, Chicago.
Authors: Lauren Berlant, Penelope Dean, Judith Russi Kirshner. Catalogue.
2014 Annette Gilbert, ed., Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature, Luxbooks Gmbh, Weisbaden
2013 Claudine Ise, “Appropriating what, specifically?,” Chicago Tribune, Arts and
Entertainment, Section 4, Nov.7, 2013, p 4
2012 Jayne Wark, Karen Reimer: Endless Set, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New
Brunswick, Canada. Catalogue.
Steve Ruiz, “Review: Karen Reimer/Gallery 400,” Newcity, Sept. 04,
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
2022 Shannon Stratton. “The Map is Not the Territory,” Salina Art Center, KS. Catalogue.
Lorene Yue, “Climate Change Action is focus of Human/Nature art exhibition,”
Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, January 10, 2022
2018 Maggie Taft and Robert Cozzolino, eds., Art in Chicago: A History from the Fire to Now,
University of Chicago Press.
2017 B. David Zarley, “Kitsukuroi-Inspired Lines Offer Caution and Hope: A Review of
Karen Reimer at Monique Meloche,” NewCity, October, 2017.
https://art.newcity.com/2017/10/10/kintsukuroi-inspired-lines-offer-caution-and-hope-a-review-of-karen-reimer-at-monique-meloche
Susan Snodgrass, “Karen Reimer: Shoretime Spaceline”, Textile: Cloth and Culture.
http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/dxmEgArj2CcGXuYNzesj/full
2016 Jacob Wittich, “Hyde Park Art Center exhibition transforms building into beach,”
Chicago, Sun-Times, May 21, 2016.
Elizabeth Lalley, “Nostalgia Over Chicago’s Manmade Shoreline,” NewCity, June 18, 2016.
2015 Lorelei Stewart, ed., Karen Reimer: Endless,, Gallery 400 UIC/Whitewalls, Chicago.
Authors: Lauren Berlant, Penelope Dean, Judith Russi Kirshner. Catalogue.
2014 Annette Gilbert, ed., Reprint: Appropriation (&) Literature, Luxbooks Gmbh, Weisbaden
2013 Claudine Ise, “Appropriating what, specifically?,” Chicago Tribune, Arts and
Entertainment, Section 4, Nov.7, 2013, p 4
2012 Jayne Wark, Karen Reimer: Endless Set, Mount Allison University, Sackville, New
Brunswick, Canada. Catalogue.
Steve Ruiz, “Review: Karen Reimer/Gallery 400,” Newcity, Sept. 04,
http://art.newcity.com/2012/09/04/karen-reimergallery-400/
Maria Elena Buszek, “Labor is My Medium: Some Perspective(s) on Contemporary Craft,”
Archives of American Art Journal, Vol 50, numbers 3-4, Fall.
2011 Milano, Michael. “Sarcastic Flowers: Karen Reimer and Conceptual Craft,” Bad at Sports. Dec. 12
http://badatsports.com/2011/sarcastic-flowers-karen-reimer-conceptual-craft
Amy Braverman Puma, “Reclamation Project,” University of Chicago Magazine, Vol104,
No2, Nov-Dec.
2010 Colin Davies and Monika Parrinder, Limited Language: Rewriting Design: Responding to a
Feedback Culture, Birkhauser: Basel.
2008 Nadine Monem, Ed., Contemporary Textiles: The Fabric of Contemporary Art,
Black Dog Press: London.
Kirshner, Judith. “Focus:,” Frieze, November.
Jeremy Biles. review of Endless Set at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago Artists’ News, June.
Alan Artner, review of Endless Set at Monique Meloche Gallery, Chicago Tribune,
May 16, 2008, Section 7, pg. 20.
Jessica Poser, “Contemporary Craft: The Look of Labor,” Art Education Journal, March
2006 Shu Hung and Joe Magliaro, eds., By Hand, Princeton Architectural Press
2005 Deb Wilk, “Six Artists to Watch,” Chicago Magazine, November
2004 Margaret Hawkins, “Knit wit and abstract fun,” Chicago Sun-Times, Nov. 24
2003 Interview with Julie Farstad, mouthtomouth, Winter
2001 Anthony Elms, “Borrowed Clothes Never Fit,” Cold Comfort, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago.
Exhibition brochure.
D. Dominick Lombardi,”At the Gallery/with Randall Davis”,The New York Times,Jan. 21
2000 Susan Snodgrass, “Review: Karen Reimer at Beret International”, Art In America,
Olga Zdanovics, “Reviews: Karen Reimer, Beret International”, New Art Examiner, Dec/Jan
Out of Line: Drawings By Illinois Artists, Chicago Cultural Center. Catalogue.
1999 Fred Camper, “Human Touches”, Chicago Reader, Sept.30-Oct.6
1998 Buzz Specter, “Studioview: Karen Reimer”, New Art Examiner, Nov.