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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.

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