KAREN SEAPKER
karenseapker@gmail.com
karenseapker.com
EDUCATION
Hunter College, New York, NY, 2009, MFA, Painting
Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 2004, BA, Studio Art and Art History, Honors
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Green’s Your Color, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN)
2020 Circuities, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018 Sentinels, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
In Tandem, University of the South, Sewanee, TN
2017 Ravel, Tuttle Gallery, McDonogh School, Owing Mills, MD
2016 And Most Slow Have I Been, Lipscomb University, Nashville, TN
A Clearing on view at Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, TN
2014 Re: Surface, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
New Paintings, Canal Projects, London, UK
2011 Continuum, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
Things Come to Light, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA
2010 New Work, National Arts Club, New York, NY
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2022 State of the Art 2020, Museum of Contemporary Art, Jacksonville, FL
State of the Art 2020, Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi, TX
State of the Art 2020, Currier Museum of Art, Manchester, NH
2020 IRL, Unit London, London, UK
State of the Art 2020, Crystal Bridges Art Museum and The Momentary, Bentonville, AR
Nerve, Wilder, Nashville, TN\
2019 Making (It) Work, Oliver Art Center, California College of the Arts, Oakland, CA
Sleep Eazy, Iris Motel, Nashville, TN
Xanadu, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2018 Persona, Tournament Studios, Nashville, TN
2017 The Shadow’s Body, Watkins College, Nashville, TN
Austin Peay Faculty Triennial, Clarksville, TN
Luminous Animals, Whitespace Galllery, Atlanta, GA
Point of Origin, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Nasty Women Nashville, The Basement East, Nashville, TN
From Tha Roota To Tha Toota, Good Enough Projects, Atlanta, GA
2016 Incisive Fantasy,Elizabeth Stone Harper Gallery,Presbyterian College, Clinton, SC
From Here, Flourescent Gallery, Knoxville, TN
2015 Summer Reading, Zieher Smith & Horton, Nashville, TN
Vanishing Act, Heliopolis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Circuitous Language, Alfred Williams, Nashville, TN
2014 Blottr, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
Home Fires, curated by Scott Zieher and Mike Womack, Track 13, Cummins Station, Nashville, TN
New Members 1, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
2013 Per [Pro] Spective, JHouse Greenwich, Greenwich, CT
Marty's Cool Biennial, Heliopolis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
Of The Land, Chashama Gallery, New York, NY
Girls Just Wanna Have Fund$, La Mama Galleria, New York, NY
2012 Selected Works, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
Faculty at Work, Martin Art Gallery, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA
2011 Gertrude’s/LOT, Pittsburgh Biennial 2011, Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh, PA
Rust Melt: New Pittsburgh Abstractions, Fe Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
The Man Who Fell To Earth, Monika Bobinska Gallery, London, UK
2010 Recent Paintings and Watercolors, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
Persistence of Painting, Sloan Fine Art, New York, NY
The Triumph of Now, Volume Black Gallery, New York, NY
Girls Just Want To Have Funds, P.P.O.W. Gallery, New York, NY
2009 F(r)acture: Division Paintings, Dorsch Gallery, Miami, FL
Small is the New Big: 25 Squared, Fe Arts Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
Thesis Exhibition, Hunter College, New York, NY
2007 First Year Student Show, Hunter College, New York, NY
CURATED EXHIBITIONS
(2017-2023) Visual Art Exhibitions created for Chelsea Music Festival, NYC, NY including work by Jonathan VanDyke, Oliver Herring, Peter Krashes,
Julianne Swartz, Julian Day, Jonathan Rattner, Amy Pleasant, and MaDora Frey
2018 States of Matter, Co-curated with Vadis Turner, Zeitgeist Gallery, Nashville, TN
2016 The Thing Itself, Track 13, Nashville, TN
2015 Gazing Inland, Track 13, Nashville, TN
5 Rooms, Co-curated with Vadis Turner, Nashville, TN
Vanishing Act, Heliopolis Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014 Peter Krashes: Plant a Flag, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
Terrestrial, Unsmoke Art Systems, Braddock, PA
Daniel Luchman: Voyage to Alpha Centauri, COOP Gallery, Nashville, TN
AWARDS
2022 CECA Tennessee Artist Fellowship
Nominated for Joan Mitchell Painters and Sculptors Grant, 2015 and 2020
New American Paintings (South), Fall 2022 and Spring 2015
Artist In Residence, ChaNorth, NY, 2012
Artist in Residence, Cedar Crest College, 2011
Lotus Foundation Prize in the Arts and Sciences, 2009
Nominated for Rema Hort Mann Foundation Grant, 2009
PROJECTS AND RELATED EXPERIENCE
Director of Visual Arts & Design , Chelsea Music Festival, NYC (2017-present)
Guest Critic and Guest Lecturer, Belmont University, Nashville, TN, 2023
Thrive Together Network Mentor (2021-present)
Adjunct Professor, Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, TN (2022)
Adjunct Professor, University of the South, Sewanee, TN, (2019, 2022)
Adjunct Professor, Austin Peay State University, Clarksville, TN, 2014-2018
Adjunct Professor, Volunteer State Community College, Gallatin, TN, Spring 2018
Visiting Artist in Residence, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Spring 2016
Guest Critic, Vanderbilt University, Nashville, TN, Fall 2015
COOP Gallery Co-operative Member and Curator, Nashville, TN 2013-2016
Periscope Program Artist Facilitator, Nashville, TN, Spring 2015
Juror of Student Spring Show, Watkins School of Art, Nashville, TN, Spring 2015
Guest Lecturer, Belmont College, Nashville, TN, Fall 2014
Guest Critic, Watkins School of Art, Nashville, TN, Fall 2014
Sabbatical Replacement Professor, Farleigh Dickinson University, Madison, NJ, Fall 2012
Adjunct Professor, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 2010-2012
Guest Lecturer, Cedar Crest College, Allentown, PA, 2011
Guest Lecturer, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 2010
Teaching Artist, Manhattan New Music Project, New York, NY, 2008-2009
Artist Assistant, Oliver Herring, New York, NY, 2006-2008
Guest Lecturer, Muhlenberg College, Allentown, PA, 2006
Curatorial Intern, Art In The Twenty-First Century, New York, NY, 2005-2006
Studio Intern, Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, NY, 2005