KAREN ARM

b. 1962, New York, NY

EDUCATION

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024

 Denizens of the Sky, View Arts Center, Old Forge, NY

Pierogi 30: A Group Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, New York, NY

Self Portrait Thinking About Art (after Peter Saul), VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY

2022

Once On This Island, curated by Margaret Garrett, Shelter Island Historical Society, Shelter Island, NY 

Entre Centre et Absence, Loong Mah, New York, NY

a million little pieces, VSOP Projects, Greenport, NY

2021

Here, There and Everywhere: Women’s Liberation and the Imagination Post Covid Lockdown, curated by Elizabeth Weiss, Foley Gallery, New York, NY

2020

Days Soon to Fade, P·P·O·W, New York, NY

2019 

Divine Intervention, Christ Episcopal Church, Sag Harbor, NY 

Notebook, curated by Joanne Greenbaum, 56 Henry, New York, NY

2017

Only Small Paintings, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY 2016 Western Exhibitions, Chicago, IL

2014 

Paper Reveries, Shirley Fiterman Art Center, Borough of Manhattan Community College, The City University of New York, New York, NY

PIEROGI XX: Twentieth Anniversary Exhibition, Pierogi Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 

2012 

Art in Embassies Program, Embassy of the United States, Rangoon, Burma 

2005

NY Loves LV, Main Street, Las Vegas, NV

A Very Liquid Heaven, The Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery, Skidmore College, Saratoga Springs, NY 

2004 

200 Drawings: Selections from Pierogi, curated by Annie Heron and Barry Blinderman, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL

New Work, New York > New Mexico, Annie Herron’s Selection from the Pierogi Flat Files, Carlsbad Museum and Art Center, Carlsbad, NM

2003 

On and Off the Wall: New York Foundation for the Arts' Painting Fellows, Phillips, de Pury & Luxembourg, New York, NY

Brooklyn on 57th Street, Nohra Haime Gallery, New York, NY 

2001 

Collector’s Choice, Exit Art, New York, NY

Some (Are) Painting, curated by David Gibson, John Gibson Gallery, NY 

Nature Re-visited, Kenise Barnes Fine Art, Larchmont, NY

Pixerina Witcherina, University Galleries, Illinois State University, Normal, IL; Sarah Moody Gallery of Art, Tuscaloosa, AL

2000 

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 

Multiple Sensations, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA

Haulin’ Ass, Post Gallery, Los Angeles, CA Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO

Fluid flow, Graham Modern, New York, NY

Eye Candy: Contemporary West and East Coast Women Painters, curated by Susan Joyce, Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum, California State University, San Bernardino, CA; Grand Central Art Center, California State University, Santa Ana, CA

Live from New York, Haines Gallery, San Francisco, CA

1999 

Brooklyn, New Work, curated by David Brown and Joseph Amrhein, Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati, OH 

Phenotypology, curated by Maureen McQuillan, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY

Rage for Art (Pierogi Reborn), Pierogi 2000, Brooklyn, NY 

1998

Pierogi Goes to College, Bard College, Rheinbeck, NY

Pierogi 2000: New York: The Flatfiles, Kunstlerhaus, Vienna, Austria 

Pierogi Goes to College, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY 

Southern Exposure, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, FL

Wallpaper, curated by Lisa Jacobs, Nicholas Davies Gallery, New York, NY 

Drawings, James Graham and Sons, New York, NY

1997 

Art on Paper, Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC 

Drawing Room, ARENA, Brooklyn, NY

Recurrence, Gallery Korea, New York, NY

New York Drawers: The Pierogi 2000 Flatfiles, Gasworks, London, UK; Cornerhouse, Manchester, UK Current Undercurrent: Working in Brooklyn, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY

1996 

Dots & Lines, 473 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY Material Madness, the Workspace Gallery, New York, NY

Influenced by Nature, the Studio at Curly Willow, East Hampton, NY 

The Exchange Show, ARENA, New York, NY

The Lyrical, the Expressionist and the Poetic, curated by Michael Walls, Denise Bibro Fine Arts, New York, NY 

1995 

Soul in C Minor, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York, NY

The Color of No Color, Art Initiatives, New York, NY Natural, ARENA, Brooklyn, NY

Nature Revisited, Marymount Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY

Not For Sale, Exhibit and Benefit Auction for Laura Cottingham’s “Women’s Art of the Seventies,” Flamingo East, New York, NY

Reconstituted Paint, curated by Seth Ferris, K&E Gallery, New York, NY 1994 Chamber 2, Chamber, New York, NY

1993 

The Light from Behind, The New York Law School, Art Initiatives, New York, NY 

re/SOURCE, curated by Bill Barrell and Lily Prince, First Street Gallery, Jersey City, NJ 

File Pix, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY

1991

 The Salon of the Mating Spiders, Herron Test Site, Brooklyn, NY

 1 .4 Show, Tribeca 148 Gallery, New York, NY

1990 

Low Memorial Library, Columbia University, New York, NY

1983 

Tenderize Graphich (Graphic Trends), Temple Gallery, Rome, Italy

SELECT PUBLIC COLLECTIONS

Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR

Collection of Rubin, Baum, Levin, Constant, and Friedman, New York, NY

 Weatherspoon Art Gallery, University of North Carolina at Greensboro, NC

GRANTS AND AWARDS

2002 New York Foundation for the Arts, Award for Painting