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This biography from the Archives of AskART:
|  Pop artist Karen Kilimnik was born in 1962 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, where she now lives. She graduated in 1976 from Temple University in that city.
Her interests and subject matter are eclectic, varying from Tsarist Russia, classical ballet and the Gothic, to today's pop stars, glamour magazines, television soap operas, Sharon Tate, Leonardo di Caprio, Kate Moss, Hugh Grant, Elizabeth Taylor, and the world of fairies and fairy tales. Her work ranges from early "scatter piece" installations and historical fantasy drawings, to flower paintings, sculptures and photographs.
Kilimnik was commissioned to do the official drawings for The Armory Show 2002 - The International Fair of New Art on Piers 88 and 90 in New York City.
In 2002, Moore College, Philadelphia, presented an exhibition of an unusual combination of three women artists, Mary Cassatt, Alice Neel and Karen Kilimnik. The catalog of the show contained essays by cultural theorist Jeanne Randolph, feminist-artist-writer Mira Schor, and philosopher Maureen Sherlock. Another recent exhibition of Kilimnik's work was held at the Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, in 2002-2003.
Other one-person exhibitions include:
2002
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Hauser Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
2001
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
303 Gallery, New York, NY
2000
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, U.K.
Galerie Spruth/Magers, Munich, Germany
Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
South London Gallery, London, U.K.
Kunstverein Wolfsburg e.V., Wolfsburg, Germany
Galerie Hauser & Wirth & Presenhuber, Zurich, Switzerland
Nassau County Museum of Art, NY
1999
Rebecca Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
Gallery Side 2, Tokyo
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1998
H & R Projects, Brussels, Belgium
Emily Tsingou Gallery, London, England
Galerie Ghislaine Hussenot, Paris, France
1997
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Kunsthalle Zurich, Switzerland
1996
Galleria Il Capricorno, Venice, Italy
Rebecca M. Camhi Gallery, Athens, Greece
Transmission Gallery, Glasgow, Scotland
1995
303 Gallery, New York, NY
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Center for Contemporary Gravure, Geneva
Galerie Walcheturm, Zurich, Switzerland
Galerie Jennifer Flay, Paris, France
Galerie Metropol, Vienna, Austria
Ynglingagatan 1, Stockholm, Sweden
A bibliography for Karen Kilimnik includes:
1990 "Goings on About Town", The New Yorker, July, P.14
Hess, Elizabeth. "Caution: Artists Working", The Village Voice, December 18th, P.109
Avigos, Jan, "Disappearing Acts", Contemporanea, No 23, P.72-75
Rimanelli, David, "A Problem in Contemporary Aesthetics", The Mourning Stutterer, Newspaper edited by Vic Muniz, Year No.1, p.1 & 8
1991 "Project," Bomb, Spring 1991, p. 48-49
Decter, Joshua. Review. "Work in Progress? Work?," Arts, March, p.99
"Goings on About Town", The New Yorker, April 22, 1991, p.16
Levin, Kim. "Choices", Village Voice, April 23rd, 1991
Joseph, Regina. "Review: Art Under Duress," West Side Spirit, April 23rd
1991 Smith, Roberta. "Critics Choice: Karen Kilimnik," The New York Times, Friday April 26th, Weekend Section C, p.17
Bankowsky, Jack. "Openings: Karen Kilimnik," Artforum, May, p.138
Schjeldahl, Peter. "At the Salon of April," Village Voice, May 14th, 1991, p.86
Myers, Terry, Review, Flash Art, Summer, p.134
Saltz, Jerry, "The Kid Who Never Cleaned Her Room", Galeries Magazine, July, p.80-81
"No Man's Time", catalog, Villa Arson, Nice, France
"Just What Is It That Makes Today's Homes So Different, So Appealing?", catalog, The Hyde Collection, Glens Falls, NY
"Plastic Fantastic Lover (object a), catalog, essay by Catherine Lui, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, NY
Decter, Joshua, Review, Arts Magazine, September, p 77-78
Jarrel, Joe, "Eight Women Out", Village View, September 20, p.31
Bankowsky, Jack, "Slackers", Artforum, November, p. 96-100
Coelewij, Leontine, "New Kids On The Block", Metropolis M, #5, p.36-39
Troncy, Eric, "No Man's Time", Flash Art, November/December, p. 119-122
Perl, Jed, Vogue, December, p.124-130
1992 "Karen Kilimnik: Escape in Time", Catalog, essay by Melissa Feldman,
ICA Philadelphia, PA
Weil, Benjamin, "Remarks on Installations and Changes in Time Dimensions", Flash Art, January/February, p. 104-109
Bourriaud, Nicolas, 'Psycho-Splatter', Flash Art, March/April, p. 88-90
Joisten, Bernard, Review, Flash Art, October, p 102
"True Stories", catalog, ICA, London, England
"LifeSize", catalog, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea Luigi Pecci, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Prato, Italy
"Post-Human", catalog, FAE Musee D'Art Contemporain, Lausanne, Switzerland; Castello di Rivoli, Museo d'Arte Contemporanea, Rivoli, Italy; Deste Foundation for Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece;
Deichtorhallen Hamburg, Hamburg, Germany
1993 Flinn, Jason B, Review, Tema Celeste, Autumn, p. 99
Messler, Norbert, Review, Forum International, November/December, p.102
"Privacy", catalog, Documentario, Milano, Italy
Rian, Jeff, "The 1993 Whitney Biennial" Flash Art, p.78
"Under Thirty", catalog, (designed by Elke Krystefek), Metropol, Wien, Austria
"Teddy & other stories", catalog, Claudio Botello Arte& Galleria In Arco, Torino, Italy
"Uber Leben", Bonner Kunstverein, Bonn, Germany
Fleck, Robert, "Spielholle - Asthetik und Gewalt", Rogue, #17, p.17 -32 "Whitney Biennial", catalog, Whitney Museum of American Art,
New York, NY
"Travelogue-Reisetagebuch", catalog, essay by Jackie McCallister, Hochschule fur Angewandte Kunst in Wien, Vienna, Austria
"Stoned", exhibition pamphlet, essay by Veralyn Behenna,
Ruth Bloom Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
"The Art of Language", catalog, Kunsthalle Vienna, Vienna, Austria
"Restaurant", catalog, essays by Jan Avgikos, Yves Aupetitallot, Terry Myers & Frank Perrin, La Bocca, 59 Monmartre, 75002, Paris
1994 Lieberman, Rhonda, "Revenge of the Mouse Diva", February, p. 77-82 (Cover)
"Audience 0.01", catalogue, Flash Art Museum, Trevi, Italy
Lewis, Jim, "Karen loves Kate", Bazaar, September 1994, p.240
Source:
http://www.galleryside2.net/artist/karen/text.html
http://adaweb.walkerart.org/context/artists/kilimnik/kkbio.html
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She began her career in 1991 doing scatter installations of contents of her garage apartment of her parent's home in Philadelphia. Setting up at the Stillman Gallery in New York, she lived amidst the display, which was a messy teenager's room. In 1994, she began exhibiting paintings, which are portraits of women obsessed by glamour. She is self-taught, having been turned down by every art school to which she applied. |
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