KAREN BLACK
b. 1961 Australia . l&w. Sydney/Gadigal Land, Australia
EDUCATION
2009-2011
Bachelor of Fine Art, Queensland College of Art, Griffith University, Brisbane
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Karen Black: 2025 MECCA Holiday Collaboration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne2025 Who is still Dreaming, The Renshaws, Brisbane
2024 alternative frequency, Ames Yavuz, Sydney
2024 A ring for a squared circle, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Gentle Pulse, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2022 Pressure Points, Melbourne Art Fair, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Arepo, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2021 They might be Giants, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2020 It’s Not Real, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2019 Riding a blue horse, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Not hours minutes, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2018 Installation Sydney Contemporary (with Handpicked Wines), Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 An Ordinary Poetry, Sullivan+Strumpf, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2017 Temporary Arrangements, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Crown legs arms, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Making do, Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014 Dust over Aleppo, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014 Peace is guilty, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Piece of Wood, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2012 Art Basel Hong Kong, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Art Fair Tokyo, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Karen Black Paintings, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Art Taipei, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Taipei
2011 Art Stage Singapore, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Singapore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2026 The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney2025 The intelligence of painting, Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney|
2025 The Devoted Eye, Ames Yavuz, Sydney
2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery, Redleaf, Sydney
2024 New South, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney - curated by Sebastian Goldspink
2024 Big Ceramic Energy, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2024 Undo the day, National Art School Gallery, Sydney - curated by Gina Mobayed
2024 The Archibald, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2024 The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2024 Thresholds, Murray Art Museum, Albury - curated by Michael Moran
2024 The Belly and the Members, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney
2024 Art Brussels, Brussels Expo site, Brussels, Ames Yavuz
2024 Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Ames Yavuz
2024 Art Fair Singapore, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore, Ames Yavuz
2024 Melbourne Art Fair, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Sutton Gallery
2024 Art in conflict, Works from Australian War Memorial Collection, Western Plains Cultural Centre,
Dubbo
2023 Tokyo Gendai, PACIFICO Yokohama, Ames Yavuz Gallery
2023 Thin Skin, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) VIC - curated by Jennifer Higgie
2023 Once More with Feeling, Ngununggula, Southern Highlands, NSW - curated by Megan Monte
2023 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney/Singapore
2023 We need to hang out more, Flack Studio, Melbourne- Collaboration with Ruby Black for
Melbourne Design Week and National Gallery of Victoria
2022 Zombie Eaters, Murray Art Museum (MAMA), Albury, NSW
2022 PLAY-CLAY, Ace Hotel & Flack Studio laneway project, Sydney, NSW
2022 Blue Island, Byron School of Art, Byron Bay NSW
2022 Art in conflict, Australian War Memorial, Shepparton Art Museum, Ipswich Regional Gallery,
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney and The Riddoch Sth Australia
2022 XXX: Celebrating 30 years of Sutton Gallery, Sutton Gallery Melbourne
2022 The Bowerman Collection, The Renshaws, Brisbane
2021 The Future is Humanity, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2020 The Archibald, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2020 The Cook and her Driver (with Virginia Leonard), Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2020 Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms, Warwick Art Gallery, University of the
Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2019 New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2019 West Bund Shanghai, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2019 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2019 Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms, Shepparton Art Museum, Warrnambool Art
Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Museum of Australian Democracy ACT, Bega
Regional Gallery, Warwick Art Gallery
2018-19 Beyond Reason. Exploring the logic of the imagination, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2018-19 Rigg Design Prize - in collaboration Flack Studio, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2018 Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown Centre, Sydney
2018 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2018 The Waves, curated by Kate Britton, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2017/18/19 The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2017 Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sutton Gallery Melbourne
2016 Shut up and Paint, NGV International, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2016 Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
2016 Borders, barriers, walls, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Victoria
2016 The Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Qld
2016 Arrival, Inaugural exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
2016 Spring 1883, Sutton Gallery, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2015 10th Anniversary Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014-2015 Glazed and confused, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 Spring 1883, Sutton Gallery, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2014 Common Woman, LEVEL ARI, Brisbane
2014 SSFA Group Show, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2013 Art & Australia Collection 2003-2013, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 SSFA Group Show, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney
2012 Art Stage Singapore, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Oh Video, Lower Lawn, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane curated by Chris Bennie
2011 GAS Awards Finalists Exhibtion, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
2011 RBS Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, RBS Tower, NSW
2011 People and Places, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, QCA Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Explaining colours to the blind, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, QCA Gallery, Brisbane
AWARDS RESIDENCIES COMMISSIONS
2024 Finalist The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney
2024 Finalist The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2024 Finalist The Sir John Sulman Prize Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2021 Finalist The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2020 Finalist The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2020 Finalist Kings School Art Prize, Kings School, Sydney
2019 Commission of new ceramic work for Museum of Brisbane
2019 Recipient: Glasshouse Stonehouse Residency, Chenaud, France
2019 Finalist Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery
2019 Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2018 Recipient Artbank + QPAC Commission, Queensland
2018 Finalist, Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown Centre, Sydney
2018 Finalist Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2017 Commission of 10 metre wall work Barangaroo, Art Fairs Australia
2017 Commission of Moving Image, Gondwana Choirs and Alice Chance (composer-new work ‘The
Hungry Mile’), Art Fairs Australia, Barangaroo.
2017/18/19 Finalist The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2017 Recipient Artspace One Year Studio Artist, Artspace Sydney
2017 Shortlisted Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2016 Finalist, The Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery
2014 Ceramics Residency, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Ceramics Design Studio Gymea Sydney
2014 Recipient Belle Arti Prize, Chapman & Bailey
2013 Recipient Art and Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
2011 Recipient GAS Award, Griffith University Art Gallery
2011 Global Spotlight Artist, Art Taipei
2011 Finalist, RBS Emerging Artist Award
2011 Finalist, Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition
2011 Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence
2010 Commendation Award, Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition2010 Griffith University Fine
Art Award for Outstanding Initiative & Commitment to Painting2008/9/10 Griffith University
Award for Academic Excellence
SELECTED BIOGRAPHY and PUBLICATIONS
2024 Amber Creswell Bell (ed.), About Face, Thames & Hudson Australia
2023 Jennifer Higgie (ed.), Thin Skin, exh. cat., Monash University Museum of Art and Monash
University Publishing, Melbourne, ISBN: 978-1-922-97908-7, 2023.
2023 Karina Dias Pires (ed.), Artists at Home, Thames & Hudson Australia
2023 Karen Black & Virginia Leonard, Stonehouse-Glasshouse 03| ISBN: 978-0-6450166-8-0
2022 Elyse Goldfinch. ‘Gentle Pulse’. Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine, Summer issue, November 2022.
2022 Courtney Ammenhauser. ‘Sydney Design Week: Sydney’s annual week-long design festival is
back this September with a bumper lineup.’ Concrete Playground, 18 August 2022.
https://concreteplayground.com/ sydney/event/sydney-design-week-2022.
2022 Sarah Ward. ‘The Southern Hemisphere’s First-Ever Super-Sleek Ace Hotel Has Finally Opened
Its Doors in Sydney.’ Concrete Playground, 18 May 2022.
https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/travel-leisure/travel/acehotel- open-sydney.
2022 Jake Millar. ‘Meet the creative minds and artists behind Ace Hotel Sydney.’ Vogue Australia, 29
May 2022. https:// www.vogue.com.au/vogue-living/design/meet-the-creative-minds-and-artistsbehind-ace-hotel-sydney/imagegallery/
2021 Karen Black. ‘Smartphone Snaps: Karen Black.’ Art Guide Australia, 19 August 2021.
2021 Annemarie Kiely. ‘Homeward bound.’ Vogue Australia, May/June 20211. https://www.vogue.com.au/vogue-living/interiors/house-tour-inside-troye-sivans-eclectic-plantfilled-melbourne-oasis/image-gallery/aee24ee4b09c3b24e4140466cb603db5.
2021 Bageshri Savyasachi. ‘Compassion as well as strength.’ IndiaLink News, June 2021.
2021 Sebastian Goldspink. ‘Karen Black: They might be giants.’ Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine, Jan/Feb
issue.
2020 Naomi Riddle. ‘Karen Black, It’s Not Real.’ Art Almanac, 27 February 2020.
2019 Museum of Brisbane, New Woman, Exhibition Catalogue | ISBN: 978-0-6485617-0-5
2018 Shepparton Art Museum and National Exhibitions Touring Support Victoria, Craftivism: Dissident
Objects + Subversive Forms, Exhibition Catalogue | ISBN: 978-0-9802977-8-2
2018 QUT Art Museum, Beyond Reason: exploring the logic of the imagination, Exhibition Catalogue |
ISBN: 978-0-646-99607-3
2018 Naomi Riddle. ‘Not Hours Minutes, Karen Black.’ Running Dog, 18 May 2018.
2017 Melanie Lee. ‘Profile: Artist Karen Black.’ The A-List, 30 November 2017.
2017 Sophie Cai. ‘Five ways with Clay.’ In The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 56, No, 2 July 2017,
64-69.
2017 Rebecca Gallo. ‘Sing the Body Ceramic.’ Art Guide Australia, 16 June 2017.
2017 Shepparton Art Museum, Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Exhibition Catalogue |
ISBN: 978-0-9943430-8-6
2016 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Painting. More Painting, Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN:978-0-9943472-3-7
2016 Monash University Museum of Art, Borders, Barriers, Walls, Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN: 978-09941253-0-9
2016 Rockhampton Art Gallery, The Gold Award, Exhibition Catalogue
2015 Dan Rule. ‘Art Fairs Guide – Sydney Contemporary.’ VAULT, Issue 11, 13 September 2015.
2015 Prue Gibson. ‘Beautiful Tragedies: Artists Profile.’ Art Collector, Issue 73, 2015.
2014 Andrew Frost. ‘Dust Over Aleppo.’ The Art Life, 24 October 2014.
2014 Freya Herring. ‘Karen Black.’ Art Guide Australia, 21 October 2014.
2013 ‘Karen Black Dust Over Aleppo.’ Art Collector, 21 October 2014
COLLECTIONS
Australian War Memorial
Artbank
Griffith University Art Museum
Joyce Nissan Collection
Macquarie Group Collection
Monash University Museum of Art
Murray Art Museum, Albury
Museum of Brisbane
National Gallery of Victoria
Private collections in Australia, America, Europe and Asia Pacific
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
Shepparton Art Museum
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2025 Karen Black: 2025 MECCA Holiday Collaboration, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2025 Who is still Dreaming, The Renshaws, Brisbane2024 alternative frequency, Ames Yavuz, Sydney
2024 A ring for a squared circle, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2022 Gentle Pulse, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2022 Pressure Points, Melbourne Art Fair, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2021 Arepo, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2021 They might be Giants, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2020 It’s Not Real, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2019 Riding a blue horse, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2018 Not hours minutes, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2018 Installation Sydney Contemporary (with Handpicked Wines), Carriageworks, Sydney
2017 An Ordinary Poetry, Sullivan+Strumpf, Gillman Barracks, Singapore
2017 Temporary Arrangements, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2016 Crown legs arms, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2015 Making do, Sydney Contemporary, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014 Dust over Aleppo, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014 Peace is guilty, Sutton Gallery, Melbourne
2013 Piece of Wood, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2012 Art Basel Hong Kong, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Art Fair Tokyo, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Karen Black Paintings, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2011 Art Taipei, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Taipei
2011 Art Stage Singapore, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Singapore
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2026 The Wynne Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2026 The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2025 The Devoted Eye, Ames Yavuz, Sydney
2024 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery, Redleaf, Sydney
2024 New South, Hazelhurst Arts Centre, Sydney - curated by Sebastian Goldspink
2024 Big Ceramic Energy, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2024 Undo the day, National Art School Gallery, Sydney - curated by Gina Mobayed
2024 The Archibald, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2024 The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2024 Thresholds, Murray Art Museum, Albury - curated by Michael Moran
2024 The Belly and the Members, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney
2024 Art Brussels, Brussels Expo site, Brussels, Ames Yavuz
2024 Art Basel Hong Kong, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Centre, Ames Yavuz
2024 Art Fair Singapore, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Singapore, Ames Yavuz
2024 Melbourne Art Fair, Convention and Exhibition Centre, Melbourne, Sutton Gallery
2024 Art in conflict, Works from Australian War Memorial Collection, Western Plains Cultural Centre,
Dubbo
2023 Tokyo Gendai, PACIFICO Yokohama, Ames Yavuz Gallery
2023 Thin Skin, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA) VIC - curated by Jennifer Higgie
2023 Once More with Feeling, Ngununggula, Southern Highlands, NSW - curated by Megan Monte
2023 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Yavuz Gallery, Sydney/Singapore
2023 We need to hang out more, Flack Studio, Melbourne- Collaboration with Ruby Black for
Melbourne Design Week and National Gallery of Victoria
2022 Zombie Eaters, Murray Art Museum (MAMA), Albury, NSW
2022 PLAY-CLAY, Ace Hotel & Flack Studio laneway project, Sydney, NSW
2022 Blue Island, Byron School of Art, Byron Bay NSW
2022 Art in conflict, Australian War Memorial, Shepparton Art Museum, Ipswich Regional Gallery,
Perc Tucker Regional Gallery Townsville, SH Ervin Gallery, Sydney and The Riddoch Sth Australia
2022 XXX: Celebrating 30 years of Sutton Gallery, Sutton Gallery Melbourne
2022 The Bowerman Collection, The Renshaws, Brisbane
2021 The Future is Humanity, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2020 The Archibald, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2020 The Cook and her Driver (with Virginia Leonard), Gertrude Glasshouse, Melbourne
2020 Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms, Warwick Art Gallery, University of the
Sunshine Coast Art Gallery, Swan Hill Regional Gallery
2019 New Woman, Museum of Brisbane, Brisbane
2019 West Bund Shanghai, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2019 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2019 Craftivism. Dissident Objects and Subversive Forms, Shepparton Art Museum, Warrnambool Art
Gallery, Mornington Peninsula Regional Gallery, Museum of Australian Democracy ACT, Bega
Regional Gallery, Warwick Art Gallery
2018-19 Beyond Reason. Exploring the logic of the imagination, QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
2018-19 Rigg Design Prize - in collaboration Flack Studio, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2018 Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2018 Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown Centre, Sydney
2018 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2018 The Waves, curated by Kate Britton, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney
2017/18/19 The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2017 Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2017 Sydney Contemporary, Carriageworks, Sullivan+Strumpf Sydney|Singapore
2017 Spring 1883, The Establishment, Sutton Gallery Melbourne
2016 Shut up and Paint, NGV International, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
2016 Painting. More Painting, Australian Centre for Contemporary Art (ACCA), Melbourne
2016 Borders, barriers, walls, Monash University Museum of Art (MUMA), Victoria
2016 The Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery, Qld
2016 Arrival, Inaugural exhibition, Sullivan+Strumpf Singapore
2016 Spring 1883, Sutton Gallery, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2015 10th Anniversary Group Show, Sullivan+Strumpf, Sydney
2014-2015 Glazed and confused, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2014 Spring 1883, Sutton Gallery, Windsor Hotel, Melbourne
2014 Common Woman, LEVEL ARI, Brisbane
2014 SSFA Group Show, Sullivan + Strumpf Fine Art, Sydney
2013 Art & Australia Collection 2003-2013, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery, NSW
2013 SSFA Group Show, Sullivan + Strumpf, Sydney
2012 Art Stage Singapore, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2012 Oh Video, Lower Lawn, QCA, Griffith University, Brisbane curated by Chris Bennie
2011 GAS Awards Finalists Exhibtion, Griffith University Art Gallery, Brisbane
2011 RBS Emerging Artist Award Exhibition, RBS Tower, NSW
2011 People and Places, Heiser Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, QCA Gallery, Brisbane
2011 Explaining colours to the blind, Tristian Koenig Gallery, Melbourne
2010 Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition, QCA Gallery, Brisbane
AWARDS RESIDENCIES COMMISSIONS
2024 Finalist The Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Woollahra Gallery at Redleaf, Sydney
2024 Finalist The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2024 Finalist The Sir John Sulman Prize Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2021 Finalist The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2020 Finalist The Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2020 Finalist Kings School Art Prize, Kings School, Sydney
2019 Commission of new ceramic work for Museum of Brisbane
2019 Recipient: Glasshouse Stonehouse Residency, Chenaud, France
2019 Finalist Kilgour Prize, Newcastle Art Gallery
2019 Finalist Sunshine Coast Art Prize, Caloundra Regional Gallery
2018 Recipient Artbank + QPAC Commission, Queensland
2018 Finalist, Fishers Ghost Prize, Campbelltown Centre, Sydney
2018 Finalist Woollahra Small Sculpture Prize, Sydney
2017 Commission of 10 metre wall work Barangaroo, Art Fairs Australia
2017 Commission of Moving Image, Gondwana Choirs and Alice Chance (composer-new work ‘The
Hungry Mile’), Art Fairs Australia, Barangaroo.
2017/18/19 Finalist The Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney
2017 Recipient Artspace One Year Studio Artist, Artspace Sydney
2017 Shortlisted Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Shepparton Art Museum, Victoria
2016 Finalist, The Gold Award, Rockhampton Art Gallery
2014 Ceramics Residency, Hazelhurst Regional Gallery & Ceramics Design Studio Gymea Sydney
2014 Recipient Belle Arti Prize, Chapman & Bailey
2013 Recipient Art and Australia/Credit Suisse Private Banking Contemporary Art Award
2011 Recipient GAS Award, Griffith University Art Gallery
2011 Global Spotlight Artist, Art Taipei
2011 Finalist, RBS Emerging Artist Award
2011 Finalist, Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition
2011 Griffith University Award for Academic Excellence
2010 Commendation Award, Churchie National Emerging Art Exhibition2010 Griffith University Fine
Art Award for Outstanding Initiative & Commitment to Painting2008/9/10 Griffith University
Award for Academic Excellence
SELECTED BIOGRAPHY and PUBLICATIONS
2024 Amber Creswell Bell (ed.), About Face, Thames & Hudson Australia
2023 Jennifer Higgie (ed.), Thin Skin, exh. cat., Monash University Museum of Art and Monash
University Publishing, Melbourne, ISBN: 978-1-922-97908-7, 2023.
2023 Karina Dias Pires (ed.), Artists at Home, Thames & Hudson Australia
2023 Karen Black & Virginia Leonard, Stonehouse-Glasshouse 03| ISBN: 978-0-6450166-8-0
2022 Elyse Goldfinch. ‘Gentle Pulse’. Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine, Summer issue, November 2022.
2022 Courtney Ammenhauser. ‘Sydney Design Week: Sydney’s annual week-long design festival is
back this September with a bumper lineup.’ Concrete Playground, 18 August 2022.
https://concreteplayground.com/ sydney/event/sydney-design-week-2022.
2022 Sarah Ward. ‘The Southern Hemisphere’s First-Ever Super-Sleek Ace Hotel Has Finally Opened
Its Doors in Sydney.’ Concrete Playground, 18 May 2022.
https://concreteplayground.com/sydney/travel-leisure/travel/acehotel- open-sydney.
2022 Jake Millar. ‘Meet the creative minds and artists behind Ace Hotel Sydney.’ Vogue Australia, 29
May 2022. https:// www.vogue.com.au/vogue-living/design/meet-the-creative-minds-and-artistsbehind-ace-hotel-sydney/imagegallery/
2021 Karen Black. ‘Smartphone Snaps: Karen Black.’ Art Guide Australia, 19 August 2021.
2021 Annemarie Kiely. ‘Homeward bound.’ Vogue Australia, May/June 20211. https://www.vogue.com.au/vogue-living/interiors/house-tour-inside-troye-sivans-eclectic-plantfilled-melbourne-oasis/image-gallery/aee24ee4b09c3b24e4140466cb603db5.
2021 Bageshri Savyasachi. ‘Compassion as well as strength.’ IndiaLink News, June 2021.
2021 Sebastian Goldspink. ‘Karen Black: They might be giants.’ Sullivan+Strumpf Magazine, Jan/Feb
issue.
2020 Naomi Riddle. ‘Karen Black, It’s Not Real.’ Art Almanac, 27 February 2020.
2019 Museum of Brisbane, New Woman, Exhibition Catalogue | ISBN: 978-0-6485617-0-5
2018 Shepparton Art Museum and National Exhibitions Touring Support Victoria, Craftivism: Dissident
Objects + Subversive Forms, Exhibition Catalogue | ISBN: 978-0-9802977-8-2
2018 QUT Art Museum, Beyond Reason: exploring the logic of the imagination, Exhibition Catalogue |
ISBN: 978-0-646-99607-3
2018 Naomi Riddle. ‘Not Hours Minutes, Karen Black.’ Running Dog, 18 May 2018.
2017 Melanie Lee. ‘Profile: Artist Karen Black.’ The A-List, 30 November 2017.
2017 Sophie Cai. ‘Five ways with Clay.’ In The Journal of Australian Ceramics, Vol 56, No, 2 July 2017,
64-69.
2017 Rebecca Gallo. ‘Sing the Body Ceramic.’ Art Guide Australia, 16 June 2017.
2017 Shepparton Art Museum, Sidney Myer Fund Australian Ceramic Award, Exhibition Catalogue |
ISBN: 978-0-9943430-8-6
2016 Australian Centre for Contemporary Art, Painting. More Painting, Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN:978-0-9943472-3-7
2016 Monash University Museum of Art, Borders, Barriers, Walls, Exhibition Catalogue
ISBN: 978-09941253-0-9
2016 Rockhampton Art Gallery, The Gold Award, Exhibition Catalogue
2015 Dan Rule. ‘Art Fairs Guide – Sydney Contemporary.’ VAULT, Issue 11, 13 September 2015.
2015 Prue Gibson. ‘Beautiful Tragedies: Artists Profile.’ Art Collector, Issue 73, 2015.
2014 Andrew Frost. ‘Dust Over Aleppo.’ The Art Life, 24 October 2014.
2014 Freya Herring. ‘Karen Black.’ Art Guide Australia, 21 October 2014.
2013 ‘Karen Black Dust Over Aleppo.’ Art Collector, 21 October 2014
COLLECTIONS
Australian War Memorial
Artbank
Griffith University Art Museum
Joyce Nissan Collection
Macquarie Group Collection
Monash University Museum of Art
Murray Art Museum, Albury
Museum of Brisbane
National Gallery of Victoria
Private collections in Australia, America, Europe and Asia Pacific
QUT Art Museum, Brisbane
Salsali Private Museum, Dubai
Shepparton Art Museum