Resume
Selected Solo & Featured Exhibitions
on-going
Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA. MASS MoCA Restroom Series
2009
Lishui International Photo Festival, Lishui, China, Close to Home
Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA (September) The McCann Family
2008
Griffin Museum of Art, Winchester, MA, The McCann Family
2006
Wadleigh Gallery, Chester College of New England, Chester, NH, City Pictures: a visual journal
2005
University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge Art Association, Parallels and Crosswalks 2, with Emily Corbató and Milan Klic
CAC Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge Arts Council, Walking Central Square (Photography, Multi-Media, Public Art) with John Taguiri
2004
dEmios Gallery, Belmont, MA, spare with Andrea Geyer, Elizabeth Buckley, Nancy Hart
2003
Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA, The Midlife Eye, with Andrea Geyer, Elizabeth Buckley, Nancy Hart
Harvard University Asia Center, Tad Building. Central Square – Cambridge, MA, Vietnam / Central Square
2002
Dean’s Gallery, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, Cambridge, MA, Lines, Arcs & Other City Pictures, Michelle Fiorenza, curator
Arlington Center For Arts, Arlington, MA, Reflections at MidLife, with Andrea Geyer, Elizabeth Buckley, Nancy Hart
2001
The Gallery of The Newton Free Library, Newton, MA Child’s Play, with Mary Lang
2000
Creiger-Dane Gallery, (gallery2) Boston, MA What Is Art?
1999
University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA, Cambridge Art Association, Parallels and Crosswalks with Emily Corbató
Creiger-Dane Gallery, (gallery2) Boston, MA, For Patrons Only
1998
Gallery 57 Cambridge, MA Intersections, Juried, Cambridge Arts Council
Defarrari Hall, Boston Public Library, Boston, MA Boat Building Returns To Boston
1997
Harvard University Photographic Archive, Carpenter Center For Visual Arts, Cambridge, MA, Crossroads, Barbara Norfleet, curator
Selected Group Exhibitions
on-going
Boston Drawing Project, Carroll & Sons Gallery, Boston, MA, Joseph Carroll, Curator
2010
Recent Acquisitions, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Woodstock NY
2009
10th Anniversary, Boston Drawing Project, Carroll & Sons Gallery, Boston
Photo + Book, 23 Sandy Gallery, Portland OR. Exhibition of Self-Published On-Demand Photography Books. Juror: Christopher Rauschenberg – photographer, co-founder: Photolucida, co-director, Blue Sky Gallery.
2008
Members Prize Show, Photography Prize, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, Juror: Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln MA
Art Bar Artists Exhibition, Ithaca Fine Chocolates, Ithaca NY curator: Erika Fowler-Decatur,art historian and company co-founder.
2007
Spectra ’07: National Photography Triennial, Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Canaan, CT, Juror: Peter MacGill, Pace/Macgill Gallery, Manhattan, Catalog
2006
National Prize Show 2006 Awarded Director’s Prize Cambridge Art Association, Juror: Cheryl Brutvan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
12th Annual Juried Show, Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA, Juror: Bonni Benrubi, Bonni Benrubi Gallery, New York City, NY
2005
Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, NY (3 photographs) HRLM, July – October
National Prize Show 2005 Cambridge Art Association, juror: Joseph Thompson, Founder/Director, Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA)
2004
Remembrance of Things Past 2004 National Juried Exhibition, South Shore Arts Center, Cohasset, MA
National Prize Show 2004 Cambridge Art Association, Juror: Robert Fitzpatrick, Pritzker Director, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
National Juried Photography Competition, Coastal Arts League & Museum, Half Moon Bay, CA, Richard Newman, Juror
2003
New England Photographers 2003, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (juried)
Rest Room: Privacy & Consciousness Mills Gallery, installation BCA restrooms Boston, MA
Re-Interpreting The Masters Fletcher/Priest Gallery, Worcester, MA. Juried
2001
Spectra ’01 National Photography Biennial, Silvermine Guild Gallery New Caanan, CT, juried
Member’s Show, Photographic Resource Center, Boston, MA, Juror Deborah Martin Kao
New England Photographers 2001, Danforth Museum of Art, Framingham, MA (juried)
The Book As Art: Artist Books in New England, Cambridge Art Assoc. Juror Peter Madden
Honors
2009
Photographers’ Fellowship Fund Award, Center for Photography at Woodstock, Juror: Hannah Frieser, Director, Lightworks, Syracuse, NY.
Art Bar Artist. Photograph chosen by Ithaca Fine Chocolates, Ithaca, NY - to be included in their series of “Art Bars”
2008
Photography Prize, Members’ Prize Show, Cambridge Art Association, Juror: Nick Capasso, Curator, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln
Director’s Prize, National Prize Show 2006 Cambridge Art Association, Juror: Cheryl Brutvan, Curator of Contemporary Art, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Mass. Foundation For The Humanities, “Rindge Ave. Connections,” Multi-agency documentary project (two photographers) chronicling activities in busy neighborhood of Cambridge.
Publications
The McCann Family, OLD Press (blurb) 2008
MASS MoCA Rest Rooms Postcard Portfolio, limited edition for Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art, North Adams, MA
Pretension: all about us with Mark Orton, OLD Press 2008
“ Harlem” boxed greeting cards, at Studio Museum in Harlem, 0.L.D.Press Publication
Website: http://www.yesthatkarendavis.com
Fotophile Magazine Winter #37 (from “For Patrons Only” portfolio.)
Central Square, Almost Home vol.1 (“Zine”) & Multi-Media Presentation. Presented at Gallery One, Boston, MA
Central Square, Almost Home DVD, four minutes. 52 photographs and narrated personal essay
Collections
LIshui Museum of Photography, Lishui, China
Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, at SUNY New Paltz, Center for Photography at Woodstock permanent print collection
Houghton Rare Books Library, Artist Book/Graphic Arts Collection, Harvard University
Nickelodeon, New York, NY
NewsEdge, Inc. (Thomson, Dialog NewsEdge), New York, NY
Private Collections
Bibliography
Boston Globe, “g” Magazine, Sept.11, 2009, “Touching Tribute” Editor’s Pick” recommendation and photograph
Stuff Magazine, Boston, Sept. 22, 2009 “Doll House” review with photograph; Scott Kearnan
Boston Globe, Sept. 30, 2008 “Provocative Worlds of Wonder” full page review including “The McCann Family” with photograph; Mark Feeney
Women’s Review of Books, Volume 23, Issue 1, January/February 2006m Photography Feature: “The Dual Vision of Karen Davis” – two page spread re Self-Portraits and Visual Memoir
Cambridge Chronicle, April 15, 2005 “A Central phase in her life” full page review with photographs, Alex Stevens.
Arlington Advocate, 1/31/2002, “Exhibit Explores Four Women’s Views on Midlife”, Brenda Milley
Boston Sunday Globe, 1/17/99 “Three Shows Imprint Photographic Memory,” Christine Temin
Boston Tab, 9/24/98 “Bathroom talk gets artsy-fartsy,” Gary Duehr
Teaching
2003-present
Art Institute of Boston Seminar Series in the Arts and Lesley Seminars, Lesley University, Cambridge, MA
• Photography Atelier
• Word & Image: Making Art in Two Languages
• The “I” in the Mirror: Women and Self-Portrait Workshop (2005)
2006
Suffolk University, Freshmen Seminar, Word & Image: Making Art in Two Languages,
with Miriam Goodman and Laura Golly. http://www.exhibitioncatalogs.com/abc/
2003
Cambridge Center for Adult Education, Fifth Annual Fall Writers’ Conference. Workshop:
“Art, Photography and Memorabilia in Writing” with Nancy Earsy
2000-02
Radcliffe Seminars, Radcliffe Center For Advanced Study, Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
• Photography Atelier 2000, With Co-instructor Holly Smith Pedlosky
• Word & Image: Making Art in Two Languages, with Co-instructor Miriam Goodman
2001
TUFTS EXPERIMENTAL COLLEGE, Medford, MA.:
Word and Image: A Workshop in Mixed Media, with Co-instructor Miriam Goodman
Lecture Series Coordinator
2003-2009
Image and Word Lecture Series, Co-sponsored by the Center for Photographic Exhibitions, New England School of Photography and Lesley Seminars, Lesley University, Cambridge MA
Education
Photography: Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA; Radcliffe Seminars, Cambridge, MA; New England School Of Photography, Boston, MA, International Center for Photography, NYC; Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, Center for Photography at Woodstock
Social Science: University of Chicago, Chicago, IL. M.A.
History/Education: Simmons College, Boston, MA. B.S.
Manufacturing Processes: Wentworth Institute, Boston, MA. A.A.S.,
Professional Affiliations
Center for Photography at Woodstock,, Photographic Resource Center – Boston, SoupGroup, Art belo3rd
