Bio
Karen Davis’s work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA) and is in the collections of CPW, Kingston, NY; Lishui Museum of Photography (China); the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University, and in corporate and private collections. Solo and featured exhibits include: The McCann Family, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester, MA; Homegrown, CPW; Unframed, NOBO Gallery, Hudson, NY; PHOTO[gogues]2, Flash Forward, Boston, MA; and Family, Cabane Gallery, Phoenicia, NY. She is a recipient of the Artists Fellowship Award from CPW, and a Critical Mass two-time finalist; her photographs were included in “hrlm: pictures” at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
For fifteen years, from 2009 to 2024, Karen and her husband, Mark Orton, owned the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, where they exhibited photography, mixed media, and photobooks by emerging, mid-career, and established artists. Karen has taught photo-based and word and image art in the Seminar Series in the Arts, Art Institute of Boston and Lesley Seminars, Lesley University, Radcliffe Seminars/Harvard, Tufts University’s X-College, and Suffolk University. Relocated to West Palm Beach, FL, she currently teaches the Self-Published Photobook Workshop online through the Griffin Museum of Photography.