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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.

Karen, of West Palm Beach, FL, is the recipient of the 2009 Artists Fellowship Award from CPW, Kingston, NY, and is a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts’ (NYFA) MARK artist. Solo and featured exhibits include: Homegrown, CPW; Unframed, NOBO Gallery, Hudson, NY; PHOTO[gogues]2, Flash Forward, Boston, MA; Family, Cabane Gallery, Phoenicia, NY; and The McCann Family, the Griffin Museum of Photography. She is a Critical Mass two-time finalist. Her photographs were also included in “hrlm: pictures” at the Studio Museum in Harlem.

Karen teaches the Self-Published Photobook Workshop online through the Griffin Museum of Photography. She has taught photo-based and word and image art in the Seminar Series in the Arts, Art Institute of Boston/Lesley University, Lesley Seminars, Radcliffe Seminars/Harvard, Tufts University’s X-College, and Suffolk University.

Karen and her husband, Mark Orton, were co-owners of Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson, NY, from 2009 to 2024, where, for fifteen years, they exhibited photography, mixed media, and photobooks of emerging, mid-career, and established artists.