Karen Schifano

Born in 1955, Karen Schifano received a BA in Art History from Swarthmore College, an MFA from Hunter College, and fellowships from the MacDowell Colony and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. While working full time as an art restorer, she has doggedly pursued her art practice for over four decades, exhibiting widely in this country, Europe, Australia and Japan.
Solo venues include Tobey Fine Arts, Melville House and Wagner College in New York City. Group exhibition venues include MoMA PS1, the Hudson River Museum, New Jersey Center for the Visual Arts, Sydney Contemporary Project Space, Alfred University, the National Arts Club, CB1 Gallery, McKenzie Gallery, Transmitter Gallery and Deanna Evans Projects. Last year, she collaborated with choreographer Julia Gleick, creating a set for a new dance piece, "See Through", as part of the Counterpoint series, sponsored by Norte Maar, at the Actors Fund Art Center in NY.

Karen Schifano’s work was recently featured in Lula Japan, Issue #7, and included in New American Painting, #134, Northeast Edition. She was elected to membership in American Abstract Artists in 2018.

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