KAREN HAMPTON
CV
EDUCATION
1992 BA, New College of California, San Francisco, CA
2000 MFA, UC Davis, Davis, CA
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Dots In The Universe, Kouri + Corrao, Santa Fe, NM
2022 Origins, Crisp-Ellert Art Museum, St. Augustine, Florida
2018 The Light of Freedom, Carrington Art Gallery, Sandusky, OH
2018 WATER, Puerto Rico ...Flint, is a human right, Michigan State University Union Art Gallery, East Lansing, MI
2016 Karen Hampton: The Journey North, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
2016 Abolitionist Tale, Jack Bell Gallery, St. James, London, England
2015 Karen Hampton: The Journey North, Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art Hamilton College, Clinton, NY
2005 Material Matters: Three: Masterful Approaches to Fiber Textiles, Wood and Glass, Museum of Craft and Folk Art, San Francisco, CA
2004 Family Stories: The Printed Quilts of Karen Hampton, Thomasville Community Center, Thomasville, Georgia
2002 Memories, College of Marin, Kentfield, CA
2000 The Plantation Yard, Thesis Show Art Foundry Gallery, Sacramento CA
2000 Karen Hampton, Design Gallery, UC Davis, Davis CA (currently known as Design Museum)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Opening Exhibition galleryFRITZ, Santa Fe, NM
2017 Made in Cotton, California State University, Domingues Hills, Los Angeles, CA
Crossing Generations, Hoffman Gallery, Oregon College of Art, Portland, CA
Material Connections, Jane Lombard Gallery, NYC, NY
Women Art & Fiber, Contemporary Responses to Abolition and the Underground Railroad University of Massachusetts-Dartmouth, Dartmouth, MA
2016 Made In Cotton LA ArtCore, Los Angeles, CA
The Art of the Story, American Jewish University, Los Angeles, CA
2012-2015 Innovators &. Legends, Muskegon Museum of Art, Muskegon, MI; Schweinfurth Memorial Art
Center, Auburn, NY; University of Kentucky, Lexington, KY; Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO; Figge Art Museum; Davenport, IA
108 Contemporary Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2011 Intimate Stitches, FiberPhiladelphia, Philadelphia, PA
The Sky’s the Limit, Gateway Art Center, Mount Rainier, MD
Invisible Lineage, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, San Jose, CA
2008-12 Howard University Faculty Show, Washington,DC
2007 Conscious Concepts, Baulines Craft Guild, Master Annual Artworks Downtown Gallery, San Rafael, CA
“Breaking Ice: Bay Area Artists Consider the African Diaspora" SF Artworks Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Close Calls, Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA
2006 By the Hand: A National Juried Exhibition Traditional and Innovative Craft, Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA 2002 Looming Large - Contemporary Weavers of the Vanguard Bedford Gallery, Walnut Creek, CA
2002 California Design 2002, San Francisco. CA
2001 BEYOND THREAD - (a) mending social thought, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2000 Fiber 2000: Indigo-Bridging Cultures, Chicago, IL
1997 Reflections In Time, CVA Gallery, Oakland CA
1995 The Seeing Soul, Bay Area African American Artists, Oakland Museum Collectors Gallery, Oakland, CA
Odun de, Odun de, California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, CA (now California College of the Arts)
1994 African – American Craft National, Louisville, Kentucky
AWARDS AND COMMISSIONS
2015 Acquistion: Ruth and Elmer Wellin Museum of Art, Hamilton College, Clinton, NY Instituto Sacatar Fellowship, Salvador, Bahia, Brazil
International Residency/ Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles, CA
2011 Purchase Award Prince George’s County Parks & Planning, Prince George's County, MD
2008 Eureka Fellowship Fleishhacker Foundation, San Francisco, CA
Career Development Grant Marin Arts Council, Marin County, CA
2000 Ellen Hansen Prize, UC Davis, Davis CA For Artwork addressing issues of Bravery and Independence in Women
1999 Jastro Shield Research Fellowship, UC Davis, Davis CA “African American Women Weavers during Slavery"
LECTURES: HISTORICAL NARRATIVE TEXTILES
2012 Harriet Tubman Underground Rail
ARTICLES AND INTERVIEWS
Liz Logan, “Social Fabric” American Craft Magazine, February / March, vol 76 no.1 2015
Dickerson, Danielle. “Storytelling Through Textiles.” Surface Design Journal, Fall 2015
Coker, Gylbert. “A Textile Artist's Historical and Anthropological Mission” The International Review of African American Art, vol. 26, no. 1, Fall 2011
KPFA Radio, Kate Rafael – Women’s Magazine, December 19, 2011 HTTP://www.kpfa.org/archive/id/76174 2009
Hampton Highlights, From Black and White to Full Color, Third Symposium on Slavery 2008
FIBERARTS, Fleishhacker Award 2008
Textile Arts Council Announcements 2006
Marin Independent Journal, Masters and their Proteges, Marin Arts Council 2005 Museum of Craft and Folk Art Report, January - February 2008
Material Matters 2005 Artweek
Material Matters 2003 FIBERARTS
Looming Large: Contemporary Weavers of the Vanguard, Victoria Alba, 2003
Surface Design Journal, Beyond Thread 2002 Diablo Arts, What Wondrous Webs They Weave Looming Large Anna Novakov, 2002
Marin Independent Journal Weaving Stories, Jason Walsh, 2002 http://www.fiberscene.com/galleries/gallery4.html
Bay Area Graduates – MFA 2000 2002 Davis Enterprise
Textile exhibition Fills Sacramento gallery, Elisabeth Sherwin, 2002
Echo Times, Karen Hampton, Master Weaver, teaches at COM Leslie Chappelle, July-August 2005