Karen Fiorito
San Diego, USA
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Karen Fiorito is an activist, artist, and curator residing in California. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and featured in major publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, Art Forum, and ArtNews and featured in such books as American Women Artists in Wartime, Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today, and The Design of Dissent. Fiorito has received grants from Change, Inc., the Puffin Foundation, the Pollination Project, A Well-Fed World, and LUSH Cosmetics for her public art projects.
She is also a curator of many art exhibitions, including Evolution/Revolution: The Interconnectedness of All Beings (2011), Indivisible: United We Stand, Divided We Fall (2020), and The Absent Referent (2022).
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the U.S. Forest Service, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, and Self Help Graphics. She holds a M.F.A. from Arizona State University and a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is a member of the California Society of Printmakers, The Artists’ Gallery (TAG), and the Los Angeles Art Association. She is also the President of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society and on the Board of Directors of The Artists’ Gallery (TAG).
Karen is available for commissions.