KAREN KILIMNIK

In the mid-1980s and early 1990s, beginning with a group show at Colin de Land’s American Fine Arts Co, and followed by many exhibitions at 303 Gallery, she presented a series of shows featuring paintings, photographs, drawings, sculptures, and films, arranged throughout the gallery spaces. Kilimnik’s paintings of portraits, landscapes, houses, interiors, animals, and scenes from ballet reflect mythology, femininity, historical and fictional themes, rendered through confident, loose brushwork.

Kilimnik, born and raised in Philadelphia, studied at Temple University. Her work has been included in major exhibitions at Kunsthaus Glarus (2023), Le Consortium, Dijon (2013, 2007), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver (2013), The Brant Foundation, Greenwich (2012), the Belvedere Museum, Vienna (2010), the Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago (2008), the Serpentine Gallery, London (2007), the Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami (2007), the Musée d’Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris (2006), the Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa, Venice (2005), Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin (2002) and the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia (1992). Major group exhibitions include the Fondation Vincent van Gogh Arles, Arles (2024), Fondazione Prada, Milano (2021), Haus Mödrath, Kerpen (2020), the Carnegie International, 57th Edition in Pittsburgh (2018), the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016, 2008, 1993), the Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2015, 2010), Le Grand Palais, Paris (2013), the Tate Modern, London (2012), the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York (2012), the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven and the MOMA PS1, New York (both 2006), the Museum of Modern Art, New York (2005, 2001, 1999), the Institute of Contemporary Art, London (1997), and the Secession, Vienna (1994). In 2011, Kilimnik created a stage scenery for Alexei Ratmansky’s ballet “Psyché” at the Opéra National de Paris.

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