Curriculum vitae
Born: Ridgewood, New Jersey, 1955
BFA Painting, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
GALLERY REPRESENTATIOn
Rebecca Hossack Gallery, London, UK
Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2024,25
Sea Change: The Art of Karen Hackenberg, NW Perspectives series, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2023
Karen Hackenberg: EcoArt, Peninsula College PUB Gallery, Port Angeles, WA
2018
Karen Hackenberg: Artist As Activist, Port Townsend School of the Arts, Art Experience Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
Karen Hackenberg: Watershed and Divining Line, Esvelt Gallery, Columbia Basin College, Pasco, WA
2017
Karen Hackenberg, Helen S. Smith Gallery, Green River Community College, Auburn, WA
2016
Oil and Water, Smith and Vallee Gallery, Edison, WA
2015
Karen Hackenberg: Watershed, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
2014
On the Beach, Skagit Valley College Art Gallery, Mount Vernon, WA
2013
Watershed, Paper Hammer Gallery, Seattle, WA
2012
Strand, Shoreline Community College Gallery, Shoreline, WA
The Art of Karen Hackenberg, Bainbridge Arts and Crafts Gallery, Bainbridge Island, WA
2011
Watershed, Vermillion Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2009
Divining Line, The Gallery at OK Hotel, Seattle, WA
SELECTED TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2026
Chop Wood, Carry Water: Karen Hackenberg and Michael Brophy, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA (Greg Bell-curator)
2017
Karen Hackenberg and Michael Felber, Aljoya at Thornton Place, Seattle, WA
2014
Salish Stories, Simon Mace Gallery, Port Townsend, WA
2011
Material World, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2025
Affordable Art Fair, NY, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Starrett-Lehigh Building, New York, NY
Seattle Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Lumen Field Event Center, Seattle, WA
Celebrate Art! 33rd Annual Group Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle WA
Arboreal, Wabash Project, Mount Vernon, WA
Creativity for the Climate, Earth Creative, Washington Athletic Club, Seattle WA
2024
Art Toronto, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, CA
Ecology of Freedom, ecoartspace, Crow’s Nest Gallery, Baltimore, MD
Affordable Art Fair Singapore, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, F1 Pit Building, Singapore
Celebrate Art!, 32nd Annual Group Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Hyperrealists, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA Seattle Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Seattle
Environmental Impact II, The Detroit Zoo, Royal Oak, MI; The Art Center, Quincy, IL; National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson, WY
S.F. Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Fort Mason Festival Pavilion, San Francisco, CA
The Call of the Environment: Virtual Art Exhibition, Tübitak Scientists Student Support Program, Kirikkale University, Turkey
Affordable Art Fair, HK, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Hong Kong Convention and Exhibition Center, Wan Chai, Hong Kong
Affordable Art Fair, NY, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, New York
L.A. Art Fair, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, L.A. Convention Center, Los Angeles, CA
2023
Art Toronto, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Metro Toronto Convention Centre, Toronto, CA
Art Market SF, Rebecca Hossack Gallery, Fort Mason Center, San Francisco, CA
Surge: Transition, Displacement, and Agency in Times of Climate Change, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Some Kind of Nature, F O M A, Guadalupe Center, Santa Fe, NM
Exploring the Edge, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
Honoring People and Salmon, Patagonia Clothing Co., Seattle, WA
Honoring People and Salmon, Kittredge Gallery, University of Puget Sound, Tacoma, WA
Environmental Impact II, Rosemary Berke & Harry L. Crisp II Museum, Southeast Missouri State University, Cape Girardeau, Missouri, USA; Alexandria Museum of Art, Louisiana State University, Alexandria, Louisiana, USA; The Detroit Zoo, Royal Oak, Michigan, USA
Celebrate Art!, 31st Annual Group Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2022
Seattle Art Fair, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Red, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
The Artist’s Eye, Era Living, Seattle, WA
Environmental Impact II, The Robert Bateman Centre, Victoria Harbour Steamship Terminal Building, Victoria, British Columbia, Canada; Dennos Museum Center, Northwestern Michigan College, Traverse City, Michigan, USA; Rosemary Berke & Harry L. Crisp II Museum, SMSU, Cape Girardeau, MO
Celebrate Art!, 30th Annual Group Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2021
Extinction: Save the Planet, online, Ontario, Canada
Women Artist Making Their Mark, O’Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA
New Editions – original prints, Indianapolis Art Center, Indianapolis, IL
The Art of Recycling: Repurpose with a Purpose, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
Environmental Impact II, Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS; Museum of The Rockies, Montana State University, Bozeman, MT
Celebrate Art!, 29th Annual Group Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2020
Environmental Impact II, The North Carolina Arboretum, Asheville, NC; Sternberg Museum of Natural History, Fort Hays State University, Hays, KS
Celebrate Art!, 28th Annual Group Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
2019
Environmental Impact II, The James Museum, St. Petersburg, FL
Celebrate Art: 27th Annual Group Exhibition, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Fair, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Motherland: 2019 CoCA Members’ Show, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
We Love Vermillion, Vermillion Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2018
Celebrate Art: 26 Years, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Seattle Art Fair, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Home, Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
2017
Celebrate Art: 25 Years, Patricia Rovzar Gallery, Seattle, WA
Out of Sight, Seattle Art Fair/Vital 5 Productions, Seattle, WA
2016
Northwest Art Now @ TAM, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Environmental Impact I, Stauth Memorial Museum, Montezuma, KS; St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
Pop Up (AR)t, Mini Maker Faire, Experience Music Project, Seattle, WA
Title/Tidal: Artist Books and Water, Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2015
Stilleven: Contemporary Still Life, Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Willamette University, Salem, OR
Neo-Naturalist, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Environmental Impact I, University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA; Brookgreen Gardens, Murrells Inlet, SC; The Art Museum, SUNY Potsdam, Potsdam, NY
Footing the Bill: Art and Our Ecological Footprint, Art Works for Change, Mill Valley, CA
Surge, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
10x10x10xTieton, Mighty Tieton Warehouse, Tieton, WA
2014
Sustaining, Abmeyer + Wood Gallery, Seattle, WA
Environmental Impact I, Peninsula Fine Arts Center, Newport News, VA; Erie Art Museum, Erie, PA; Roger Tory Peterson
Institute, Jamestown, NY; Kalamazoo Institute of Arts, Kalamazoo, MI
2013
10x10x10xTieton, Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton, WA
The Meaning of Wood, Rose Center for the Arts, Lower Columbia College, Longview, WA
2012
Beneath the Surface: Rediscovering a World Worth Conserving, A.A.A.S. Headquarters, Washington, D.C.
Positive/Negative 27: Material Transformation, Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN
Politicizing Aesthetics, John A. Day Gallery, University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD
Celebration of Washington Artists, Artist Trust, Washington State Convention Center, Seattle, WA 2011
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: The Art of Being Green, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Fate of the Forest, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham, WA
18th Juried Northwest Biennial, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
Back Country, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2011
From Ordinary to Extraordinary: the Art of Being Green, Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, PA
Fate of the Forest, Whatcom Art Museum, Bellingham, WA
18th Juried Northwest Biennial, Schack Art Center, Everett, WA
Back Country, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2010
10x10x10xTieton, Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton, WA
Green: On the Edge, IMA Museum, Friday Harbor, WA
Safe Harbor, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
Envision Cascadia! Washington State Department of Ecology, Olympia, WA
2009
Strait Art, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2008
Focus on Nature X, New York State Museum, Albany, NY
NuArt ’08, Art at the Port, Anacortes, WA
2007
Expressions Northwest, Northwind Art Center, Port Townsend, WA
Home is Where the HeArt Is, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2006
Then and Now: Collectors and Their Artists, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA
2005
Culture and Agriculture, New Visions Museum Gallery, Marshfield, WI
Emergent: New Directions in Sustainable Art & Design, Woods Gerry Gallery, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI
Glimpses of Life, ArtsWest Gallery, Seattle, WA
2004
Architectural Detail, Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA
2003
The American Landscape, Clark House Gallery, Bangor, ME
(Carl Little-Juror) Choose Hope, Seattle Culture Center, Seattle, WA
Art Port Townsend, NW Regional Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA (Greg Bell-Juror)
HomeLand, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA (Jake Seniuk-Curator)
Treasures of the Heart, Fountainhead Gallery, Seattle, WA
Different Strokes, Northwind Arts Center, Port Townsend, WA (Jake Seniuk-Juror)
2002
Choose Hope, Seattle Culture Center, Seattle, WA
Art Port Townsend, NW Regional Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA (Jim McDonald, Juror)
Art from the City of Dreams, University House, Seattle, WA (LaMar Harrington-Curator)
Seattle Dream Show, Jefferson Arts Alliance, Port Townsend, WA (LaMar Harrington-Curator)
1999
Quimper Arts Exhibition, Wooden Boat Festival, Port Townsend, WA
Art Port Townsend, Open Studio Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
Quimper Arts Exhibition, Jefferson County Fairground, Port Townsend, WA
1978
Emergence, Woods Gerry Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
Two Women: Anna Flores-Jenkins & Karen Hackenberg, Bank Building Gallery, RISD, Providence, RI
PUBLIC ART
2022
I AM WATER, ecoartspace/Our Humanity Matters billboard exhibition, Greenpoint, Brooklyn, NY
2018
King County Portable Works Collection, Seattle, WA
2015
Surge, Welcome to the Plastisphere installation, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
Washington State Art Collection, Peninsula College, Port Angeles, WA
2011
Tower Art Program, Painting Commission, Providence Medical Center, Everett, WA
Art Outside, Sculpture Installation, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
AWARDS
2024
Tacoma Art Museum, Northwest Perspectives solo show award
2017
USA Fellowship Nominee, United States Artists, Chicago, IL
James W. Ray Distinguished Artist Nominee, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
2016
Purchase Award, NW Art Now, Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
2014
Nomination: Contemporary Northwest Art Awards, Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
2013
Excellence Award, Jake Seniuk, Environments Exhibition, Art at the Port, Anacortes, WA
Juror Award, Justin Gibbons, Linda Tesner, 10x10x10xTieton Exhibition, Mighty Tieton Gallery, Tieton, WA
2011
Grants for Artist Projects (GAP), Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
Best of Seattle Art Walk Award Finalist, Vermillion Gallery Exhibition, City Arts Magazine, Seattle, WA
Juror Award, People’s Choice Award, Rock Hushka, Couplings Exhibition, Gallery 110, Seattle, WA
Special Juror Award, Rock Hushka, Expressions Northwest Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
Special Award, Gary Faigin, Expressions Northwest Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
2010
Best of Show, 2D, Esther Luttikhuizen, Next Exhibition, Arts at the Port, Anacortes, WA
2008
First Place, 2D, Susan Parke, CVG Show, Bremerton, WA
Juror Award, K.C. Potter de Haan, About Face Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
2006
Juror Award, Susan Parke, Expressions Northwest Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
2005
Juror Award, Esther Luttikhuizen, Expressions Northwest Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
Special Juror Award, Jake Seniuk, Expressions Northwest Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
Juror Award, Greg Bell, Art Port Townsend Exhibition, Port Townsend, WA
RESIDENCIES
2018
Visiting Artist Residency, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
2016,18
Artist in Residence, Chalk Hill Artist Residency, Healdsburg, CA
2013,14
Artist in Residence, IslandWood, Bainbridge Island, WA
2003,10
Centrum Creative Arts Residency, Centrum at Fort Worden, Port Townsend, WA
2010
Open to the Elements Residency with Rotterdam’s Observatorium, Headlands Center for the Arts, Fort Barry, CA
BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Women’s Talks on the Role of Art and Activism - Karen Hackenberg & Nicole Dextras,” UN House Scotland, Climate and Gender Podcast, Dec., 2021
Hackenberg, Karen. “Viral Transformation,” Covid Diaries, The MAHB Blog, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. April, 2021
“The Inspired Woman,” Marc Cain Customer Magazine, Bodelshausen, Spring – Summer, 2020
Sefton, Nancy. “The Great Blue Heron,” Salish Magazine, Winter, 2019
Fortmann, Sven. “Heart Still Beating,” Lodown Magazine, Berlin, October – December, 2019
Martin, Megan. “Artist Karen Hackenberg’s New Book is a Pop Art Take on Environmental Apocalypse,” BlackBook, 23 August, 2019
Hamada, Jeff. “Artist Spotlight: Karen Hackenberg,” Booooooom, Vancouver, B.C., 19, July 2019
Craft, Kevin. “Karen Hackenberg,” Poetry Northwest, Volume XIII, Issue 2, Winter & Spring 2019, Everett, WA, 15 January 2019
Mooney, Christopher. “The Second Coming,” Karen Hackenberg Monograph, Amsterdam, 20 July 2018
Van Der Linden, Riet. “The Aesthetic of Pollution,” Karen Hackenberg Monograph, Amsterdam, 20 July 2018
Charlesworth, Ellen. “Karen Hackenberg on Art and Ecology in America Today”, The Courtauldian, London, 16 July 2017
Foster, Margaret. “Karen Hackenberg: Divine Detritus,” The American Scholar, 10 April 2017
Phillips, Renee. “Karen Hackenberg Raises Awareness with Her ‘Watershed’ Series,” The Healing Power of Art & Artists, April 2017
Hackenberg, Karen. “The Unshakable Habit of Noticing.” The MAHB Blog, Stanford University, Stanford, CA. April 2016
Zemtsova, Masha. “Karen Hackenberg.” Art Maze Magazine. February 2017: 90-91
Popova, Ekaterina. “Karen Hackenberg,” Fresh Paint Magazine, February 2016: 68-69
Freeman, Ray C. Pop (AR)t Catalog. Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 2016
Zekan, Marta. “ArtTalk with Gary Faigin,” King 5 FM Arts Channel, Bainbridge Island, WA, 18 June 2015
Richard Chang, “One Man’s Trash is Another Man’s Treasure.” Artvoices Magazine, Summer 2015
Silander, Lisa. “Trashed,” RISD xyz, Spring/Summer 2014:10
Upchurch, Michael. “Bainbridge Island Museum of Art; Something for Every Taste.” The Seattle Times. 2 August 2013: E27
Upchurch, Michael. “‘Contained’: Art show displays revealing receptacles”. The Seattle Times. 7 March 2012: B5
Marquand, Ed. 10x10x10xTieton Catalog, Tieton, WA, 2013
Rooney, E. Ashley.100 Northwest Artists. Schiffer Publishing, Lexington, MA, 2013
“Karen Hackenberg at Bainbridge Arts and Crafts,” Seattle Weekly. October 31–November 6 2012: 24
Erazmus, Alison. Politicizing Aesthetics Catalog. University of South Dakota, Vermillion, SD, 2012
Marquand, Ed. Mighty Tieton Chandelier Festival Catalog. Tieton, WA, 2011
Seniuk, Jake. “Back Country.” On Center. XXIII.3 (2011) 1–2
Meyer, Kathie. “Plastic, plastic, everywhere,” Port Townsend & Jefferson County Leader. 9 June 2010: This Week: 1, 6, 7
Seniuk, Jake. “In Search of Safe Harbor.” On Center. XXII.4 (2010) 1–3
Seniuk, Jake. “Art Outside.” On Center. XXII.4 (2010) 1, 4
Zevitas, Steven. Studio Visit Magazine. Open Studios Press: Boston, MA Volume 10, 2010
Berger, Knute. “Utopia: Are We There Yet?” Crosscut. 9 September 2009
Kernan, Patricia. Focus on Nature X Catalog. Albany, NY: New York State Museum, 2008
Miller, Brian. “Barn Yearns.” Seattle Weekly. 17–23 December 2008: 19–22
RELATED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2013-16
Panel, Exhibiting Artists, Environmental Impact Exhibition, St. Mary’s College Museum of Art, Moraga, CA
2015
Panel, Exhibiting Artists and NOAA scientists, Neo-Naturalist Exhibition, Museum of Northwest Art, La Conner, WA
2014
Instructor, IslandWood, Bainbridge Island, WA
2014
Juror / Curator, Art Convergence, Regional Exhibition, Port Angeles Fine Arts Center, Port Angeles, WA
2013
Studium Generale Lecturer, Peninsula College, Seattle, WA
2012-13
Painting Instructor, Gage Academy of Art, Seattle, WA
2012
Lecturer Edge Professional Development Program, Artist Trust, Seattle, WA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Paul Allen Family Collection, Seattle, WA
Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA
Portland Art Museum, Portland, OR
Hallie Ford Museum of Art, Salem, OR
U.C. Berkeley, Environmental Design Library, Berkeley, CA
Carnegie Mellon University Library, Rare Books, Pittsburgh, PA,
Washington State Art Collection, Peninsula College, Port Angeles and Port Townsend, WA
Bainbridge Island Museum of Art, Bainbridge Island, WA
New York State Museum, Albany, NY
Providence Medical Center, Everett, WA