SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS AND PROJECTS

2025 Karen Gelardi Pop Up, Over Here, Thompson’s Point (upcoming)

2024 Basemap + Sidewalk, Interloc, Thomaston, ME

2022 Shape Symmetry & Sun, Interloc, Thomaston, ME

2021 Posted, Sidewalk Project Space, South Portland, ME

2020 Posted, Sidewalk Project Space, South Portland, ME

2019 Helicase, Interloc, Rockland, ME

2014 Standard, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2014 Standard, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME

2012 New Factories, Artist Intervention at Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2011 Assembly: A Collaborative Textile Project, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2011 In the Outside, 37-A Gallery, Portland, ME

2010 Banners, Perimeter Gallery, Belfast, ME

2008 Terrarium: New Work by Karen Gelardi, 301 Gallery, Beverly, MA

2008 Components & Assemblies, Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery, Unity, ME

2007 Karen Gelardi: Thicket, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2007 Saco Bog, Front Room Gallery, South Portland, ME

2004 Karen Gelardi: Drawings, The Map Room, Portland, ME

2002 Obsession with Pinecones, Ferdinand, Portland, ME

1998 Striking Matches, Hinge Gallery, Portland, ME

SELECTED TWO-PERSON AND GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2023 Seeking Light, University of New England Art Gallery, Biddeford, ME (upcoming)

2023 Art PM, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, Maine (upcoming)

2023 Euphoria, curated by Rachel and Ryan Adams, Alice Gauvin Gallery, Portland, ME

2022 Sidewalk Garden: KG + CS, Sidewalk Project Space, Portland, Maine

2022 Art PM, Buoy Gallery, Kittery, Maine

2021 Sidewalk Garden: KG + MB, Sidewalk Project Space, Portland, Maine

2020 Work Play Money Love What It Is What It Could Be Both, Northern-Southern, Austin, TX

2019 Swimming, Northern-Southern, Austin, TX

2017 Alex Ebstein + Karen Gelardi, Steelhouse Projects, Rockland, ME

2017 SeeSaw: Karen Gelardi and Anna Hepler, Perimeter Gallery and Waterfall Arts, Belfast, ME

2016 You Yes You, Able Baker Contemporary, Portland, ME

2016 The Big Picture, 3S Art Space, Portsmouth, NH

2015 Printers Proof, Wingate Studio at 30, Boston University’s Stone Gallery, Boston, MA

2015 Swimming, Northern-Southern, Austin, TX

2015 Some Assembly Required, Curator Gallery, New York, NY

2013 Hawk & Handsaw, Center for Maine Contemporary Art, Rockport, ME

2013 Surface Tension, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2012 Works on Paper, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2012 Free for All, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2011 We Believe in Everything, Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery, Unity, ME

2010 New Paintings + New Factories, Coleman Burke Gallery, New York, NY

2008 Sustain, Leonard R. Craig Art Gallery, Unity, ME

2008 The Crossing of Time & Environment Micro-Installations, Toshei Village, Taiwan

2008 Matter, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2007 Forever Home, Little Cakes Gallery, New York, NY

2006 The Arts Formally Known as Prints, SPACE Gallery, Portland, ME

2006 Exquisite Corpses, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Bowdoin, ME

2005 Long Overdue/Book Renewal Project, Portland Public Library, Portland, ME

ARTIST ENTERPRISES

2009-2015
Contributing Artist: New Factories
Freehand Chicago, Chicago, IL

2010-11
Contributing Artist: Andrea Zittel's Panelshop
Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA
High Desert Test Site Headquarters, Joshua Tree, CA
Mount Fuji General Store Pop-Up, Ace Hotel, Palm Springs, CA
Amy & Wendy Yao’s Swapmeet, Yucca Valley, CA
Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME

2007- 10
Contributing artist: Andrea Zittel's Smockshop
Sprüth Magers, London and Berlin
Tanja Pol Galerie, Munich
The Suburban, Chicago, IL
Regen Projects, Los Angeles, CA

HONORS

2024 Maine Craft Artist Award, Maine Crafts Association

2023 Surf Point, Artist Residency, York, ME

2013 Hewnoaks, Artist Residency, Lovell, ME

2012 Portland Museum of Art, Artist Intervention Team, Portland, ME

2011 Emerging Artist Award, St. Botolph Club Foundation

2011 Bowdoin College, Visiting Critic, Brunswick, ME

2011 Quimby Colony, Artist Residency, Portland, ME

2011 University of Southern Maine, Visiting Lecturer, Portland, ME

2011 Percent for Art Commission, Gorham Elementary School, Gorham, ME

2010 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission

2008 Montserrat College of Art, Visiting Lecturer: Beverly, MA

2008 Unity College, Visiting Lecturer, Unity, ME

2008 Maine College of Art, Visiting Lecturer, Portland, ME

2007 Good Idea Grant, Maine Arts Commission

PRINT EDITIONS & PUBLICATIONS

2017 SeeSaw Volume 2, Artist zine funded by Berkshire Taconic Foundation

2017 SeeSaw Volume 1, Artist zine funded by Berkshire Taconic Foundation

2014 Interview with Space Gallery

2010 Constructions, Limited edition etchings published by Wingate Studio

2008 Hawk & Handsaw, No. 1, Journal of Creative Sustainability

2008 Volume One, Lines & Shapes/Artist Series

2007 Saco Bog, Exhibition catalog

2004 Map Room Exhibit No. 5, Exhibition catalog

2002 An Obsession with Pinecones, Limited edition letterpress prints with David Wolfe Editions

BIBLIOGRAPHY

Anulfo Baez, Wingate Studio at 30, The Evolving Critic, November 6, 2015

Daniel Kany, Review: Show is hip, elegant, and conceptually edgy, Maine Sunday Telegram, May 12, 2013

Annie Larmon, Review: Karen Gelardi’s ‘botanical propaganda’ at Perimeter Gallery, Boston Phoenix, Portland Phoenix, September 1, 2010

Peter Smith, An Emerging Shape-Shifter, Port City Life, May/June, 2009

Justin Ellis, Artist draws from industrial process, Portland Press Herald, October 26, 2007

Ian Paige, Pattern Language, Portland Phoenix, June 22, 2007

Lauren Fensterstock, The Maine Print Project, Art New England, Cover, January, 2007

Allen Baldwin, Pinecone Revolution, Casco Bay Weekly, October 3, 2002

EDUCATION

1989 BFA, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI

1988 European Honors Program, Rhode Island School of Design, Rome, Italy

1984 Parson’s School of Design Summer Program, Sireiul and Paris, France