KARSEN HEAGLE

Born in Tomah, Wisconsin 
MFA, Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, 1995
BFA, University of Wisconsin-Stout, Menomonie, Wisconsin, 1990
Skowhegan, Maine, 1997

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2019  Invocations, Sargent's Daughters, New York City
2017  Beat with Kate Gilmore, On Stellar Rays, New York City
2013  Battle Armor, Churner and Churner, New York City
2011  Let Nature Take Its Course and Hope It Passes, I-20 Gallery, New York
2008 She’ll Get Hers, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2006  Strictly Naturals, I-20 Gallery, New York
2003 Fierce, 31GRAND, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York           
2001 Puritans, Perverts, and Feminists, 31GRAND, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York

GROUP EXHIBITIONS:

2025
Savage Wonder, Pop-up Space, Tribeca, NYC
Bodysnatchers, Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, NYC

2024
Folk Modern, Monya Rowe Gallery, NYC. June 20
Riveting: Woman Artists from the Sara and Michelle
Vance Wadell Collection. Dayton Art Institute, Dayton, OH 
Animals, curated by Meagan Kent and Charles Jackson Adkins,  Art and Cultural Center, Hollywood, Florida 
Winter’s Long Embrace, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Kinderhook, NY 

2023
Of a Feather, 100 Lagoon Pond, Martha’s Vineyard, MA

2022
Hekate’s Grove, with Kay Turner, Elizabeth Insogna, Five Myles, Brooklyn, NY

2021
Strange Nature, with Nancy Mladenoff, Peep Projects, Philadelphia.
In and Out and Round and Round, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA.
Interviews on, for, and about the queer body, curated by Eric Shiner, Hook Art.
Animal Nitrate, Bill Arning Exhibitions, Houston, TX

2020
Reflections of... Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA

 2019
Fatales Femme, The Bunker Art Space, West Palm Beach, FL

 2018
Head2Head, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA
Cast of Characters, Bureau of General Services: Queer Division, LGBT Center, NYC curated by Liz Collins

 2017
The World Without Us, Brennan and Griffin Gallery, New York City
The Objectness of Paper, Albert Merola Gallery, Provincetown, MA curated by Richard Tinkler.
Found: Queerness as Archeology; Queerness as Abstraction, The Leslie-Lohman Museum, curated by Avram Finkelstein, New York City

2013 
Paper, The Saatchi Gallery, London.
 I Killed My Father, I Ate Human Flesh, I Quiver with Joy: A Pasolini Obsession, curated by Benjamin Tischer and Risa Needleman, Allegra La Viola Gallery, New York 

2012
Art on Paper Biennial, Weatherspoon Museum of Art, Greensboro, NC
The Mutable Portrait, curated by Jacob Robichaux, Clifford Chance, New York

2010
Lush Life 3: First Birds (A Few Butterflies), curated by Franklin Evans, Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Invisible Exports, New York.

2007
Panic Room: Selections from Dakis Joannou Works on Paper Collection, Deste Foundation, Athens, Greece.

2004
Armory Art Show 2004, Daniel Reich Gallery, New York.

2003
Now Playing, curated by John Connelly, D’amelio Terras, New York
Girls Gone Wild, curated by Katherine Bernhardt, Bronwyn Keenan, New York

SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY:
Soboleva, Ksenia. “Hekate’s Grove” review. The Brooklyn Rail, November 2022.
Adelaide Razdow, Kari, "10 Contemporary Artists to Get to Know,” NYLON (October 4, 2019)
Jovanovich, Alex. "The World Without Us," Critics Pick: Artforum.com (August 2017) 
Cotter, Holland. "Art Once Shunned, Now Celebrated in Found: Queer Archeology, Queer Abstraction," The New York Times, (August 25, 2017 Page C 11)
Haynes, Clarity. “How We Got Here: Portrait of the Artist as a Queer Feminist,” Hyperallergic (March 24, 2015) 
Smith, Roberta. “Karen Heagle: Let Nature Take Its Course and Hope It Passes,” The New York Times (October 28, 2011): C32. 
Cotter, Holland. “Lower East Side Tale, Refracted Nine Times,”The New York Times, July 8, 2010.
Walleston, Aimee. “Costume Change/ Jimmy Paul,” The Moment Blog, Nytimes.com. July 2009.
Finklestein, Avram. “Art, History,” Pride 09, June 2009.
Rosenberg, Susan. ”Karen Heagle.” Review. Art In America, April 2009.
Karen Heagle. The New Yorker, November 25, 2008 4.
Salisbury, Brittany. Karen Heagle. Arforum.com, artform.com/picks/section=nyc#21486
Smith, Roberta “Chelsea is a Battlefield: Galleries Muster Groups”, New York Times, July 28, 2006
Smith, Roberta. Girls Gone Wild, New York Times, July 4, 2003, p. 31
Saltz, Jerry. Something Wild, Village Voice, Dec. 25, 2001, p. 73

PUBLICATIONS:
Harris, Jane Ursula. “The Predatory and the Transcendent,” Invocations: Exhibition Catalogue. Sargent’s Daughters. 2020.
Rattemeyer, Christian. The Judith Rothschild Foundation Contemporary Drawings Collection: Catalogue Raisonne. 2009.
Panic Room: Selections from The Dakis Joannou Works on Paper Collection. Published by Deitch Projects. 2007.
Wacks, Debra. Smirk: Woman Art Humor. Catalogue

AWARDS:
Peter Reed Foundation Grant 2022

COLLECTIONS:
Contemporary Prints and Drawings Collection: Museum of Modern Art, New York City
Deste Foundation of Contemporary Art, Dakis Joannou Collection, Athens, Greece
Fundacion/Coleccion Jumex, Mexico City