Karen Silve
Contemporary Painter
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About Karen: American Abstract Artist

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KAREN SILVE

Curriculum Vitae:

Solo Exhibitions

2025  Passages, Rediscovering my Roots, Galerie Domnine, The Culture Department of Sisteron (Aug.)
2025  Pathways, Rediscovering my Roots, Calloway Fine Art and Consulting, Washington DC (May)
2023 The Sea and Shore— Finding Balance, Calloway Fine Art and Consulting, Washington DC
2021 Rejuvenation: My Bouquet, Calloway Fine Art and Consulting, Washington DC
2019 Transitions, Calloway Fine Art and Consulting, Washington DC
2018 Conversations, CYNTHIA-REEVES, The Barn, Walpole, NH 
2017 Beijing Trees, Susan Calloway Fine Art, Washington DC 
2015 Contemporary Abstractions from the Pacific Northwest, Knight Webb Gallery, London
2015 Memories: The In-Between, Susan Calloway Fine Art, Washington DC
2013 Found Meditations, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2012 Synaesthetic Impressions, Susan Calloway Fine Arts, Washington DC
2011 Synaesthetic Impressions, Texas A&M University, MSC Forsyth Center Gallery
2011 Within Nature, Visual Art Center of Northwest Florida
2011 Karen Silve, Gallery KH, Chicago, IL
2010 Karen Silve, West Linn Public Library, West Linn, OR
2007 Karen Silve, Hunter Kirkland Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Karen Silve, New Works, Lawrence Gallery, Salishan, OR
2006 A New Look at the Cellist, Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR
2005 Karen Silve, Exhibition at the Portland Center for the Performing Arts - OR
2005 Karen Silve, New Works, Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 New Works Inspired by Music, Lawrence Gallery, Portland, OR
2004 Karen Silve, Gallery Oscar, Sun Valley, ID
2003 Les Violoncellistes, Roche Bobois, Portland, OR
2003 Fresh Paint, Belinki & Duprey Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2002 Musician Series, Belinki & Duprey Art Gallery, Portland, OR

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 Personal Structures, Venice Art Biennial, European Cultural Center, Venice Italy
2022 Madison Avenue Gallery Walk presented by ArtNews. Hubert Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Summer Group Show, Hubert Gallery, New York, NY
2022 Abstractions, Calloway Fine Art & Consulting, Washington DC
2021 2019-2021 Art in Embassies - Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei
2019 Summer Interlude: A Celebration of Color, Calloway Fine Art and Consulting, Washington DC
2018 Art New York with CYNTHIA-REEVES – Booth 301, Pier 94, NYC
2018 A Year in Review, Susan Calloway Fine Art, Washington DC
2017 Women Painters, Madison Gallery, La Jolla, CA
2016 London Art Fair, Mark Jason Gallery, London
2015 American Gestural, Hubert Gallery, NYC
2014 The AAF, with Mark Jason Gallery, London
2014 The AAF, with Portland Fine Art, New York
2014 DC Design House, Washington DC
2013 Sketches of Time, Abstract Expressionism Now, Knight Webb Gallery, London
2013 A Gift of Art, Hubert Gallery, New York, NY
2013 The AAF, Mark Jason Gallery, Hong Kong and Singapore
2012 Abstract Group Exhibition, Gallery KH, Chicago, IL
2012 The AAF, (2010, 2011 and 2012), Portland Fine Art, NYC
2011 Art in Embassies, (2009-2011) Doha, Qatar
2011 Art Hamptons, Turner Barnes Gallery, Bridgehampton, NY
2010 28th Annual Visual Art Exhibition,Beaverton Public Library, Beaverton, OR
2010 Art for Life, (2005, 2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 and 2010) Oregon Convention Center, Portland, OR
2009 First Thursday, Thursday’s Art Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Group Exhibition, Heidi McBride Gallery, Portland, OR
2009 Holiday Show, Anka Gallery, Portland, OR
2008 Portland Art Open, Portland, OR
2007 Holiday Exhibition, Hunter Kirkland Contemporary, Santa Fe, NM
2007 Something Red, Historic District, Salem, OR
2007 Lake Oswego Chronicle Invitational, Lake Oswego, OR
2006 The Art of Music, Mills Pond House Gallery, NY
2006 Lancaster County Art Association Art Exhibition - PA
2006 Lake Oswego Festival of the Arts, Lake Oswego, OR
1994 Jemison-Carnegie Heritage Museum, Talladega, AL
1994 New Works, Tuscaloosa Performing Art Center, Tuscaloosa, AL
1992 The Institute for American Universities Leo Marchutz Gallery, Aix-en-Provence, France

Publicity

  • "2024 Venice Art Biennial, Personal Structures–Beyond Boundaries", 7th Edition book by the European Cultural Center, pages 156-157.

  • “United States Embassy Bandar Seri Begawan”, Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State Catalog published by the ART in Embassies Program, 2020, pages 14-15.

  • “Gallery on the Sea”, Voyage Magazine, Winter 2019-2020, pages 33-34.

  • “Our Words, Our Worlds: Writings on Black South African Women Poets, 2000-2018” edited by Makhosazana Xaba published by UKZN Press Women’s imprint, January 21, 2020. Cover image of Karen Silve’s Market Painting.

  • “Casual Chic, A design team brings form and function to a faded house in Foxhall Crescent” by Catherine Funkhouser. Photography by Gordon Beall, Home & Design, January/February 2016 issue, Page 149

  • “Creative License Living Room, cues from a famed fashion house result in a dynamic design by Robert Passal Featuring sumptuous fabrics and stand out colors”, LUXE Interior & Design Magazine™, September/October 2015 Palm Beach issue, page 246

  • Art in Embassies, U.S. Department of State, “Monterrey Mexico, Art Collection of the U.S. Consulate General”, 2015, pages 4, 56 and 57.

  • “Modern Classic: Edda Elias Injects a Fun, Fresh Aesthetic into and Old-World Apartment in the Landmarked Apthorp” New York Spaces Magazine, May/June 2014

  • “Tranquil Relief Through Nature, The art of Kaiser Permanente Westside Medical Center”, 100 page art book of their permanent collection. Kaiser Permanente® thrive, 2013

  • “K Silve: Synaesthetic Impressions” a review by Mark Jenkins, The Washington Post, Friday, May 18, 2012

  • “Marshal Arts” Traditional Home Magazine, April 2012

  • United States Department of State, 2012 desk calendar featuring my work, one of fifty two Art in Embassy Program exhibition artists

  • “River North” featured artwork, Chicago News Gallery, April-August 2011, Vol. 26

  • “Almost Live: Cascade AIDS Project Art Auction’s New Digs a Hit” by Richard Speer, Willamette Week,News and Culture, May 4th, 2010

  • United States Embassy Doha, Qatar, Art in Embassies Exhibition Catalog by Camille Benton, Curator. Published by the ART in Embassies Program, US Department of State, Washington, DC, April 2009

  • “Studio Art Direct shares research on art for senior care” by Studio Art Direct, Art Scuttlebutt powered by Art Calendar, September 4, 2009

  • “On view: Portland Art Open” by D.K. Rowe, The Oregonian, September 25th, 2008

  • “Eye on Design” Editors “Hot Picks”, Portrait of Portland, Vol. 15, Summer 2008

  • “Which way is Up”, by Rebecca Herren, Pelican Post, Winter 2007

  • “Notable Impressions” CD by Musician Michael Allen Harrison, 2006. A CD of music inspired by art including Silve’s artwork titled “Oisin”.

  • “Blindfolding the Nearsightedness of the Body” by Christopher A. Keller, published 2006. A book of poetry which includes one poem about Silve’s artwork titled, “Violincelliste I”.

  • “On The Road”, Eugene Weekly, June 24, 2004

Awards

2023 Grant Recipient: the Oregon Arts Commission and the Ford Family Foundation
2011 Artist Residency, Texas A&M University
2011 Professional Development Grant, Regional Arts and Culture Council
1992 Scholarship, University of Denver
1988 Scholarship, University of Alabama

Education

1992 BFA, University of Alabama - Tuscaloosa, Alabama
1992 The Institute for American Universities, Leo Marchutz School - Aix-en-Provence, France
1992-93 Graduate Studies, University of Denver - Denver, Colorado

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