Karin Schaefer

Karin Schaefer (b. 1968, Washington, D.C.) has an interdisciplinary practice that includes installation, painting, drawing and printmaking. Schaefer’s work challenges the binaries of long-established categories, abstraction/representation, conceptual/concrete, spiritual/material. She blurs the lines between hard-edged abstraction and an illusion of space, works to make the unseen visible, and integrates queer aesthetics and spirituality. Drawing inspiration from her meditation practice, decades of daily drawings are the source material for her paintings and prints.

Schaefer received her BFA from Tufts | School of Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA. She has exhibited her work at Barbican Art Galleries, London, UK; Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson, AZ; Sears Peyton Gallery, New York, NY; Christopher Henry Gallery, New York, NY; University Art Museum, SUNY, Albany, NY; Bernay Fine Art, Great Barrington, MA. Grants and Residencies include Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, artist-in-residence; LEF Foundation; Isamu Noguchi, artist-in-residence.

Schaefer lives and works in the Berkshires.