KAREN STARRETT
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Karen Starrett: New Paintings”, Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, NJ
2017 “#sixof2minds”, Karen Starrett + Maddy Cohen, Monmouth
County Arts Council Gallery, Red Bank, NJ2016
2016 "Reciprocity", 211 Broad Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2014 "Karen Starrett PAINTINGS",Frederick Gallery, Spring Lake NJ
Invitational, Art Alliance Exhibition Windows, Red Bank,N.J.
2013 "Karen Starrett Paintings", Oyster Point Hotel, Red Bank, NJ
Karen Starrett Paintings, Brodsky Gallery, Educational
Testing Systems, Princeton, NJ
2010 "Starrett & Mollow", Pier Village Art Gallery, Long Branch, NJ
2009 "Karen Starrett:Paintings", Johnson & Johnson Headquarters
Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
"Strange Praise", Mattison Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2007 "Genetic Science/Healing Art", Gallery on Grant, Deal, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
“Collage”, Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ juror: Liz Mitchell
"Black Box" boeckercontemporary at Faux Mouvement,
Centre d'art contemporain, Metz, FRANCE2016
"The Reveal: Five Artists Put It On The Wall", the gallery
@33Monmouth, Red Bank, NJ
“Optimism”, Peg Williams Gallery, Madison, NJ
“The Color of Energy, The Energy of Color”, Valley Arts Firehouse Gallery, Orange, NJ
“Optimism”, Peg Williams Gallery, Madison, NJ
“Personal Renaissance”, Belskie Museum of Art and Science,
Closter, NJ
2016
Signature Artist Exhibition, Noyes Museum Atlantic City, NJ
Mulberry Street Public Library, “Celebration”, NYC
Axelrod Theater Gallery, “12 Abstract Artists”, Deal, NJ
Alfa Art Gallery, Perspectives in Nature, New Brunswick, NJ
Gallery U, SWARTS, Westfield, NJ
Art Alliance Gallery, Birds and Beasts, Red Bank, NJ
Belskie Museum, Saving Fruitful Trees, Closter, NJ
Studio Montclair, State of the Art 2016, Montclair, NJ
Sikkema Jenkins, Visual Aids benefit, Postcards from the Edge, NYC
2015
"Annual State Exhibition,"Art Alliance Gallery, Red Bank, NJ.
Juror, Adrienne Rooney, Curatorial Ass’t, Whitney Museum
Trenton City Museum, Impressions: The Art of the Print, Trenton, NJ.
Juror: Patricia Ingersoll, Alumni Gallery Mgr., PA Academy
Arts Guild New Jersey, Invitational, A Little Wax, Rahway, NJ.
Curator:Douglas Ferrari
"Childhood Memories", Zufall Health, Dover, NJ
"Mixed Media Paintings", Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
"Metro31", CWOW Gallery, Newark, NJ. Curator: Evan Brownstein,
Beamesderfer Gallery
Pleiades Gallery, Small Works, NY. Curator: Ellen Bradshaw, Director
Paul Robeson Galleries,
Healing Through Art:A Collaborati Exhibition, Rutgers University,
Newark, NJ
Hotel Tides Gallery, Jersey Artist Registry Exhibition, Asbury Park, NJ.
Curator: Ellen Martin, Registry Director
2014
"Inner Reflections: 3-Person Exhibit", Studio Space on Madison, ,
(13 paintings), Dumont, NJ
Central Jersey Blood Center, Autumn, Shrewsbury, NJ
Noyes Museum, Signature Artist Exhibit, Oceanville, NJ
"Who’s Your Mama", Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ Curated by the
National Association of Women Artists, NYC
Voices and Visions,The Art Center, Highland Park, Illinois
Honoring Summer'', The Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Invitational,
BC College, Lincroft, NJ Curator: Marie Maber
Wish You Were Here', A.I.R. Gallery, Benefit, Brooklyn NY
Art on the Edge, Belmar Arts Gallery, Belmar, NJ
Signs and Symbols, Heaven Art Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Juror:Dennis Carroll, Gallery Director
Guild of Creative Arts, The Garden Exhibit, Shrewsbury, NJ
Eclectic Aesthetics, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Ellarslie Open XXXI,Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ.
Juror: Kelly Baum, Ph.D. Haskell Curator of Modern Art at
Princeton University Museum
Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Visual Aids
Benefit
Visions of the Mind, HUB-Robeson Galleries,Penn State University PA
Small Format Exhibit, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Unusual Art, Belskie Museum, Invitational Exhibition, Closter, NJ
2013
Downstairs Art Gallery, All Cut Up, Carter Burden Center, NYC.
Curator: Liz Curtin
Noyes Museum, Signature Artist Exhibition, Oceanville, NJ
Heaven Gallery, Color Power, Asbury Park, NJ
Juror: Dennis Carroll, Gallery Director
"34th Annual Juried Art Exhibition", Monmouth Museum, Jury Panel,
Lincroft, NJ,
Philadelphia Inquirer Bldg., SSP Gallery, Violence, Conshohocken, PA
Art Alliance Gallery, 27th Annual Townsend Award Exhibition,
Red Bank, NJ
Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
Juror: Saisha M. Grayson, Curator, Brooklyn Museum
ABstract EXpressions Gallery, Abstract Expressions, Mount Holly, NJ
Curator: James Kent, Gallery Director
2012
Art Alliance Gallery, New Jersey State Annual Competition, Best in
Show Award, Red Bank, NJ Juror: Mary Kate O’Hare, PhD.
Curator of American Art at Newark Museum, Rutgers University
"Coming of Age", Riverside Branch NYC Library, Jury Panel, NY
"Backlash", Soho20 Gallery, Jury Panel, New York, NY
"October", The Guild of Creative Art Gallery, Shrewsbury, NJ
"Distressed", Boricua College Gallery, Curator: Heather Stolz,
Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY
"Spring", Midday Gallery, Jury Panel, Englewood, NJ
"A Light in the Tunnel” , Overlook Hospital, Summit, NJ
2011
“Ev(e)olution”, Jury Panel, Riverside Branch NYC Library, NYC
“Les Femmes Artistes Vernissage”, Armory Art Center, West Palm
Beach, FL
“Surface Pattern”, Caladan on-line Gallery, Cambridge, MA
"6 Invited Artists, “We Can Do It”, Multi-media exhibit, Monmouth County Headquarter Library
2010
“Art on Paper”, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Juror: Bruce Waldman, School of Visual Arts, NYC
24th New Jersey Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention,
Award, Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ. Juror: Kate Somers, Curator
of the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University
Monmouth Museum State Annual, Lincroft, NJ Juror: Frank Hyder
2009
Invited Artist, AtlantiCare Foundation, Atlantic City, NJ,
Ceres Gallery, Jury Panel, New York, NY
Featured Monthly Artist, www.JerseyArts.com
Gallery on Grant, Deal, NJ
Works on Paper, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft NJ
“Deep Waters: Heart/Soul Triad”, Three-Artist exhibit, Middletown, NJ
Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ
Pegas Gallery, Norristown, PA
Best in Show, Monmouth Museum State Exhibition, Lincroft, NJ
Juror: Naomi Grossman
2007
Paesaggio Gallery, Hartford, CN
Invitational, Six Women Artists, Powy’s Gallery, Shrewsbury, NJ
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCES/CURATORIAL
2014 The Painting Center’s, Artist Registry, NYC
Curator for “More”, The Art Alliance Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2013 Noyes Museum “Signature Artist” membership
Award in Sculpture, ABstract EXpressions Gallery, Mt Holly, NJ
Juror:James Kent, Gallery Director
2012 Best in Show, Art Alliance Award, NJ Annual Statewide Exhibit
2011 NEA Recipient: 2011 Creative Aging Institute Fellowship, NY
Teaching Artist Registry for Lifetime Arts, New York
2010 The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare Hospital Artist-in-
Residence Training Institute
2011 Creative Aging Training Institute, The Creative Center, NYC
Inducted into The National Association of Women Artists, NY
2009 Honorable Mention, Manhattan Arts International, NYC
Monmouth County Arts Council Awards
2008 Curator, The Gallery on Grant, Deal, NJ
The Puffin Foundation Grant
Capelli d’Angeli Foundation Grant
Best in Show Award, Sculpture, The Monmouth Museum State
Annual Exhibit, Lincroft, NJ
PRESS:
2015 Novartis one-time purchase publishing rights for “Love 101”.
2014 "A View from the Easel", Hyperallergic blog
2013 Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, University
of Oklahoma College of Medicine Novartis Calendar;
Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective Catalogue
Cable Interview: Artist Series - Ocean 77
TEACHING
2011 - present Creative Aging Arts, LLC - Art Workshops for Older Adults:
including people with limited cognitive and physical abilities
2015 - Art Workshop for Caregivers, Princeton Arts Council
Docent - Princeton Art Museum tour for Caregivers
EDUCATION:
Grace Graupe-Pillard Painting Workshop, Lincroft, NJ
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ General Honors -
BA in Art Education.
The School of Visual Arts, Alumna, New York
Art New England, Bennington, New York
VanDeb Monoprint Workshop, New York
R & F Encaustics, Kingston, New York
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS:
National Association of Women Artists
National Council of Creative Aging
Monmouth County Arts Council
Artists for Alzheimer’s (ARTZ) (www.artzalx.org)
The Guild for Creative Arts
SOLO AND TWO PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2018 “Karen Starrett: New Paintings”, Educational Testing Service,
Princeton, NJ
2017 “#sixof2minds”, Karen Starrett + Maddy Cohen, Monmouth
County Arts Council Gallery, Red Bank, NJ2016
2016 "Reciprocity", 211 Broad Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2014 "Karen Starrett PAINTINGS",Frederick Gallery, Spring Lake NJ
Invitational, Art Alliance Exhibition Windows, Red Bank,N.J.
2013 "Karen Starrett Paintings", Oyster Point Hotel, Red Bank, NJ
Karen Starrett Paintings, Brodsky Gallery, Educational
Testing Systems, Princeton, NJ
2010 "Starrett & Mollow", Pier Village Art Gallery, Long Branch, NJ
2009 "Karen Starrett:Paintings", Johnson & Johnson Headquarters
Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
"Strange Praise", Mattison Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
2007 "Genetic Science/Healing Art", Gallery on Grant, Deal, NJ
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017
“Collage”, Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ juror: Liz Mitchell
"Black Box" boeckercontemporary at Faux Mouvement,
Centre d'art contemporain, Metz, FRANCE2016
"The Reveal: Five Artists Put It On The Wall", the gallery
@33Monmouth, Red Bank, NJ
“Optimism”, Peg Williams Gallery, Madison, NJ
“The Color of Energy, The Energy of Color”, Valley Arts Firehouse Gallery, Orange, NJ
“Optimism”, Peg Williams Gallery, Madison, NJ
“Personal Renaissance”, Belskie Museum of Art and Science,
Closter, NJ
2016
Signature Artist Exhibition, Noyes Museum Atlantic City, NJ
Mulberry Street Public Library, “Celebration”, NYC
Axelrod Theater Gallery, “12 Abstract Artists”, Deal, NJ
Alfa Art Gallery, Perspectives in Nature, New Brunswick, NJ
Gallery U, SWARTS, Westfield, NJ
Art Alliance Gallery, Birds and Beasts, Red Bank, NJ
Belskie Museum, Saving Fruitful Trees, Closter, NJ
Studio Montclair, State of the Art 2016, Montclair, NJ
Sikkema Jenkins, Visual Aids benefit, Postcards from the Edge, NYC
2015
"Annual State Exhibition,"Art Alliance Gallery, Red Bank, NJ.
Juror, Adrienne Rooney, Curatorial Ass’t, Whitney Museum
Trenton City Museum, Impressions: The Art of the Print, Trenton, NJ.
Juror: Patricia Ingersoll, Alumni Gallery Mgr., PA Academy
Arts Guild New Jersey, Invitational, A Little Wax, Rahway, NJ.
Curator:Douglas Ferrari
"Childhood Memories", Zufall Health, Dover, NJ
"Mixed Media Paintings", Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
"Metro31", CWOW Gallery, Newark, NJ. Curator: Evan Brownstein,
Beamesderfer Gallery
Pleiades Gallery, Small Works, NY. Curator: Ellen Bradshaw, Director
Paul Robeson Galleries,
Healing Through Art:A Collaborati Exhibition, Rutgers University,
Newark, NJ
Hotel Tides Gallery, Jersey Artist Registry Exhibition, Asbury Park, NJ.
Curator: Ellen Martin, Registry Director
2014
"Inner Reflections: 3-Person Exhibit", Studio Space on Madison, ,
(13 paintings), Dumont, NJ
Central Jersey Blood Center, Autumn, Shrewsbury, NJ
Noyes Museum, Signature Artist Exhibit, Oceanville, NJ
"Who’s Your Mama", Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ Curated by the
National Association of Women Artists, NYC
Voices and Visions,The Art Center, Highland Park, Illinois
Honoring Summer'', The Center for Visual Arts Gallery, Invitational,
BC College, Lincroft, NJ Curator: Marie Maber
Wish You Were Here', A.I.R. Gallery, Benefit, Brooklyn NY
Art on the Edge, Belmar Arts Gallery, Belmar, NJ
Signs and Symbols, Heaven Art Gallery, Asbury Park, NJ
Juror:Dennis Carroll, Gallery Director
Guild of Creative Arts, The Garden Exhibit, Shrewsbury, NJ
Eclectic Aesthetics, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Ellarslie Open XXXI,Trenton City Museum, Trenton, NJ.
Juror: Kelly Baum, Ph.D. Haskell Curator of Modern Art at
Princeton University Museum
Postcards from the Edge, Luhring Augustine Gallery, Visual Aids
Benefit
Visions of the Mind, HUB-Robeson Galleries,Penn State University PA
Small Format Exhibit, Alfa Art Gallery, New Brunswick, NJ
Unusual Art, Belskie Museum, Invitational Exhibition, Closter, NJ
2013
Downstairs Art Gallery, All Cut Up, Carter Burden Center, NYC.
Curator: Liz Curtin
Noyes Museum, Signature Artist Exhibition, Oceanville, NJ
Heaven Gallery, Color Power, Asbury Park, NJ
Juror: Dennis Carroll, Gallery Director
"34th Annual Juried Art Exhibition", Monmouth Museum, Jury Panel,
Lincroft, NJ,
Philadelphia Inquirer Bldg., SSP Gallery, Violence, Conshohocken, PA
Art Alliance Gallery, 27th Annual Townsend Award Exhibition,
Red Bank, NJ
Karl Drerup Art Gallery, Plymouth State University, Plymouth, NH
Juror: Saisha M. Grayson, Curator, Brooklyn Museum
ABstract EXpressions Gallery, Abstract Expressions, Mount Holly, NJ
Curator: James Kent, Gallery Director
2012
Art Alliance Gallery, New Jersey State Annual Competition, Best in
Show Award, Red Bank, NJ Juror: Mary Kate O’Hare, PhD.
Curator of American Art at Newark Museum, Rutgers University
"Coming of Age", Riverside Branch NYC Library, Jury Panel, NY
"Backlash", Soho20 Gallery, Jury Panel, New York, NY
"October", The Guild of Creative Art Gallery, Shrewsbury, NJ
"Distressed", Boricua College Gallery, Curator: Heather Stolz,
Women’s Caucus for Art, New York, NY
"Spring", Midday Gallery, Jury Panel, Englewood, NJ
"A Light in the Tunnel” , Overlook Hospital, Summit, NJ
2011
“Ev(e)olution”, Jury Panel, Riverside Branch NYC Library, NYC
“Les Femmes Artistes Vernissage”, Armory Art Center, West Palm
Beach, FL
“Surface Pattern”, Caladan on-line Gallery, Cambridge, MA
"6 Invited Artists, “We Can Do It”, Multi-media exhibit, Monmouth County Headquarter Library
2010
“Art on Paper”, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ
Juror: Bruce Waldman, School of Visual Arts, NYC
24th New Jersey Statewide Juried Exhibition, Honorable Mention,
Award, Art Alliance, Red Bank, NJ. Juror: Kate Somers, Curator
of the Bernstein Gallery at Princeton University
Monmouth Museum State Annual, Lincroft, NJ Juror: Frank Hyder
2009
Invited Artist, AtlantiCare Foundation, Atlantic City, NJ,
Ceres Gallery, Jury Panel, New York, NY
Featured Monthly Artist, www.JerseyArts.com
Gallery on Grant, Deal, NJ
Works on Paper, Brookdale Community College, Lincroft NJ
“Deep Waters: Heart/Soul Triad”, Three-Artist exhibit, Middletown, NJ
Shore Institute of Contemporary Art, Long Branch, NJ
Pegas Gallery, Norristown, PA
Best in Show, Monmouth Museum State Exhibition, Lincroft, NJ
Juror: Naomi Grossman
2007
Paesaggio Gallery, Hartford, CN
Invitational, Six Women Artists, Powy’s Gallery, Shrewsbury, NJ
AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCES/CURATORIAL
2014 The Painting Center’s, Artist Registry, NYC
Curator for “More”, The Art Alliance Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2013 Noyes Museum “Signature Artist” membership
Award in Sculpture, ABstract EXpressions Gallery, Mt Holly, NJ
Juror:James Kent, Gallery Director
2012 Best in Show, Art Alliance Award, NJ Annual Statewide Exhibit
2011 NEA Recipient: 2011 Creative Aging Institute Fellowship, NY
Teaching Artist Registry for Lifetime Arts, New York
2010 The Creative Center: Arts in Healthcare Hospital Artist-in-
Residence Training Institute
2011 Creative Aging Training Institute, The Creative Center, NYC
Inducted into The National Association of Women Artists, NY
2009 Honorable Mention, Manhattan Arts International, NYC
Monmouth County Arts Council Awards
2008 Curator, The Gallery on Grant, Deal, NJ
The Puffin Foundation Grant
Capelli d’Angeli Foundation Grant
Best in Show Award, Sculpture, The Monmouth Museum State
Annual Exhibit, Lincroft, NJ
PRESS:
2015 Novartis one-time purchase publishing rights for “Love 101”.
2014 "A View from the Easel", Hyperallergic blog
2013 Blood and Thunder: Musings on the Art of Medicine, University
of Oklahoma College of Medicine Novartis Calendar;
Women’s Rights: An Artist’s Perspective Catalogue
Cable Interview: Artist Series - Ocean 77
TEACHING
2011 - present Creative Aging Arts, LLC - Art Workshops for Older Adults:
including people with limited cognitive and physical abilities
2015 - Art Workshop for Caregivers, Princeton Arts Council
Docent - Princeton Art Museum tour for Caregivers
EDUCATION:
Grace Graupe-Pillard Painting Workshop, Lincroft, NJ
Rutgers University, New Brunswick, NJ General Honors -
BA in Art Education.
The School of Visual Arts, Alumna, New York
Art New England, Bennington, New York
VanDeb Monoprint Workshop, New York
R & F Encaustics, Kingston, New York
MEMBERSHIPS & AFFILIATIONS:
National Association of Women Artists
National Council of Creative Aging
Monmouth County Arts Council
Artists for Alzheimer’s (ARTZ) (www.artzalx.org)
The Guild for Creative Arts
