Instagram : @lauriekarp
About me:
A Franco-American visual artist of New York origin, Laurie Karp settled in Paris in 1979 after studying at the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence (United States). She also spent time in Asia - a stay in Hong Kong followed by 2 years in Taiwan - as well Hawaii and Australia.
In her creation she favors metamorphoses, hybrid forms, and personal mythologies, working mainly in ceramic sculpture or embroidery on digital images. His artistic practices also include video, sound recording, drawing…
Selected solo and duo shows
2023 Galerie Terrain Vagh, Paris 5. EntreMondes (BetweenWorlds) duo show with Esther Ségal, photographer
2022 Le Safran Art and Cultural Center, Amiens, France. Solo show Pas si étrange (Not so strange).
2020 Galerie Salon H, Paris 6. Laurie Karp & Philippe David – Ceramic and Textile Installations.
2020 Moments Artistiques, Paris 4. La profondeur de la peau (Skin deep) duo show with painter Alain Sicard
2018 Hunting and Nature Museum, Paris. Seven Lakes Drive. (installations for the 12 rooms of of museum ; museum catalogue published 2019
2017 Salles Jean Hélion, Issoire. Eau dormante – eau vive (duo show with Emmanuel Rivière)
2016 Desvres Museum of Ceramics. Towards Bear Mountain (with accompanying book)
2015 Espace Culturel Jean Cocteau, Les Lilas. Return of the Cat-man and other stories
2011 Galerie Le Fil Rouge, Roubaix. Snake charmer
2008 Galerie Nadine et Tom Verdier (ex-galerie Untitled n° 1) Paris Water & Ways
2007-08 La Piscine - Musée d’Art et d’Industrie, Roubaix. Myth of the Cat-man and the little girl
2007 La Plus petite galerie du monde, Roubaix. Eaux troubles (Troubled Waters)
2005 Galerie Untitled n°1, Paris. Techno-baroque
2001 Fondation d'Entreprise Ricard, Paris. What makes Nicky Dollar run?/Collections
2001 Galerie Le Rire Bleu, Figeac (France). Divination
2000 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris. The Nature of It
1999 Centre Culturel de la Visitation, Périgueux. Long Voyage
1997 Cité Internatinale des Arts, Paris. Sirène d'alarme
1992 Galerie Jean-Claude Riedel, Paris. Me and Madame Maria
1990 Musée Kwok On, Paris. Kuo Min Tang Veterans .
1988 National Tsing Hua University Gallery, Hsinchu,Taiwan.
1985 Galerie Paradis, Paris. Mythologies
1981 Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris Ellipse, Eclipse, Epilepsy
1980 Galerie Forain, Paris. Art or cloning...3 years of copyart
Group Shows (selection) :
2023 La Châtaigneraie – Wallonie Art Center, Belgium. Painting color : Color movement(s) in Europe- Collectors' view
2022 Fine Arts Museum of Picardie, Amiens, France. Merci de Déranger ! Contemporary ceramics works from Museum La Piscine collection in dialogue with archéological artifacts of Picardie Museum.
2020 Galerie Pierre-Alain Challier, Paris. Expo Les authentiques (pour la sortie du livre Les Authentiques chez Flammarion sur les 25 femmes artistes présentées, dont Kiki Smith, Shirin Neshat, Laurie Karp, Françoise Petrovich, Tatiana Trouvé …)
2019-20 Musée Zadkine, Paris 6. Le rêveur de la forêt (Dreamer of the forest).
2020 Eleven Steens (Bruxelles). Matières/Manifeste (Materials/Manifesto)
2019 Côté courts Film Festival, Pantin, France. video Wish upon... accepted for competion in art video section.
2019 Galerie Tokonoma, Paris 3. Expo L.D. Morhor and his guests.
2018-19 De BRIQUES bis Suzanne-Martinet Library (former Saint-Martin Abbey), Laon , France
2018 POCTB, Orléans. exposition Buffet Garni
2018 La Fête de l'our (Bear festival), Hunting and Nature Museum, Paris
2017 19 Paul Fort - Hélène Aziza, Paris Gardens of Bomarzo
2016 Biennale d'Art et design d'Istria (Croatia)
2016 Museum of Bourgoin-Jallieu. s'TRESSES ! ),an exercise in contemporary art curated by Yves Sabourin
2015 Museum Bernard Boesch, La Baule ? France Et la rencontre vive... (collection Philippe Delaunay)
2015 Galerie Nationale de la Tapisserie, Beauvais. Amours, vices et vertus : historical works from the Museum of Decorative Arts (Paris) dialogue awith works by 12 contemporary artists
2015 Galerie Duchamp, Yvetot Infans
2014 Galerie Maria Lund, Paris 3 Days in Paris, followed by Acccrochages (Hangings)
2013 Couvent des Cordeliers, Châteauroux. Mythes, contes, légendes - 17th international Ceramics Biennial
2012 Domaine départementale du Château d'Avignon. Se souvenir de la mer, (Memories of the sea)
2011-12 The Conciergerie Museum, Paris. Bêtes off
2011 Monuments et Animaux (Monuments and Animals), show under patronnage of National Monuments Office at the Château de Bouge
2011 Museums of Chateauroux. Eriger l'espace - 16th international Ceramics Biennial
2010-11 Sèvres: National Ceramics Museum. The contemporary French scene
2009 Couvent des Cordeliers (Museum of Châteauroux), Anima Animalia - 15th international Ceramics Biennial
2009 Villa Tamaris Art Center , La Seyne-sur-mer / Raymond Farbos Contemporary Art Center, Mont-de- Marsan/ Eugène Baudouin ultural Space, Antony : 3 venues for show Absolute Black/ Lessons of Darkness
2009 Château du Tremblay Regional Art Center, Fontenoy. Un pied dans l'eau… (One foot in the water...)
2009 Museum of Contemporary Art, Acri (Italie) and at the Ministry of Culture, Paris (2008), ASSISES (CHAIRS) sedute in opera
2005 Art....chemin faisant contemporary art festival, Pont-Scorff. Histoires naturelles (Natural Histoiries)
2004 National Museum of ethnography of La Paz, Bolivia. L’autre Métissages (curator : Yves Sabourin)
2001/2 Galerie Le Rire Bleu, Figeac. Les artistes sortent de leur réserve
2000 Galerie Gyroscope, Chambéry. Painting
2000 Connoisseur Gallery, Paris.
2000 L'Invention des Femmes (The Invention of Women), Auvers-sur-Oise.
2000 Galerie de la Cité Internationale des Arts. Presentaion de ceramics, installations, and copyart
1999 Fontenay sous Bois Art Festival. MYTHES /OMANE (an interactive project with the public)
1999 La Maison du Citoyen, Fonetenay-ss-Bois. l'Invention des Femmes (The Invention of Women)
1998 Espace Paul Ricard, Paris Mais que le jaune est beau !
1998 Galerie Ortilles-Fourcat, Paris. Ceramic works
1997 Mona Bismarck Foundation, Paris. American Artists in France (1947-1997)
1997 Galerie Nicole Buck, Strasbourg. The Nude
1996 Artists Space, Soho, New York. Night of a Thousand Drawings
1995 Musée de Dieppe Avez-vous vu les sirènes? Have you seen the mermaids?
1994 ART INITIATIVES, Tribeca, New York. The Self-Portrait Show.
1993 Pegge Hopper Gallery, Honolulu, Hawaii.
1992 Galerie d'Orsay, Paris. Presse-Papier, sponsorisée par Euro Papier et Bayard Presse.
1983 Espace Cardin, Paris. La mode en peinture (Fashion in painting)
1982 Salon de Villeparisis: Travaux sur papier(Works on paper), curated by Dany Bloch and J-L Pradel
1982 Salon de l'Art Erotique, Ancienne Gare de la Bastille, Paris 12e.
1980 Les américains aux Indépendants, Galerie Nationale du Grand Palais, Paris 8e.
1980 Galerie Forain, Paris. COPYART
1979 Centre Pompidou Paris. Mail Art
1979 Salon de la Jeune Peinture, Paris.
Residencies, grants, public art commissions :
Acquisition of 2 sculptures : Hunting and Nature Museum, Paris 2019
Group residency collective Creative Summer, at La folie numérique, La Villette, Paris. 2019
6-month residency at the Manufacture de Sèvres 2017-18
Acquisition of a work by Sèvres-Museum and Manufacture 2018
Commission and acquisition of a pair of ceramic sculptures by Hunting and Nature Museum 2017-18
Commission and acquisition of series of pieces : Museum of Ceramics, Desvres 2015
Art residency at ESAP Tarbes (school of Art) 2015
Art residency at La Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar Playa, Spain 2012
Acquisition of works by Museum La Piscine (Roubaix) 2012
Acquisition of works by Museum La Piscine (Roubaix) 2009
Commission and acquisition of a ceramic installation by Museum La Piscine (Roubaix) 2007/08
Art Residency at ESAP Tarbes (school of Art) 2007
Technical aid for printing on fabric from Museum Bourgouin-Jallieu 2003-04
Art Residencey : La Fundacion Valparaiso, Mojacar Playa, Spain 1997
2 yr residency awarded by the American Center and then the Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris 1980-82