Karen Albanese Campbell

Karen Albanese Campbell is an award-winning multidisciplinary visual artist who creates in print, paint and fabric. She has twice been awarded “Best in Show” for the All Ohio Show at the Zanesville Art Museum, in two different categories: prints/drawings and textiles. As a core-member of Phoenix Rising Printmaking Coop, she participated in a “Big Ink” large scale printmaking event, creating her award winning print “Moment of Silence” which is now in the collection of the Columbus Museum of Art. Preferring to show her work in public venues, Albanese Campbell has exhibited her work in solo shows in the Stowe-Munroe Falls (Ohio) Public Library, Groveport (Ohio) Municipal Hall, Vineyard Columbus North Hall Gallery and Phoenix Rising Printmaking Gallery, also in Columbus. Karen has also been exhibiting her paintings, prints and art quilts in juried group shows around the United States since 2011. Before that she was principal designer and illustrator of Albanese Design, her own studio, creating promotional, identity and branding projects for a wide variety of clients including several performing arts organizations. During this time, she won an Emmy Award for art directing a TV promotional spot for Players Theatre Columbus.

Karen earned her BFA in painting and printmaking at Boston University where she studied with a “Who’s Who” of Boston Expressionists and significant artists such as John Wilson, Sidney Hurwitz, David Aronson and Arthur Polansky. She and her husband lived in southern Mexico for a time before they settled in Columbus, Ohio.

EDUCATION
Boston University, College of Visual Arts, BFA
Recipient, Scholastic Art and Writing Awards Full Scholarship

albanesecampbell@gmail.com

@petersmadre

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2020 21st Annual Wills Creek Exhibition of Fine Art of the Allegheny Arts Council, Cumberland, Maryland
2020 “Visible Ink: Group Show of Phoenix Rising Printmaking Members”, The Ohio State University Faculty Club, Columbus, OH2019
Ohio Art League Fall Show, Columbus Cultural Arts Center, Columbus, Ohio2019
My [Creative] Space, Carnegie Gallery. Columbus Metropolitan Library, Columbus, Ohio
2019 74th Annual Ohio Exhibition at the Zanesville Museum of Art
2019 The Great Portrait Show at Blockfort, Columbus, Ohio
2019 Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative Core Member Group Show at the Studio
2019 “Ingrained: Large Scale Woodcut Prints”, Carnegie Gallery at Columbus Metropolitan Library
2018 Ohio Art League Fall Juried Show at the Shot Tower Gallery at Fort Hayes
2018 BigInk at Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative Pop-Up Printing Event
2018 “Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Competition”, Columbus, Ohio
2018 Delta National Small Prints Exhibition 2018 at Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University, Jonesboro, AR
2017 The Bath House Cultural Center, “Día de los Muertos: The Path of Winged Souls”, Dallas, TX
2017 “Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Competition”, Columbus, OH
2017 “Pinchat 7”, 30 prints by 30 Ohio printmakers. Paradise Garage, Wild Goose Creative & Lineage Brewing, Columbus, OH
2017 Blockfort Columbus, “Beautiful Words”, Columbus, OH
2016 ROY G BIV “Small Works Exhibition”, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH
2016 “10th Anniversary Small Works” at Wild Goose Creative, Columbus, OH2016 “Zanesville Museum of Art All Ohio, 72nd Annual Exhibition”, Zanesville, OH
2016 “Pinchat 6”, 30 prints by 30 Ohio printmakers at Paradise Garage, Wild Goose Creative & Lineage Brewing, Columbus, OH
2016 “D’art for Art”, Included by invitation and jury into a biennial fundraiser hosted by the Women’s Board of the Columbus Museum of Art in support of the Museum’s special programming
2015 “Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Competition”, Columbus, OH
2014 “A Gathering of Images” Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative, High Road Gallery, Worthington, OH
2014 “Zanesville Museum of Art All Ohio, 70th Annual Exhibition” , Zanesville, OH
2014 “Connecticut Women Artists – 85th Annual National Open Juried Exhibition”, Slater Memorial Museum, Norwich, CT
2014 “Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Competition”, Columbus, OH

2013 “Strokes of Genius”, National juried painting exhibition, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, Annapolis, MD
2013 “Ohio Art League Spring Juried Exhibition”, at the State Library of Ohio, Columbus, OH
2013 “Images 2013”, National juried gallery exhibition at Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, Robeson Gallery of the HUB/Robeson Center, University Park, The Pennsylvania State University
2013 “Schwa Show: National Juried Art Exhibition”, Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge, Greenville, NC
2012 “Art for Abolition”, traveling art collection showing art quilt, “Woman on the Stairs”, Columbus, OH
2012 “Figure It Out”, Craft Studio Gallery at the University of Missouri, Columbia, MO
2012 “Agora 9”, Junctionview Studios and Couchre Collective, Columbus, OH
2012 “101st Exhibition of the Connecticut Academy of Fine Arts”, Mystic Art Center, Mystic, CT2012 “200”, German Village Art League @ Columbus Metropolitan Library Carnegie Gallery, Columbus, OH
2011 “Cultivating Growth”, Gallery 831, Columbus, OH
2011 “Ohio State Fair Fine Arts Competition”, Columbus, OH
2011 “Ohio Art League Annual Fall Juried Exhibit”, Mount Vernon Nazarene University, Schnormeier Gallery, Mount Vernon, OH

SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative “New Monotypes” in the Hallway Gallery
2018 Stow-Munroe Falls Public Library, exhibiting “The Table Runner Project” and the “Canticles” series
2018 Groveport Municipal Hall Art Gallery Groveport, Ohio
2017 VineyardColumbus North Hall Gallery Columbus, Ohio

PUBLIC ART
2016 Vineyard Community Center, Mural, Vineyard Columbus, Columbus, Ohio

AWARDS
2019 Zanesville Art Museum 74th Annual Ohio Exhibit “Best in Show” for Prints and Drawings for “Moment of Silence”
2014 “Beaux Arts Club Award for Excellence in Fiber Art” for art quilt “Not Enough Sky”Zanesville Museum of Art, Zanesville, Ohio
2013 1st Place, “Schwa Show: National Juried Art Exhibition”, Pitt County Arts Council at Emerge,Greenville, North Carolina