Karen Fiorito

Karen Fiorito is an activist, artist and curator residing in Southern California. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and featured in major publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, Art Forum and ArtNews and featured in such books as American Women Artists in Wartime, Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today and The Design of Dissent. Fiorito has received grants from Change, Inc., the Puffin Foundation, the Pollination Project, A Well Fed World and LUSH Cosmetics for her public art projects, including the billboard campaign ‘Got Drought?’ which toured from 2015 - 2021. She has curated of many art exhibitions, including Evolution/Revolution: The Interconnectedness of All Beings (2011), Indivisible: United We Stand, Divided We Fall (2020) and The Absent Referent (2022). Her prints are in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the U.S. Forest Service, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Self Help Graphics. She holds a M.F.A. from Arizona State University and a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia and is the President of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society (LAPS). She is also a member of the California Society of Printmakers (CSP), the Los Angele...

MFA, Printmaking, Arizona State University
BFA, The University of the Arts, Philadelphia

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022. Political Animal, TAG Gallery, Los ANgeles, CA
2015 Sacred Beings, SOS Gallery, Venice, CA
2010 Buddha Cat, Urban Sanctuary, Los Angeles, CA
2009 Karen Fiorito: Recent Work, Cafe Novel, Los Angeles, CA
2004 Lil’ Fury: The Art of Propaganda, Studio Lodo. Phoenix, AZ
Lil’ Fury: Agitprop and Culture Jams, Harry Wood Gallery, Tempe, AZ
2001 Amassed Media, The Photography Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1999 [Dis] Figure, Muse Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1995 The Phoenix, 1521 Cafe Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
1991 Karen Fiorito: Works In Progress, Roxy Theater, Philadelphia, PA