Karin Batten

Represented in the Whitney Biannual 2020
Whitney Museum, NYC
Awarded the Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant in Painting, 2019 and 2001.
Artists’ Fellowship in Painting from the New York Foundation for the Arts, 1998.
Director at Westbeth Gallery, 55 Bethune Street, New York City from 2016-2019, to present curator/jurist.

I was born in Hamburg, Germany and live and work in New York City. I show with the June Kelly Gallery, NYC. I have shown my work in solo and group exhibitions in Europe and in the United States. In New York City, I show with June Kelly Gallery and Able Fine Art Gallery, Michael Ingbar Gallery and Westbeth Gallery, as well as in public places such as the Lobby Gallery of the Durst Organization and Pfizer Inc. I have had solo and group exhibitions in Berlin, Zurich, and Paris. My work is in collections both here and abroad, including the permanent collection of the National September 11 Memorial and Museum, NY, the Whitney Museum, the Federal Reserve Bank of NY, University of Maryland University College, Adelphi, MD, and many private collections.

St.Martins/Central School-Diploma
Hunter College of NYC-MFA,

2025, Swimming On Mars, Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
2020, New Paintings, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
2016, Turning Tide, June Kelly Gallery, NYC
2016, Enchanting World, Anderson Chase Gallery, Goldens Bridge, NY
2014, New York From Above, Port Washington Public Library, NY
2013, Enchanting Light, Able Fine Art Gallery, Chelsea, NYC