BIO / CV

A portrait of Karen standing in front of her artwork.

Karen Snouffer concentrates on creating abstract mixed-media objects, collage, painting, and installation, while exploring tensions in movement, contradiction, chaos and order. Her experience with improvisational dance strongly influences her visual language. Materiality is a visual force in her work which is heightened with the merging of non-traditional media with conventional materials and techniques. Having researched chaos theory, she explores randomness and order in nature, in works of art and within the art making process. She is also intrigued by definitions of abstraction, how the brain processes it and how creating it impacts her mentally and psychologically.

Snouffer has exhibited nationally at: Art Center South Florida, Miami; Aqua Art Fair, Miami; The Work Space, New York; Cleveland Center for Contemporary Art; Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati; Hammond Harkins Gallery, Columbus, OH; The Ohio State University Center for the Humanities; Poor Dog Space, Los Angeles; Soo Visual Arts Center, Minneapolis; and internationally at La Médiathèque, Epernay, France.  She is a former residency fellow at the Fine Arts Work Center, Provincetown, MA, and a past Artist-in-Residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA; a recipient of six Ohio Arts Council individual artist fellowships; a GLCA New Directions Initiative; and a McGregor Foundation Global Exchange Grant to France.  She is represented by Hammond Harkins Gallery in Columbus, Ohio. Her work is in the Girls Club Collection, the Pizzuti Collection, Sun Life of Canada, The Greater Columbus Convention Center and numerous private collections.

She has created public art works for the Pizzuti Companies, the City of Columbus and the Dublin Arts Council

Snouffer has collaborated with poets, dancers, sculptors and new media artists.  Her work has been published in three books: The Next Hedgerow; Love Life; Love Life: Memory and Nature at Play; and Somatic Principles and Dance.

Snouffer received both her BS in Education and her MFA at The Ohio State University.

She is a Professor Emerita at Kenyon College and has a studio and residence in Granville, Ohio.

Email: snouffer.karen@gmail.com

Instagram: @karensnoufferart