Curriculum Vitae

July 27, 1950. Penn, Pennsylvania

University of Wisconsin 1980 M.F.A.

Atelier 17, Paris, France 1973

University of Iowa 1972 B.F.A.

Gallery Representation

• McClain Gallery, Houston Texas
• Kirk Hopper Fine Arts Gallery, Dallas Texas

Awards

• "Texas Artist of the Year". Art League of Houston 1994
• Best Local Artist. Houston Press, 1992.
• Mellon Fellowship, 1998
• National Endowment for the Arts Grants. 1985, 1987

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• "Karin Broker: wired, drawn and nailed". Art Museum of Southeast Texas. Beaumont, Texas. May 24-July 6, 2014. Opening reception: May 30.
• "Trouble in Paradise". Kirk Hopper Fine Arts Gallery. Dallas, Texas. June 1, 2013
• "KARIN BROKER Wired, Nailed, Drawn & Printed". Galveston Art Center. Galveston, Texas. April 21 - May 27 2012 (read the preview)
• "Oddities and Other Opinions". McClain Gallery. Houston, Texas. 2010 (read the review)
• "Mad Girl". McClain Gallery. Houston, Texas. 2006
• "A Mad Girl's Small Notes". McClain Gallery. Houston, Texas. 2005
• "Dark Talk". McClain Gallery. Houston, Texas. 2003
• "Domestic Melancholia". Illinois Wesleyan University of Bloomington, Illinois. 2000.
• "Drawing in sanguine". Gerhard Wurzer Gallery. Houston, Texas. 2000.
• "Karin Broker Etchings". Augen Gallery. Portland, Oregon. 1997.
• "Notes of a mad girl". Etchings. Gerhard Wurzer Gallery. Houston, Texas. 1996.
• Dakota Galleries. In conjunction with Gerhard Wurzer Gallery. Houston, Texas. 1995.
• University of Denver, Colorado. 1995.
• Morehead State University. Morehead, Kentucky. 1995.
• "Texas Artist of the Year". Art League of Houston. 1994
• McMurtrey Gallery. Houston, Texas, 1992
• "Searching for a Saint". Broker Retrospective. Rice University, Houston, Texas. 1992.
• Susanna Sheffield Gallery. Houston, Texas. 1989.
• University of Corpus Christi. Texas. 1988.
• Hadler-Rodriguez Gallery. Houston, Texas. 1986.
• Baylor University. Waco, Texas. 1986.
• Studio-Galerie. Rastede, Federal Republic of Germany. (Oldenburg). 1982.

Selected Group Exhibitions

• "Flowers". McClain Gallery. March 23 - May 4, 2013.
• "Texas Contemporary Art Fair". George R. Brown Convention Center. With Kirk Hopper Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas. October 18-21, 2012 (get more information).
• "Houston Airport System Portable Art Collection". Broker, Gagneux, Friend Gay, Leach, McClain, Moorhead, Sherman, Forster, Thomas and Twaddle. Alliance Gallery. Houston, Texas. July 23 - August 24 2012 (read the press release).
• "A Golden Time of Day". Bourgeois, Baechler, Seliger, Pardo, Broker, Martin, Simpson, Gray Jimenez, Yoder, Art Guys, Hayakawa, Green, Whiteread, Holzer, Fleury, Beckman, Ruscha. McClain Gallery. Houston, Tx. July 14 - August 18 2012.
• "McClain Gallery at Houston Art Fair". A selection of works by John Alexander, Karin Broker, Jesus Moroles, Robert Rauschenberg, James Rosenquist, Julian Schnabel, Cy Twombly, and Andy Warhol, among other gallery artists. George R. Brown Convention Center, Houston, Texas. September 16- 18, 2011.
• "20 on Paper". Williams Tower, Houston Texas. December 7 - January 7, 2010.
• "A Room of Her Own". Louise Nevelson, Louise Fishman, Alice Neel, Jenny Holzer, Rebecca Horn, Tara Donovan, Cecily Brown, Judy Pfaff, Chantal Joffe, Kiki Smith, Maya Lin, Karin Broker, Tracey Emin, Allison Schulnik, Kelli Vance, and Katherine Bernhardt. McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas. October 15, 2009 - January 2, 2010.
• "Serious Play". Williams Tower Gallery. Houston, Texas. November 19 - December 31, 2009.
• "Selections from the Permanent Collection". Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University. May - August, 2009.
• "Paperwork II". (Red Grooms, Darina Karpov, Karin Broker, Brian St. Cyr and Ritchie Lassiter). Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. New Orleans, LA. June 2009.
• Small Works: Benton, Held, Bourgeois, Hockney, Dzubas, Moroles, Dumas, Hu, Torreano, Reasoner, Berhardt, Fleury, Nevelson, Dorn, Jensen, Venet, Broker, Alexander. McClain Gallery. Houston, Texas. December 2008.
• "Small Works Big Ideas". (Currin, Emin, Hirst, Lichtenstein, Magritte, Murakami, Ruscha, Serra, Kiki Smith, Warhol and others.) McClain Galley. 2003.
• "Una Comunidad de Talleres de Grabado". Galeria Espacio Abierto. Havana, Cuba.
• "Texas Prints 2001". (U.T.S.A. Study in Italy Program). Santa Reparata, Italy.
• "The Workshop Portfolios". Gencor Art Gallery. Rau University. (Rand Afrikaans University.) South Africa. 2000.
• "London Original Print Fair". Royal Academy of Art. (Wurzer Gallery). London, England. 1999
• "Texas Draws". Contemporary Art Museum. Curated by Lynn Herbert. Houston, Texas. 1999.
• "Fracturing the Gaze". Lawing Gallery. Houston, Texas. 1997.
• "Three Texas Artists of the Year". Traveling. Russia. 1996.
• "Texas Myths and Realities". The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. Curator: Alison de Lima Green. 1995.
• "Texas Art For Russia". Sponsored by the American Embassy in Moscow and the Art League of Houston. Traveling. 1995.
• "L.A. on Paper". Santa Monica, California. 1995.
• "Texas Select" Wichita Falls Museum & Art Center. Wichita Falls, Texas. 1993.
• "Drawing on Sculpture" Karin Broker and Stephen Daly. Galveston Art Center. Texas. 1992.
• "R.S.V.P" Installation Exhibition. Bechtler Gallery. Carillon. Charlotte, North Carolina. 1992.
• "Figurative Graphics, Graphic Figures. Kunst Aus Den U.S.A." 6 American Artists. Broker at Berufsverband Bildener Kunstler. Koln, Germany. 1991.
• "Colorprint USA" Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas. 1988.
• "7 Texas Artists, Small Paintings and Drawings" College of William and Mary. Virginia. 1988.
• "1987 International Exchange Exhibition of Prints in Seoul" Seoul, Korea.
• "Graphica Atlantica" Kjarvalsstadir Art Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland. 1987.
• "1986 New Orleans Triennial: the Centennial Exhibition" New Orleans Museum of Art, La.
• "Nine Texas Printmakers" San Antonio Museum of Art. San Antonio, Texas. 1986.
• "Singular Points of View" Ten Texas Artists. Art Museum of South Texas. Corpus Christi. 1984.
• "International Print Exhibit: 1983 R.O.C." Taipei Museum of Fine Arts. Taipei, Taiwan. 1983.
• "International Exchange Exhibition of Prints, Seoul 1983" Seoul, Korea.
• "New American Graphics 3" 37 Artists in the USA. Sponsored by the United States Information Services (USIA). 2 year tour of European consulates, embassies and museums. 1983.
• "World Print Four: An International Survey" World Print Council & Smithsonian. 1983-1986.
• "Bienal Internacional de Gravura e Arte Grafica de Cabo Frio" Cabo Frio,Brazil. 1983.
• "Showdown" Alternative Museum. 17 White St., New York, N.Y. 1983.
• "Prints Today/Holland USA". Tour in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council. 1981.

Other Creative Works

• Artist Printmaker Research Collection at the Museum of Texas Tech University. 26 Contemporary Texas and Southwestern Artists in Collection since 2007. Lubbock, Texas. Broker: Summer 2012 +.
• Inclusion in the new "Gateways to Art-Global Gallery" in the UK (United Kingdom). A free resource of artworks for art appreciation classes by Thames & Hudson, UK.

Recent Invited lectures

• Panelist for PrintHouston 2011. June 25. Hooks-Epstein Gallery, Houston, Tx.
• Panelist: The Phenomena of the Non-Art and Design Major: Discouragement or Encouragement? Paper titled: "Redefining the Win-Win: Non-Artists in a Viable Art Program. FATE conference in St. Louis, Missouri. April 2, 2011.

Review Committees

• Member of the review committee for the Department of Art, Art History, and Design at Notre Dame University. Sept. 24-27, 2011.
• Review for College for Creative Studies. Detroit, Michigan. May, 2004.

Guest Artist

• Notre Dame University
• Contemporary Arts Museum
• Anderson Ranch Arts Center
• Morehead University
• University of Kentucky
• San Francisco Art Institute
• Corpus Christi State University
• Carnegie Mellon University.
• University of California, Berkeley
• Baylor University
• Texas Tech University
• Southeast College Art Conference
• The University of Texas, Austin
• Montgomery College. Southern Graphics Council Annual Conference

Books

• Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life Tradition. By Michael Petry. To be published by Thames & Hudson. Forthcoming Fall 2013.
• PROOF IN PRINT: A Community of Printmaking Studios. Published by the Boston Public Library in cooperation with Mixit Print Studio. 2001.
• Texas: 150 Works from the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. By Alison de Lima Greene. Published by the MFAH. Distributed by Harry N. Abrams, Inc. 2000.
• State of the Art Program Portfolios. By Robin Montana Turner. Barrett Kendall Publishing. 1999.
• Drawing: A Contemporary Approach. By Claudia Betti and Teel Sale. 4th. Edition. . Harcourt Brace College Publishers. 1997.
• Contemporary Art in Texas. By Patricia Covo Johnson. Craftsmen House. 1994.
• Art For Work. The New Renaissance in Corporate Collecting. By Marjory Jacobson. Harvard Business School Press. 1993.

Publications

• Houston Press Arts. Capsule Art Reviews: "A Golden Time of Day…" by Meredith Deliso. August, 2012
• Ultimate Clear Lake. "Galveston Arts Center presents Karin Broker". Dana Rasmussen. March 22, 2012
• Journal of the Print World, Inc. Paperwork II. A Group Exhibition of Works on Paper. Jonathan Ferrara Gallery. New Orleans, LA. Vol. 32 No. 3 Summer 2009. Photo page 8.

Selected Public Collections

• Achenback Foundation
• Art Museum of Southeast Texas
• Bechtler Collection
• Brooklyn Museum of Art
• Curitiba Cultural Foundation (Cabo Frio, Brazil)
• Harvard University, Fogg Museum
• Interfirst Bank
• Irbit Museum, Russia
• Library of Congress
• Lockheed
• McNay Art Museum
• Mint Museum
• Milwaukee Museum of Art
• Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
• Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
• Museum of Texas Tech University
• National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
• New York Public Library, New York
• Prudential Insurance
• TIAA-CREF