Karen Ay
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Karen lives and works in London. She creates installations, assemblages and photographic prints, often incorporating text and maps. Themes relating to identity and sense of place frequently occur in her work.

EXHIBITIONS / PROJECTS

2018
Pure Has Nothing To Do With Clean, Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
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2017
Word Play, Forest Gate Arts, London

2016
ReAct, Red Door Studios, London
SIXTY, Lubomirov-Angus-Hughes Gallery, London
The Multiple Store - The Last Editions, The Koppel Project Hive, London
Big Deal No 7 - Space, Q PARK, London

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2015

Small is Beautiful, Flowers Cork Street
The London Art Fair 2015, London
Known to Me, Gallery Below, London
The Multiple Store @ Canary Wharf, One Canada Square, London
MAD #1 Multiple Art Days, Maison Rouge / Foundation Antoine de Galbert, Paris
Editions Open Call, Lubomirov-Easton, London
Chinese Open 2015, Q Park, London


2014

Editions / Artist' Books Fair, NYC 
Multiplied Art Fair, Christies, London
The London Art Fair 2014, London 

MARVELLOUS MIX-UPSX1, Loud&Western, London
Line and Value, UpDown Gallery, Ramsgate
Multiplicity, Chart Gallery, London
Vinis Vinifera, 107 Shacklewell Lane, London

Chinese Open 2014, Q Park, London


2013


The London Art Fair 2013, London
Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London
Annual Summer Exhibition, Flowers Gallery, London
Early Summer Exhibition, Eagle Gallery, London
The Multiple Store at Orit, Orit, London


2012

Multiplied Art Fair, Christie’s, London

ALTER, Vegas Gallery, London 

Get Carta, Karin Janssen Project Space, London


2011

The Other Art Fair, London

Sexy100, Wall to Wall, London

Invasive Alien Species, Venice

Art Car Boot Fair 2011, London


2010

Big Deal 3, The Collective, London 

Rhizomatic, Departure Gallery, London

‘Family’, Susak Expo 2010, Susak, Croatia

Art Car Boot Fair, London


Miniscule, Oblong Gallery, London

Parade - Market of Ideas,The Rootstein Hopkins Parade Ground, Chelsea College of Art, London

Liminopia, in conjunction with TangentProjects, London

Co-curator, Travellers Box International, web based project


2009

Something I Don’t Do,  Flowers Kingsland Road, London

Big Deal - Botoxed 69, C22 Pop Up Shop, London

Meltdown, Flowers Kingsland Road, London

Art Car Boot Fete at The Big Chill Festival, Eastnor

Trash Vortex, Hackney Wicked Festival, London

Big Deal 2, Discovery Park, London

Vauxhall Art Car Boot Fair, The Old Truman Brewery, London

V22 Presents: The Sculpture Show, The Biscuit Factory, London

Particles/Particles, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

Co-curator, Travellers Box International, web based project


2008

Top100, PRS for Music, London

Bookmarks VI: Infiltrating the Library System, international, various venues

Art of Occupation, Working Rooms, London

Co-curator, The Sandwich Box Project, web based project


2007

Co-founder, TangentProjects, London

Rich and Strange, Newport, Wales

Flock, DeviateProjects, London

Destination Area 10, Area 10 Project Space, London

Delicate Situations, web based project, London

Co-curator, Travellers Secret Box, web based project, 2005 – 2007


2006
Mostra IX, Museum of Contemporary Art Union Fenosa (MACUF), A Coruña, Spain, 2006 

6x4 Loads!, The Lurking Hole, Nottingham, 2006

Post-it, The Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, 2006

Publish and Be Damned Travelling Library Archive, Canal, London, 2006

Publish and Be Damned Independent Publishing Fair, London, 2006

Paperworld, Transition Gallery, London, 2006
Traveling Magazine Table, Iaspis, Stockholm, 2006

The Invisible Reading Room, Containers Village, Next Wave Festival, Melbourne, 2006

Eyelevel Re-shelving Initiative:2, Eye Level Gallery, Halifax, Nova Scotia, 2006

Interlude Magazine Launch Event, Limehouse, London, 2006

‘The Club’ Independent Publishing Event in conjunction with Kiosk, ICA London, 2006



PREVIOUS
PrintROOM @ HOTEL MARIAKAPEL, Hoorn, Netherlands, 2005

Publish and Be Damned Travelling Library Archive (LOT/Bristol and Display/Prague), 2005

Publish and Be Damned Independent Publishing Fair, London, 2005

Independent Publishing Fair, Transition Gallery, London, 2005

In the Bag, Brixton Art Gallery, London, 2005

Studio Voltaire Artists Group Show, The Oval Theatre, London, 2005

A Fine Line, Euroart Gallery, London


TALKS / PANELS
Visiting tutor, Kent School of Architecture, Canterbury, 2010

TangentProjects talk: ‘Collaborations, collectives and everyone else: Hackney-based art and design groups’ inFlux; Hackney Transient Art Projects, London, 2009

Guest lecturer, ECCA, London College of Communication, University of the Arts, London, 2009

Panel member, Artivistic Conference, Montreal, Canada 2005
 



WRITING

Runway Magazine, Issue 9, Sydney, Australia; 2007

riffRAG, Issue 2, New York, 2006

Gallery Reviews, Garageland Magazine, Issue 1, Transition Editions, London, 2006
tangent zine, founder and editor, 2005


PUBLICATIONS


Art after Money, Money after Art, Haiven, Max, Pluto Press, UK, 2018
Performance Research Volume 19, Routledge Journals, UK, 2014
​[Mostra] IX, Museum of Contemporary Art Union Fenosa (MACUF) exhibition catalogue, Spain, 2006 

Alternative Spaces and Practices (Interview with Elaina Arkool) London 2005

The Politics of Art by James Herbert, The San Diego Union Tribune, California, USA, 3 July, 2005

Personal Weblogs, a Research Project (Interview with David Brake, London School of Economics) London 2005

Business Blogs, a Practical Guide, Ives, William and Watlington, Amanda, Boston, USA, 2005


EDUCATION

BA (hons) Fine Art, University of the Arts (Central Saint Martins) 2004

HE Dip - Art and Design, New Art; University of the Arts (Chelsea) 2000

HE Dip - Art and Design, Painting and Drawing; University of the Arts (Chelsea) 1999


COLLECTIONS

Karen’s work is held in private and corporate collections internationally. The work, 
Terra Infirma is part of  The Multiple Store Collection, now housed at the Tate Archive of British Art, Tate Britain.
©2017 Karen Ay.  All Rights Reserved.
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