Karen Hew Yin Eriksen is an emerging artist, living and making in Naarm/Melbourne on Wurundjeri & Boonwurrung land of the Kulin Nations.
Karen works predominantly in oil and acrylic painting. Her practice attempts to demystify a visual language influenced by personal experiences, digital imagery and painterly narrative. Exploring the concept of hybridity, she engages with themes of metamorphosis and uncertainty in her work, oscillating between abstraction and representation. Eriksen's work searches for the potential of painterly mark making that can be found within an ever evolving and digital world.
Karen’s education includes a Bachelor of Fine Arts and technical fine art studies RMIT University, Melbourne (2018-2021).
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Karen Eriksen (b. 1995 Melbourne)
Currently lives and works in Naarm/Melbourne, Australia
Education
2020 - Bachelor of Fine Arts (painting), RMIT University
2019 Advanced Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University
2018 Diploma of Visual Arts, RMIT University
2017 Cert IV in Visual Arts, RMIT University
2015-2016 Bachelor of Arts, University of Melbourne
2013 Victorian Certificate of Education, Wantirna College
Exhibitions
2022, Group exhibition, 'The Forest I Inhabit' , Compendium Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
2022, Group exhibition, 'I think I've been here before' , Honey Bones Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2022, Group exhibition, 'Inner Hum', Divisions Gallery, Pentridge Coburg, Melbourne, Victoria
2022, Group Exhibition, 'Fifty Squared' , Brunswick Street Gallery, Melbourne, Victoria
2021, Group exhibition, RMIT Gradfest 2021, RMIT, Melbourne, Victoria
2020, Group exhibition, 'Looking' RMIT Painting Studio, Melbourne Victoria
2020, Solo exhibition, 'Don't be a stranger' Workshop, Melbourne Victoria
2020, Group exhibition, 'New Year New Blood' Red Gallery, Melbourne Victoria
2019, Graduating exhibition, '39 Upstairs' RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria
2019, Group exhibition, ‘Undermining and Achieving at Too Many Dinner Parties’ Project Space, RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria
2019, Group exhibition, ‘Pop Me’, Tank Gallery RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria
2018 Group exhibition, ’Unrefined’ Tank Gallery RMIT University, Melbourne, Victoria
Collections:
Private collection, Melbourne, VIC
Private collection, Canberra, ACT
Private collection, Jutland, Denmark