VITAE
Karen D. Beckwith - Artist, Printmaker, Master Printer
PROFESSIONAL HISTORY
1998-Present Professional Artist & Printmaker, K2 Art Studio/Ping Pong Press, Cleveland, OH
2005-2017 Master Printer, Technical Specialist, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
1997-1998 Tamarind Master Printer Fellow, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
1996-1997 Tamarind Printer Training Program, Student, Tamarind Institute, Albuquerque, NM
1991-1996 Assistant Studio Director, Hamilton Press, Cleveland, OH
1989-1994 Production Coordinator and Creative Advisor, Hamilton Arts Rubber Stamp Co., Cleveland, OH
1987 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH
SELECT PERMANENT COLLECTIONS
Artists Archives of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH
BF Goodrich Corporation, Raleigh, NC
Canson-Talens Inc., South Hadley, MA
Cleveland Art Association, Cleveland, OH
Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Colliers Cleveland, Cleveland, OH
Columbia College, Chicago, IL
Glidden House, Cleveland, OH
Instituto Chileno Norteamericano, Santiago, Chile
LGBT Center, Cleveland, OH
Mid America Print Council
Progressive Art Collection, Cleveland, OH
Southern Graphics Council, Statesboro, GA
Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, NM
Transdigm, Cleveland, OH
Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
SELECT EXHIBITIONS
2023-24 New Masters 3: Women Artists of Northeast Ohio, Florence O’Donnell Wasmer Gallery at Ursuline College, Pepper Pike, OH
2023 The New Now Annual Exhibition, Tri-C Gallery East, Highland Hills, OH
2023 Artist In Residence Exhibition, Morgan Paper Conservancy, Cleveland, OH
2023 Trace Evidence: Observations of Place, Solo show, Bay Arts, Bay Village, OH
2022 IPC International Mini Print Exhibition, NTNU Teh-Chen Art Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
2022 Kinmen International Print Exhibition, Kinmen, Taiwan
2022 Print Out Times - 2022 Taoyuan International Print Exhibition, Taoyuan Arts Center, Taiwan
2022 Women Who Print, Future Ink Graphics, Cleveland, OH
2021 Evidence of Existence, Two Woman Show, Hedge Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2021 The III International Triennial of Contemporary Graphics, Novosibirsk, Russia
2020 Members Exhibition, Artists Archive of the Western Reserve, Cleveland, OH
2018 Ramparts, W78 Street Studios, Cleveland, OH
2017 Waterloo Arts, Arts Collinwood, Cleveland, OH
2016 From The Ground Up, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2016 Re/Unite Archive Show, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2015 ReDefine, Morgan Conservatory, Cleveland, OH
2013 Banshee Press Exhibition, Denver, CO
2011 Bay Arts Essentials Annual Spring Show, Bay Village, OH
2011 Morgan Conservatory Paper Bank Invitational Exhibition, Cleveland, OH
2011 Northeast Ohio Print Invitational, Fawick Gallery, Berea, OH
2010 Arts Quarter, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2010 Brand, Re-Brand, De-Brand?, University of Delaware/Philagraphika, Philadelphia, PA
2009 Monumental Idea, Miniature Book, 3 Year International Travelling Exhibition, Morgan Conservatory, Zhejiang Province – China, Edingurgh – Scotland, Granada – Spain, Savannah – GA, Chicago – IL, Athens – OH.
2009 Under Pressure: Fine Art Prints, Valley Art Center, Chagrin Falls, OH
2008 Surface To Surface: Contemporary Printmaking, Notre Dame College, Cleveland, OH
2008 Trilogy Go Green, The Gallery at Trinity Commons, Cleveland, OH
2007 All Women, All Print, All The Time: 5 Woman Show, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2007 Local Girl Gallery Exhibition, Lakewood, OH
2006 Annual Members Show, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
2006 The Plain Dealer: Zygote Press Members Show, Cleveland, OH
2005 Art All Around Town: Print Clubs of Cleveland, Cleveland Artists Foundation, Cleveland, OH
2004 Small Works Invitational, Art Metro Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2004 Works on Paper: Solo Show, Loganberry Books Annex Gallery, Shaker Heights, OH
2002 Northeast Ohio Print Show, Fine Arts Association, Willoughby, OH
2001 Print Invitational, Dead Horse Gallery, Cleveland, OH
2001 Retrovirus, Zygote Press, Cleveland, OH
2000 Works on Paper, McDonough Museum of Art, Youngstown, OH
NOTABLE COLLABORATIONS AS MASTER PRINTER
Karen has been the collaborating Master Printer for over twenty professional artists. The artistic products of these collaborations are in private and corporate collections across the Unites States.
CLINTON ADAMS, Printmaker, Albuquerque, NM
BETH CAMPBELL, Sculptor, New York, NY
TONY FITZPATRICK, Printmaker, Chicago, IL
BETTY HAHN, Photographer, Albuquerque, NM
ROBERTO JUAREZ, Painter, New York, NY
SANDRA RAMOS, Painter/Printmaker, Miami, FL/Havana, Cuba
DOUG SANDERSON, Painter/Printmaker, Cleveland, OH