SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2011
Let Nature Take Its Course and Hope It Passes, I-20 Gallery, New York, NY
2009
Karen Heagle, VOLTA NY 2009, New York, New York
2008
Karen Heagle: She’ll Get Hers, I-20 Gallery, New York
Karen Heagle, SWAB, Barcelona, Spain
2006
Karen Heagle: Strictly Naturals, I-20 Gallery, New York
2003
Fierce, 31GRAND, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
2001
Puritans, Perverts, and Feminists, 31GRAND, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
1998
Karen Heagle: Recent Work, Ray O’Farrell Gallery, Brunswick, Maine
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND PERFORMANCES
2012
The Power of Paper, Saatchi Gallery, London, U.K.
2010
Vivid, curated by Janet Phelps, Schroeder Romero and Shredder Gallery, New York, NY
BAM 2010 Next Wave Art, curated by Dan Cameron, Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY.
Lush Life 3: First Bird (A Few Butterflies), curated by Franklin Evans & Omar Lopez-Chahoud, Invisible-Exports, New York, NY.
2009
Portraiture for the Silicon Elightenment: (Fuckheads), SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM
LOVER, On Stellar Rays, New York
White Box 2009 Benefit Auction, New York.
Visual AIDS: Strike III Benefit Auction, curated by Geoffrey Hendricks and Pavel Zoubok, New York.
2008
Death Is Not the End, 31 Grand, New York, New York
The Guys We Would Fuck, curated by Nayland Blake, Monya Rowe Gallery, New York
2007
I remember nothing…, SHAG Sehlman Helwaser Art Gallery, New York
No New Tale To Tell, 31 Grand Gallery, New York
2006
Men, organized by Ellen Alfest, I-20 Gallery, New York
Panic Room, Deste Foundation Centre For Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
You have to be almost gifted to do what I do, curated by Oliver Newton and Steven Stewart, Alexander and Bonin
History Lessons Part III, curated by Monica Moran, Passerby (Gavin Brown Enterprise)
2005
Culture Vulture, curated by David Gibson, Jack the Pelican Presents, Brooklyn, New York
2004
Rimbaud, curated by Max Henry, I-20 Gallery, New York
2003
Superheroes, Ruby Green Contemporary Art, Nashville, Tennessee
Now Playing, curated by John Connelly, D’amelio Terras, New York
Girls Gone Wild, curated by Katherine Bernhardt, Bronwyn Keenan, New York
2002
Queer Visualities, curated by Carl Pope, Stony Brook University Art Gallery, New York
Echo, 31GRAND, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
See Through, Satellite Project Space, Long Island City, New York
Enough About Me, Momenta Art, curated by Deborah Kass, Brooklyn, New York
Women Paint Women, curated by Rene Calvo, The Harlem Flophouse, New York
2001
Smirk: Woman, Art, Humor, curated by Debra Wacks, Firehouse Art Gallery, Nassau Community College, Long Island
Danica Phelps: Trade Two, LFL Gallery, New York
studio-visit.com – the show, 31GRAND, Williamsburg, Brooklyn, New York
2000
Maine Speakout Project Benefit, Alexander and Bonin, New York
Snapshot, Baltimore Contemporary Museum, Baltimore, Maryland
flat file, Bellwether, Brooklyn, New York
LFL Gallery: Flat Files, New York
Delicate Tisuue, curated by Jennifer Kotter, MY Art Prospects, New York
1999
massurrealism, curated by H. Ashley Stephens, massurrealism.com
Outer Boroughs, White Columns, New York
Plain Brown Wrapper, ABC No Rio, New York
1998
Skowhegan Benefit Auction, David Beitzel Gallery, New York
The Independents Show, Gallery El Bohio, New York
1997
Lots, 65 Hope Street, Brooklyn, New York
Femme Fatales, Monk Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Live Girls All Night, New York
Mirror Mirror on the Wall: Women in Self-Portrait, Mills Pond House, Smithtown, New York
1996
Soil Invitational, Soil Artists’ Collective, Seattle, Washington
Out of Print: Writing the Arts, When Language Meets Form, Pratt Institute Library, New York
The Burning Bra and Other Bedside Tales, Mills Pond House, Smithtown, New York
1995
Bring it on Home to Me, Pratt Institute, New York
Benefit Auction: Laura Cottingham’s ‘Not For Sale: A History of the Seventies Feminist Art Movement,’ Flamingo East, New York
Page 14, 450 Broadway Gallery, New York
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