Karen Hymer
2340 Hwy 180 E #203, Silver City, NM 88061
(520) 240-7075 karenhymer.com
karenhymer@karenhymer.com
EDUCATION
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, MFA Photography 1997
The University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, MA Photography 1989
Tufts University and the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, BFA Photography 1985
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 SE Center for Photography, Navigating the Internal, Greenville, South Carolina
2022 Light Art Space, Navigating the Internal, Silver City, New Mexico
2022 The Photographer’s Eye: A Creative Collective, Age & Seduction, Escondido, California
2021 Gallery 925, Solitude and Age & Seduction, Las Cruces, New Mexico
2018 Gallery II, Remnants, Umpoqua Valley Arts Association, Roseburg, Oregon
Light Art Space, Age & Seduction, Silver City, New Mexico
EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2024 Duende Arte, Flowers, Las Cruces, New Mexico
Light Art Space, Inspirations From The Wild, Silver City, New Mexico
2023 Light Art Space, LAS Ten, Silver city, New Mexico
2022 Light Art Space, Beauty Where You find it: An exhibition to honor the recipients of the Denis Roussel
Awards, Silver City, New Mexico
Sparks Gallery, Size Matters, San Diego, California
2021 Southeast Museum of Photography, Daytona State College, Picturing the Avant-Garde:
A Celebration of Alternative and Experimental Processes, Daytona Beach, Florida
Art Intersection, Light Sensitive, Gilbert, Arizona
LightBox Photographic Gallery, Serendipitous Eye, Astoria, Oregon
New Mexico Art League, High Desert, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Light Art Space, Two Artists: Two Visions, Silver City, New Mexico
Remarque Gallery, New Mexico Printmaking Invitational 2021, Albuquerque, New Mexico
2020 Center for Creative Photography, The Qualities of Light, Tucson, Arizona
Leyba Ingalls Arts, Wild and Scenic Art, Silver City, New Mexico
New Grounds Remarque, Punching Marshmallows, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Lightbox, The Portfolios 2020, Astoria, Oregon
2019 Big Medium Gallery, Contemporary Print, PrintAustin 2019, Austin, Texas
Ghostwolf Gallery, Women’s Work 2019, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Remarque Gallery, Unexpected Narratives, Albuquerque, New Mexico
The Image Flow Gallery, 4th Annual Alternative Process Photography, Mill Valley, California
Southampton Arts Center, Solar Impressions, Southampton, New York
2017 ASmith Gallery, unique: alternative processes, Johnson City, Texas
La Fe Cultural and Technical Center, Fotos Frontera 2017, El Paso, Texas
Light Art Space, Artist Proof, Silver City, New Mexico
LightBox Gallery, The Photographic Nude, Astoria, Oregon
Photo Methode Gallery, INPrint Exhibition, Austin, Texas
Art Intersection, Light Sensitive, Gilbert, Arizona
Tucson Airport Gallery, Sonoran Print Group, Tucson, Arizona
2016 Alex Ferrone Gallery, Grand Prize, Solarplate 2016, Cutchogue, New York, Juror DanWelden
Pavilion Gallery, Banner University Medical Center, Unmasked, Tucson, Arizona
Y.WCA Galleria, Two Photographers, Tucson, Arizona
Soho Photo Gallery, 2016 National Alternative Processes Competition, New York, New York
The SE Center for Photography, Color, Greenville, South Carolina
Site Brooklyn, A Point Of View: Contemporary Photography, Brooklyn, New York
A Smith Gallery, Emotion, Johnson City, Texas, Juror Karen Divine
PhotoPlace Gallery, Personal Narrative, Middlebury, Vermont, Juror Susan Burnstine
Washington Print Foundation, National Small Works Exhibition, Washington, DC
A6 Studio and Gallery, Small Prints ’16, Bend, Oregon, Juror James Thompson
Los Angeles Center of Photography, Fine Art Exhibition, Los Angeles, California
Center for Photographic Art, Member’s 2016 Juried Exhibition, Carmel, California
Louis Bernal Gallery, Broaden The Aperture, Tucson, Arizona
West Valley Art Museum, Pressing Impressions, Peoria, Arizona Urpqua
Valley Arts Association, Photography Now! Roseburg, Oregon
T.emple Gallery, Tag: Re-Emergence 1 and 2, Tucson, Arizona
WORSHOPS TAUGHT
Photopolymer Gravure and Cyanotype Printing, June 2023, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
Photopolymer Gravure, August 2022, Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
Photopolymer Gravure and Cyanotype Printing, June 2022, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
Photopolymer Gravure, August 2021, Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
Photopolymer Gravure, July 2021, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
Cyanotypes, May 2021, Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
Photopolymer Gravure, February 2020, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
Photopolymer Gravure, July and October 2019, Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
Photopolymer Gravure and Cyanotype Printing, June 2019, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
Photopolymer Gravure, March 2019, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
Cyanotypes, October 2018, Light Art Space, Silver City, New Mexico
Photopolymer Gravure and Sun Printing, July 2018, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
Photopolymer Gravure, Visions Retreat, October 2017, Scottsdale Cultural Council, Prescott, Arizona
Photopolymer Gravure and Sun Printing, June 2017, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis, Oregon
Solar Plate Workshop, Assisting Dan Welden, June 2017, Sitka Center for Art and Ecology, Otis,
Oregon Photopolymer Gravure, March 2017, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona
Photopolymer Gravure, January 2017, Karen Hymer Studio, Tucson, Arizona
Photopolymer Gravure, February and June 2016, Karen Hymer Studio, Tucson, Arizona Photopolymer
Gravure Demo/Workshop, February and March 2016, Art Intersection, Gilbert, Arizona Solar Plate
Workshop, Assisting Dan Welden, June 2015, Somis, California
GRANTS/AWARDS
LightBox Gallery, Jurors Honorable Mention Award, Melanie Walker, Serendipitous Eye, 2021
Julia Margaret Cameron 12th Annual Awards, First place, 2 categories; Honorable mention, 2 categories; 2018
Denis Roussel Award, Photographer of Merit, 2018
Southwest Print Fiesta, Best of Show, Artist Proof, 2017
LightBox Gallery, Jurors Honorable Mention Award, Kim Weston, The Photographic Nude, 2017
Rfotofolio, Choice Award, 2016
Alex Ferrone Gallery, Grand Prize residency with Dan Welden, 2016
Member of the Month, Los Angeles Center for Photography November 2016
Umpqua Valley Arts Association, Third Place Award, 2016
Phoenix Art Museum, Contemporary Forum Grant Recipient, 2014
Arizona Commission for the Arts, Fast Track Grant, 2014
Encaustic Institute, First Place Award, 2014
PUBLICATIONS
The Experimental Darkroom, Christina Z. Anderson, 2022, Focal Press, Waltham, Massachusetts
Jill Enfield’s Guide to Photographic Alternative Processes, Second Edition, 2020, Focal Press, Waltham,
Massachusetts
Dek Unu, “Age & Seduction”, Karen Hymer Portfolio, 2019
Age & Seduction, Karen Hymer, 2018, Darkspring Press, Tucson, Arizona
Polymer Photogravure: A Step by Step Manual, Clay Harmon, 2018, Routledge Publishing, UK
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Center For Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona
Polaroid International Collection, Cambridge, Massachusetts