Karen Loader

Karen Loader (b.1958, Bearsted, UK). Studied BA Fine Art at University of East London (1996–99); MA Fine Art at City & Guilds of London Art School (2016-2017). Solo exhibitions include: This, That & The Other, Saturation Point, London (2023); Backtrack, Candid Courtyard Gallery, London (2023); Things Are Not Always What They Seem, Candid Gallery, London (2019); Altered States, Highgate Gallery at HLSI, London (2017); The Watch House, London (2015). Selected group exhibitions include: Focus UK, Non Sofia Gallery, Sofia, Bulgaria (2024); Debut::Inaugural Open, &Gallery, Edinburgh (2024); Materialisation of the New, Darl-e and the Bear, Woodstock, Oxfordshire (2020); Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London (2019); Perfect Imperfect, Take Courage Gallery, London (2019). Shortlisted for the ING Discerning Eye Exhibition (2024); shortlisted for The Wells Art Contemporary Exhibition Prize (2023); shortlisted for The Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize (2022); shortlisted for The Collyer Bristow Award (2018 & 2019); shortlisted for The ARTIQ/Herbert Smith Freehills Graduate Art Prize (2017). Lives and works in North London.