Artist Statement

Karen St Pierre is a multidisciplinary artist working across collage, photography, abstraction, and installation. Her work explores perception and the fragile architectures of memory. Layered, visual environments are built from fragments of photographs, painted papers, textiles, and remnants of earlier work. Gathered and recomposed, these materials carry traces of lived experience: impressions of the natural world, ephemera that hold glimpses of other lives, and echoes of earlier creative gestures. Her current work is informed by encounters with eldercare and memory loss. By constructing spaces where fragments persist, dissolve, and recombine, her installations and smaller works mirror the shifting nature of perception and remembrance.

Artist Bio

Karen’s work has been exhibited internationally in the United States, Europe, and Asia, including On the Move at the EPIC Museum in Dublin; The Intuitive Eye at G.A. Gallery in Tokyo; Free Range at the Byrdcliffe/Kleinert Gallery in Woodstock, New York; and the 2024 ELIA European Emerging Artists Showcase. She has participated in residencies at the Royal College of Art in London and the Vermont Studio Center.

Karen divides her time between Ireland and New York, and in 2026  completed her MFA in Studio Art at the Burren College of Art, University of Galway. She holds a BA in Art History from Columbia University and an MA in Mythological Studies from Pacifica Graduate Institute in California.

Alongside her studio practice, she has worked across curatorial and arts initiatives, including grants administration for the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, producing online master classes for The Juilliard School, and editing interdisciplinary art-and-neuroscience content for the Rubin Museum of Art’s Brainwave series. Her collage and photography are featured in the annual Woodstock Travel Guide, and the books Sacred Mask, Sacred Dance, and Staging Steinbeck.