Karen Thomas

Biography

Born 1963, lives and works in Montpellier, France
1982-6 B.A. (Hons) Froebel Institute, Roehampton, London

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2016
Art Below, New Orleans
Postcards from the Edge for Visual Aids, New York
2015
Affordable Art Fair, Hamburg
Zetter Hotel, London
The Other Art Fair, Truman Brewery, London
Art on a postcard at Moniker Projects
House of Fairytales sillent auction at The Other Art Fair
SELECT Art Fair, New York
Auction for Elephant Haven by Kate Garner and Rosebery's Auction House, London
ABSC_ND_FLUX_2015, Vanda Project
Dynamite Gallery, Brighton
Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, New York
International Postcard Show, Surface Gallery,Nottingham
2014
Factory-Gallery, London
Berliner Liste, Berlin
Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
Red Propeller Gallery
The Other Art Fair, London
International Postcard show, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
Postcards from the Edge, Visual Aids, New York
Salonely, Embassy Gallery Edinborough
2013
PEINTRESX6, Montpellier
Pictovirus, Yann Dumoget and Karen Thomas, collages et dessins
Art Below at Regent's Park underground station
Salon d'automne, Paris
Karen Thomas illustrates Stéphane Mallarmé, 'le nénuphar blanc',
Collections Parce que des Editions Luis Casinada (artist's book)
Barcelona Showcase, Casa Battlo, Barcelona
Postcards from the edge, Visual Aids, New York
International postcard exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham

2012
Art Below, Regent's Park tube station, London
Jean Cocteau, unique et multiple, Musée Fabre Montpellier( ‘A Shelley’, Editions Luis Casinada)
2010
‘Miscellaneous’,Galerie Saint Ravy, Montpellier
2008
Karen Thomas "peintures",
Galerie Yves Faurie, Sète
Château l'Hospitalet, Narbonne
2007
Festival du Roman Noir, Musée de Frontignan
2006
Portraits de Quartier (Quartiers Libres)
La Baignoire, Montpellier
(Series of fifty portraits 20x 20cm)
Texts by Magali-Wiénér-Chevalier
2003
- "Des nus et des nues ..ou les aventures de la Percheronne 1853-2003",
Musée Gustave Courbet, Ornans
2002
-"Hommage à un musée", Galerie Jean-Yves Franch Font, Montpellier
-"Louis Philippe Vivien et Karen Thomas", Galerie Jean-Yves Franch Font, Montpellier
1999
- St’ART, Foire d’art contemporain de Strasbourg
1998
- Galerie Didier Vesse, Aigues Mortes
1997
-Théâtre du Chai du Terral, Saint Jean de Védas
1995
- 'L'Ésprit du lieu', Carré Saint-Anne, Montpellier
1994
- 'Adam et Eve', l'Usine, Nîmes
- Féria de vic Fezensac
1993
- 'Young european artists', Barbican Center, Londres
- 'Grandeur Nature', Mairie de Béziers
- 'Destination Plagette', Mairie de Vauvert
- 'Anda Colores , Anda Lucia', Musée de Frontignan
-'Fiesta de toros, Fiesta de Todos', Espace Hérault, Paris
1992
-'Les Vendémiaires', Saint Mathieu de Tréviers
1991
- 'Young european artists', BP Gallery Bruxelles
- Espace Kashiyama, Paris
-Galerie Maguy-Marraine, Lyon
1990
- Galerie Acte 4, Montpellier

IlLLUSTRATIONS
2002
-La Poste, postcard for the launch of a series of stamps on the theme of transport 'le siècle au fil des timbres'
2000
-Ziote modiste, illustrations for hat maker
1998
"Parler aux Anges", Pierre Vassiliu, cover for cd and single1997
-"A Shelley", Jean Cocteau, Editions Luis Casinada, Montpellier, illustrations for an unedited text byJean Cocteau
1996
-IDATE (Institut de l'audiovisuel et des télécommunications en Europe)creation of an image
for diverse communication supports
1994
-Festival de Jazz de Mèze, Poster
-'Calend'art', Mairie de Sète, illustration for the m...

The artist at work