About

Karen Albanese Campbell is a printmaker, painter and art quilter. Karen earned her BFA from Boston University, being one of the first in her family to attend college. She was curated into the 15th Havana (Cuba) Biennial. She has exhibited nationally (Northern Illinois University Art Museum; Tubac (AZ) Center for the Arts; Bradbury Art Museum, Arkansas State University; Bath House Cultural Center, Dallas, TX) and around Ohio (Otterbein University; 934@CMH Gallery at John Glenn Airport; Cultural Arts Center). Solo exhibitions include the Dairy Barn Art Center (Athens, OH); The James Cancer Hospital Art Gallery at OSU; Wehrle Gallery at Ohio Dominican University; and The Grange Insurance Audubon in Columbus, OH. She exhibited at ArtPrize 2021, in Grand Rapids, MI. She has been awarded ”Best in Show” twice at the Ohio Exhibit at the Zanesville Art Museum, in two different categories: textiles and prints. She was awarded “Best in Show” and “Juror’s Choice” at the 2024 OH+5: Contemporary Art of Our Region exhibit, The Dairy Barn Art Center (Athens, OH) in 2024. She was awarded an Ohio Arts Council Professional Award at the Ohio State Fair. She has been awarded grants from the Ohio Arts Council and the Greater Columbus Arts Council, including a GCAC “Big Ideas” grant which funded her 2021 project “Just Walls Public Art” to create art for social service agency waiting rooms. Artist residencies include InCahoots in Petaluma, CA and Jerome Art Center in Jerome, AZ. She was chosen to participate in a cultural exchange with printmakers in Havana, Cuba at Taller Experimental de Graphica in 2023, 2024, and 2025. Karen had her art and involvement in the 15th Havana Biennial documented in a segment of WOSU’s “Broad & High” and a WOSU documentary still in production. The artist has art in public spaces at six Franklin County (Ohio) W.I.C. Clinics, Columbus Metropolitan Library (Reynoldsburg branch), CapitolOne and The Vineyard Community Center. She is in the permanent collection of the Columbus Museum of Art. Karen teaches printmaking at Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative and at Chautauqua Art in New York. Karen Albanese Campbell earned her B.F.A. from Boston University. She is the current president of Phoenix Rising Printmaking Cooperative in Columbus, OH.