ABOUT

EMAIL: studio@karendavid.co.uk
INSTAGRAM: @karensdavid

Karen David is a London-based artist, writer and lecturer. Exhibitions include: Bloomberg New Contemporaries 2024 touring The Levinsky Gallery, Plymouth (2024) and ICA, London (2025); Liquid Crystal Display touring MIMA, Middlesbrough (2019) and Site Gallery, Sheffield (2018); Pure Reason Tint of Violet, VITRINE (2015), The Collector’s Room at JGM Gallery (curated-2020); The Fortune Telling Fan commission for Worcester City Art Gallery and Museum (2025), and The Restless Surge of the Liquid State; solo exhibition at SE8 Gallery (2024).

David explores fiction as a tool for practice-based research. Her PhD activated an imaginary commune where residents search for a ‘viable essence’ through liquid paint material experiments. She has taken research trips to Marfa, Texas, Roswell, New Mexico, Loch Ness, Scotland, Tabernas Desert, Spain, and Bauhaus School in Dessau and Weimar, Germany to research her ongoing investigations into myth and communities.

David has an MA Fine Art from Wimbledon College of Arts (2012), BA (Hons) Mixed Media Art, University of Westminster (2004) and a PGC in Research Methods from University of Worcester (2021) and a PhD from University of Worcester (2023). David has over 10 years teaching experience with her most recent post as Lecturer in BA Painting and Printmaking at Glasgow School of Art and as an Associate Lecturer in Critical Contextual Studies and on BA Fine Art at London Metropolitan University.

David is the founder of Cork Lined Rooms, an artist studio interview project, and was curator of Perimeter Space at Griffin Gallery from 2016-18. Her curatorial practice involves transforming gallery spaces into a fictional room such as The Mythmaking Agency (upcoming), The Collector’s Room (Houdini) (2020), JGM Gallery, and The Waiting Room, Wimbledon Space (2018).