BIOGRAPHY
Karina Kraenzle is a photo-based artist currently living and working in Ottawa, Canada.
In recent years, she has combined multiple media with original and found photography, producing bodies of work in series as well as in site-specific installations. An ongoing subject in Kraenzle’s work is photography itself – its special relationship to time, memory, and the uncanny - as well as its unique capacity to contain certain fictions, and uncertain truths.
Karina’s work has been exhibited in numerous galleries, including: Blink Gallery, The Ottawa Art Gallery, Toronto Image Works, Galerie Jean-Claude Bergeron, La Petite Mort Gallery, Cube Gallery, Exposure Gallery, Shenkman Centre for the Arts, the Ottawa School of Art Gallery, Galerie L’Imagier, Fieldwork, A.W.O.L. Gallery, SPAO, The Toronto School of Art Gallery, The John B. Aird Gallery, Festival X and Contact Festival.
EDUCATION
1985 University of Waterloo, B.A., Literature
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2016 City of Ottawa Project Grant/BLINK
2015 Ontario Arts Council Project Grant/BLINK
2014 Ontario Arts Council – Exhibition Assistance Grant - “Speaking Volumes” for FIELDWORK
2013 City of Ottawa Project Grant/BLINK
2012 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant – “Strange Weather”
City of Ottawa Individual Creation Grant – “Strange Weather”
City of Ottawa Project Grant /BLINK
Ontario Arts Council Project Grant / BLINK
2011 Ontario Arts Council Exhibition Assistance Grant – “Bloom”
City of Ottawa Project Grant/BLINK
2010 Shenkman Inaugural Articipate Grant and Exhibition / BLINK
City of Ottawa Project Grant / BLINK
2009 City of Ottawa Individual Creation Grant - “Twisted”
2004 Honourable Mention, Art and Paper VI, Galerie d’Art Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2016 Moving Pictures, Blink Gallery, Ottawa
2015 BLINK Residency Exhibition, Blink Gallery, Ottawa
2014 Enchanted, Blink Gallery, Ottawa
Speaking Volumes, for FIELDWORK *with Barbara Cuerden, Maberly, ON
2013 Bloom, TIW Gallery, Toronto
2012 Strange Weather, Blink Gallery, Ottawa /FESTIVAL
Bloom, Cube Gallery, Ottawa
2011 Bloom, OSA Gallery, Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa
Fold, Spindle, Mutilate, Red Wall Gallery, SPAO, Ottawa
Strange Weather, Deep Sleep, Blink Gallery, Ottawa
2010 Twisted, Blink Gallery, Ottawa/ FESTIVAL X
Déjà Vu and Beauty Marks, Exposure Gallery, Ottawa
2009 Déjà Vu, Blink Gallery, Ottawa
Elsewhere, *with artist Meaghan Haughian, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa
2007 Picturing Paradise, Blink Gallery, Ottawa/ FESTIVAL X
2006 Makeovers, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa
Human Remains, Centre d’Exposition l’Imagier, Aylmer, QC
2005 Human Remains, A.W.O.L. Gallery, Toronto/ CONTACT Photo Festival
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Figureworks 2018, St. Brigid’s Centre for the Arts, Ottawa
Luck, Ottawa Arts Council, Ottawa
2017 Public Living Room Project, BLINK Collective, 100in1Day Action, All Saints Event Space, Ottawa
2015 Header House – The Untold Story –Nuit Blanche Ottawa, installation, BLINK Gallery
Le pARTy, Ottawa Art Gallery
2014 City of Ottawa Additions Fine Art Collection Exhibition, Karsh Masson Gallery
Le pARTy , Ottawa Art Gallery
2013 (In) Habitus: The Art of Collecting, BLINK, Red Head Gallery, Toronto
Blink Night Café, Nuit Blanche. Ottawa, interactive café and exhibition, BLINK Gallery
2012 Exquisite Corpse, La Petite Mort, Ottawa
Beacon, Nuit Blanche Ottawa, light and sound installation, BLINK Gallery
Close to Home, City of Ottawa Additions Fine Arts Collection Exhibition, City Hall Gallery
Threaded, Homage to Louise Bourgeois, Shenkman Arts Centre, Ottawa
Le pARTy, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa
2010 Toronto Art Fair, Cube Gallery, Toronto
Singular, Red Wall Gallery, SPAO, Ottawa
Re-Fresh, Ottawa Art Gallery
Before and After, Launch Projects, Toronto School of Art / CONTACT Photo Festival
2009 Pix and Paint, Cube Gallery, Ottawa
Likeness, Red Wall Gallery, SPAO, Ottawa
2008 Sketch, Saw Gallery, Ottawa
Toy With Me, Red Wall Gallery, SPAO, Ottawa
Women on Men, La Petite Mort Gallery, Ottawa
2007 Female, Red Wall Gallery, SPAO, Ottawa/ FESTIVAL X
Blink Group Show, Cube Gallery, Ottawa
2006 Kindred, Cube Gallery, Ottawa
2005 Square Foot NYC, Williamsburg, Brooklyn
Metamorphosis, Ontario Society of Artists Juried Exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto
2004 Society of Canadian Artists, 37th National Juried Exhibition, Montreal
Art and Paper VI, National Juried Exhibition, Galerie d’Art Jean-Claude Bergeron, Ottawa
RESIDENCIES
2017/18 Artscape Gibraltar Point Residency Toronto, Ontario
2016 Le Chalet, The Cottage Residency - Luskville, Quebec
2015 Blink Gallery – Ottawa, Ontario
2014 Fieldwork – Maberley, Quebec
JURIES and OTHER ROLES
President/Artistic Director Blink Collective
Juror City of Ottawa Public Art Program, City of Ottawa Fine Art Collection Direct Purchase, AOE Arts Council, Galerie La Fab, Blink Gallery
Co-founder/Co-ordinator C.O.A.T. (Central Ottawa Artists’ Tour) 2002-4
PRESS and PUBLICATIONS
Blink Catalogue - 10-year anniversary catalogue - 2015
Border Crossings – Review of Bloom by Petra Halkes, Issue #123 - Fall 2012
Guerilla – “Through a Scanner Darkly” Review of Bloom by Barbara Cuerden, Issue #31 – Spring 2012
tonyphoto.com -blog review of Strange Weather by Tony Fouhse, September 2012
Big Beat, Ottawa Citizen, blog review of Strange Weather, by Peter Simpson, September 2012
COLLECTIONS
City of Ottawa Fine Arts Collection (2011, 2013), Cirque du Soleil, School for the Photographic Arts in Ottawa, private collections