kkdimit - Resume

Solo Exhibitions:

2019: "Fragmented Beauty: The Art of Karen Kettering Dimit", The LIC Arts Open Gallery, NYC
2018: St. Botolph Conservatory Gallery, Boston
2012: LIC Art Center Gallery, LIC, NYC
2011: St. Botolph Conservatory Gallery, Boston
2009: AES Gallery, LIC, NY
2004: Pen and Brush Gallery, NY
2003: CMCB Gallery, Boston
2002: Wainwright Bank, Kendall Square, Cambridge, MA
2001: Media Gallery, Boston
2001: CMCB Gallery, Boston
2000: CMCB Gallery, Boston
1999: CMCB Gallery, Boston
1996: Church of the New Jerusalem, Boston
1995-2012: Open Studios in Boston South End, Tribeca, NYC and LIC, NYC

Small Group Shows:

2016: "Wonder Women", Jude Amsel, curator, Gold Coast Arts Center, Great Neck, NY
2014: "Light, Sound, Movement!", Jude Amsel, curator, Gold Coast Arts Center, Great Neck, NY
2014: "Shattering Expectations: Mosaics 2014", Featured Artist, NT Pipgras, curator @Philadelphia's Magic Gardens Gallery
2012: "TERRA INCOGNITA: Mosaic Explorations", The Gallery@Penn College
2009: Somerville Museum invitational: "Mosaic Voices" exhibition, Somerville, MA
2008: Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA: "The Creative Tension"
2004: Ayer Lofts Gallery, Lowell, MA: "With Wings..."
2002: Facets/Fusion sculpture show, NY, NY
2001: University Place Gallery, Cambidge Art Association Juried 3-person show

Select Group Shows:

2024: "Behind The Mask: The Art of Women Who Weld", curated by KK Dimit and Janet Rutkowski, CultureLab, LIC
2023: "Past Tense/Future Infinite": juried Sculptors Guild, CultureLab, LIC
2019: Mosaic Arts International juried exhibition, The Parthenon Museum, Nashville TN
2018: "Politics of Space": juried by Sculptors Guild, Plaxall Gallery, LIC
2018: "Manipulated Life: puppets", curated by Edjo Wheeler, Plaxall Gallery, LIC
2018: 2018 Mosaic Arts International, juried show, BSA Space, Boston, MA
2018: OBJECTIFIED: 3D Fine Art Mosaics, L'Attitude Gallery, Boston, MA
2017: LIC-A Winter Sculpture Show, Plaxall Gallery, LIC
2017: Earthly Delights, @ Plaxall Gallery, curated by Edjo Wheeler and Tana Sirios, LIC, N
2017: UPSTANDERS, @The Factory, LIC Arts Open, NY
2016: "Take 10", invitational @ The Gallery at Penn College, Williamsport, PA
2016: Mosaic Arts International @ Women's History Museum, San Diego, CA
2016: The Sculpture Show, curated by Richard Mazda, LIC Arts Open, LIC, NY
2015: LIC-A 30th Anniversary Celebration, Nancy Gesimondo, curator, The Paper Factory, LIC, NY
2015: Mosaic Arts International juried show @ The Painted Bride Art Center, Philadelphia, PA
2015: "Made in Queens", Nancy Gesimondo, curator, Front Street Gallery, Patterson, NY
2014: "Go.Figure.", LIC Arts Open Signature Show, Gotham Center, LIC, NYC
2013: Mosaic Arts International @ Museum of Glass, Tacoma, WA
2013: "Trans-Position" Invitational @ INScape, Seattle, WA
2013: "Idle Hands", LIC Arts Open Signature Show, Gotham Center, LIC, NYC
2012: M55 Gallery: "In the place we live", Juror: Juan Gabriel Zorrilla, LIC NYC
2011: M55 Gallery: "In the place we live", Jurors: Assa Bigger and Coarlina Penefiel, LIC NYC
2011: Jeffrey Leder Gallery: "Made in Long Island City", LIC NYC
2010: Pen & Brush: "Body Image", Juror: Michele Kort, Sr. Editor, Ms. Magazine, NYC
2010: Speak Easy Gallery: "Interpreting the Figure", Boonton, NJ
2010: "Exhibition in Print", Juror: Scott Shield, curator, Crocker Art Museum, Mosaic Art Now Mag.
2009: Mosaic Arts International @ Museum of Man, San Diego
2009: Pen & Brush Juried Sculpture Show, Juror, Ellen Landis, Grounds for Sculpture, NYC
2009: Armory Week Invitational, Paint an Studios Gallery, LIC, NY
2008: FIRST PLACE AWARD: Pen & Brush Sculpture Show, Juror: Philip Listengart, NYC
2007: Invitational: MAPEI Co. 70th Anniversary panel design, permanently installed in Milan, IT
2006: BEST IN SHOW: Mosaic Art International, High Risk Gallery, Chicago
2006: Pen & Brush: Women's History show, Juror: Doris Wyman
2004: Higgins Art Gallery: "Mosaic Women", Juror: Linda Dadak, W. Barnstable, MA
2002: Gallery of Social/Political Art: "Who is the Enemy"
2002: Essex Art Center 9th Annual Show, Juror: David Sullivan
2002: Dragonfly Gallery, Oak Bluffs, Martha's Vineyard
2000: Cambridge Art Association juried show, "Dreams and Fantasies"

Awards:

CONTEMPORARY INNOVATION, 2018 Mosaic Arts International, sponsored by SAMA
FIRST PLACE AWARD, 2008, 62nd Annual Pen & Brush Sculpture Show, juror: Philip Listengart
BEST IN SHOW, 2006, Mosaic Art International, sponsored by the Society of American Mosaic Artists
"Mosaic Art Now" magazine, 2008, Awarded to be in the first edition, published by Mosaic Rocks, LLC

Selected Collections:

Skylands Museum of Art, Lafayette, NJ
MAPEI Co., Milan, IT
Community Music Center of Boston
Jerome Scally
David Lapin
Gorilla Capital Management
Graham and Christine Renny
Lynne Menichetti
Laura Howat
Private collections in Boston, London, Los Angeles, Washington, DC, New York, Byreuth, Ottawa, Toronto

Member:

Society of American Mosaic Artists: www.americanmosaics.org
LICArtists, Inc: www.licartists.org
St. Botolph Club, senior artist member

Arts Education:

2019 - present: Metal Fabrication at The Art Students League of NY
2005-2011: Mosaic and sculpture workshops with Sherri Warner Huner, Verazoano Marzi, Lynne Chinn, Sophie Drouin, Ilana Shafir, Sonia King, Emma Biggs, Giulio Menossi
2004: Mosaic Workshop with Lucio Orsoni and Maestro Cucco, Venice, Italy
2003: Sculpting workshops with Aileen Fields, Chris Pelletier, and David Klass, NYC
2001-2: Stone sculpting with Nevin Littlehale and Ailene Fields, New York, NY
2001: Fresco-painting workshop by Daniel Bozhkov, NYC
1999 and 2000: mixed-media summer programs with the Museum School, Venice, Italy
1999: Mixed media, Arts New England Summer Workshop, Bennington, VT
1997-2000: The School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA

Other Education:

L.G.S.M., Vocal Performance, Guildhall School of Music, London, England
M.A., Conducting, California State University, Northridge
B.M., Voice, California State University, Northridge

Publications and Press:

New York Post, October, 2005, pg. 26
Mosaic Art Now, 1st Edition, 2008, published by Mosaic Rocks, LLC
Lowell Sun, May 1, 2008, pg. S3
2009 Mosaic Arts International, published by SAMA, pg. 31
St. Botolph Club 2009 Biennial
2010 Mosaic Art Now, "Exhibition in Print", Curated by Scott Shields, Ph.D., Chief Curator of the Crocker Art Museum
Mosaique Magazine, January, 2013, pg. 40
Mosaique Magazine, 2016
2016 Mosaic Arts International Catalogue
MAANZ Feb. 2017 eNewsletter, pg. 13 "Magnificent Mosaics" article about my work by Julie Sperling

Juror:

2024: "Behind The Mask: The Art of Women Who Weld", co-curated with Janet Rutkowski, CultureLab, LIC and Union Gallery at Wagner College, Staten Island, NY
2019: The Margo Harris Hammerschlag 2019 Direct Carving Award, Open call, for National Association Women in the Arts, co-juror with Ailene Fields
2018: "Who.Are.You?" National Juried Exhibition, Atlantic Gallery, Chelsea, NYC