Karen Lofgren works across sculpture, installation, and mixed mediums, referencing research on science, ancient ritual and history, from a feminist and decolonial perspective. The work is ultimately about time, the youth of our species, and the brevity of human lifespans on geological and astronomical scales. The work links cultural systems within other wild systems, teasing out the way we perceive shared consciousness over time. She is a lifelong gardener, building living collections of medicinal and hallucinogenic species in Los Angeles, Toronto, British Columbia, and the lower Amazon rainforest.
She was awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship; a Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant; and was Fulbright Core Scholar at Central St. Martins College. Her monograph artist book, emBRUJAda: Charms for the Living, was published in 2023 by Set Margins’ press. She has shown in museums and commercial galleries for the past 25 years. She holds an MFA from CalArts; karenlofgren.net
