Bio
Karen Davis is a photographer, teacher and gallerist.
Her work is featured at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA); the Boston Drawing Project/Carroll and Sons Gallery; the Clark Gallery, Lincoln, MA and in the collections of the Center for Photography at Woodstock (CPW) at the Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art; Lishui Museum of Photography (China); the Houghton Rare Books Library, Harvard University and in corporate and private collections.
Karen received the 2009 Artists Fellowship Award from CPW, and is a 2011 New York Foundation for the Arts’ (NYFA) MARK artist. Her solo and featured exhibits include, in 2012, My Family and Me at the Cabane Gallery, Phoenicia NY and Women 360 at the South Shore Art Center, Cohasset MA. Other recent exhibitions include The McCann Family, the Griffin Museum of Photography, Winchester MA; Close to Home, the Lishui International Photography Festival, China; and The McCann Family, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA. She was the featured artist in the inaugural issue of The Women’s Review of Books and her photographs were included in “hrlm: pictures” at the Studio Museum in Harlem.
Karen teaches portfolio development, marketing and word-image courses at the Griffin Museum of Photography and in workshops at the Davis Orton Gallery, Hudson NY. She has also taught at Lesley University’s Lesley Seminars and the Art Institute of Boston; Radcliffe Seminars, Harvard University; X-College/Tufts University and Suffolk University.
She and her husband, Mark Orton, are co-directors of the Davis Orton Gallery in Hudson NY where they exhibit photography, mixed media and photobooks. Karen has been an invited portfolio reviewer for FotoFest in Houston TX, The Griffin Museum/PRC Portfolio Reviews and Photolucida’s Critical Mass competition.
