About
Deborah Karpman is a Los Angeles based artist who works in drawing and collage. She is currently the Assistant Dean for Research in the USC Rossier School of Education. Previously, she served as an faculty at the University of Montevallo in Alabama, where she taught Drawing, Advanced Drawing, Mixed Media and directed the Foundations program. She is a recipient of the Alabama State Council on the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship. Karpman’s work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at UNC Asheville, SCA Contemporary in Albuquerque, New Mexico, Massey University in New Zealand, Lawndale Art Center in Houston, Texas, Court Square Contemporary Art in Long Island City, NY, Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center in Las Vegas, Nevada, Beta Pictoris Gallery in Birmingham, Alabama, among many others. Karpman was an artist-in-residence at Stonehouse Residency for Contemporary Art. In 2022-2023, she was an American Council on Education Fellow. She holds a Doctorate in Education from UCLA, an MFA from University of Massachusetts Amherst, and a BA from Colgate University.
For more information please contact: deb.karpman at gmail dot com
EXHIBITIONS
2023
Shape - Form - Structure, Site: Brooklyn Gallery, New York, NY.
2020
12th Annual International Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina Asheville, Curated by Pamela Phatsimo-Sunstrum.
2013
Pulp, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL.
ArtPad SF Art Fair (with Beta Pictoris Gallery), San Francisco, CA.
2012
Four Types of Ambiguity, Artfolk Gallery, Birmingham, AL.
Unexpected Protocol, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL, November 2012.
2011
Excursion, Erdeich Architecture Space, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL (solo show).
MinUMENTAL, Trifecta Gallery, Las Vegas, NV.
The Violent Nature of Love: Patterns of Comfort, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL.
Neither a Myth Nor a Confession, Court Square Project Space, Long Island City, NY.
Pulp, Beta Pictoris Gallery, Birmingham, AL.
Alabama Contemporary Arts Biennial, Johnson Center for the Arts/Troy-Pike Cultural Complex, Troy, AL.
Painting with Pictures II, Art Jail, New York, NY.
2010
In and Out of Whack, (2 person exhibition with Kimberly Hennessy) Traveled to the following locations throughout 2011 and 2012:
Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas.
Chester F. Sidell Gallery, Essex Art Center, Lawrence, MA.
SCA Contemporary, Albuquerque, NM.
Las Vegas Contemporary Art Center, Las Vegas, NV.
Arts Place, Portland Indiana.
A Little Divided, Second Row Studios/ROAM Projects, Birmingham, AL. (solo exhibition).
Soft Landing, Charles Harris Library Gallery, Wise, VA.
Revival, Bloch Hall Art Gallery, University of Montevallo, Montevallo, AL.
Cut Copy, The Engine Room, Massey University, Wellington, New Zealand.
17th Annual SECAC/MACAA Member’s Show, 1708 Gallery, Richmond, VA, Juried by Joe Seipel, Vice President for Academic Services, Savannah College of Art and Design.
Spring Break, Caelum Gallery, Curated by Nicolas Bergman and Misuku Takemoto, NY, NY.
New Works: Misty Bennett, Deb Karpman, and Ted Metz, Johnson Center for the Arts, Troy-Pike Cultural Complex, Troy, AL.
Art of the State, Tennessee Valley Museum of Art, Tuscumbia, AL, Juried by Jill Chancey, Curator, Lauren Rogers Museum of Art, Laurel, Mississippi.
Drawing Discourse, University of North Carolina at Asheville, Juried by Deborah Rockman, Professor of Art at Kendall College of Art and Design at Ferris University.
2009
Small Works, 440 Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, Juried by Charles Long.
Paper Explorations, Bridgewater State College.
Flower Power, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
UMass/RISD Exchange, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI.
Regalia and Repetition, MFA Thesis Exhibition, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts.
Selected Works, Essential Design, Boston MA.
2008
Radius, Herter Art Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
New York/New England/New Talent, Hampden Gallery, Umass Amherst, Amherst, MA.
Remedy, Gallery 180, Illinois Institute of Art, Chicago, IL.
Paper in the Wind: A Small Works Show Part I, Real-Form Project Space/Article Projects, Williamsburg, NY.
Boston Young Contemporaries, Juried by Roger White, Jackie Gendel, Tom McGrath, Boston University, 808 Gallery, Boston, MA.
New Art 2008, MPG Contemporary, Curated by Rachel Rosenfeld-Safo, Director of Curatorial Affairs, DeCordova Museum and Sculpture Park, Boston, MA.
Midway, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
More is More, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, (Curated show with Kimberly Hennessy), Amherst, MA.
2007
Visual Noise, UMC Gallery, University of Colorado-Boulder, Colorado.
Transcribing the Figure, Western Oregon University, Campbell Hall Gallery.
Boston Printmaker’s Biennial Print Exhibition, Boston University 808 Gallery, Boston, MA.
Counterpoints, Herter Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, Amherst, MA.
The Fantastical, Student Union Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA.
DISTINCTIONS
American Council on Education, Fellow, 2023.
Visual Arts Fellowship, Alabama State Council on the Arts, 2011-2012.
University Teaching Fellowship, University of Montevallo, 2011-2012.
Harriet Wagner Prize in Art and Art History, Colgate University, 2005.
Marguerite R. Josel Prize, National Arts Club, New York, NY 2005.
RESIDENCIES
Stonehouse Residency for Contemporary Art, Miramonte, CA, 2011.