Karen Navarro

With a background in fashion design, Argentinian-born artist Karen Navarro works with a highly stylized aesthetic on a diverse array of mediums that includes photography, collage, and sculpture. Her constructed portraits are known for the use of color theory, surreal scenes and minimalist details. Navarro's work expresses self-referential questions that connect in a much larger scale to ideas of construction of identity, societal expectations and the understanding of being. Her imagery prompts discourse about the subconscious will to comply with contemporary society's canons, when these are in fact misleading. Navarro also explores femininity as a cultural construct. In Houston since 2014, Navarro completed the certificate program in photography at Houston Center for Photography. In 2018, Navarro received a scholarship to the Glassell School of Art at The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, where she studied analog photography. Most recently, she received the Artadia Fellowship for 2019. Navarro's work is exhibited in the US and abroad. Her most recent shows include Elisabet Ney Museum in Austin, TX (2019), Lawndale Art Center in Houston, TX (2019), Presa House Gallery in San Antonio, TX (2019), Melkweg, Amsterdam, The Netherlands (2019), Museo de la Reconquista, Tigre, Argentina (2018), and Houston Center for Photography in Houston, TX (2018).

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