NEWS, PUBLICATIONS, EXHIBITIONS
Inaugural Unseen California Research Cohort: Karolina Karlic, Dionne Lee.
Mercedes Dorame, Tarrah Krajnak, Aspen Mays. www.unseencalifornia.com
The Voices of Photographers on Nature and Environment
Published in IMA, a Japanese photographic magazine, chief editor of Aperture, Lesley Martin, introduces Unseen California to an international audience and writes:
“American landscape photography cannot be disentangled from the colonial history of Northern Europeans surveying, settling, and selling the American wilderness. Contemporary American photographers working toward a greater awareness of our current climate crisis and a more complete understanding of human impact on the natural world have fully absorbed these lessons. The challenge today is how to approach environmental issues with a holistic understanding of the complex forces that shape our landscape. How can photography about the environment and our use of it grapple with the natural world, while also addressing the politics, and the economic and social histories of the land in which we live? Unseen California’s proposition and ambition feels tremendously invigorating in an area of photography desperately in need of reinvention.”
“The Photographer Tracing the Globalization of Rubber” May 2019
“Karlic has made this blight-prone and economically essential plant the focus of her latest series, Rubberlands (2014–ongoing). “Plantations are precise, calculated machines of replication, ecologies devoted to repetition and production, not very different in concept from the assembly line,” Karlic says. A photograph of the multibillion-dollar Minha Casa, Minha Vida (my house, my life) development in Brazil, at the confluence of the Tapajós and Amazon rivers, similarly emphasizes a commitment to efficiency: identical white houses stretch to the horizon in perfect rows, like trees in a plantation.”
Assistant Professor Karolina Karlic awarded 2019 Hellman Fellowship (2019-2020)
Established by Warren & Chris Hellman and their children in 1994, the purpose of the Hellman Fellows Program is to support the research of promising assistant professors who show capacity for great distinction in their chosen fields of endeavor.
The Stanford Department of Art & Art History, presents
Academic Practice: Bay Area Photography Now,
on view July 24 through August 26, 2018 with a reception on Thursday, July 26, from 4-6pm.
Curated by Jonathan Calm, this exhibit is a showcase of work by seven Bay Area photographers who also teach photography at various schools in the region. Artists included: Karolina Karlic, Youngsuk Suh, Lindsey White, Jessica Ingram, Sean McFarland, Catherine Wagner, Jamil Hellu, Allan deSouza
Video Produced by Light Work — Special thanks to Daylight Blue Media http://daylightblue.com Light Work http://lightwork.org Music: "Gears Spinning" by Podington Bear
Solo Exhibition
Karolina Karlic: Rubberlands
March 20 – July 27, 2018
Kathleen O. Ellis Gallery - Light Work
Syracuse, New York
Reception & Gallery Talk:
Thursday, March 29, 5-7pm
Rubberlands Exhibition Catalog available online
Contact Sheet 196: Karolina Karlic published by Light Work. 2018
Interview “Between Myth and Reality”
“TRANSMISSÃO FORDLANDIA” Radio EE Live Interview Broadcast from Fordlandia.
Ford Factory, Fordlandia, Brazil
Sept 16 8am – Sept 17 8pm, 2017 (-3GMT) all night long
English / Spanish / Portuguese
Karolina Karlic: Rubberlands featured on Saint Lucy by Mark Alice Durant.
Lecture California College of the Arts, CCA. Rubberlands discussed at the Oakland Campus, March 6th, 2017.
UCSC Lecture, January, 26, 2016 Karolina Karlic to present: Personal Photography & New Narratives in Labor & Diaspora
Lewis & Clark College, Reinventing Documentary: The Art of Allan Sekula
PRIMER / ELEMENTARZ Limited Edition Book Launch, August 23rd, 2014 - Cohen Gallery, Los Angeles Cohen Gallery Book Launch of PRIMER, August 23rd, 4-7pm
Rubberlands / Cultural Exchange Fellowship / Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Recipient of the 2013 Cultural Exchange International Fellowship, jointly offered by the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Sacatar Foundation
June 2013 - Light Work Artist in Residence
http://lightwork.org/blog/2013/02/announcing-the-2013-light-work-artists-in-residence/
October 3rd, 2012 - Visiting Artist Lecture 12:30 p.m.
Baron and Ellin Gordon Art Galleries at ODU, 4509 Monarch Way, Norfolk
September 15th, 2012 - Old Dominion University
"Photographs with Teeth" in conjunction with the 35th Annual Literary Festival: "Words With Teeth." Exhibition Opening - Norfolk, Virginia
June 1st, 2012 - Minneapolis College of Art and Design
"About Change" - Exhibition Opening Minneapolis, Minnesota
April 30th, 2012 - Visiting Artist Lecture
CALARTS Lecture at 1pm Monday April 30th, 2012
Karolina Karlic awarded the Guggenheim Fellowship
May 2011 JOHN SIMON GUGGENHEIM FELLOWSHIP IN THE CREATIVE ARTS
The John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation announced the winners of its 2011 Guggenheim Fellowships yesterday. Eight photographers were among the roughly 80 individuals awarded fellowships in the Creative Arts:
Katherine Turczan, Karolina Karlic, Jonathan Lowenstein, Richard Mosse, Pipo Hieu Nguyen-duy, Betsy Schneider, Penelope Umbrico and John M. Willis.
Founded in 1922, the Fellowship program is intended to “add to the educational, literary, artistic, and scientific power of this country, and also to provide for the cause of better international understanding,” Photographers who have previously won Guggenheim Fellowships include Ansel Adams, Diane Arbus, Robert Adams, Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Lewis Baltz. Robert Frank, Ray K. Metzker and Joel Meyerowitz.