Born 1993 in Richmond, VA
Based in Pittsburgh, PA
EDUCATION
2015 B.A. History of Art & Architecture, Economics, University of Pittsburgh
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2024 TWO OPEN MOUTHS, Bottom Feeder Books, Pittsburgh, PA (forthcoming)
2022 安詳 (or, when i die i want to die peacefully), Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2023 Fellowship 23, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
2023 Year of the Rabbit, JADED Collective, Radiant Hall Studios, McKees Rocks, PA
2022 Benefit Auction 2022, Silver Eye Center for Photography, Pittsburgh, PA
2022 Plain Silk, Uncarved Wood, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
2022 Tigress: Lunar New Year Offerings, Seafoam Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 We Are the Global Majority: Decolonizing SPACE, #notwhitecollective, SPACE Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2021 In Bloom, Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media, Pittsburgh PA
2019 Wild Things, CDCP Project Space, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 2019 New Member Exhibition, Associated Artists of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh Center for Arts & Media, Pittsburgh, PA
2018 Summer Sun Day Dream, The Lab @ Silver Eye, Pittsburgh, PA
2017 Artists Resist, St. Peter's Chelsea, New York, NY
CURATORIAL EXPERIENCE
2019 We Are Here: Asian Pacific Islander American Artists in Pittsburgh, Greater Pittsburgh Arts Council, Pittsburgh, PA
2019 Lunar New Year Exhibition, Everyday Cafe, Pittsburgh, PA
2015 Exhibition^3: Documenta 5, Harald Szeemann, The Artists, University Art Gallery, University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA
RESIDENCIES & AWARDS
2023 Image Text Workshop Residency, Cornell Image Text MFA, Ithaca, NY
2023 Keystone Award Honorable Mention, Fellowship 23, Silver Eye Center for Photography
2021 Visual Arts Coalition for Equity (VACE) Fellowship
2017 Huayu Enrichment Scholarship, Ministry of Education, Taiwan
2015 Fulbright U.S. Student Grant, English Teaching Assistant, Taiwan
SELECT TEACHING, PRESENTATIONS & WORKSHOPS
2024 Guest speaker, Photography for Non-Majors, Point Park University
2023 Guest speaker, Student Leadership Retreat, The Ellis School
2023 Fellowship 23 Conversations, Silver Eye Center for Photography, with Samantha Box
2023 Guest lecturer, Black & White Photo 1, Carnegie Mellon University School of Fine Arts
2022 Examining Identity Through Analog Photography, Assemble PGH
2022 Family Matters: Writing Immigrant Stories, OPA Live! Series, Office for Public Art, with Cathy Linh Che
2022 Self Portrait Photography & Identity, Visual Arts Career Orientation Program (VACOP), Associated Artists of Pittsburgh
2020 SIX x ATE: Sphere, Casey Droege Cultural Productions
2020 Tiny Talk with Karen Lue, Small Mall
2020 Asian Americans and Representations in Arts & Media, Pittsburgh Racial Justice Summit
WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
2022 GREEN GRASS, self-published
2021 “Lonely and Gorgeous Tears: Essay by Karen Lue,” Bunker Review
2019 trying your luck, self-published
2019 TABLE Magazine Fall 2019 issue, contributing photographer
2018 SLANT’D Issue 02: Light & Dark, contributing artist
2018 安詳 (or, when I die I want to die peacefully), self-published
SELECT PRESS
2022 ”Karen Lue @ Silver Eye Center for Photography,” F-Stop Magazine
2021 "Pittsburgh arts organizations focus on empowering local artists with 2021 VACE Fellowship," Pittsburgh City Paper
2019 "Catch work by Asian Pacific Islander American artists at July 12 Downtown Gallery Crawl," Pittsburgh City Paper
2019 "‘Boutique’ Co-Working Spaces Find a Niche Nurturing Small Businesses," The New York Times
2018 “The Reading Series in a Chelsea Church,” LitHub
Full CV available upon request