Karen Kilimnik

September 26 November 1, 2025

New York: 64th Street

Gladstone Gallery presents an exhibition of works by Karen Kilimnik from the late 1980s onward, following the gallery’s presentation of new paintings earlier this year. Surveying Kilimnik’s career-long devotion to diverse media, the exhibition attests to both her central role in the revitalization of painting, as well as to her masterful and genre-transgressing impulse to negate the distance between personal, art historical, and cultural archives. The exhibition is on view September 26 through November 1 at Gladstone’s 64th Street location in New York.

Work

Karen Kilimnik

Mary Calling Up a Storm, 1996
Oil on canvas
18 x 14 inches (45.7 x 35.6 cm)

About

Karen Kilimnik (b.1955, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) studied architecture at Temple University, Philadelphia. Kilimnik’s work has been included in major exhibitions at the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Musée d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, and Carnegie Museum of Art, among others. Her works are held in leading institutional collections across the U.S. including the Metropolitan Museum of Art, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, Museum of Modern Art, Carnegie Museum of Art, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, and Whitney Museum of American Art, among others; and international collections including Fondazione Prada, Fondazione Di Vignola, and Statens Museum for Kunst.

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