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KAREN KNORR 
Born Frankfurt am Main, Germany
Currently lives and works in London


SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2009

Karen Knorr, Musee Carnavalet, Paris ( forthcoming)

Karen Knorr, Musee Gajac, Villeneuve sur Lot ( forthcoming)

2008 Karen Knorr, Musee de la Chasse et de la Nature, Paris  (Jan 8- May 10 )
2006  Karen Knorr @Photobiennale, Brescia, , Castello, Miglio, Italy
2005 Karen Knorr Fables, Photo & Co, Turin |  Press release
2004

Karen Knorr Menagerie, Centre d'Art Quevilly, France
Karen Knorr, Histoires Naturelles, Musée de la Créche,Chaumont, France
Karen Knorr Menagerie, Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva

2003 Genii Loci, Les Filles du Calvaire, Brussels
  Karen Knorr, Les Filles du Calvaire, Paris  |  Press Release
2002 Sanctuary, Miart, Milano *
  The Venery, Cheverny Castle, Cheverny, France *
2001 Spirits, Palazzo Tafini, Savigliano, Italy *
  Art Lovers, Geukens De Vil, Knokke Zoute , Belgium
Sanctuary, The Wallace Collection, London
Karen Knorr , Interim Art, London
2000 Art Lovers, Photo & Contemporary, Turin and FIAC, Paris*
1999 Photography's Shadow, Centre Culturelle Franc ois Mitterand, Beauvais, France
  Karen Knorr: Academies, Gentlemen, Country Life, Museu Nogeira da Silva, Braga, Portugal
1998 Karen Knorr: Photography's Shadow, Beauvais
  Academies II, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
  Academies, Galerie Blancpain Stepczynski, Geneva
  Academies, Umea Bildmuseet, Umea, Sweden, travelling to Uppsala Museum, Uppsala
1997 Academies, Maureen Paley Interim Art, London
  Retrospective, Photography Festival,, British Council, Quito, Ecuador
1996 The Virtues and t he Delights/Academies, D'Eendt Gallery, Amsterdam
  Lyceum and Academies, L'Aquarium, Beaux Arts de Valenciennes
  Les Virtus et les Delices, Beaux Arts de Nantes
  Karen Knorr, Photo & Co, Turin, Italy
1995 Academies, Philippe Rizzo, Paris
  The Virtues and the Delights, Blancpain and Strepscynski Gallery, Geneva
1994 The Virtues and the Delights, Royal Festival Hall, London, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh, Netherlands Foto Institute, Rotterdam
1993 Inside Out, Museo Luigi Pecci, Prato, Italy (with Guilio Paolini) *
  Britain Your Britain, Towner Art Gallery,Eastbourne
  The Virtues and the Delights, Keynes College, Canterbury University
  The Virtues and the Delights, Interim Art, London
  Karen Knorr: Gentlemen, Country Life, Connoisseurs and Capital, Moderna Museet, Stockholm, Sweden*
1992 Les Delices de Voltaire, Ferney-Voltaire, France
1991 Capital, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
  Connoisseurs and Capital, Galeria 57, Madrid
  Gentlemen, Country Life, Connoisseurs and Capital, Antoine Candau Gallery, Paris
  Marks of Distinction, Portfolio Gallery, Edinburgh
1990 Vues de l'Esprit, Photographies, Galerie le Lieu, L'Orient *
  Vues de l'Esprit, Photographies, Galerie Art et Essai, et Galerie du Cloitre,Rennes *
1987 Connoisseurs, Samia Saouma, Paris
  Compostures, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris, Paris *
  Gentlemen, Salon du Livre, Geneva
1986 Connoisseurs, Riverside Studios, London
1985 Country Life, Samia Saouma, Paris
1983 Gentlemen, Samia Saouma, Paris
1980 Belgravia, Samia Saouma, Paris
   

 
GROUP EXHIBITIONS

 

 

2007                Karen Knorr@ Eric Franck, London Photo, London

                         Generations,  Filles du Calvaire, Brussels

                         Karen Knorr Fables @Art Futures, The Bloomberg Space, London

                         London  Sotheby’s Contemporary Art Exhibit , Olympia, London

                         Generations, Filles du Calvaire, Brussels

                          Karen Knorr@ Filles du Calvaire  Paris Photo

                          Les Peintres de la vie moderne, Donation- Collection photographique de la Caisse des Dépôts, Centre                           Pompidou, Paris, France

2006

Tiefenschärfe (Depth of Field), Kunsthalle Baden Baden, Germany

If it didn't exist you would have to invent it... a partial history of the Showroom,The Showroom, London

A tables, Chamarade, France
Plug , White Space, County Hall, London
Zoo, Centrale Electrique, Brussels, Belgium ( with catalogue)
Brescia International Photobiennale, Brescia, Italy
The Painters of Modern Life, Centre Pompidou, Paris ( with catalogue)
Imposing Order, Contemporary Photography and the Archive, San Francisco Modern Museum of Art, San Francisco, U.S.A.
Fables, Filles du Calvaire, Paris- Photo, France

Simulacra and Pseudo Likeness,New Manezh Moscow State Exhibition Hall, Russia     

La photographie a l'epreuve: du XIXeme siecle au XX1 eme siecle, Institut d'art contemporain et musee  d'art moderne, Saint-Etienne, France

Vigo Council Photography Collection, Portuguese Centre of Photo-graphy,Porto, Portugal

Portraits/Autoportraits, Gallery Guy Ledune, Brussels, Belgium

2005 

Nutzlich suss museal Das Fotografierte Tier, Folkwang Museum,Essen,Germany

Reception,Musee Municipale Robert Dubois-Corneau,Brunoy, France

A Tables, Chateau Chamarande, Domaine Chamarande, France
Echos d'Epoque, Frac basse Normandie, Caen, France
Animalities, Maison's des Art Pompidou, Carjat, France
On View: Photographing the Museum, Yancey Richardson Gallery, New York

Simulacra and Pseudo Likeness,New Manezh Moscow State Exhibition Hall, Russia     

La photographie a l'epreuve: du XIXeme siecle au XX1 eme siecle, Institut d'art contemporain et musee  d'art moderne, Saint-Etienne, France

Vigo Council Photography Collection, Portuguese Centre of Photo-graphy,Porto, Portugal

Portraits/Autoportraits, Gallery Guy Ledune, Brussels, Belgium

2004

Femina, Filles du Calvaire, Paris, France
Femina, Filles Du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
Tunnel Vision, Daniel Azoulay, Miami, Florida
Art Basle, Art Miami, Miami, Florida
Artexis ,Brussels Art Fair, Filles du Calvaire, Brussels, Belgium
Maureen Paley Interim Art,Art Basel, Basle, Switzerland
Un Air de Famille, Centre National de Lectoure, Toulouse, France
Image/Imatge, Centre de la Photographie, Orthez, France
Natural Phenomena: Horizon Bound, Daniel Azoulay Gallery, Miami, Florida

2003

Connections,James Hockey Gallery, Surrey, Institute
Oh So British, Musee des Beaux Arts de nnacy, France
Vigovisions, Museum of Contemporary Art, Vigo, Spain
Fables de l’Identite, Oeuvres photographiques et videos de la collection NSM- Vie / ABN AMNRO, Centre Nationale de la Photographie, Paris
FIAC , Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Paris Photo, Filles du Calvaire, Paris
Tunnel Vision: a Contemporary Visual Odyssey,  Daniel Azoulay Gallery,
Art Basel Dec 4-7 Art Miami Jan 8-11

2002 Critical Dictionary, Mirror Gallery, London
Group Show, Photo & Co. Turin
Le Regard de l’Autre, Dialogue entre les Collections du FRAC Haute-
Normandie et du Musee des Beaux Arts de Rouen
La Part de l'Autre , Carre d'Art, Nimes
Love,Labour and Loss, Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery, Carlisle
Braga Foto , Braga Portugal
Et le 5 eme jour...Collections du Fonds National Art Contemporain, Chateau
Fougeres sur Bievre, France
2001 The gallery:UNCOVERED, University Gallery, University of Essex
L'Oeuvre de multipliee, Musee d'Art Moderne Lille Metropole, France
East International, Norwich Art Gallery, Norwich
La Bretagne Collectionne L'Art de NotreTemps,  Manoir de la Grand'Cour,Taden, France
Group Show, Knookke Zoute, Belgium
Heimsuchung, carte blanche a Rut Blees Luxemburg,FRAC Pays de la Loire, Salle Mario Toran
Landscapes/Paesaggi, Convento dei Cappucini, Caraglio, Italy
2000 The Century of the Body, Photoworks 1900-2000, Musee de l'Elysee, Lausanne
  Facons de Piendre, Galerie Laage-Salomon, Paris
  London Calling, Gimpel Fils, London*
  Lignes D'Horizon / Acquisitions recentes du FRAC Haute Normandie, France Campi di Oscillazione, Caraglio, Italy*
  Collection de la Caisses des depots et Consignations, Salon Paris Photo, Paris
1999 Regards mis en scene, Pavilon Baltard-Palais des Arts, Nogent sur Marne, France
  The Great Hall, Bury Saint Edmunds Art Gallery, Bury Saint Edmunds
  The Century of the Body: Photoworks 1900-2000, Culturgest, Lisbon
  Uppsala International Short Film Festival, Uppsala, Sweden
1998 Photographier la Sculpture, Musee d'Orsay, Paris and Centre Photographie de Lectoure
  Le Corps mis a Nu, Artistes et Anatomie, Musée d'art et d'histoire, Geneva,
  Unclassified, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
  Chemical Traces, Photography and Conceptual Art 1968-1998, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull
  The Virtues and the Delights, Hammerson plc, London
  High Tech, Low Tech, Galerie Philippe Rizzo, Paris
  History: The Mag Collection, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh, New Orleans House, Twickenham, London, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
  On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Kunstverein Ludwigshafen am Rhein, Germany
  In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday, Royal Botanical Gardens, Edinburgh, Finnish Museum of Photography, Helsinki, Museum Villa Stuck, Munich, Moderna Museet, Stockholm and to uring
  Virtue and Vice, Zone, Newcastle-upon-Tyne
1997-8 The Quick and the Dead, Artists and Anatomy, National Touring Exhibitions: Royal College of Art,Mead Gallery, Warick Arts Centre, Coventry and the Leeds City Art Gallery*
1997 On the Bright Side of Life - Contemporary British Photography, Neue Gesselschaft für bildende Kunst e.V., Berlin *
  Le Temps de la Marquise, Musée d'Art Moderne de Rennes, Rennes
  History: The Mag Collection, Ferens art Gallery, Hull *
  Fictions, Fotografia e Artificio, Photo & Co., Turin
  Veronika's Revenge, Arles Photography Festival, France
  Photo-Text-Photo, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Germany *
  In Visible Light: Photography and Classification in Art, Science and the Everyday, Museum of Modern Art, Oxford *
  Virtue and Vice, Site Gallery, Sheffield, Watershed, Bristol, Nottingham
  University and Portalen Koge Bugt Kulturhus, Denmark Curated by Mirelle Thijsen *
1996 Multiple Exposure, curated by Leslie Tonkonow, Toronto
  Documentary Dilemmas, Thessanoliki, Greece
  The Projected Room, Esslingen, Germany
  MACHT/ONMACHT, ICC, Antwerp, Belgium *
  Setembre de la Photo a Nice, Patrick Rogiers, Nice
  Photo-Text-Photo, Museo d'Arte Moderna, Bolanzo
  Photo Stories, Gottingen, Germany
  The Virtues and the Delights , Chateau Adhémar, Montélimar
1995 Le Marché d'Arte Contemporain, Salle Drouot, Paris
  New Acquisitions, Victoria & Albert Museum, London
  Multiple Exposure: The Group Portrait, Independent Curators Inc., The Bruce Museum, Conneticut; Bayley Art Museum, University of Virginia*
  Conceptual Art & Photography: Dubbel Spel Buiten Kennis, Academie Voor Schone Kunsten, St. Nilklaus, Belgium
  Karen Knorr presente par Philippe Rizzo, Richard Fonke Gallery, Ghent Oeuvres Photographiques, Frac des Pays de la Loire Chateau Gontier, France
  Representing Sculpture, curated by Geraldine Johnson, Strang Print Room, University College London, Leeds City Art Gallery *
  Documentary Dilemmas, National Theatre Galleries, Bucharest, Alpha Gallery, Bacau, Romania and travelling to Poland and Greece
  The Projected Room, Site Gallery, Sheffield
  Eye Contact '95, Towner Art Gallery, Eastbourne
  The Excellence of Every Art, V&A exhibition travelling to Canada and the USA
1994 Documentary Dilemmas, Studio Marangoni, Florence and travelling to Dublin, Italy, the Czech Republic, Slovakia and Salford Die Orte der Kunst, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany *
  Festival Internacional de Fotografia Tarazona Foto '94, Veruela Monastry, Spain *
  Fotografinnen Der Gegenwart, Museum Folkwang Essen *
  VI Fotobienal of Vigo, Vigo, Spain *
1993 Deutsche Leasing AG Exhibition, Rolturzentrum Englische Kirche, Bad Hamburg *
  Borderless Print, Rochdale Art Gallery, Rochdale
  Inside Out: Museo, Citta, Eventi, Centro per l'Arte Contemporanea, Luigi Pecci, Prato Document tary Dilemmas (travelling exhibition), organised by the British Council, SaoPaulo, Brazil *
  Moving into Vie ûw: Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London About Big Cities, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bilderde Kunst, Berlin *
  Moving into V_ ò_: Arts Council Collection, Royal Festival Hall, London About Big Cities, Neue Gesellschaft fur Bilderde Kunst, Berlin *
  Moving into Vi_ iew, The South Bank Art Centre, London
1992 Karen Knorr/Marc Pataut, Nouvelle Galerie d'Exposition de l'Ecole Regionale des Beaux-Arts de Rouen, France Houston Fotofest, Houston *
  The Fortune Teller, Rochdale Art Galleries, Rochdale *
  Mai de la Photo, Rheims, France *
  The Cutting Edge, Barbican Centre, London *
  Capital, European Festival, North Terminal, Gatwick Airport
  Internationale Foto - Triennale, Invented Worlds, Esslingen, Germany
  Les Epreuves Digitales, Palais de Tokyo, Paris *
  Les Collections de la F.R.A.C., Musee des Beaux Arts, Nantes
  Contemporary Art from the collection of Laver Normandy, Aspex Gallery, Portsmouth
1991 Heritage: Image + History, Greenwich Citizens Gallery, London
  Shocks to the System, South Bank Centre, London *
  Kunst Rai, Amsterdam, Netherlands
  A Place for Art?, Showroom, London
  Les Couleurs de l'Argent, Musee de la Poste, Paris *
  L'Effet de Reel, Galerie Art et Essai, Rennes
1990 Integration, Salama-Caro Gallery, London
  Karen Knorr, Lynn Cohen, Olivier Richon, Galerie Samia Saouma, Paris
  Other Than Itself, Stills Gallery, Edinburgh
  Heritage, Impressions Gallery, York and Cornerhouse, Manchester
  Images in Transition: Photographic Representation in the 1980s, The National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto, travelling to the The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo *
  Other Than Itself, Brewery Arts Centre, Kendal, Cumbria El Documentalismo Social, Fotobienal, Vigo, Spain *
1989 International Camera, Salama-Caro Gallery, London *
  Photo Biennale, Enschede, Netherlands *
  Other Than Itself, Showroom/Camerawork, London
  Through the Looking Glass, Photographic Art in Britain 1945-1989 Barbican Centre, London *
  Tenir l'i mage a Distance, Musee d'Art Contemporain, Montreal *
  Other Than Itself, Ikon Gallery, Birmingham
  After the Empire, Wexner Center, Ohio
  Karen Knorr and Anne Sauser-Hall, Photographies et Sculpture, Galerie des Bastions, Geneva
  Other Than Itself, Cambridge Dark Room, Cambridge
1988 Monumental Works, The Crypt, London
  L'Angleterre des Annees 80, Abbaye des Dames, Saintes, France, Presi per Encantamento, Milan *
  Chris Killip's Selection, Victoria and Albert Museum, London
  Fragments of False Houses, Pomeroy Purdy Gallery, London *
  Women, Photography and Self Portraiture, Queen Elizabeth Hall, London
  La Photographie et la Photographique, Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville Paris
1987 Systems of Support, Kettles Yard, Cambridge
  Group Show, Anina Nosei, New York, Konigsreich, Forum Stadpark, Graz, Austria
  The Contemporary, Forum Stadtpark, Graz
1986 Revisions, The Watershed, Bristol
  Theatre des Realities, Metz Pour La Photographie, Metz *
  Nature de l'Art, Hopital Saint Julien, Chateau Gontier, France
  Museotrain Pour la Photographie, Regions Champagne, Ardennes, Pays de Loire, Nord Pas-de-Calais, France
1985 Karen Knorr and Olivier Richon, Cash/ Newhouse, New York
  Magnificent Obsession, Art Resource Centre, Toronto *
  Magnificent Obsession, Eye Level, Halifax, Canada *
  Magnificent Obsession, Optics Gallery, Montreal *
  Food as Politics, Camerwork, London
  Revisions, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton *
  Revisions, Cambridge Darkroom, Cambridge *
  After A Fashion, Camerawork, London
  Textiles Zones, Musee des Beaux Arts, Mulhouse, France
  Fotofestival, Malmo, Sweden
  The Way We Live Now, Gallery 400, Chicago
  Phototextes, Samia Saouma, Paris
  The Fifth Sydney Biennale, Sydney *
  Karen Knorr/George Rousse, University of Tasmania, Tasmania
  Models, The Pentonville Gallery, London * Ref. 1984, Palud 1, Laus anne
1983 The Expanded Media Show, Sheffield City Polytechnic, Sheffield
  New Beginnings, The Pentonville Gallery, London *
  Beyond the Purloined Image, Riverside Gallery, London
  The Way We Live Now, PS1, Long Island City, New York
1982 GLAA Awards, Kingston Museum and Art Gallery, London
  5 Photographers, ELAC, Lyon
  Light Reading, B2 Gallery, London
  Phototextes, Musee d'Art et d'Histoire, Geneva
  An Account, Nouvelle Galerie des Philosophies, Geneva
  Strategies, John Hansard Gallery, Southampton
1981 Five Photographers, I.C.A., London
  Five Photographers, Chapter Arts, Cardiff
  Swiss Account, B2 Gallery, London
  Lichtbildnisse, Landesmuseum, Bonn
  GLAA Awards, Woodlands Art Gallery, London
  Sezione Culturale, SICOF, kMilan
1980 Thames T.V. Bursary Award Show, London Second Brunel Photoshow, Uxbridge
  Portraits, Centre d'art Contemporain, Geneva
1978 Punks and Teds, The Photographers' Gallery, London

 
* denotes catalogue is available

SELECTED REVIEWS/PUBLICATIONS

A Century of Colour, Roberts, Pamela, pp 226-227, Andre Deutsch,  2007

Guardian, G2 Karen Knorr’s Best Shot Thursday March 08,2007 p 27

Paradis no 1, A Magazine for the contemporary man, pp126-127, 146-153, Summer 2006, Paris,
Zoo , catalogue pp 11,pp94-97. pulished by La Centrale Electrique, European Centre for Contemporary Art, Brussels June 2006
Exit 22, Living With AnimaLs , Karen Knorr pp102-113, Editor Rosa Olivares, Madrid 2006
Portfolio catalogue, Karen Knorr Fables, With Essay by Lucy Soutter, pp. 12-17 Dec 2005
Picturing the Self, Doy, Gen, Chapter 4 Focusing on the Self: Karen Knorrpp.98-103,I.B. Tauris & Co Ltd. , London 2005
The Walrus  p.26,  Volume 2 Issue 3, Toronto, Canada, April 2005
Lapiz 199-200, Revista International de Arte, Animalistic, pg-51, 126-127, Spain,2005
Photographie Plasticienne, Baque, Dominique, L'Extreme Contemporain P.88 , pp 98-101, Editions du Regard, 2004
Connaissance des Arts. Photo 2, Novembre 04-Fevrier 05 pg 77, Paris
Beaux Arts no. 239 April 2004 p. 62, Paris
Exit Book No 3, Cover Image, 2004, Madrid, Spain
Exit Book 13, What a Laugh! by Rosa Olivares, pg 20. 2004, Madrid Spain
Foto pozytyw n. 11 Kopalak, Eliza Karen Knorr,pp34-39.,lodz, Poland, Nov 2003
Art And Photography, Campany, David , Pp 64, 291, London 2003
Contemporary Issue 51. Genii Loci: The Photographic Work of Karen Knorr, Kathy Battista, pp76-77, July 2003, London
Art Review ,Castle Cartier p 76, July/August 2003, London
The Art Book, Volume 10 , Issue 4 Genii Loci, Review by Doy, Gen pp. 52, London
Art Press July 2003 La Photographie : du Musee Au Visage, Baque, Dominique p.90, Paris
Art Press no/ 287 February 2003 p 76, Paris
Art Press no. 290 Mai 2003 p. 8. Paris
Beaux Arts no. 227 April 2003 p. 36, Paris
Ein Bilder buch: Die Fotografische Sammlung im MuseumFolkwang pp 237,Steidl,Museum Folkwang 2003, Germany
Match de Paris no. 2811, Tendance, Des Animaux pour Decaler Notre Regard , Francois de Labarre Paris Match p.26, April 2003, France
Spaces for Art, EXIT 9, pp 80 - 88, Madrid, Spain 2003
La Photographie Contemporaine, Poivert, Michel, pp 76,85,108,115, Flammarion, France 2002
Lost in the Archives, The Peripatetic Philosopher and Other Photographs by Karen Knorr , edited by Rebecca comay, pp 63-72, Alphabet City Media, 2002
Art in America, Report from London, Life After YBA mania, pp78-79 Oct 2002
Animaux Au Chateaux, Anne- Marie Romero, Le Figaro Culture, p. 28 26/27 October 2002
Swings and Roundabouts, Catherine James, pp 68-71, Contempoarary, June July, August 2002
Putting Pictures in their Place, Tom Lubbock 31/07/01 The Independent Art and Feminism, Helen Reckitt and Pegy Phelan. pp116 Phaidon Press, 2001

Karen Knorr: Amantes del Arte Contemporaneo, La Fotografia Revista no: 86
pp36-39, Agosto- Septiembre 2001 , Bracelona Spain
Old Masters with New Teeth, Charles Darwent, The Independent on Sunday,
July 8,2001
Karen Knorr, Profifoto, May-June 2001 pp. 36-38
Pick of the Galleries, Independent on Sunday 18/02/01 p. 5
Rennfahrer, Bergbluten und ein Papagei, Jorn Ebner, Kunstmarkt,
Frankfurt
Allegemeiner p. 54 3/3/01 < Frankfurt, Germany
Karen Knorr par Antonio Guzman. Profil d’une Collection, FRAC, Basse
Normandie , 104 pages, Frac Basse Normandie France 2001
  Karen Knorr, Photo & Co Torino, Cnti, Tiziana, Tema Celeste, p 101, Dec. 2000
  Belgravia, Karen Knorr, Do Trinque, Centro de Estudos Fotograficos, Vigo, Spain , 2000
  Vernissage, Musei da primati, Franco Fanelli, pp14-15, October 2000,
The Art Newspaper Landscape and Western Art, Malcolm Andrews, Oxford History of Art Papel Alpha, El propisito dela alegoria: entre la forma y el contenido, Mirelle Thijsen, Ediciones Universidad de Salamanca 1999
Love & Desire, Thames & Hudson, London 1999
Ediciones Catedra, Madrid, Documentalismo Fotografico, Margarita Ledo, pp. 13 7-138, 141. 144-145, 147, 192
Flash Art, Karen Knorr, Philippe Rizzo/Musée d'Orsay, October 1998, p. 130
Le Nouvelle Observateur, Photographier la Sculpture, 30 July-5 August, p. 81
Le Monde, Culture, Musée d'Orsay, La Sculpture a l'Epreuve de la Photographie, 7 August 1998
Paris Vogue, Arret sur Images, Dix artistes évoquent l'inspiration du voyage, December/January 1997, p.39
Photography: An Independent Art, Photographs from the Victoria and Albert Museum, 1839- 1996, Mark Haworth-Booth, V&A Publications, 1997, pp.187, 190, 200
Portfolio, The Catalogue of Contemporary Photography in Britain, Academies, no. 25 pp1,14-19, 56, 57
Art Journal, Masculine and Unaffected, Inigo Jones and the Classical Ideal, Christy Anderson, CAA New York 1997
Time Out, Karen Knorr, Martin Coomer, no. 1400, June 18-25 1997, p. 50
Art Press no. 216, Academies, la photographie par Dominique Baqué, Sept 1996
Visual Resources, vol.XII, pp 73-79 The Very Impress of the Object, Mary Bergstein Cultureel Supplement Handelsblad, Karen Knorr, 5 April 1996
Journal de Geneve, Vertus et delices de photos féministes, 16 January 1996
Liberation, Brigitte Ollier, Nov. 1995
Asahi Photography, Shinko Suga, Tokyo, Oct. 1994
Financial Times, Tunnel Vision, Marina Benjamin, 6 May 1994
The Photographic Journal, Britannia's Critical Eye on the Tunnel, May 1994
Time Out, Karen Knorr: The Virtues ans the Delights, Sarah Kent, 5 Jan 1994
Tema Celeste, Inside Out a Prato, Valeria Bruni nr. 41, Syracuse 1994
Aftonbladet Kultur nr. 9 Karen Knorr: Den Godas Smakens Ideologi, Sara Arenhuiss, pp 14-17, Stockholm, Nov. 1993
Aftonbladet, Vad gor apa finrummet?, Sara Arrhenenius, 23 Oct. 1993
Dagens Nyheter, Pa Stan Ironier at de rika, p 39, Rebecka Tarschys, 15-21 Oct. 1993
Svenska Dagblatet, Karen Knorr, Fotografiska Museet, Stina Hedlund, 15 Oct.1993
Sundsvalls Tidning, Ironisk Knorr ser pa overklass, Torbjorn Ivarsson, 18 Oct.1993
Creative Camera, Britain Your Britain, Karen Knorr in Eastbourne, pp 48-49, John Taylor, Aug/Sept 1993
Il Manifesto, Se Il Museo L'Opera, Paolini, Knorr, Kruger, Kawamata, Sylvia Luchesi, April 1993
Art Press no. 165, L'Art et l'Argent, Jean-Joseph Goux, 1992
After Image, The Order of Things, John Taylor, New York, Sept. 1991
Le Monde, Patrick Roegiers on Karen Knorr, July 1991
Liberation, Karen Knorr, Brigit te Ollier, Paris 1991
Arts Review, Photography, David Lee, London, July 1991
Time Out, Sarah Kent on Karen Knorr, 12-19 June 1991
Blitz Magazine, Class Acts, Suzanne Frankel, June 1991
Art Press no. 145, Karen Knorr, "Vues de l'Esprit", March 1991
Flash Art, Second Generation Post-Photography, April 1988
Beaux Arts, no. 46, Karen Knorr, Patrick Mauries, May 1987
Art Press no. 107, Les Codes Perdu du Temps Perdu dans la Photographie de Karen Knorr, Elisabeth Lebovici, Oct. 1986
Parachute, Magnificent Obsession, Montreal, Spring 1986
"C" Magazine, Magnificent Obsession, M. Gagnon, Fall 1985
Aspects, Beyond the Purloined Image, John Roberts, Winter 83/84 Artscribe nos 27, 28, 34, 43, 47
   

MONOGRAPHS
Signes de Distinction, Thames and Hudson, France, 1991
Marks of Distinction, Thames and Hudson, England 1991
Karen Knorr par Antonio Guzman Frac Basse Normandie, France 2001
Genii Loci, Black Dog Publishing, London 2002


AWARDS, GRANTS,BURSARIES
2001
1998
1993
1986
1985
1980
1980
1979
The Arts Council Of England
Hasselblad Foundation Research Grant ( Sweden)
London Arts Board Grant
National Endowment for the Arts (U.S.A.)
GLAA Award
GLAA Award
Arts Council Bursary
Thames T.V. Bursary


COMMISSIONS
2003 Printemps des Musees?, French Ministry of Culture and NSMD Bank
2002 Images au Centre 02, France for The Venery
2001 Marcovaldo Commission for Spirits
1998 FNAC, French National Collection for Visitors
1996 Vigo Visiones, Vigo for Romerias
1992 Cross Channel Photographic Commission, South Eastern Arts, Ferney- Voltaire for The Virtues and the Delights


HONORARY MEMBER
2002 ASSOCIATION IMAGES AU CENTRE, France


TEACHING
  The Surrey Institute, Photography B.A. Honours Programme ( since 1999)
Goldsmiths College, Part time M.A. Fine Art ( since 2002)
Goldsmiths Visiting Tutor on B.A. Hons Fine Art Programme (1996- 2002)
Royal College Of Art External Examiner for PHD thesis by Mohini Chandra ( 2000)
University of Technology, Sydney, Examiner of Thesis by Ms. Jo- Anne Duggan for the Degree of Doctor of Creative Arts, October 2003 Thesis title: Beyond the Surface: The Contemporary Experience of the Italian Renaissance.


EXTERNAL ASSESSOR
  AKTO Photography B.A. Hons Programme, Athens ( for Middlesex University) since 2000-2004


COLLECTIONS
  The Arts Council of Great Britain
Bradford N.M.P.F.T.
British Council Collection
Cabinet des Estampes, Geneva
The Chase Manhattan Bank
The Cartier Foundation
Caisse des Depots et Consignations
Centre Pompidou, Paris, France
Folkwang Museum, Essen
FNAC, France
FRAC Acquitaine,
France FRAC
Bretagne, France
FRAC Lorraine, France
FRAC Rhone et Alpes
FRAC Haute Normandie
FRAC Basse Normandie
Heiting Collection, Germany
L'Hoiste Collection, Belgium
Hokin Collection, Chicago
Lamarco Collection, Geneva
Moderna Museet, Stockholm
Musee d'Art Moderne de la Ville de Paris
National Museum of Modern Art, Kyoto
Norton Collection, Los Angeles
The State of Geneva
San Francisco Museum of Art
Texaco Corporation, London
Towner Art Gallery Collection
Uppsala Museum of Modern Art
The Victoria & Albert Museum
Vigo Council, Spain
Warburg Bank, London
Winnepeg Art Gallery, Canada
   





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