Awards, Residencies and Commissions
2024 Public Art Commission, Perry County Council of the Arts, Millerstown, PA.
2024 Artist in Residence, Perry County Council of the Arts, Greenwood Elementary School, Millerstown, PA.
2022 Visiting Artist, Cornwall Elementary School, Lebanon, PA.
2021 Artist Residency, Watershed Center for the Ceramic Arts, Newcastle, ME.
2020 Artist-in-Residence, Clarence Schock Memorial Park at Governor Dick, the Mt.Gretna Arts Council, Mt. Gretna, PA.
2018 Nevelyn J. Knisley Award, Top Adjunct Teacher, Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA.
Artist Residency, South Central PaARTners, Pennsylvania Council on the Arts,
Lancaster, PA.
2015 Public Art Commission, Allan W. Mund College Center, Lebanon Valley College,
Annville, PA.
2010 Artist Residency, A Studio in the Woods, New Orleans, LA.
2009 Finalist, Public Art Commission, Public Art for Public Schools Program, Department of Education, City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs, NY.
2007 Finalist, Public Art Commission, Public Art for Public Schools Program, Department of Education, City of New York, Department of Cultural Affairs, NY.
2003 Selected for Residency (declined), Sculpture Space, Utica, NY.
2002 Nominee, Emerging Artist Award, Bureau of Cultural Affairs, Atlanta, GA.
2001 Nominee, Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, NY.
Public Art Commission, Airport Art Program, Concourse E, Hartsfield-Jackson
Atlanta International Airport, Atlanta, GA.
1997 Artist's Grant and Residency, Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT.
1993 Buck Ewing Graduate Scholarship, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
One and Two Person Exhibitions
2017 “Karen Rich Beall,” Hunt Gallery, Mary Baldwin College, Staunton, VA.
2012 “Karen Rich Beall and Clair Corey,” Westobou Festival, Augusta, GA.
“Karen Rich Beall & Deborah Sigel: Botanical Forms,” Suzanne H. Arnold Art Gallery,
Lebanon Valley College, Annville, PA.
2009 “Fruit of a Long Experience,” Susquehanna Museum of Art, Harrisburg, PA.
2007 “Natural Phenomena,” Philadelphia International Airport, Philadelphia, PA.
2006 “Caught up,” Pentimenti Gallery, Philadelphia, PA.
“Fruiting Bodies,” Cheekwood Botanical Gardens and Museum of Art, Nashville, TN.
2005 “A World within a World,” Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA.
2003 “The Dark Side of Beauty,” Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA.
2002 "After Life," Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA.
2000 "Underpinnings," Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA.
1998 "Karen Rich Beall," Spartanburg County Museum of Art, Spartanburg, SC.
"Karen Rich Beall," New Image Gallery, James Madison University, Harrisonburg, VA.
1996 "He loves me, He loves me not," Project Row Houses, Houston, TX.
1995 "The Shining Daffodil Dead," Obscura Gallery, Portland, OR.
1994 "The Living Will," Ewing Gallery, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2016 “Methodologies,” Madelon Powers Gallery, East Stroudsburg University of Pennsylvania,
East Stroudsburg, PA.
2015 “Ceramix,” Georgia’s Creative Claymakers,” Hartsfield Jackson Atlanta International
Airport, Atlanta, GA.
2014 “Laboratory,” Bernard Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw, GA.
2013 “Beyond Natural,” University of North Texas Art Galleries, Denton, TX.
“Course and Discourse: An Exhibition of Student and Professor Artwork,”
Susquehanna Art Museum at The State Museum of Pennsylvania, Harrisburg, PA.
2011 “10 Years, 47 Artists,” Tulane University, Carroll Gallery, New Orleans, LA.
“Extraction,” SPACE, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Something along the lines of Rock ‘n’ Roll,” Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA.
2009 “Family Ties,” Fox Art Gallery, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA.
2008 “Craftforms 2008,” Wayne Art Center, Wayne, PA.
“Peekskill Project 2008,” Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, Peekskill, NY.
“From the Ground Up,” Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
2007 “21st Century Landscape: Reconstructing Identity,” Bank of America, Charlotte, NC. Front gallery, Solomon Projects, Atlanta, GA.
2006 “Garden Improvement,” Glyndor Gallery, Wave Hill, Bronx, NY.
2004 “So Atlanta,” Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, GA.
“Running Rampant,” Fe Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA.
“Tender Landscape,” Dalton Gallery, Agnes Scott College, Decatur, GA.
“Metamorphosis,” John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygen, WI.
2003 "Rethinking Landscape," Pennsylvania School of Art and Design, Lancaster, PA.
"The Socio-Cultural Relationship Between Built and Natural Environments,"
Sam Francis Gallery, Crossroads School for the Arts and Sciences, Santa Monica, CA.
2002 "Ooey Gooey," DiRT, Los Angeles, CA.
"Fathoming," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC.
"Georgia Triennial," City Gallery East, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Arts and Sciences,
Macon, GA; Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, GA; Albany Museum of Art, Albany, GA.
"Out There: The Off-Center Vision of Six Atlanta Artists," Atlanta Contemporary Art Center,
Atlanta, GA.
2001 “Georgia Crossroads: Intersections in a Changing Landscape," Marietta–Cobb Museum
of Art, Marietta, GA.
"Towards the Organic: Material and Metaphor," Jacksonville Museum of Modern Art,
Jacksonville, FL.
2000 "Do It," The Atlanta College of Art Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
"Karen Rich Beall and Judi Wertheim," Moody Gallery, Houston, TX.
"Body Matrix" (with Gregor Turk), Biggin Gallery, Auburn University, Auburn, AL.
"House & Garden," Space One Eleven, Birmingham, AL.
1998 "Gilded Lilies," Swan Coach House Gallery, Atlanta, GA.
"Unraveled," City Gallery at Chastain, Atlanta, GA.
1997 "Atlanta Biennial," Nexus Contemporary Arts Center, Atlanta, GA.
"Small Wonders," CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY.
"Art and Science," The Mariboe Gallery, The Peddie School, Hightstown, NJ.
1996 "Florida National," Museum of Fine Arts, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL.
"The Body," Pyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY.
"Sum of Its Parts," Paint Creek Center for the Arts, Rochester, MI.
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Education
1995 MFA, Sculpture, The University of Tennessee, Knoxville, TN.
1986 BFA, Ceramics and Sculpture, The University of Florida, Gainesville, FL.
1984 Studies in British Art, Richmond College, London, England.