Solo & Two-Person Shows
2025
∙Taking in the Trash, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2022
∙Malls of America: Phillip Buehler & Karen Mainenti, Footnote Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
2019
∙Message in a Bottle, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
∙No More Lip Service, Spring/Break Art Show, New York, NY
2018
∙Objects of Desire, Bard Graduate Center Library, Bard College, New York, NY
2016
∙Cosmetology, Society for Domestic Museology, New York, NY
2014
∙The ABCs of Plastic Surgery, Chashama 266 Gallery, New York, NY
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
∙Every Woman Biennial: Spectalia, Pen & Brush, New York, NY (forthcoming)
2025
∙Hall of Gowanus, Union Channel, Brooklyn, NY
∙Affordable Art Fair, with Arts Gowanus, New York, NY
2024
∙12/12, Established Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
∙Salon des Refusés 2024, Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY
∙Every Woman Biennial: I Will Always Love You, LaMaMa Galleria, New York, NY
2023
∙Affiliation, National Arts Club, New York, NY
2022
∙Sacred Pause, Sacred Fertilizer, curated by Work in Progress, Louise Nevelson Chapel, New York, NY
∙Brooklyn Utopias: Along the Canal, Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY
∙Best & Brightest: Redefining Excellence, Footnote Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
∙Flat File Project, Deanna Evans Projects, New York, NY
2021
∙Time is a UFO, Sweet Lorraine Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
∙Case Study, Gowanus Night Heron, Brooklyn, NY
∙NEST, Artpoetica, Brooklyn, NY
∙Unnatural Histories, Footnote Project Space, Brooklyn, NY
∙Atmospheres, Pace Gallery, New York, NY
∙The Other Art Fair, with Arts Gowanus, Brooklyn, NY
2020
∙Tart, curated by Work in Progress, Meg, Brooklyn, NY
2019
∙Text, Safe Harbors Ann Street Gallery, Newburgh, NY
∙IRL: Investigating Reality, Untitled Space, New York, NY
∙Birthday Suit, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
∙small/MIGHTY, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2018
∙Between You and Oblivion, Spaceworks, Brooklyn, NY
∙Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself, Cigar Factory, Long Island City, NY
∙Artworks: A Benefit for Arts Gowanus, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY
∙(con)text, La Bodega Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017
∙Identity in Flux/Gowanus, Spaceworks, Brooklyn, NY
∙Gowanus Artists Group Exhibition, 313 Butler Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
∙Transformation, Gallery MC, New York, NY
∙Front of House, Guildford Art Center, Guilford, CT
∙Artworks: A Benefit for Arts Gowanus, Shapeshifter Lab, Brooklyn, NY
2016
∙Recycle (Juried by Harriet Taub, Materials for the Arts), Brooklyn Waterfront Artists Coalition (BWAC), Brooklyn, NY
∙Color (Juried by Lilian Tone, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Modern Art), BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
∙Brooklyn Art Space Member Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
∙Artworks: A Benefit for Arts Gowanus, Gowanus Loft, Brooklyn, NY
∙Dirtier Words, Guest Spot @ The Reinstitute, Baltimore, MD
∙Introductions 2016, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
∙eXXpectations, Cornell Museum of Art, Delray Beach, FL
∙You've Got Mail!, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
∙Brooklyn Art Space Summer Member Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
∙Artworks: A Benefit for Arts Gowanus, Site: Brooklyn, Brooklyn, NY
∙Wide Open 6 (Juried by Rojeko Hockley, Assistant Curator, Brooklyn Museum of Art), BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
∙Recycle (Juried by Elissa Goldstone, Director of Exhibitions, Socrates Sculpture Park), BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
∙Brooklyn Art Space Winter Member Salon, Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2014
∙DUMBO Underfoot, 2014 DUMBO Arts Festival, Brooklyn, NY
∙Color (Juried by Lauren Hinkson, Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum), BWAC, Brooklyn, NY
2013
∙The Exquisite Uterus Project (Power, Politics, and Performance), Steinhilber Gallery, University of Wisconsin, Oshkosh, WI
∙Wish You Were Here 12, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2012
∙Featured Artist, Recession Art, New York, NY
∙It’s A Small, Small World, Family Business, New York, NY
2007
∙Wish You Were Here 6, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
2006
∙Wish You Were Here 5, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
∙Generations 05, A.I.R. Gallery, New York, NY
∙Racing Pages: Altered Books Portfolio, National Museum of Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual & Transgender History, New York, NY
Residencies
∙Estudio Corazón, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, NM, 2026 (forthcoming)
∙Bard Graduate Center Library, Bard College, Artist-in-Residence, New York, NY, 2018
∙School of Visual Arts, Summer Residency Program, Painting & Mixed Media, New York, NY, 2013
Awards
∙BWAC, Certificate of Recognition, Color (Juried by Lilian Tone, Assistant Curator, The Museum of Modern Art), Brooklyn, NY, 2016
∙BWAC, Certificate of Recognition, Recycle ( Juried by Elissa Goldstone, Director of Exhibitions, Socrates Sculpture Park), Long Island City, NY, 2015
Publications
Gutfreund, Karen, Not Normal: Art in the Age of Trump, 2020
Artist Talks
∙Artists Talk on Art (ATOA), 2026 (forthcoming)
∙Sacred Pause, Sacred Fertilizer, Artist Panel, New York, NY 2022
∙First Person Plural, Womanizing 2.0, New York, NY 2019
∙Bard Graduate Center Library, Bard College, The Archeology of Perfection, New York, NY, 2018
∙Society for Domestic Museology, Cosmetology, New York, NY, 2016
∙Gowanus Open Studios, What's Amiss (Organized by Benjamin Sutton), Brooklyn, NY, 2015
∙Gowanus Open Studios, Go Figure: Examining Female Forms in the 21st Century (Organized by Heather Zises), Brooklyn, NY, 2015
Teaching
∙The City College of New York (CUNY), Adjunct Professor, New York, NY, 2019
∙Tulsa Girls Art School, Visiting Artist, Tulsa, OK, 2013
Education
Fairfield University, BA Fine Arts, Magna Cum Laude, Fairfield, CT, 1996