Karen Kraven is an artist working with photography, sculpture and installation. Influenced by her father’s (and his father’s) knitting factory, which stopped manufacturing the year that she was born, and by the physical and optical properties of textiles, her practice explores the ways in which clothing registers the body — how the body is unfinished, unstable and like an archive, something that unfolds and changes with time — pointing to the sustained impact of work and wear. 

Recent solo exhibitions have included Le Chiffonier at AXENÉO7 in Gatineau (2022), Hoist at PLATFORM Centre in Winnipeg (2022), Lull at Latitude 53 in Edmonton (2020), Dust Against Dust at Parisian Laundry in Montreal (2019) and Pins & Needles in the Toronto Sculpture Garden (2018). Reviews of Kraven’s work have been published in C Magazine, Canadian Art, Momus and Artforum. Her work was also recently acquired by the Musée d’art Contemporain de Montréal. She is represented by Bradley Ertaskiran in Montreal.