Karen A. Rifas
Born: Chicago, Illinois
Education:
1988 M.F.A. - University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
1964 and 1985 respectively. B.Ed. and B.F.A. - University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida
1981 A.A. - Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida
Teaching Experience:
Dade County Public School System.
Teaching Assistant, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Art and Art History, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Arts, New World School of the Arts, Wolfson Campus and Department of Visual Arts, South Campus, Miami-Dade College, Miami, Florida.
Adjunct Professor, Department of Visual Arts, Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Selected Exhibitions and Collections:
2009
Karen Rifas:Nature Structure, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
CasaLin, Urban Garden, Miami, Florida.
Smash and Grab, Locust Projects, Miami, Florida.
Pivot Points, Part 3, MOCA, North Miami, Florida.
Showings, NWSA Faculty Exhibition, New World Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Nine Lives:Dog Days of Summer, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Dog Tales: Words and Images, Fact and Fiction, Miami-Dade Public Library Systems, Main Library, Miami, Florida.
Spring into Art, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
The Art of Fashion and The Fashion of Art, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Miami, Florida.
Abracadabra, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida.
2008
Karen Rifas, Morning Coffee, Miami Dade College, Wolfson Campus Centre Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Disappearances, Shadows, and Illusions, Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
Scavenger Con-Structs, Glass Curtain Gallery, Columbia College, Chicago, Illinois
Explorations, Faculty Show at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Cornered, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery. Miami, Florida.
2007
Medium, Faculty Show at New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Just Geometry, The Moore Building, First Floor. Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Volumes of Fragility, Pinnacle Gallery, Savannah College of Art and Design. Savannah, Georgia.
Palm Beach 3 Contemporary, Palm Beach, Florida.
What’s Next? The Florida Craftsmen, St. Petersburg, Florida.
2006
A Timely Response, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Martha Stewart’s Tree Farm, Art Basel, MOCA at Goldman Warehouse.
Translations, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas: Geocentric Installations, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
CIRCA Puerto Rico 06, San Juan, Puerto Rico.
Women Faculty, Miami Dade College, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Palm Beach 3 Contemporary, West Palm Beach, Florida.
Tastes and Tongues curated by Miralda. Miami, Florida.
2005
Sweet Basel, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
The Yard at Casa Lin, 2005, Miami, Florida.
Visions, New World School of the Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Art Faculty at Kendall Campus, Kendall Campus Art Gallery, Miami, Florida.
New Art South Florida: 2005 Cultural Consortium Fellowship For Visual and Media Artists, Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Cool Connections, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
5 Florida Sculptors, New Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Distinctive Paths, New World School of the Arts Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Palm Beach 3 Contemporary, Palm Beach, Florida.
2005 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for the Visual and Media Artists.
Locust Projects, and Legal Art Benefits.
2004
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami, Florida.
sites-miami, 2004, Lummus Park, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Mayfaire at the Museum, Emily S. Macey Gallery, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Edison College, The Bob Rauchenberg Gallery, Ft. Myers, Florida.
Florida Visual Arts Fellowship, Installation Green Galleries, The Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
Karen Rifas, This Ain’t No Retrospective (I’m too young), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Nepotism: The Art of Friendship (curated by Edouard Duval Carrie), Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Karen Rifas and Marie Mennes, Common Threads, MIA Gallery, Miami, Florida.
It’s For The Birds, Group Invitational Traveling Exhibition, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
South Florida Fiber Artists and Friends, Futernick Gallery, J.C.C., Miami, Florida.
Florida Visual Arts Fellowship, Installation, Boggy Cove, Okaloosa-Walton College Art Center Galleries, Niceville, Florida.
The Last Show, The House, Miami, Florida.
Locust Projects, Florida International University, Legal Art and Polk Museum Benefits.
2003
Art Basel Miami Beach, Miami Beach Convention Center, Miami, Florida.
Four Seasons Hotel Commission, Miami, Florida.
Locust Projects Benefit, Miami, Florida.
Robot (curated by Fred Snitzer), The Arts Center Galleries at Okaloosa-Walton Community College, Niceville, Florida.
Visual Arts Fellowship Show, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida. (also traveling to Okaloosa-Walton and the Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
Save Your Pennies, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Summer Sculpture Show, the dorsch gallery, Miami, Florida.
Inner City, Exit Art, New York, New York.
Bubble, Bubble, Boil… a Miami Visual Stew, Main Library, Miami, Florida.
Bikini (A Benefit for Legal Art), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
The Art of Found Objects (A Benefit for the Education Fund), Miami, Florida.
2002
Art Basel, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida.
Awarded a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, 2002-2003.
string resonance, Miami-Dade Wolfson Campus, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Not a sibling of the solar system but a geometric cousin, Projects Room, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Mirror, Mirror. Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
A is for art. Main Library, Miami-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
Flora: art and ecology in Florida, The Mary Brogan Museum of Art and Science, Tallahassee, Florida.
Exploratory Paths. faculty exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
globe>miami<island, D.C. Museum of Contemporary Art, Washington D.C..
space, structure and vision, (curated by Joie Lassiter), Bank of America Plaza, Charlotte, N.C..
Karen Rifas, nine/eleven, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Art Miami, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida.
No Show and No Home Show for SAVE DADE, Miami, Florida.
Benefit shows for Locust Projects and Togertail (abracadabra)), Miami, Florida.
Small Packages, Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida.
Expanded Paths, faculty exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
2001
globe> miami< island, Bass Museum, Miami Beach, Florida.
A Painting for Over the Sofa (that’s not necessarily a painting), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Installation, Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida.
The Sears Building, (curated by Robert Chambers), The House, Miami, Florida.
Lifting the Veil: Liberating the Virgin Mary, (curated by Carol Damian, Ph.D.), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
50th Annual All Florida Invitational, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
Karen Rifas: Recycled, Projects Room, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Me, My Friends and I, 6g, Miami, Florida.
Paths, 2001, Faculty Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Freedom Rocks (curated by Fred Snitzer), People for the American Way Foundation, Miami, Florida.
2000
Levity and Gravity (curated by Amy Cappellazzo and Tiffany Huot), Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Cultivated Under the Sun, Artworks Selected from the Permanent Collection of the Miami-Dade Public Library System, Main Library, Miami-Dade County Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
Home Invasion (curated by Eugenia Vargas), Miami, Florida.
Judge, Melbourne Art Festival, Melbourne, Florida.
Departing Perspectives: Site-Specific Installations by Miami Artists, 1395 Brickell, Miami, Florida.
Paths 2000, Faculty Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Faculty Exhibition, Kendall Campus Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida.
Synecdoche: Multiple Image Artworks (curated by Genevieve Linnehan), Dunedin Fine Arts Center, Dunedin, Florida.
Art Miami, Installation, Bernice Steinbaum Gallery, Miami, Florida.
1999
The Present Absent: eight artists from Miami, Paco Imperial, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil.
All God’s Children Got Shoes, Main Library, Miami-Dade County Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
Requiem: Living Artists Eulogize a Dying Century, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
Physical Florida, Mount Dora Center for the Arts, Mount Dora, Florida.
Interdisciplinary teaching grant, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Judge, Coconut Grove Art Festival, Miami, Florida.
Lecturer, University of West Florida, Pensacola, Florida.
Florida Fellowship Exhibit: University of West Florida, Pensacola; Selby Gallery, Ringling School Art and Design, Sarasota; Museum of Art, Tallahassee and Deland Museum of Art, Deland.
Karen Rifas, Loose Ends, Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia.
NWSA Faculty Exhibition: Renewed Paths, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Stetson University, Duncan Gallery, Deland, Florida.
Lecturer, Stetson University, Deland, Florida.
Present Absent: Eight artists from Miami, Miami Airport, Miami, Florida.
Honorarium, Jiminez exhibition teacher workshop at the Museum of Art at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Benefits: FFS Cancer Research, FLA BRA, Tigertail Productions and Miami-Dade County Public Library, Miami, Florida.
1998
Transposing: An Interactive Installation, Rifas, Andree, Jacquelin, ArtCenter-South Florida, Miami Beach, Florida.
Spring Into Art, University of Miami and Lowe Museum Benefit, Coral Gables, Florida.
The Artful Book, Main Library, Miami-Dade County Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
Shaping Space . . . six sculptors draw and paint, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida.
Art Against Aids VII Benefit, Miami, Florida.
Florida Fellowship Exhibition, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida.
Southeastern College Art Conference Juried Exhibition, Ambrosino Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Octagonal Vortex, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.
Karen Rifas, I Want, Ohio Northern University, Ada, Ohio.
Honorariums: for conducting teacher workshops in conjunction with exhibitions at Miami Art Museum and The Museum of Art at Florida International University, Miami, Florida.
Awarded a 1998-1999 Artists Access Grant, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council and Tigertail Productions, Miami, Florida.
Lecturer, Polk Museum of Art, Lakeland, Florida.
1997
Awarded a Florida Individual Artist Fellowship, 1997-98.
Awarded a Metropolitan Dade County Cultural Affairs Council 1996-97 New Forms Miami/International Individual Artist Grant.
Made in Miami, Fredric Snitzer Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Crossings and Departures: Making Art in Miami, Allen Memorial Art Museum, Oberlin College, Oberlin, Ohio.
Lincoln Road: past, present and future. Art 800, Miami Beach, Florida.
Permanent outdoor installation, Homestead Campus, M.D.C.C., Homestead, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Loose Ends, Ground Level, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
The Florida Landscape, Arts on Douglas, New Smyrna Beach, Florida.
1996
Karen Rifas, Defining Space, Old Capital Gallery, State Capitol, Tallahassee, Florida.
Quest, New World Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Art in State Buildings Commission, Department of Transportation Building, 1000 NW 111 Avenue, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Cross References, St. Thomas University Gallery, St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida.
1995
Nature Pro or Con, Barry University, Miami Shores, Florida. Piece retained for collection.
Four Views: Rifas, Brown, Fegerighi, Thomas; Ritter Gallery, Florida Atlantic University, Boca Raton, Florida.
Dealer's Choice from South Florida Galleries, New World Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Becalmed in Miami, Main Library, Metro-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, Florida. Piece retained for collection.
Clean Sweep, Karen Rifas and Gary Moore, Gutierrez Fine Arts, Miami Beach, Florida.
Trees, South Florida Art Center Ground Level, Miami Beach, Florida.
Art in Suburbia, Kendall, Miami, Florida.
Faculty, '95, The New Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Natural Histories, Rifas, Nash, Coe, Bell, Dunedin Fine Art Center, Dunedin, Florida.
Sculpture in the Landscape, an exhibition of South Florida Artists in Conjunction with Sofa 1995, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
1994
Miami dAda, Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida.
Untitled, Rifas, Brown, La Rosa, Thiele, Winters, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Art Against Aids IV (and V-VII, 1995-1998) and Art Factory, "Momento Mori: The Empty Chairs," Benefit Auctions, Miami, Florida.
Libraries . . . 3x5, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
NCJW Exhibition, Art and Culture Center of Hollywood, Hollywood, Florida.
H x W x L, The Brevard Art Center and Museum, Melbourne, Florida.
43rd, 42nd, 41st (award), 40th, 39th (award) and 37th Annual All Florida Juried Exhibition, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
36th, 35th, 34th (H.M.), 30th, 29th & 28th Annual Hort Memorial, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
1993
Honorarium, Harvest the Wind, Fairchild Tropical Garden, Miami, Florida. Piece retained for permanent collection.
Informatory, Rifas, Agusto, Oquet, Dawes, Moore, Verrili, South Florida Art Center, Miami Beach, Florida.
In The Eyes of the Beholder: Self-Portraits by South Florida Artists, Main Library, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Metro-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Museo De Arte Contemporaneo, Panama, Republic of Panama.
Rethinking Sculpture, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Steve Goldberg, Frieda Tschumy, New Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
"South Florida Artist Invitational," Marguelies Taplin Gallery, Boca Raton, Florida.
University of Miami Faculty Exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
Harvest the Wind, Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida.
Book, Box, Word: Volume II, University Gallery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida.
Justice and the Human Spirit, St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida.
New Paths, Faculty Exhibition, NWSA Art Gallery, Miami, Florida.
Eight from Miami, Bianca Lanza Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida.
1992
Divergent Paths, Faculty Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
Organic Forms and Urban Culture (Karen Rifas, Helene Berkowitz and Nancy Richter) Miami-Dade Community College, North Campus, Miami, Florida.
The Gloria Luria Gallery Years: Florida Focus, Wolfson Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Wolfson Campus, Miami, Florida.
Still Life: A Visual Feast, Main Library, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Metro-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
Installation, Gallery Josh Kligerman, San Miguel de Allende, Gto., Mexico.
University of Miami Faculty Exhibition, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
18th (award) and 16th (award) Annual Small Works, Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida.
Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida, purchase.
In Celebration of Art Miami, Group Exhibition, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor slands, Florida.
Sculpture for Sculptors, University of Miami, New Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida.
Small Works, Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Group Exhibition, Instituto Chileno Norte Americano de Cultura, Santiago, Chile.
1991
Fiber, Selected Florida Artists, Center for the Arts, Vero Beach, Florida.
Round and Round Again (Ron Fondaw, Karen Rifas, Patrick Dougherty), North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Group Show, Grand Central Gallery, Tampa, Florida.
South Florida Invitational, Museum of Art, Fort Lauderdale, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Geocentric Images, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.
Five Sculptors, Stetson University, DeLand, Florida.
Alumnae Show, University of Miami, New Gallery, Coral Gables, Florida.
Karen Rifas, Broward Community College, Pembroke Pines, Florida.
Paths, Faculty Exhibition, New World School of the Arts, Miami, Florida.
United Cerebral Palsy and Art Against Aids Auctions, Miami, Florida.
1990
1st Annual Florida State of the Art Exhibition, South Florida Art Center,
Miami Beach, Florida.
Books by Florida Artists, Main Library, Miami-Dade Public Library System, Metro-Dade Cultural Center, Miami, Florida.
The Expanding Figurative Imagination, Anita Shapolsky Gallery, New York, New York.
Art in Corporate Collections, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
1990 Annual Juried Exhibition, Orlando Museum of Art, Orlando, Florida.
Group Exhibition, Gloria Luria Gallery, Bay Harbor Islands, Florida.
Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida, purchase.
Karen Rifas, Metro Dade Cultural Resource Center, Miami, Florida.
Sculpture: Inside-Outside, De Graaf Fine Arts, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
1989
Nada 14, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Art Against Aids II Benefit, Wolfson Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida.
Way of the Woman Artist: Interviews with Strong Creators, Dade County Cable Television Access Project (Educational Channel One), Miami, Florida.
Sculptors and Drawings, New Gallery, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
Known/Unknown IV (Karen Rifas, William Latham), Wolfson Gallery, Miami- Dade Community College, Miami, Florida.
U.S.A. Invitational No. 1, De Graaf Fine Arts, Inc., Chicago, Illinois.
Belief, Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, North Carolina.
South Florida in the 80's: Selections from the Artbank at Metro-Dade Center, North Miami Center of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida.
Metro-Dade Art in Public Places Trust, purchase.
1988
Objects of Presence, Boca Raton Museum of Art, Boca Raton, Florida.
Matter Or Not: Installations, Florida Center for Contemporary Art, Tampa, Florida.
Second One Person Exhibition, Art in Private Places, Drexel Burnham Lambert, Inc., Miami, Florida.
Art Is Politics, InterAmerican Art Gallery, Miami-Dade Community College, Miami, Florida.
Exit, M.F.A. Show, Lowe Art Museum, Coral Gables, Florida.
Installation - Ancient Ritual of a Lost Civilization, Cox Science Building, University of Miami, Coral Gables, Florida.
1987
3D/9, North Miami Museum and Art Center, North Miami, Florida.
Mas Nada at Hyperspace, Hyperspace Gallery, Miami Beach, Florida.
One Person Exhibition, Sculpture Space Gallery, Miami, Florida.
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Turner, E. (1999, August 15). Gallery at Miami Airport: A Nascent Flight of Fancy ... The Herald, pp. 5m, 7m.
Turner, E. (1999, August 1). Silly/sad photos disarming—but shoes have sass ... The Herald, p.7m.
Staff. (1999, July 4-5). Esculturas, gravuras ... Artes Visuais, (Rio de Janeiro), p. ?
Meadows, G. (1999, May 31). People in the Arts ... The Herald, p. 2E.
Byrd, C. (1999, March 27). Nexus Presents ... The Atlanta Journal Constitution, Creative Loafing, pp. 38,42.
Freckmann, D. (1999, February 26-March 4). Contemporary art drops in on university gallery . Pensacola News Journal, p. 5.
Kline, C. (1999, January 22-28). Taboo’s Requiem ... Atlanta Press, p. ?
Copelon, D. (1999, January 15). Physical Florida ... The Daily Commercial, Weekender, p. 1.
Cole, C. (1999, January 15). Mixed-media exhibit takes nature to art ... The Lake Sentinel, p. 3.
Staff. (1999, January 14). Physical Florida opens at the Mount Dora Center for the Arts ... Mount Dora Topic, p. 10.
Njaim, J. (1998, November 23). Stitched-together leaves bring natural outdoor fabric inside ... Toledo Blade, pp. 13-14.
Milani, J. (1998, September 13). Area art museums offering mixture of textrue, technology ... The Tampa Tribune Times, p. 10.
Marger, M. (1998, September 4). Not by sculpture alone ... St. Petersburg Times, p. 25.
Turner, E. (1998, April 19). Forget the rules: Exhibit invites personal touch ... The Herald, p. 6I.
Vitale, J. (1998, April 12). You're supposed to touch this art work ... The Herald, M.B, p. 23.
Staff. (1998, April 5). Touched by An Artist ... The Herald, p. 20.
Meadows, G. (1998, March 29). People In the Arts ... The Herald, p. 2I.
Staff. (1998, March 28). The Ticket ... The Herald, p. 3G.
Staff. (1997, August 28). State Awards ... Miami Today, p. 1.
Staff. (1997-1998 Annual). 1996 in Review...Public Art. Art In America, p. 37.
Staff. (1997, Volume L, Number 1). Crossings and Departures: Making Art in
Miami... Allen Memorial Art Museum Bulletin, pp. 2, 3, 5, 18, 27, 29.
Marseglia, P. (1997, January 31). Exhibit at Douglas... Daily Journal, p. 2.
Cantor, J. (1997, January 23). Events... New Times, p. 23.
Sindelir, R. (1997, January 22). `100% natural'... Coral Gables Gazette, p. 8, 11.
Turner, E. (1997, January 10). Artist Ties Up Loose Ends... The Herald, p. 27G.
Staff. (1997, January 2). At Loose Ends... The Herald, Community Happenings, p. 18.
Washburn, A. (1996, December 16). Karen Rifas Shows at SFAC... Pinecrest Tribune, p. 24b.
Staff. (1996, October 4-10). Works by Karen Rifas... Entertainment News and Views, p. 10.
Meadows, G. (1996, September 11). Fund loss... The Herald, p. 1B, 4B.
Turner, E. (1996, May 29). Museum of Art... The Herald, p. 4D.
Staff. (1996, April). Defining space... Q. Magazine, p. 4.
Staff. (1996, April 5). Karen Rifas'... Tallahassee Democrat, p. 16D.
Turner, E. (1996, February 18). Cutting-Edge... The Herald, p. 1, 5I.
Staff. (1995, August 11). Best Bet... The Herald, Community Happenings, p. 28.
Staff. (1995, June 22-28). Best... New Times, p. 179.
Golub, A. (1995, November). Natural Histories... Art Papers, pp. 40-41.
Morgan, A. (1995, July-August). Florida Sculpture in the Landscape...Sculpture, p. 42.
Turner, E. (1995, June 2). Under the Rug...The Miami Herald, p. 14G.
Kohen, H. (1995, March 23). Landscape Show...The Miami Herald, p. 3G.
Staff. (1995, March 17). Natural Histories...Tampa Tribune, Friday Extra, p. 22.
Staff. (1994, January 5-9). COCA Today and Tomorrow...Art Miami Catalogue, p. 28.
Kohen, H. (1994, September 11). Hortt...The Miami Herald, p. 7I.
Harbaugh, P. (1994, September 11). Spirited Exhibit...Florida Today, pp. 5-6F.
Valdés, K. (1993, November-December). Karen A. Rifas: Museo de Arte Contemporáneo…. Art Papers, p. 36.
Staff. (1993, July 25). Exposiciones Recientes: Karen Rifas, Museum de Arte Contemporáneo. Talingo, La Prensa, p. 12.
Kohen, H. (1992, February 22). At North Miami's COCA, Less Is More. The Miami Herald, p. 5E.
Turner, E. (1991, Summer). Sticks and Stones. Art News, p. 21.
Heller-Greenman, B. (1991, Jul-Aug). Round and Round Again: Patrick Dougherty, Ron Fondaw, Karen Rifas. Art Papers. pp. 62-63.
Blank, G. (1990, November). Bombs and Oranges: Discovering Miami's Explosive Art Scene. Arts Magazine, pp. 75-79.
Rosendorf, D. (1988, November-December). Objects of Presence. Art Papers, pp. 62-63.
Gaggi, S. (1988, November-December). Matter or Not: Installations, Art Papers, pp. 61- 62.
PUBLIC COMMISIONS & COLLECTIONS
Oasis of the Seas, Royal Caribbean Cruise Lines
Museum of Contemporary Art, North Miami, Florida
Miami Art Museum, Miami, Florida.
Museo de Arte de Ponce, Ponce, Puerto Rico.
Museum of Art, Ft. Lauderdale, Florida.
Four Seasons Hotel, Miami, Florida.
1428 Brickell, Miami, Florida.
Florida Department of Transportation, Miami Construction Office Lobby, Miami, Florida.
Miami-Dade Art in Public Places Art Bank, Miami, Florida.
Miami-Dade College, Homestead Campus Outdoor Installation, Homestead, Florida.
Miami-Dade Public Library, Main Branch, Miami, Florida.
Fairchild Tropical Gardens, Miami, Florida.
Valencia Community College, Orlando, Florida.
Barry University, Miami, Florida.
St. Thomas University, Miami, Florida.
Okaloosa-Walton College, Niceville, Florida.
AWARDS
2005 South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship for the Visual and Media Artists.
Florida Visual Arts fellowship 2002-03 and 1997-98.
Metropolitan Dade-County Cultural Affairs Council 1996-97, New Forms Miami-International Individual Artist Grant.
Artist Access Grant 1998-99, Miami-Dade Cultural Affairs Council and Tigertail Productions.
Interdisciplinary Teaching Grant 1999.