Born 1973. Saint Petersburg, Russia
Education
2001 MFA, Yale University School of Art
New Haven, CT
1998 BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art
Baltimore, MD
1990–91 Moscow Institute of Technology
St Petersburg, Russia
Solo Exhibitions
2012
Darina Karpov: New Paintings, Hales Gallery, London
2011
Told, Hales Gallery, London
2010
Wayward, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (July 2-August 1)
2008
Infinitely Small Disasters, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (May 23–June 23)
2007
New Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY
Group Exhibitions
2012
Hypertrophic Visions, William Bennett Gallery, New York (April 26 – June 10)
2010
Nature, Once Removed: The (Un) Natural World in Contemporary Drawing, Lehman College
Art Gallery, Bronx, NY. Curated by Sean McCarthy (February 3–May 4)
2009
Hypothetical Landscapes, Janet Kurnatowski Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. (April 29-May 24)
Curated by Greg Lindquist
2008
Landschaft Endecken [Discovering Landscape], Orangeriemuseum, Gera Germany
(July–Sept)
Drawn to Detail, DeCordova Museum, Lincoln, MA (August 30, 2007–January 4, 2009)
Gray Scale, Pierogi Leipzig, (September–October) (Three-person)
Order Desire Light, Irish Museum of Modern Art, Dublin, Ireland
Pierogi et al, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (July 12–August 23)
183rd Annual Exhibition: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Academy of
Design, New York, NY (May 29–September 7)
Future Tense: Reshaping the Landscape, Neuberger Museum of Art, Curated by Dede Young
(May 11–July 20)
2007
Block Party II: An Exhibition of Drawings, Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
(June 30–Aug 18)
Hela Havet Stormar (The Whole Sea Is Storming), Pierogi, Leipzig, Germany
(Un)Natural Selection, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY (June 1–July 30)
Flatfiling, Pierogi / Artnews Projects, Berlin, Germany (May 18–June 23)
2006
One-person: New Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, New York
Special Reconnaissance, gigantic art space, New York, NY
Coupling, Rosenberg Gallery NYU, New York, NY
Inaugural Exhibition, Pierogi Leipzig, Germany (Group Exhibition)
2005
into_the_far_nature, AG Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2004
Night of 1000 Drawings, Artists Space, New York, NY
2001
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Yale School of Art
2000
Silent Auction, Group Show in observance of Day Without Art, Yale School of Art
Awards
2009-10
Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant
2008-09
Keyholder Residency Program, Lower East Side Print Shop, New York, NY
2008
William A. Paton Prize for Watercolor, National Academy Museum
Keyholder Residency Program, Lower East Side Print Shop
2007
West Colletion Short List
2001
Bradbury Thompson Memorial Prize, Yale School of Art
2001
Carl Purlington Rollins Fellowship, Yale School of Art
Bibliography
“Sudden Appearances Into Vanishing,” Esopus, Fall 2008 (reproductions of 5 works)
“n+4 Literary New York,” das gefrorene meer, Winter 2008
“Juried Exhibitions-In-Print,” 2008 New American Paintings
“183rd Annual: An Invitiational Exhibition of Contemporary Art,” National Academy Museum and School of
Fine Arts, Exhibition Catalogue, 2008
Aishman, Steve. Exhibition Review, Beautiful Decay, Issue X, Fall 2008
McAdams, Shane. “Darina Karpov, Infinitely Small Disasters,” The Brooklyn Rail, July 2008
Kunitz, Daniel. “The National Academy Museum’s Grab-Bag Anthology,” The New York Sun, June 5, 2008
Pearse, Emma. “Artist Darina Karpov’s Purple Hills,” New York Magazine, June 11, 2008
“Darina Karpov: Infinitely Small Disasters,” TimeOut New York, Exhibits and Shows in Brooklyn, June 2008
Cohen, David. “Summer Gallery-Going: Hanging the Group Shows,” The New York Sun, May 27
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Wyndham, Constance. “Darina Karpov at Pierogi,” Art in America, September 2007
“Goings on About Town,” The New Yorker, January 2, 2007
“The Garden of Eden,” Someone’s Garden, Tokyo, Issue 1, February 2007
The Review Panel, Brooklyn Special presented by Pratt Institute & artcritical.com
West, Paige. “Seen and bought at the Armory,” Art Addict, March 09, 2006