Karen Russo

Karen Russo’s multimedia research and practice uses document and narrative to explore how knowledge, perception, and culture intertwine the rational with the obscure. Her work examines new forms of perception and representations of invisibility, challenging the conventional understanding of the mind.

Born in Tel-Aviv in 1974, she graduated from the Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem and was one of the youngest artists ever awarded a solo exhibition at the Israel Museum. Russo traces marginalised practices, obscure phenomena, and esoteric forms of knowledge through film, installation, drawing, writing and photography. She is particularly interested in the dividing line between what is accepted as the legitimate expression of culture and civilised existence, and what is excluded or repressed.

Russo has exhibited widely, in venues including the Barbican Centre, London; Hayward Gallery Project Space, London; Centre for Contemporary Art, Israel; Victoria and Albert Museum, London; Montevideo; Amsterdam; Tate Modern, London and Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Israel.

Karen Russo lives and works in London, England.