Karen Mosbacher
1983 University of Oklahoma, B.F.A. in Painting
Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts
2007 Phillips Theological Seminary, MDiv, with Emphasis in
the History of Spirituality and the Importance of Art
2019 Santa Fe College, Continuing Art History Studies
https://www.karenmosbacher.com
Solo Exhibitions
• 2025 Juried into the Santa Fe Gallery Association's Artist Catalog
• 2025 Platte Collections, The ART of the DRESS: Defining Women for Centuries, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2025 Opus Gallery, Artist-in-Residence, Retrospective and Dreams, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 Platte Collections, I Paint Music, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 Galleries of Contemporary Art at UCCS, The Butterfly Effect: Experimenting with Expression, Performance Dance - Painting
• 2024 Auric Gallery, The ART of the DRESS: Defining Women for Centuries, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 JRB ART Gallery, The ART of the DRESS: Defining Women for Centuries, Oklahoma City, OK
• 2024 Miriam’s Place, The Music I See, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 Platte Collections, Paint : Music, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 Platte Collections, Chromaeasthetic Juxtaposition Collaboration, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2023 Kreuser Gallery, Collateral BEAUTY: Part 1, No More Silence, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2023 JRB ART Gallery, Note to (my) Self, Oklahoma City, OK
• 2023 The Look Up Gallery, Chromaeasthetic Juxtaposition, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 The Look Up Gallery, The Alchemy of Gesture, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 G44 Gallery, The Alchemy of Gesture, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 Packard Hall, Colorado College, Enchanted Landscapes, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 JRB ART Gallery, Rhythm & Improv, Oklahoma City, OK
• 2022 Gold Hill Mesa, A Retrospective of Small Works, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 Plaza of the Rockies, All. That. Jazz., Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Before I Was Me, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021 G44 Gallery, Rhythm & Improv, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021 Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Paint : Music, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021 Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Rhythm & Improv, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021 Colorado Square Gallery, I Paint Music and All. That. Jazz., Colorado Springs, CO
• 2020 JRB ART Gallery, I Paint Music, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• 2020 Vista Grande Public Library, Paint : Music and All. That. Jazz., Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2019 Victoria at Home Showroom, Paint : Music, Welcome Home, Santa Fe, NM
• 2019 Ojo Optique Showroom, Paint : Music, Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2019 Haciendas: The Parade of Homes Show House, Paint : Music, Welcome Home, &
All. That. Jazz., Santa Fe, New Mexico
• 2019 Farrell’s Gallery, Mosbacher Unframed, Rome Georgia
• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, Paint : Music, Rome Georgia
• 2018 JRB ART Gallery, Enchanted Land, Oklahoma City, OK
• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, I Am the Storm, Rome Georgia
• 2018 Gallery 4945, Paint : Music, Atlanta Georgia
• 2017 Urban Art Collective, Visions, Atlanta, Georgia
Group Exhibitions
• Platte Collections, Enchanted Land, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 Auric Gallery, Anonymous, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 Woman Made Gallery, Invisibility: Existing on the Periphery, Chicago IL
• 2024 ADC Gallery, Radiance, Cincinnati, OH
• 2024 Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Converge, Philadelphia, PA
• 2024 Platte Collections, Paint : Music, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2024 Auric Art Gallery, Gratitude, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2023 G44 Gallery, Holiday Show, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2023 Kreuser Gallery, Gratitude, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2023 City Auditorium, All. That. Jazz., Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 G44 Gallery, Holiday Show, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 Hagnauer Gallery, Blue + Orange = Happiness, Manitou Springs, CO
• 2022 Kreuser Gallery, Gratitude, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021 G44 Gallery, Rhythm & Improv, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021 Cottonwood Center for the Arts, Before I Was Me, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2021 Day2Day Gallery, Paint : Music and All. That. Jazz., Lyon, France
• 2021 JRB ART at the Elms, Before I Was Me, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• 2020 JRB ART at the Elms, Paint : Music and Abstraction, Oklahoma City, Oklahoma
• 2020 Jones Gallery, All. That. Jazz., Kansas City, Missouri
• 2019 Gallery 25N, Paint : Music, New York, New York
• 2019 Farrell’s Gallery, Paint : Music, Rome Georgia
• 2018 I.D.E.A. Gallery, I Am the Storm, Atlanta, Georgia
• 2018 Farrell’s Gallery, Textures in Color, Rome, Georgia
• 2017 I.D.E.A. Gallery, I Am the Storm, Atlanta, Georgia
• 2017 Farrell’s Gallery, Grief Exposed, Rome, Georgia
• 2016 Center for the Contemporary Arts, Abstraction, Contemporary Pop Up, Santa Fe, NM
Honors, Residencies, and Awards
• Juried into the Santa Fe Gallery Association's 2025 Artist Catalog.
• 2024 – Artist Residency, December, Florence Art Academy, Figurative Chiaroscuro, Florence, Italy
• 2024 – 2025 Season, Artist-in-Residence for Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
• 2024 2 Heartland EMMY® AWARD Nominations, “No More Silence”
• 2024 Telly Awards, Gold, Silver, and Bronze, “No More Silence”
• 2024 Davey Award, Gold and Silver, International, “No More Silence”
• 2024 Gold Nyx, International, “No More Silence”
• 2024 Gold Muse, International, “No More Silence”
• 2023 – 2024 Season, Artist-in-Residence for Chamber Orchestra of the Springs
• 2023 Heartland EMMY® AWARD, “I Paint Music” Short Documentary Essay
• 2023 Entered in The National Library of Israel, Jerusalem
• 2023 Platinum Viddy Award, International, “I Paint Music”
• 2023 Gold Nyx, International, “I Paint Music”
• 2023 Gold Muse, International, “I Paint Music”
• 2023 Gold Communicator Award, “I Paint Music”
• 2023 Telly Awards, Gold, and Bronze, “I Paint Music”
• 2023 Davey Award, Gold and Silver, International, “I Paint Music”
• 2022 2 Heartland EMMY® AWARD Nominations, “I Paint Music”
• 2019 – 2020 Artist-In-Residence for Santa Fe Pro Musica, Coda Circle
• 2019 April 1 – 30, Artist in Residence at Chateau Orquevaux, Orquevaux, France
• 2019 Best of Show, Red 2019, Gallery 25N, New York
• 2018 Noteworthy Distinction, Bauhaus Prairie Art Gallery
• 2017 – 2018 Artist in Residence with Clara Blalock, Urban Art Collective, Atlanta, GA
• 2007 Wylie Preaching Award, Phillips Theological Seminary, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1998 Best of Show, 5 x 5 Competition, Tulsa Arts Council, Tulsa, Oklahoma
• 1983 Bronze Letzeiser Honor and Award, Painting
• 1983 Best of Show, Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art Painting Exhibition,
Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
• 1983 Best of Show, Senior Midterm, Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art Painting Exhibition,
Weitzenhoffer Family College of Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
• 1982 Merit Award, Fred Jones, Jr. Museum of Art Painting Exhibition, Weitzenhoffer
Family College of Fine Arts, University of Oklahoma, Norman, Oklahoma
Teaching & Lectures
• 2025 Colorado College, Visiting Lecturer, Creativity and Expression
• 2025 Mentoring Law Students in Creativity and Expression
• 2024 Colorado College, Block Break Intensive Studies in Painting Music
• 2023 Fall Session, Private Mentoring
• 2023 Summer Session, Multae Manus (Many Hands) Collective Mentoring Group
• 2023 Colorado College, Block Break Intensive Studies in Painting Music
• 2022 – 2023 Bemis School of Art, Painting
• 2021 – 2022 Bemis School of Art, Painting
• 2022, Form & Function Foundation, Lecture: On Being a Gallery Artist, Colorado Springs, CO
• 2022 Fall Session, Multae Manus (Many Hands) Collective Mentoring Group
• 2018 Atlanta, Georgia, Fragile Kids, now Focus, Working with Medically Fragile Kids
Publications
• Sept/Oct 2024 Fanfare Magazine, Grammy Award Nominated Transcontinental CD Cover Art, Dr. Ofer Ben-Amots & Dr. Jennifer Barker
• February 2024, KCME Sponsoring EPIC Concert with The Overlook Quartet
• January 2024 Bold Journey, Resilience Article, Los Angeles, CA
• November 2023 KCME Classical, Colorado Springs, CO
• July 2023 KCME Classical, Colorado Springs, CO
• May 2023 KCME Classical, Colorado Springs, CO
• January 2023 KCME Classical, Colorado Springs, CO
• October 2022 Fox 21 News, 93.5 FM Jazz for Colorado Springs
• October 2022 93.5 FM Jazz for Colorado Springs
• May 2022 Gazette, Colorado Springs
• April 2022 Indy, Colorado Springs
• December 2021 Shoutout Colorado
• October 2021 Exhibizone Catalog, Toronto, Canada
• Feb-March 2019 Santa Fean, Santa Fe, NM
• February 2019 Rome Life, Rome, GA
• June 2019 Santa Fean, Santa Fe, NM
• March 2019 Rome-News Tribune, Rome, GA
• March 2018 Atlanta Reporter, Atlanta, GA
• April 2016 Atlanta Reporter, Atlanta, GA
