Karen Kuo (b. 1993) is an artist working in painting and sculpture. Guided by self-devised systems, she translates images between flat and volumetric forms. She reworks familiar shapes into unexpected objects that make the known world feel newly strange, generating variations that echo natural growth and mutation. Kuo received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and serves as Ceramics Technician at Scripps College. Her work was recently acquired by the Morgan Stanley Art Collection, and she has realized site-specific commissions in Taiwan and Turkey. Kuo is a 2026 Vermont Studio Center Fellow and has exhibited at Cuchifritos (NYC), LADIES’ ROOM (LA), the Ruth Chandler Williamson Gallery (LA), the John Michael Kohler Arts Center (Sheboygan), and internationally at Contemporary Istanbul.