Karen Kuo (b. 1993) is a Taiwanese-American artist whose multidisciplinary practice spans craft, image-making, and systems-based inquiry. She explores cycles of transformation drawn from both natural and human-made worlds—examining how patterns, symbols, and materials accumulate meaning over time and give shape to internal landscapes. Merging ancient techniques with speculative thinking, her work gives form to anachronistic objects that exist between diagram and dream, function and illusion.
Kuo received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design and attended in the RISD European Honors Program in Rome. Her work has been exhibited at Ladies’ Room LA (Los Angeles), Cuchifritos Gallery + Project Space (New York), Space Ten Gallery (Hawthorne), One Arc Gallery (Istanbul), Artweeks Akaretler (Istanbul), and Contemporary Art Istanbul, among others. She is a 2026 Fellow at the Vermont Studio Center. Her work was recently acquired by the Morgan Stanley Art Collection. Kuo is based in Los Angeles and works between her studio in Diamond Bar and the American Museum of Ceramic Art (AMOCA) in Pomona.