Photographer, lecturer & storyteller based in Atlanta.
Karen Shacham is a photographer specializing in portraiture and documentary photography. She was awarded an Idea Capital Grant for her Couples series of the LGBTQ community, as well as a grant from Art on the Atlanta Beltline. Shacham was published in FORM: artistic independence: a catalog of emerging artists in Atlanta. She has shown her work in fine art galleries and earned a combined academic and artistic photography fellowship in 2009. Karen Shacham received her MFA in Photography from Savannah College of Art and Design and is the Chair of the Photography program & Design and Media program at Atlanta Technical College.
For more information, inquiries and other opportunities, or to just say hello, feel free to get in touch.
REVIEWS AND PUBLICATIONS
2012 Atlanta Journal Constitution: Expect the Unexpected at Art on the Atlanta Beltline
2012 The New York Times: Putting a Good Face on Street Art to Upgrade Atlanta
2012 The Huffington Post: Atlanta Hosts First All-Female Street Art Conference’
2011 The Creative Loafing: Living Walls Reconnects Atlantans with their City One Wall at a Time
2011 Williams and England, published book, Form 2011: Artistic Independence printed catalog of established and emerging artists in Atlanta
2011 Ethics Arts Cafe, speaker, in collaboration with Emory University and Wonderroot
2010 The Southern Photographer Karen Shacham Shows Couples in Atlanta August 26, 2010, article by John N. Wall.
2010 Art Relish: Karen Shacham Couples at Dewberry
August 16, 2010, video interview by Jason Parker, also here on Atlanta Celebrates Photography site
2010 Art Relish: Pine Portfolio Series at Picaflor Studio
February 15, 2010, article by Marcia Vaitsman and Serene Al-Kawas
2010 Pine Magazine: Audio Interview with Karen Shacham
January 20, 2010, interview by Holly Lang
GRANTS, BOARDS, AWARDS, COLLECTIONS
2019-Present Hope-Hill Foundation, Board Member
2019-Present Beltline Public Art Advisory Council, Board member
2014-2017 Society for Photographic Education LGBTQ Caucus, Board member
2012 Art on the Atlanta Beltline, Recipient of artist grant
2012 Idea Capital Grant, Recipient of Idea Capital Grant
2012, Carve Magazine, Winner of literary magazine cover contest
2011, Collection, The Lesbian Herstory Archives, Brooklyn, NY
EDUCATION
2010 MFA Photography, Savannah College of Art & Design
2004 BA Journalism, University of Georgia
EXPERIENCE
2018- Present Atlanta Technical College, Chair of the Photography department and Design & Media Production
2010- Present Atlanta Technical College, Professor of Photography
2012 Savannah College of Art & Design, instructor
2010-2011 Callanwolde Fine Arts Center, instructor
2010-2011 Shorter College, instructor
2009 Turner Broadcasting, photography assistant
2009 Threshing Floor Gallery and Academy, Photographer and gallery assistant
2006 Picture This! Photography program, Founding facilitator
2005-2008 CNN, marketing coordinator
2003-2004 Peace Corps, Bolivia, integrated educator
SELECTED EXHIBITS
2022-2023
Out Down South, National Center for Civil and Human Rights
Atlanta, GA
2012-2023
Art Papers Annual Art Auction, Atlanta, GA
2012
Art on the Beltline, Atlanta, GA
Living Walls, Atlanta GA
2011
Form 2011 Release Party and Exhibition Mint Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Visualize Rights, Auburn Avenue Research Library, Atlanta GA
2010
Couples, SoundTable, Atlanta GA
Couples, Dewberry Gallery, Atlanta, GA
A Life Beyond Your Own, Rawspace, Atlanta, GA
f18 Photography Show, Atlantic Station, Atlanta, GA
The Collection Plate, Picaflor Gallery, Atlanta, GA
Pine Portfolio Show, Picaflor Gallery, Atlanta, GA
2009
Minus: An Exhibition, Studioplex 143, Atlanta, GA
Uhaul Art Show, Atlanta, GA
Stimulus Photography Show, Atlanta, GA
Atlanta Photography's Annual Silent Auction, Eclipse di Luna, Atlanta
2008
Atlanta Celebrates Photography, My Atlanta, Piedmont Park, Atlanta
All About Tress: An Art Auction to Benefit Trees Atlanta, Trees Atlanta
2002
Through the Looking Glass: Views, perspective and the human form with Salah Anase, Apache Café, Atlanta, GA