Exhibitions - Solo
unraveling certainties, From Out of the Blue Gallery, Opunake, Taranaki. July - August 2024
detours and daydreams, RM Gallery, Auckland, October - November 2023
soft ware, Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, March - April 2021
under intense scrutiny, Te Tuhi, Auckland, December 2019 - March 2020
Weaving Structural Improvisation Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland, November 2018
Exhibitions - Group
Tracing Intricacies at Webb's Wellington, with Kate van der Drift, Connah Podmore and Helen Reynolds, curated by Virginia Woods-Jack. March - April 2024
Suburbia, Iteration 22 with the mothermother collective, Northart, Auckland, April - June 2023
The Table, Iteration 20 with mothermother, Aotearoa Art Fair, Auckland, March 2023
A Beautiful Collision, Zenith Interiors, Auckland, November 2022
Witness, Sustainable Coastlines, Auckland, November 2022
Selected, Melanie Roger Gallery, Auckland, March - April 2022
Iteration 14, lockdown special, MotherMother, Auckland, March 2022
Aotearoa, Land of the Lsuchong White Cloud, From out of the Blue Studio Gallery, Opunake, Taranaki, January - February 2022
1924 with Sosefina Andy, Ruby Joy Eade, Daphne Espiritu and Erica van Zon, curated by Madeleine Gifford, Corban Estate, Auckland, October - December 2021
Daisy Chain, curated by Sophie Ballantyne, The Den Project Space, Christchurch, June 2021
The 28th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2019, Wallace Gallery, Morrinsville, December 2019 - January 2020
The 28th Annual Wallace Art Awards 2019, Pah Homestead, Auckland, September - November 2019
such a lightweight with Vivienne Worn and Krystina Kaza at play_station, Wellington, March 2019
Art Ache, Lot23, 23 Minnie Street, Eden Terrace, Auckland, July 2018
Projects, Auckland Art Fair, Auckland, May 2018 (photo documentation by ArtsDiary)
Mix Tape, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 2018
Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award Exhibition, Whakatane Exhibition Centre, Whakatane 2018
Place / Making at the Elam Graduate Show, Elam School of Fine Arts, Auckland 2017
see the object as in itself it really is, George Fraser Gallery, Auckland 2017
Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship Exhibition, Elam Projectspace Gallery, Auckland, 2017
Trust Us Contemporary Art Telethon, Enjoy Gallery, Wellington, 2017
Black Asterisk Sculpture Trail, Black Asterisk Gallery, Auckland, 2015
AD15, AUT Graduation Exhibition, Auckland, 2015
always the same but a little different, St Paul Street Gallery, Auckland, 2015
Press, Reviews and Interviews
'A Beautiful Collision', by Jessica Agoston Cleary, November 2022
Interview on 95BFM's Artbank show with Theo Macdonald (interview starts at 1:06:15), April 2021
'Doing – Undoing – Making-Do: Meditations on Impermanence.', by Julia Teale, February 2021
'The Scheme of Things', by Helen Schamroth for NZ House & Garden, April 2021
'Exhibition Review: Karen Rubado, under intense scrutiny', written by Linda Tyler for CONTEXT, Issue 40, Winter 2020
'Karen Rubado’s Giant ‘Drawn’ Scarf', written by John Hurrell at EyeContact, January 2020
'Deadline Looms', Art News New Zealand, Summer 2018
'Ready, Steady, Learn with Karen Rubado', 95BFM, November 2018
'Artist Profile: Karen Rubado', written by Anusha Bhana for Art Ache, July 2018
'Projects 2018 at Auckland Art Fair', May 2018
Projects
The Aroha Art Project in collaboration with Te Tuhi and organised by the Aotearoa Art Fair, Aotea Square, Auckland, 2021Exhibition Making
Land as Lover, Adam Art Gallery, Wellington, 2017Published Works
"What Lies Beneath" in Walking the Ridge: Writings from the 2017 Adam Art Gallery Summer IntensiveAwards
Travelling Finalist: Wallace Art Awards, 2019
Finalist: Molly Morpeth Canaday 3D Award, 2018
Finalist: Henrietta and Lola Anne Tunbridge Scholarship, 2017
University of Auckland Postgraduate Honours/PGDip Scholarship, 2017
Artist Alliance Mentoring Programme Recipient, 2016
Residencies
From Out of the Blue Studio Gallery, 2022RM 103 Summer Studio Residency, 2016
Collections
transition, from the TUCAT Collection, Gifted to the Chartwell Collection, 2017, Auckland Art Gallery Toi o Tāmaki, AucklandEducation
Masters of Fine Arts, Elam School of Fine Arts, University of Auckland, 2018
Adam Art Gallery Summer Intensive, Auckland and Wellington, 2016
Bachelor of Visual Arts, AUT University, Auckland, 2015
Associate of Arts in Multimedia and Web Design, Atlanta, Georgia, 2002