Karen Dias

Karen Dias is an interdisciplinary artist and photographer working across mediums and materials. Her practice explores systems and representations of power, violence and pain. Karen’s work has been exhibited at the Kochi Biennale and Chennai Photo Biennale in India, Gulf Photo Plus in the UAE, Angkor Photo Festival in Cambodia and Tisseurs d’Images Festival in France among others. Karen has been commissioned by and produced reportage for The Washington Post, The New York Times, The Guardian, Al Jazeera, Bloomberg News, Quanta Magazine, Conde Nast Traveler, National Geographic, Financial Times, Roads & Kingdoms, The Caravan, Saveur, Fountain Ink, La Croix, and Le Monde among others. 

Karen has been an artist-in-residence at MASS MoCA in Massachusetts (2022), Woodward Residency in New York (2023) and has been an artist fellow in the Interdisciplinary Art and Theory Program in New York (2024). She has been a grant recipient of the International Women’s Media Foundation, Sidney Hillman Foundation and  the Economic Hardship Reporting Project. She has served as faculty at the International Center of Photography, New York University and Fashion Institute of Technology. Karen grew up in Mumbai, belongs to Goa and is based in New York City. She received a Bachelors in Mass Media with a major in Journalism from St. Xavier’s College in Mumbai (2007) and a Masters in Fine Arts from The New School (2021).