Karen Zalamea

Karen Zalamea is a Filipino-Canadian artist, educator and cultural worker based in Burnaby, BC. With an interdisciplinary practice rooted in photography, Zalamea considers the camera-mediated relationship between the body and space, as well as the material and representational potential of the photographic surface. She holds a BFA from Emily Carr University of Art and Design (Vancouver) and an MFA from Concordia University (Montréal), and she has carried out artist residencies in the Philippines, Iceland and Canada. Her work has been presented in solo, group and public-art exhibitions across Canada and internationally, most recently at the Capture Photography Festival (Vancouver).

Karen Zalamea
Karen Zalamea, They are lost as soon as they are made, 2020, (single image from the series). Courtesy the artist and Prefix Institute of Contemporary Art, Toronto

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  • 2023 / core / exhibition

    Karen Zalamea
    The Prefix Prize

    Tangled Art + Disability
    The recipient of the third annual Prefix Prize is Karen Zalamea, a Filipino-Canadian artist who resides in Burnaby, B.C. With an interdisciplinary practice rooted in photography, Zalamea is adept in the use of a wide range of photographic substrates, creative approaches and installation strategies. Accordingly, her works are occasionally abstract, often textural and layered, and always sensitive to their modes of display.
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