Born in Germany and migrated to Australia in 1977.
Karin Hauser lives and works in Sydney. She received her Bachelor of Fine Art at the Tasmanian School of Art, Hobart, Tasmania and graduated from the University of Sydney in 2005 with an MA in Studio Arts with Honours.
Karin Hauser’s carefully constructed photographs establish an approach to reality that opens a contemplative space, through which the world might be re-imagined in less ordinary ways. Her work aims to dissolve the relationship between the inner and the outer, between subject and object, and through which human vulnerability is given particular resonance.
Her work has been exhibited at the Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney, at the Hamburger Kunstverein, Germany and the see|me exhibition space in NYC. She has received grants and fellowships from the Australia Council and Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board, including an Australia Council Studio Residency in Italy. She was a finalist in the Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Award (2007) and received Honorable Mention at the International Photography Awards (IPA) in 2013 and 2015. In 2017 her work was shown alongside the 57th Venice Biennale as part of the IV Biennal Project.
EDUCATION
2005 Master of Studio Art with Honours, The University of Sydney (SCA), Sydney
1983 Bachelor of Fine Art, School of Art, University of Tasmania, Hobart
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Beneath The Canopy, gaffa Gallery, Sydney
1986 Karin Hauser: Photo Montage, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
1985 Karin Hauser: Photo Montage, Roar Studios, Melbourne
1984 Ascend-Decent, Galleria Cacina, Osmate, Italy
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019 Pollux Award, Gallery Valid Foto, Barcelona, Spain
2018 The Unexpected, N.Y.Photocurator (online) curated by Ellen Jantzen
2017 Snap to grid, LACDA, Los Angeles Centre for Digital Art, US
Greenway Art Competition, Sydney AUS
Silence, gaffa Gallery, Sydney AUS
The Biennal Project ArtVenice Biennale IV, Venice, IT
2015 Nature, Scope Miami, Florida – see|me, Florida, USA
2013 The Story of the Creative, see|me exhibition Space, Long Island City, NYC, USA
2007 Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, QLD, AUS
Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre, Albury Regional Art Gallery, AUS
2005 The Graduate Show, SCA Gallery, Sydney University, AUS
2003 Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart
2000 Blake Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1996 The Christmas Show, Crafts Council, Sydney
1992 The Goddess Within, Chameleon Art Space, Hobart
1991 The January Stock Show, Dick Bett Gallery, Hobart
1989 Art on the Boil, Piccolo Spiletto, Powerhouse Gallery, Melbourne
The October Show, Queen Victoria Museum & Art Gallery, Launceston
1988 Junge Fotografen, Hamburger Kunstverein, Germany
1986 Art in Working Life, Chameleon Contemporary Art Space, Hobart
1985 Three Tasmanian Photographers, Australian Centre for Photography, Sydney
14th International Art Fair London, Richard de Marco Gallery, Scotland
Künstlerkinder, Forum Kunst Rottweil, Rottweil, Germany
1984 150 years Art Competition, Long Gallery, Hobart, Tasmania
1983 Not just a picture show, Long Gallery, Hobart
GRANTS AND AWARDS
2018 Two Honorouble Mentions, Pollux Award, Category Fine Art
2018 Second Place, N.Y. Photocurator
2017 Finalist, Greenway Art Prize, Sydney AUS
2015 Honourable Mention, International Photography Awards (IPA), Category Fine Art
2013 Honourable Mention, International Photography Awards (IPA), Fine Art Collage
2007 Finalist, Josephine Ulrick & Win Schubert Photography Award, Gold Coast City Art Gallery, Queensland
Finalist, Constructed Realms: Photography as Theatre, Albury Regional Art Gallery, NSW
2003 Finalist, Hutchins Art Prize, Long Gallery, Hobart
2000 Finalist, Blake Prize, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney
1994 Arts based Industries Reserve Fund, Arts Tasmania
1993 Grants and Loans Program, Arts Tasmania
1992 Arts and Industry Grant, Arts Tasmania
1985 Art and Working Life Project, Arts Tasmania
1985 Grants to Artist Program, Australia Council
1983 Overseas studio residency, Besozzo Italy, Australia Council
Overseas travel fellowship, Arts Advisory Board, Tasmania
Interstate exhibition grant, Tasmanian Arts Advisory Board
BIBLIOGRAPHY
National Photography Prize Albury, 2007, exh. cat
Gold Coast Photography Award, 2007, exh. cat.
The Hutchins Art Prize, 2003, exh.cat.
Giles Auty, Good Lord, Religion is everywhere, Sydney Morning Herald, 2000
Florence Creavin, The Goddess Within, exh. cat.,1992
Deborah St. Leger, Artist’s search for the goddess within reveals huge Pantheon, Hobart Mercury, 1992
Diane Dunbar, The October Show, exh.cat, 1989
Deborah St. Leger, Karin Hauser: Photomontage, Art-Network, 1986
Heather Curnow, Three Tasmanian Photographers, Queen Victoria Museum, 1985, exh. cat.
Heinrich Maier, Entscheidung: Kuenstler werden, Schwäbischer Bote, Germany, 1984
Jonathan Holmes, Tasmanian Photographers, Photofile, 1983
Marion Hardman, Not a Picture Show, Island Magazine 1983
Paul William White, Revolution on the Devils Island, The Australian 1983
COLLECTIONS
Devonport Art Gallery, Tasmania, Australia
Erich Hauser Trust, Germany
Private Collections in Australia, Germany, USA