Karen Kice

Karen Kice is a curator and writer in art, architecture, and design. She has conceived, developed, and managed projects including major exhibitions and events in a range of diverse environments from museums to public spaces. Her projects skillfully distill complex ideas and theories into a concise and digestible manner for broad audiences through various modes of dissemination. Her exhibitions include: Sahara: Acts of Memory (Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, 2021) Recurrent Visions: The Architecture of Marshall Brown Projects (Princeton University School of Architecture, 2019), Chatter: Architecture Talks Back (Art Institute of Chicago, 2015), and Building: Inside Studio Gang Architects (Art Institute of Chicago, 2012). For five years, she was a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Art Institute of Chicago where she created over a dozen exhibitions looking at how contemporary forces shape architecture and design.