Karoline Schleh
Instagram @karolineschlehstudio
Ann Connelly Fine Art / https://www.annconnelly.com/artist/karoline-schleh
Callan Contemporary / https://www.callancontemporary.com/artists/karoline-schleh
Education
1994 MFA, Louisiana State University
Baton Rouge, LA
1990 BFA, Newcomb College/ Tulane University
New Orleans, LA
Exhibitions
2023
Bradley Sabin & Karoline Schleh Artist Spotlight ~ Floral Painting & Ceramic Collaborations
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Fine Art Gallery
OPEN | Poetry in Art
Karoline Schleh, Jo Westfall, Olga Ziemska
Mansfield, OH
Mansfield Art Center
Continuum / Bradley Sabin
60” Smoke Songs Rondel Collaboration
New Orleans, LA
Callan Contemporary
The Dandelion: A Symbol of Resistance
New Orleans, LA
Longue Vue Gardens Gallery
2022
Karoline Schleh - Featured Artist September
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Fine Art Gallery
Smoke Butterflies Flying ~ Schleh + Fleming Collaborative Animated Drawing/Motion Projection
Jammin’ on Julia Art Walk, May 7
New Orleans, LA
Callan Contemporary
2021
Twenty Years of Marais Press: Imprinting a Campus and a Collection
Lafayette, LA
Hillard Art Museum
2020
2nd Exhibition: New Orleans Artists in Telluride
Telluride, CO
Telluride HQ Gallery & Gallery 81435
Karoline Schleh - New Works
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Fine Art Gallery
Featured Artist - Karoline Schleh
New Orleans, LA
Magnolia Hotels - New Orleans
2019
Mid-Summer Mardi Gras in Telluride!
Telluride, CO
Telluride HQ Gallery
25 Women Art Exhibition
Waveland, MS
Studio Waveland Art Gallery
2018
Joe Fleming + Karoline Schleh: Summer Series
New Orleans, LA
LUNA Fête
Joe Fleming + Karoline Schleh: Smokey Butterflies Flying
New Orleans, LA
2121 Chartres St. (Elysian Fields & Chartres)
2017
Karoline Schleh & Bradley Sabin : Collaborations
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Fine Art Gallery
2016
29th September Competition
Alexandria, LA
Alexandria Museum of Art
Enscribe
New Orleans, LA
The Front Gallery
2015
Louisiana Contemporary
New Orleans, LA
Ogden Museum of Southern Art
REVERB: Past, Present, and Future
New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Arts Center
ARTi(FICTION): The Battle of New Orleans
Arabi, LA,
Studio Inferno Art Gallery
More Media: Performance/Interactive
New Orlean, LA
Carroll Gallery, Tulane University
2013
black white and things
New Orleans, LA
Carroll Gallery, Tulane University
Confabulation - Karoline Schleh
New Orleans, LA
Kirin Gallery
Karoline Schleh: August Splash Exhibition
Baton Rouge, LA,
Ann Connelly Fine Art
2012
Bobbery (deris + schleh)
New Orleans
Sibley Gallery
Bobbery: new collaborative works by Deris & Schleh
New Orleans
Staple Goods Gallery
Penny Arcade
Mobile, AL
Eichold Gallery, Springhilll College
2011
Poetry & Motion: Karoline Schleh & Demond Matsuo
New Orleans, LA
Reynolds Ryan Gallery, Isidore Newman School
Text/Image
New Orleans, LA
Carroll Gallery, Tulane University
Bookmarks: The Artists’ Response to Text
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art
2010
Stare: What Wild New World Is This? - Karoline Schleh
New Orleans, LA
Barrister’s Gallery
2009
Hot Up Here (LA Biennial) Dan Cameron curator
Lafayette, LA
Acadiana Center for the Arts
Hot Up Here (LA Biennial) Dan Cameron curator
New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Art Center
1992-2008: Artist Collaborations at Marais Press
Lafayette, LA
UL Museum
Prints Past and Prints Present, George Roland curator
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art
Spontaneity and the Subconscious
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Fine Art
Mind's Eye:Without Subject Matter, What Does the Artist See?
George Roland curator
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art
2008
Stereo View - Karoline Schleh
San Francisco, CA
Micaela Gallery
St. Claude Collective (in conjunction with P.1)
New Orleans, LA
The New Orleans Healing Center
2007
Outlines - Karoline Schleh
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Fine Art
Cranbrook Academy of Art 8th Annual Chair Show
Detroit, MI
Cranbrook Academy of Art Gallery
2006
Stereo - Karoline Schleh
New Orleans, LA
Jenkins Connelly Gallery
Comfort of Home
Lincoln, MA
Clark Gallery
Art from the Gulf: Reflections on Katrina
Silver Springs, MD
Pyramid Atlantic
Gallery Artists Group Show
New Orleans, LA
Jenkins Connelly Collection
Persephone's Spring: Return from Exile
New Orleans, LA
Carroll Gallery, Tulane University
Chalkboards
Raleigh, NC
Rebus Works Gallery
Made in New Orleans (traveling exhibit)
New Orleans, LA
Contemporary Art Center
Shreveport, LA
Artspace
Jonesboro, AK
Bradbury Gallery Arkansas State University
Birdspace: A Post Audubon Aviary (traveling exhibit)
Tucson, AZ
Tucson Museum of Art
Katrina, You Bitch.
New Orleans, LA
Barrister’s Gallery
2005
Travel Notes - Karoline Schleh
New Orleans, LA
Barrister’s Gallery
Made in New Orleans (traveling exhibit)
Mobile, AL
Space 301, Centre for Living Arts
Saltline Biennial
Mobile, AL
Mobilie Museum of Art
Still Life Group Exhibition
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Collection
Birdspace: A Post Audubon Aviary (traveling exhibit)
Youngstown, OH
John J. McDonough Museum of Art
2004
Hypergraphia - Karoline Schleh
New York, NY
4th Floor Gallery, Soho Letterpress
Birdspace: A Post Audubon Aviary (traveling exhibit)
Contemporary Arts Center
New Orleans, LA
Norton Museum of Art
W. Palm Beach, CA
Hudson River Museum of Art
Yonkers, NY
2003
Smoke, Water, and Writing - Karoline Schleh
New Orleans, LA
Soren Christensen Gallery
Southern Current
Mobile, AL
Space 301, Centre for Living Arts
Cerebration: Art of Centre
Mobile, AL
Space 301, Centre for Living Arts
Stitched
New Orleans, LA
Carroll Gallery, Tulane University
The Current Image: A collaboration of
Contemporary Louisiana Printmaking & Commentary
Lafayette, LA
University of Louisiana Art Gallery
Quiet Water: Louisiana Printmakers
New Orleans, LA
Delgado Art Gallery, Curator Phyllis McGibbon
The Bird of Love and the Devil
New Orleans, LA
Barrister’s Gallery
2001
Karoline Schleh: Mirror Writing
Springhill, AL
Eichold Gallery
Karoline Schleh Drawings
Baton Rouge, LA
Ann Connelly Collection
(the invisible city)
New Orleans, LA
The Studio 520
Cities and Desire, (the invisible city)
Brooklyn, NY
The Rotunda Gallery
Works on Paper
New Orleans, LA
Mario Villa Gallery
2000
The Printed Image: Stone, Wood, Zinc, & Silk
Opelousas, LA
The Opelousas Museum of Art
German Heritage Exhibit
New Orleans, LA
German Heritage Museum
1999
First Impressions, An Exhibit of Contemporary Printmakers
New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art
5th Wexford Artists’ Book Festival
Wexford, Ireland
Wexford Arts Center
Letterpress & Book Projects
2019
Patchen Paintings
New Orleans, LA
Edwin Blair’s experience setting up a show of paintings by proto-Beat poet Kenneth Patchen in 1965. The show recounted in the book resulted from lots of back and forth written communication between Edwin Blair and Kenneth Patchen. Designed and printed by hand Daniel Lievens & Karoline Schleh
2007
Catte Au Lait and Mardi Gras Day
New Orleans, LA
Children’s book illustrations, Author Sean Gerowin
2005
Catte Au Lait and the Big Hurricane
New Orleans, LA
Children’s book illustrations, Author Sean Gerowin
2003
All’s Fire the Fire poet Andy Young
New Orleans, LA
Created artwork, book design, and
hand bound books. Edition #276
2002
The Bounty, author Derek Walcott
New Orleans, LA
Designed broadside with original artwork and
letterpress to commemorate Nobel Prize winning author’s
reading at Faulkner House Books in the French Quarter.
Fair Warning, author Robert Olan Butler, and
Sacrament of Lies, author Elizabeth Dewberry.
New Orleans, LA
Created original etching and design for a dual broadside created to
commemorate Valentine’s Day reading by the authors
at Faulkner House Books in the French Quarter.
2001
(the invisible city), Erato Press
New York, NY & New Orleans, LA
Anthology of NYC poets & New Orleans artists.
1999
KAJA, Perdido Press
New Orleans, LA
Designed artwork and book design for a collection of poetry from
Beat poet Kay Johnson.
Rose, Erato Press
New Orleans, LA
Created etchings with Rich O’Russa New York, NY for poetry by Marcella Durand
1997
Mistah Leary, He Dead
Perdido Press & X-ray Books
New Orleans, LA & San Francisco, CA
Eulogy by Hunter S. Thompson for Timothy Leary.
Hand letter pressed and bound chapbook.
Designed in collaboration with Johnny Brewton.
Publications
2013
D. Eric Bookhardt, Work by Christopher Deris, New Orleans, LA
Karoline Schleh and Wesley Stokes
Gambit Weekly / Inside Art New Orleans
Tuesday, June 19, 2012
2010
D. Eric Bookhardt, Schleh at Barrister’s, New Orleans, LA
Becker at D.O.C.S.
Gambit Weekly / Inside Art New Orleans
Sunday, April 18, 2010
2009
D. Eric Bookhardt, Hot Up Here at the CAC New Orleans, LA
Gambit Weekly / Inside Art New Orleans
Sunday, November 8, 2009
2008
1 Day of Art New Orleans New York, NY
(t)here Magazine
Summer 2008 issue
2006
Tara McLellan, Artist Profile New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Homes & Lifestyles Magazine
November 2006
The New York Times, OP-ED Tues, August 29, 06 New York, NY
Op-Art ,A Flood of Images, David Roberts,
Karoline Schleh, Jacqueline Bishop, Jeff Marshall,
Paul Rogers
Laura Berman, Reshaping Artifacts: Seven Kansas City, MO
New Orleans Artists Review Magazine
May 2006
D. Eric Bookhardt, The Writing on the Wall New Orleans, LA
Gambit Weekly October 17, 2006
D. Eric Bookhardt, Collins C. Diboll Art Gallery New Orleans, LA
Made in Mobile: A group Exhibition of
Leading Mobile Artists
Gambit Weekly October 24, 2006
Thomas B. Harrison, Made in Mobile: Mobile, AL
New Orleans gallery opens show of work by
Mobile Artists
Mobile Register, October 2, 2006
D. Eric Bookhardt, Made in New Orleans: New Orleans, LA
A Survey of Contemporary Art from the
Crescent City, Gambit Weekly
2005
Marcia W. Vetrocq, “Crescent City Rising” New York, NY
Art in America, November 2005
Thomas B. Harrison, Mobile might become Mobile, AL
a key port in a storm
Mobile Register, October 9, 2005
Thomas B. Harrison, New Orleans Mobile, AL
artists get a gig at Space 301
Mobile Register, September 25, 2005
Doug MacCash, Deciphering Karoline Schleh New Orleans, LA
The Times Picayune
2004
D. Eric Bookhardt, By the Book New Orleans, LA
Gambit Weekly
David Rubin, Birdspace Atlanta, GA
Art Papers, July/August 2004
2003
D. Eric Bookhardt, Glyphs, Grids, & Smoke New Orleans, LA
Gambit Weekly
2001
Doug MacCash, Paperweights New Orleans, LA
The Times Picayune
Audrey Leonard, Three New Anthologies San Francisco, CA
Small Press Traffic
Doug MacCash, Art and Poetry New Orleans, LA
The Times Picayune
Susan Strachen, The Invisible City New Orleans, LA
St. Charles Magazine
Donna Freckman, Words important Pensacola, FL
Pensacola News Journal, “Weekender”
June 28th Issue.
2000
Vesta de Yampert, The Studio System New Orleans, LA
Homes & Lifestyles/ New Orleans Magazine
Winter Issue
Doug MacCash, Varied Artistic New Orleans, LA
Languages in Print
The Times Picayune
D. Eric Bookhardt, On the Walls: March New Orleans, LA
Gambit Weekly
Marian S. McLellan, Paper Works New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Art Review
Awards & Honors
2017
Love in the Garden 2017, New Orleans Museum of Art - Honored artist
2015
Collector's Club Print - Artist for 2015 Contemporary Art Center Silver Circle
New Orleans, LA
2012
Studio Assistantship, Penland School of Art & Craft Penland, NC
House & studio filmed for House & Home exhibition Washington D.C.
National Building Museum
Original painting, Invisible Woman, reproduced & used New York, NY
for the design of libretto covers and invitation cards for
the new opera by James Stepleton, "THE AWAKENING"
New York City Opera, VOX Opera Lab
Studio Assistantship, Letterpress & Book Arts Studio Penland, NC
Penland School of Art & Craft
2010
Juror for St. Tammany Art Association Annual Exhibition Hammond, LA
Award of Excellence, 8th Annual Juried Exhibition Grand Isle, LA
2008
Juror for Take 5 Exhibition by the Mobile Arts Council Mobile, AL
2006
Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant New York, NY
Joan Mitchell Foundation New York, NY
Artist Emergency Support Grant
American Association of American Curators Houston, TX
Grant Award
2005
Arts Council Grant awarded for curating New Orleans, LA
Louisiana in Print exhibition.
Louisiana Division of the Arts Grant awarded for New Orleans, LA
curating lost intentions: ovary and oculus exhibition
2001
Artel Honorarium, Guest Lecture Series
Pensacola, FL
Artel Arts Center
Artwork Purchase 2001, Percent for Art Program
New Orleans, LA
Arts Council of New Orleans
2000
Outstanding Teaching 1999-2000
New Orleans, LA
Newcomb College, Tulane University
1998
Internship, Harvey Littleton Studios
Spruce Pine, NC
Kotaro Hamada Scholarship to Florence
Florence, Italy
The New Orleans School of GlassWorks
1994
Internship, Vinalhaven Press
Vinalhaven, ME
Collections
Tulane University, Laven-Bernick Center New Orleans, LA
Harrah’s Entertainment Inc. New Orleans, LA
Thomas & Dathel Coleman New Orleans, LA
New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA
Percent For Art City of New Orleans New Orleans, LA
The New Orleans Arts Council New Orleans, LA
Pensacola Junior College Pensacola, FL
University of Louisiana Print Collection Lafayette, LA
The New Orleans Museum of Art New Orleans, LA
Lawrence Ferlinghettii San Francisco, CA
Hunter S. Thompson Woody Creek, CO
Harvey Littleton Studios Spruce Pine, NC
Robert Blackburn’s Printmaking Workshop New York, NY
Curatis Corporation Malmo, Sweden
