Karen Strang is a Scottish painter and flaneuse based at Studio One, Marcelle House, Alloa, Scotland.
1985 Graduated in Drawing & Painting from Glasgow School of Art
1985-6: Postgraduate studies at the Academy of Fine Arts in Warsaw
1986: British Council Travel Scholarship in Central Europe
1986: "A Woman" Galeria Brama, Warsaw
1991: "Polish Pieces 1986-1990" St.Andrews Festival, University of St. Andrews library
1994-5: "Lunacycle" Cowane Centre, Stirling and Crawford Arts Centre, St. Andrews; also shown at Collins Gallery, Glasgow
1995: "Insanadiorama" Smith Museum and Art Gallery, Stirling
2002: "Weird Wimmin" Alloa Tower
2014: "Illuminations 1874" Pathfoot Gallery, University of Stirling
2018: "The Burn and the Tide" Lillie Gallery, Milngavie
2019: "Elen Salt and Stone" Fire Station Creative, Dunfermline
2019: "Syrena" Helensburgh Art Hub, Helensburgh
1987: "Dis-Place-Ment" Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1987: "Beat-if-ication" Macintosh Museum, Glasgow School of Art
1987: "Seduction/Saturation" Third Eye Centre, Glasgow
1987: "Seduction 2" National Review of Live Art, Riverside Studios, London
1996-7: "Psycho-Housewife" Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibition and Glasgow Art Fair
1997: "Recipes For Disaster" Women and Text international conference, University of Leeds
1998: "Europa" Panzerhalle, Berlin
1997-8: "A Case of Displacement" Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibition and Arthur Ross Gallery, Philadelphia
1998: "Lab" Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibition, Edinburgh
2007: "Cake reconstruction", RSA/SSA "Body Parts" event at Royal Scottish Academy
2008: "How to giftwrap a chicken" co-wrote and performed at Lochgelly Theatre
1985: Sir William Gillies Travelling Scholarship
1985: Newberry Medal, Glasgow School of Art
1985: Polish Government Scholarship awarded through the British Council
1986: British Council Travel Scholarship
1988: Edwin Morgan Young Artist's Prize (Glasgow Group Annual Exhibition)
1996: George Wyllie Award (Society of Scottish Artists annual exhibition)
1999: George Wyllie Award (SSA annual exhibition)
2012: Visual Artist Awards: Forth Valley / Creative Scotland
2004: Oronsko Sculpture Workshop, Poland
Professional member of the Society of Scottish Artists
Member of “Hanging Together”, Stirling-based artists’ group
Member of BIGOS (Artists of Polish Origin Working in Britain)
Member of Fife Polish Artists Group
1987-8: Secretary of the Committee for the Visual Arts, Transmission Gallery, Glasgow
1988-90: Member of the Scottish Arts Council Artists' Award Panel
1998-2001: Member of Council of the Society of Scottish Artists
1990s: Committee member, Artlink Central
1990s: Committee member, Stirling & District Arts Forum
1990s: Also a member of various artists' advisory boards