U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) by Anna Fox and Karen Knorr

Les Rencontres d’Arles
Palais de l’Archevêché, 7 July–5 October 2025

 
There’s now only a few more days to catch Anna Fox and Karen Knorr’s U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) at Les Rencontres d’Arles! The exhibition is on view at Palais de l’Archevêché until Sunday 5 October.

Following in the tracks of Berenice Abbott and her colleague/assistant Damon Gadd (also accompanied by Sara Gadd), Karen Knorr and Anna Fox set out in 2016 to start a record of contemporary life along U.S. Route 1 during the age of Trump. Along the way Fox and Knorr searched for a sense of what is happening today and how that differs from what Abbott and Gadd found. Using their iPhones, digital SLRs and a Phase One medium format camera, they photographed small towns, people, drugstores, cafes, diners, hotels, motels, farms, factories, street signs and advertisements.

U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott) by Anna Fox & Karen Knorr
Published by Trolley Books

Book Launch:
The Photographers’ Gallery Bookshop
Thursday 24 July
18.00 – 20.00

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox’s new publication, U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), published by Trolley Books, will be launching in London at The Photographers’ Gallery on Thursday 24 July! Click here to  pre-order a signed copy from Trolley Books at a special release price (offer available until 24 July).

Anna Fox and Karen Knorr set out in 2016 on a journey of friendship, adventure and collaboration stopping at motels, drugstores, cafes and Airbnb’s. Stopping, walking, getting out to meet people and explore a fractured US society in the age of Trump. Over 150 colour photographs made between 2016 and 2025 focus on small towns on this extended road trip from Key West in Florida to Fort Kent in Maine. 

Shifting Perspectives: Photography from Japan Echoes Urban Lights and Spaces Between

White Conduit Projects, London

Karen Knorr is offering special A3 edition of 25 of Intoxicated by the Moonlight, Obai-in, Kyoto, 2017 for the first time to celebrate her work’s inclusion in Shifting Perspectives. Contact info@whiteconduitprojects.uk for further details.

Shifting Perspectives showcases the work of three photographers inspired by their experiences in Japan. Karen Knorr presents selections from her ongoing Monogatari series, which has been exploring Japanese heritage and culture since 2011. Alicja Dobrucka and Olivier Richon present works that express their sense of taste and vision through still-life photography, created during their residency at Tokyo Arts and Space (TOKAS) in 2016

Knorr’s Monogatari series started in 2012, explores animal life and Japanese cultural heritage through Buddhist tales and traditional stories. Captured in temples, shrines, and gardens across Kyoto, Nara, Ise, and Tokyo, the images of animals and women in kimonos evoke Edo period screen art.

3 Photographic Journeys That Expand Reality: Kimiko Yoshida, Albert Watson, and Karen Knorr

Holden Luntz Gallery
Palm Beach, Florida
22 February–15 April 2025

Panel Discussion
22 February, 10 am (EST)

Karen Knorr will be exhibiting in Holden Luntz Gallery’s newest group exhibition, 3 Photographic Journeys That Expand Reality: Kimiko Yoshida, Albert Watson, and Karen Knorr. She will be at the gallery in Palm Beach this weekend for an artist talk and panel discussion with Holden Luntz, Kimiko Yoshida, and Albert Watson. Starting at 10 am (EST), 22 February. The talk will be recorded, live-streamed on Instagram, and later posted on the Holden Luntz Gallery website.

Zona Maco
with Sundaram Tagore Gallery
Centro Citibanamex, Mexico City
5–9 February 2025
Booth E105

10 on Paper
Celebrating 10 years of Matèria
Matèria, Rome
13 February–17 April 2025

Karen Knorr’s work is currently on view at Zona Maco in Mexico City with Sundaram Tagore Gallery until 9 February 2025. Coming up later in February is 10 on Paper which celebrates 10 years of Matèria. The Principles of Political Economy from Capital (1990-91) will be on view and Karen will be present in Rome for the opening on 13 February.

UNTITLED Art Fair 
Danziger Gallery, Booth B35
Miami Beach, Florida
4–8 December 2024

Danziger Gallery is pleased to be participating in the 21st edition of the UNTITLED Art Fair in Miami Beach. The fair runs from Wednesday 4 December to Sunday 8 December, the same week as Art Basel Miami.

This year the gallery is bringing the work of 22 different artists and will be exhibiting Karen Knorr’s The Return of the Hunter, Chandra Mahal, Jaipur Palace, Jaipur, 2012 from the series India Song (2008–2023). For the first time they will also be showing work by Gordon Cheung, Shepard Fairey, Llyn Foulkes, Annie Kevans, Giuseppe Lo Schiavo, Abelardo Morell, Lee-Ann Olwage, and Alec Soth.

Karen Knorr’s India Song celebrates the rich visual culture, the foundation myths and stories of northern India, focusing on Rajasthan and using sacred and secular sites to consider caste, femininity and its relationship to the animal world. Interiors are painstakingly photographed with a large format Sinar P3 analogue camera and scanned to very high resolution.

Tate Britain
The 80s: Photographing Britain
21 November 2024–5 May 2025

A selection of works from Karen Knorr’s Gentlemen (1981–1983) are included in Tate Britain’s newest exhibition, The 80s: Photographing Britain, which opens today! This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications – creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.

At the time, photography was used as a tool for social change, political activism, and artistic and photographic experiments. See powerful images that gave voice and visibility to underrepresented groups in society. This includes work depicting the Black arts movement, queer experience, South Asian diaspora and the representation of women in photography.

The photographic works Gentlemen (1981–1983), photographed in English gentlemen’s clubs in Saint James’ in central London, consider the patriarchal values of the English upper middle classes

Paris Photo 2024
Grand Palais, Paris
7–10 November 2024

Les Filles du Calvaire, Booth C31
Augusta Edwards Fine Art, Booth B40

Karen Knorr is present and exhibiting works from Connoisseurs (1986–1990) and Country Life (1983–1985) at Paris Photo this week with Les Filles du Calvaire and Augusta Edwards Fine Art, as well as participating in two book signings (further details below).

On view for the first time with Les Filles du Calvaire (Booth C31) will be a new limited edition release of 17 photographsfrom Connoisseurs. Meanwhile, Augusta Edwards Fine Art (Booth B40) will be exhibiting a selection of works from Country Life. Make sure to also keep an eye out for Karen Knorr’s Pleasure of the Imagination, Dulwich Picture Gallery, London, England, 1986 (from the series Connoisseurs), which has been selected for J.P. Morgan’s Curators’ Highlights at Paris Photo! Their selection of works will be highlighted at the fair and on the visitors’ map.

Tate Britain

The 80s: Photographing Britain

21 November 2024–5 May 2025

A selection of works from Karen Knorr’s Gentlemen (1981–1983) will be included in the upcoming Tate Britain exhibition, The 80s: Photographing Britain, opening 21 November 2024. This exhibition traces the work of a diverse community of photographers, collectives and publications – creating radical responses to the turbulent Thatcher years. Set against the backdrop of race uprisings, the miner strikes, section 28, the AIDS pandemic and gentrification – be inspired by stories of protest and change.

The photographic works Gentlemen (1981–1983), photographed in English gentlemen’s clubs in Saint James’ in central London, consider the patriarchal values of the English upper middle classes with text constructed out of speeches of parliament and news. The complete series of 26 images and texts investigate the values that ally these classes to conservative aristocratic values where primogeniture is still an issue in a country symbolically ruled by a constitutional monarchy.

“I wanted to make work that used irony and parody in which to explore attitudes prevalent amongst the English establishment in the 1980’s.

Estampa
with Galería Blanca Berlín, Spain
Madrid
17–20 October 2024

A selection of works from Karen Knorr’s new Scavi (2023–2024) series are be available to view in Booth 5B01 at Estampa art fair in Madrid with Galería Blanca Berlín, Spain.

Specialising in photography and the visual arts, Blanca Berlín focuses on the most innovative trends in Spanish and international contemporary photography by established artists and mid-career or emerging talents. Since its founding in 2007, the gallery has become a benchmark for the classical and contemporary photography market.
 
Plus upcoming: 

Paris Photo 2024
Grand Palais, Paris
7–10 November 2024