U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott)

by Karen Knorr and Anna Fox

Les Rencontres d’Arles
7 July–5 October 2025

Karen Knorr and Anna Fox will be debuting their collaborative project, U.S. Route 1 (After Berenice Abbott), at Les Rencontres d’Arles this July.

In 1954, photographer Berenice Abbott journeyed along the length of U.S. Route 1, capturing the road, its towns, and inhabitants. From Florida motels to Maine potato farmers, Abbott memorialized communities up and down the East Coast. During this trip, Abbott shot more than four hundred 8×10-inch photographs, and over two thousand smaller images using her Rolleiflex camera, representing her largest portfolio of photographs devoted to a single subject. In 2014 after the publication of David Campany’s book, The Open Road: Photography & the American Road Trip, Anna Fox and Karen Knorr decided that they would make collaborative road trip together based on Berenice Abbott’s Route One.

Fair Warning Art Auction in Aid of Future Dreams Breast Cancer Charity

2–13 March 2025

Karen Knorr has donated a print of The Grand Monkey Room (3), Château de Chantilly, 2006 (from the series Fables) to Future Dreams’ Fair Warning Art Auction. The auction is raising funds to help deal with the urgent need for care for those diagnosed with breast cancer. Figures are rising and this amazing charity funds support, research and awareness of early symptoms that can save lives.

Future Dreams was founded in 2008 by mother and daughter, Sylvie Henry and Danielle Leslie. By a cruel twist of fate, they were both diagnosed with breast cancer, Danielle aged just 35 and a mother of three young children. Tragically both women lost their lives to secondary breast cancer within a year of each other in 2009. Their legacy lives on in Future Dreams and the thousands of women the charity supports every year. The charity offers a wide range of in-person and online services, providing practical, emotional and psychological support for those diagnosed with breast cancer, funding vital secondary breast cancer research, and promoting breast health awareness.

Fables and Other Stories
Published by Filigranes Éditions
with the support of the Centre d’art contemporain de la Matmut

Karen Knorr’s new publication, Fables and Other Stories, offers a unique immersion into the artist’s world with around forty photographs and ten short stories for children written by Knorr herself. This publication accompanies the Matmut Pour Les Arts exhibition, opening 8 February at Centre d’art contemporain de la Matmut, 425 Rue du Château, 76480 Saint-Pierre-de-Varengeville, France. The exhibition and book bring together recent works from Knorr’s newest series, Scavi, and emblematic photographs from Fables, India Song and Monogatari.

In Fables and Other Stories, Knorr uses subtle collages of animals, objects and architectural settings to question the authority of museums and heritage.

Art Palm Beach +Contemporary
Palm Beach County Convention Center
650 Okeechobee Blvd.
West Palm Beach, Florida, 33401
Booth 605
 

Opening Night Premiere
Wednesday, January 22, 5 – 9 pm

General Admission
Thursday, January 23 – Sunday, January 26, 11 am – 6pm

Sundaram Tagore Gallery will be presenting work by a global group of artists including, Karen Knorr, at Art Palm Beack +Contemporary from 22 – 26 January, 2025.

Karen Knorr is selling prints on Instagram for LA Fireman’s Relief and Grief and Hope on GoFundMe. The first print sale has sold out and raised £3000 for these causes and there will be a second print available next week.

Matmut Pour Les Arts

Fables and Other Stories
7 February 2025 – 1 June 2025

The exhibition Fables and Other Stories, unveils a selection of Karen Knorr’s most recent photographs. Her latest series are like testimonies of History or reflections of cultural traditions. The artist weaves scenes where architecture and animals meet in powerful and poetic compositions. Behind her new creations, the artist invites us to reflect on the world, to decipher hidden messages and to apprehend reality from multiple facets.

The India Song series captures the vibrant soul of India, between ancestral rites and modern heritages. In Fables, the artist plays with the codes of propriety of prestigious French places. Scavi takes us to the remains of Pompeii, exploring archaeology as a metaphor for time that erases and reveals. Finally, Monogatari immerses us in a dreamlike universe of Japanese tales.

Each image is a journey, a visual tale where art and culture come to life through photographs that question, amaze and fascinate.

Thank you to friends, gallerists, collectors for making 2024 a very special year!

It has been a busy year for Karen Knorr Studio, with lots of highlights. Spring saw the release of two brand new monographs, Connoisseurs & Academies published by Kehrer and Country Life, published by Stanley/Barker. These two monographs showcased important early works from the 1980s to the early 2000s and were launched at Photo London this year.

In September, Karen Knorr’s major solo exhibition, Intersections opened at Sundaram Tagore Gallery. On view for the first time in New York were select works from Knorr’s brand-new series Scavi (2023–2024). The exhibition also featured recent additions to India Song (2008–2023) and Fables (2003–2022) alongside historical analog photographs from Knorr’s groundbreaking work from the 1980s and ’90s.

This year’s Paris Photo was also very exciting, with Knorr exhibiting works from Connoisseurs (1986–1990) and Country Life (1983–1985) at the fair with Les Filles du Calvaire and Augusta Edwards Fine Art.