1950 Born in Penn, Pennsylvania
EDUCATION
1980 University of Wisconsin, MFA
1973 Atelier 17, Paris, France (Fall)
1972 University of Iowa, B.F.A.
TEACHING EXPERIENCE
2003-2009 Department of Visual Arts Chair
1980-present Rice University
HONORS, AWARDS, AND GRANTS
2003 Who’s Who in American Art, 25th. Edition
2002 Brown Teaching Grant, Rice University
Jerome J. Segal Grant, Rice University
1997 Brown Teaching Grant, Rice University
1996 Julia Mile Chance Teaching Prize, Rice University
1994 Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston
1993 Cultural Arts Council of Houston Grant
1992 Best Local Artist, Houston Press
1989 Mellon Fellowship
Dewar's Texas Doers (50 Texans)
1985,87 National Endowment for the Arts Grant
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2010 Broker: Oddities and Other Opinions, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2006 Mad Girl, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2005 A Mad Girl's Small Notes, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 Dark Talk, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2000 Domestic Melancholia, Merwin and Wakeley Galleries, Illinois Wesleyan University, Bloomington, Illinois
Karin Broker...Drawing in Sanguine, Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, Texas
1997 Etchings, Augen Gallery, Portland, Oregon
1996 Notes of a Mad Girl: Etchings and Linocuts, Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995 Broker, Dakota Galleries, In conjunction with Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Houston, Texas
Broker, University of Denver, Colorado
Broker, Morehead State University, Morehead, Kentucky
1993 Texas Artist of the Year, Art League of Houston
1992 Karin Broker, McMurtrey Gallery, Houston, Texas
Searching for a Saint, Rice University, Sewall Art Gallery, Houston, Texas
Keuka College, Keuka Park, New York
1989 Susanna Sheffield Gallery, Houston, Texas
1988 University of Corpus Christi, Texas
1986 Hadler-Rodriguez Gallery, Houston, Texas
Baylor University, Waco, Texas
1982 Studio-Galerie, Rastede, Federal Republic of Germany (Oldenburg)
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2009 Paperwork II, Jonathan Ferrara Gallery, New Orleans, Louisiana
A Room of Her Own, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Selections from the Permanent Collection, Martin Museum of Art, Baylor University
2008 Small Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
2003 Small Works Big Ideas, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Una Comunidad de Talleres de Grabado, Galeria Espacio Abierto, Havana, Cuba
2002 Broker Drawing, Gensler Architects, Houston, Texas
Selections from Texas Artists of the Year, Art League of Houston, J.P. Chase, Houston, Texas
Texas Prints 2001, Rockport Center for the Arts, Rockport, Texas
Proof in Print, Brickbottom Gallery, Sommerville, MA
Texas Prints 2001, University of Texas at Austin
2001 Small Works, McClain Gallery, Houston, Texas
Texas Prints 2001, Stephen F. Austin State University Gallery, Nacogdoches, Texas
Steel Girls, Invitational, Art League, Curated by Victoria Lightman, Houston, Texas
Texas Prints 2001, (U.T.S.A. Study in Italy Program), Santa Reparata, Italy
Texas Prints 2001, Del Rio Council for the Arts, Firehouse Gallery, Del Rio, Texas
Wisconsin Women Printmakers, University of Wisconsin-Madison, Wisconsin Union Galleries
Our Crowd Collects, Art by Texas Artists fom the Collections of Beth Israel Members, Margolis Gallery, Congregation Beth Israel, Houston, Texas
TEXAS PRINTS 2001, Flatbed Press and Gallery, In conjunction with the Southern Graphics Council Conference
Proof in Print. A Community of Printmaking Studios, Wiggin Gallery, Boston Public Library, Massachusetts
2000 Drawing to Print: Sean Caulfied, Walter Jewel, Constance Wells, Karin Broker, McClean County Arts Center, Bloomington, Illinois
The Workshop Portfolios, Gencor Art Gallery, Rau University, (Rand Afrikaans University), South Africa
1999 London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy of Art. Repesented by Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, London, England
Texas Draws, Contemporary Art Museum, Curated by Lynn Herbert, Houston, Texas
1998 Dia de Los Muertos, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
Gerhard Wurzer Gallery Collection, Houston, Texas
1997 Gerhard Wurzer Gallery Collection, Houston, Texas
Fracturing the Gaze, Lawing Gallery, Houston, Texas
1996 Three Texas Artists of the Year, Traveling Exhibition, Moscow, Nizny Novgorod, Rostov-on-Don, St. Petersburg, Tomsk, Tyumen, Irbit and Yekaterinburg, Russia
Cerling Etching Studio: The First 5 Years 1990-1995, Transco Tower Gallery, Houston, Texas
Interplay: Celebrating Pablo Neruda and His Poetry, Invitational Exhibit, Clover McCutcheon Gallery, Houston, Texas
1995 Inner Journeys: Public Pictures-Private Lives, Barbara Davis Gallery, Pennzoil Building, Houston, Texas
Texas Myths and Realities, The Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, Curated by Allison de Lima Green
Known and Underknown, An Exhibition of Regional Contemporary Sculpture, Curated by Sally K. Reynolds, One Allen Center, Houston, Texas.
Portrait, Self, Portrait, Heike Pickett Gallery, Lexington, Kentucky
Texas Art for Russia, Invitational, Sponsored by the American Embassy in Moscow and the Art League of Houston, Curated by Frank Williams, Yekaterinburg, Moscow, Tomsk, Rostovondon, Nizhniy-Novgorad and St. Petersburg
L.A. on Paper, Represented by Gerhard Wurzer Gallery, Santa Monica, California
1994 THE BOX: An Invitational Event, Hooks-Epstein Galleries, Houston, Texas
Works on Paper, Longview Art Museum, Longview, Texas
Drawing/Crossing the Line, Diverse Works, Curated by Bernard Burnon, Houston, Texas
Perceptions of Men: Between Black and White, Firehouse Gallery, Houston Women's Caucus for the Arts, Curated by Michelle O'Michael
1993 Out of Line. A Drawing Invitational, Kipp Gallery, Indiana University of Pennsylvania, Indiana, PA
Blacks & Whites Together. A Conversation for Racial Harmony, Barnes Blackman Galleries, Midtown Arts Center, Houston, Texas
Texas Select, Wichita Falls Museum and Art Center, Wichita Falls, Texas
The Flower Show, West End Gallery, Houston, Texas
Judy Natal, Phyllis Bramson, Karin Broker, Anderson Ranch Art Center Gallery, Snowmass, Colorado
Personal Attachment, the art of collage/assemblage, Hooks-Epstein Galleries and Clint Willour (curator), Houston, Texas
Conventional Forms/Insidious Visions, Glassell School of Art, Curated by Elizabeth McBride, Houston, Texas
1992 Drawing on Sculpture, Karin Broker and Stephen Daly, Galveston Art Center, Texas
R.S.V.P Installation Exhibition, Bechtler Gallery, Carillon, Charlotte, North Carolina
1991 Figurative Graphics, Graphic Figures. Kunst Aus Den U.S.A. 6 American Artists, Broker at Berufsverband Bildener Kunstler, Koln, Germany
1988 Colorprint USA Texas Tech University, Lubbock, Texas
7 Texas Artists, Small Paintings and Drawings, College of William and Mary, Virginia
1987 1987 International Exchange Exhibition of Prints in Seoul, Seoul, Korea.
Graphica Atlantica, Kjarvalsstadir Art Gallery, Reykjavik, Iceland
1986 1986 New Orleans Triennial: the Centennial Exhibition, New Orleans Museum of Art, LA
Nine Texas Printmakers, San Antonio Museum of Art, San Antonio, Texas
Singular Points of View, Ten Texas Artists.
1984 Art Museum of South Texas, Corpus Christi
1983 International Print Exhibit: 1983 R.O.C., Taipei Museum of Fine Arts, Taipei, Taiwan
International Exchange Exhibition of Prints, Seoul 1983, Seoul, Korea.
New American Graphics 3, 37 Artists in the USA, Sponsored by the United States Information Services (USIA), 2 year tour of European consulates, embassies and museums
World Print Four: An International Survey, World Print Council & Smithsonian, 1983-1986.
Bienal Internacional de Gravura e Arte Grafica de Cabo Frio, Cabo Frio,Brazil
Showdown, Alternative Museum, 17 White St., New York, N.Y
1981 Prints Today/Holland USA, Tour in conjunction with Southern Graphics Council
PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Achenback Foundation
Anderson Ranch
Art Museum of Southeast Texas
Baylor University
Bechtler Collection
Brooklyn Museum of Art
Boston Public Library
Curitiba Cultural Foundation (Cabo Frio, Brazil)
Dewey-Ballantine
Grunwald Center for Graphic Arts, U.C.L.A.
Interfirst Bank
Irbit Museum, Russia
LaGrange College
Library of Congress
Lockheed
McNay Art Museum
Mint Museum
Milwakee Museum of Art
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institution
New York Public Library, New York
Prudential Insurance
United States Information Services (U.S.I.A.)
Watson-Casey Co.
Harvard University, Fogg Museum
University of Dallas
University of Houston
University of Mississippi (S.G.C.Collection)
University of North Dakota
University of Texas, Huntington Art Gallery
University of Texas at Austin, J.S. Blanton Museum of Art
University of Wisconsin-Madison, Elvehiem Museum of Art
Wesleyan College
Wichita Falls Museumand Arts Center (Jacque Vaughn Charitable Trust Collection)
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