CURRENT
Recipient of the Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Foundation Individual Support Grant, 2025
Awarded a residency at the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2025-26
Publication of Two Print Editions, Manneken Press, Bloomington, IL 2024
UPCOMING
Solo exhibition, Robischon Gallery, Denver, CO, September 2025
Artist in Residence, Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program, Brooklyn, NY, 2025-26
RECENT
IFPDA Print Fair, Manneken Press booth A21, Park Avenue Armory, New York, NY, March 27-30, 2025
Synchronicity, Galerie Grölle, Düsseldorf, Germany, August 30 - November 2, 2024 (solo exhibition)
Artist in Residence, Thread, Josef and Anni Albers Foundation, Sinthian, Senegal, July-August 2024
SELECTED PRESS
Monika Werner Staude. "Vom Überleben im Lauten New York," Westdeutsche Zeitung, May 9, 2018
James Panero. “The Critics Notebook,” The New Criterion, September 26, 2017
Thomas Micchelli. "The High Drama of Hot Color in a Field of Black," Hyperallergic, September 15,
2017
Tom Pekovitch. "Jason Karolak: Slow Talkers at Devening Projects," Delicious Line, April 24, 2017
Kelly Reaves. "Electric, Eclectic Neural Nets," New City, April 21, 2017
Michael Paglia. "Review: At Robischon, Eight Solos Add Up to a Major Look at Contemporary
Abstraction," Westword, January 25, 2017
Jennifer Samet. "Beer with a Painter: Jason Karolak," Hyperallergic, May 3, 2015
Thomas Micchelli, "Dark Matter: Jason Karolak's Wayward Abstractions," Hyperallergic, February 21,
2015
Ann Landi, "Color as Structure at McKenzie Fine Art," ARTnews, October 2014
Dana Self. “’Discourse Matters’ at the Dolphin Gallery is Magnetic, Immersive,” Kansas City Star, July
13, 2011
Stephen Mueller. “Jason Karolak at Massimo Audiello,” Art in America, January 2009
Roberta Smith. “Chelsea: Art Chockablock with Encyclopedic Range,” New York Times, November 14,
2008
Karissa Lang. “Tip of the Week: Jason Karolak,” New City, November 22, 2007
Alan Artner. “Exhibition Review,” Chicago Tribune, April 6, 2007