Karen LaMonte Vanitas

aren LaMonte is a contemporary artist who has gained international recognition for her life-sized figurative sculptures. Born in New York, LaMonte's works are held by numerous prestigious public collections, including the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; the de Young Museum, San Francisco; Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, Bentonville, Arkansas; and the Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington, D.C. LaMonte's works have been exhibited at the Chrysler Museum of Art in Norfolk, Virginia, and at Glasstress, an exhibition held concurrently with the Venice Biennale, in 2017 and 2019, and the Hunter Museum of American Art in Chattanooga, Tennessee which mounted her largest solo exhibition to date. LaMonte has received the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Biennale Award and the James Renwick Alliance Master of the Medium award, and recently completed the Corning Incorporated Specialty Glass Residency.