August 26 - 27, 2010
Karen's video Self Geste is included in Eject, the Third International VideoPerformance Festival of Mexico City. Along with 24 other artists, the videos will be screened at Ex Teresa Arte Actual, followed by presentations at Centro de Artes y Nuevas Tecnologías del Centro de las Artes de San Luis Potosí and Teatro Alberto M. Alvarado del Instituto Municipal de Cultura de Gómez Palacio, Durango.
July 7 - August 7, 2010
The Self-Portrait with Plaster series is included in Proof 17, a showcase of work by emerging Canadian talent in contemporary photography at Gallery 44 in Toronto. The exhibition also includes work by Christophe Jivraj, Aislinn Leggett, Meryl McMaster, and Roger Proulx.
June 23 - 27, 2010
Karen's work will be in an exhibition of contemporary Canadian artists, shown at the Experience Canada Pavilion in the International Media Centre in Toronto.
May 30, June 1 & 3, 2010
Karen is documenting the performances of Nexus, presented by the Matralab as part of the 2010 Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences hosted by Concordia University.
May - July 2010
Karen is carrying out a Digital Project Residency, hosted by the Photography Programme at Concordia University.
She is developing Pierre/Paysage, a sculptural and photographic project in response to the architectural maquettes of Katherine Lapierre.
May 1 - 8, 2010
The videos of WORK WORK WORK are exhibited at Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre as part of the Kingston Mayworks Festival.
March 2, 2010
Exercises in Napery is included in Dazibao's Souper Projection/Dinner Screening.
February 4, 2010
Lamentations screening at Matralab
Lamentations is a theatre performance based on the gestural analysis of video interviews with Montrealers Displaced by War, Genocide and Human Rights Abuses. Artistic director, Sandeep Bhagwati, and 4 actors explored the non-verbal, embodied effects of abuse and displacement.
Karen Zalamea, resident videographer at Matralab, has produced the video documentation of the event, enhanced by specially shot material.
December 2009
An exhibition review of WORK WORK WORK written by Bernard Lévy is included in the Winter issue of Vie des Arts.
November 12 - December 1, 2009
Galerie Les Territoires presents Lignes imaginaires, a solo exhibition by artist Karen Zalamea. The exhibition draws connections between physical gestures and mechanical modes of production. Through photographs and a video and sculpture-based installation, Zalamea shows evidence of repeated actions, revealing processes driven by both object-making and performance. The exhibition traces the passage of time, effort and play.
October 23 - November 29, 2009
Exercises in Napery is included in Caustic Assets, a video exhibition curated by the Centre for Art Tapes at the Dalhousie Art Gallery (Halifax).
August 2009
An exhibition review of WORK WORK WORK written by Jérôme Delgado is included in Le Devoir.
August 5 - September 5, 2009
Galerie Simon Blais presents the work of Karen Zalamea, the recipient of the first Sylvie and Simon Blais Award for Emerging Visual Artists. Entitled WORK WORK WORK, the exhibition utilizing photography, video and sculpture culminates the investigations this emerging artist has carried out to complete her MFA program. In it she explores the body as a tool for work, which performs repetitive gestures and exertions, and inescapably becomes transformed in the process.
July 2009
The image Self-Portrait with Plaster III (2009) from the WORK WORK WORK series has won Dazibao's Jeune tête d’affiche Competition.
Dazibao, centre de photographies actuelles offers an artist graduating in 2008-2009 with a Master’s degree in fine arts, the chance to make his or her photographic work known. Dazibao’s programming brochure features, on one side, general information about the centre as well as details on its yearly programming. The other side is dedicated to the work of an emerging artist which is selected through a call for proposals. With a print-run of more than 10 000 copies, this poster will be distributed locally, nationally and internationally, thus allowing the selected photographic work to receive enormous exposure.
June - August 2009
Karen is co-directing the project, The Office for Archival Review, at Centre des arts actuels Skol (Montréal).

The Office for Archival Review (OAR) is a group of artist-researchers that seeks to understand archival practices through on-site research projects. Employing a hands-on approach, the OAR’s production considers the role, relevance, and possibilities of an archive by using this material as a site of interaction, exchange and production. The OAR’s process questions strategies of record keeping and self-preservation: accumulation, reduction, preservation and destruction.
Confronted with an ever-growing mass of historical material, Centre des arts actuels Skol recruited the expertise of the OAR to conduct an investigation of their programming archives.
May 6, 2009
The Sylvie and Simon Blais Foundation is pleased to announce the name of the first recipient of the Sylvie and Simon Blais Award for Emerging Visual Artists, Karen Zalamea.
April 20, 2009
The video Stereo Efficiency Cheer is included in the exhibition Body Break, curated by Drifter Video and presented at the Khyber Institute of Contemporary Art.
February 19 - 20, 2009
Exercises in Napery is featured in Diagonales 3, a video programme organized by Groupe Intervention Vidéo at the Goethe-Institut, as part of the 27e Festival International du Film sur L'Art (FIFA), Montréal, Canada