Karen MCCOY

Profile

Karen McCoy's primary work is large-scale, publicly sited environmental sculpture. McCoy focuses on the relationship of nature to culture, creating work based on research into the geological, cultural, and social histories of a site. Ms. McCoy is an associate professor of art in the Sculpture Department at Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri, USA, where she has taught since 1994, serving as chair of Sculpture from 1994 to 2003. She earned an M.F.A. degree at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 1978.

About works / performance

Karen McCoy's recent installations have been for Sculpture Key West in Florida, USA and upcoming at Guandu Nature Park in Taipei, Taiwan in June 2009. She has created work in France, Denmark, Lithuania and in the U.S. in California, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Missouri and Wyoming.