Karen Azoulay (born 1977)[1] is a multidisciplinary visual artist and author from Toronto, Canada.
[3] Her interdisciplinary works, which explore language, natural elements, and the female form, are often captured in film or photography finished with collage or paint.
[4] In her exhibition Semi-Precious (2019) at Essex Flowers, Azoulay drew inspiration from a skeleton of an 11th-century German woman, who was found to have remnants of lapis lazuli on her teeth, indicating she was likely a manuscript illuminator.
[6] Solo exhibitions include CUE Art Foundation in New York, curated by Glenn Ligon,[7] Fire Tale, Four Gallery in Dublin,[8] Deep, Deep Under the Sea, Mercer Union in Toronto,[9] Sculpture After the Apocalypse, Primetime, Brooklyn,[10] The Botanist’s Mime, Dose Projects, Brooklyn,[11] and Indexing the Leaves, Methodist Archives, Drew University in Madison, NJ.
[13] Published by Clarkson Potter (an imprint of Penguin Random House), the 248-page book includes a foreword by bestselling author Kate Bolick, a dictionary of over 600 flowers, an index organized by theme, and essays about the history of floriography.