Karen Fiorito is an activist, artist and curator residing in California. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and featured in major publications such as Art in America, Hyperallergic, Art Forum and ArtNews and featured in such books as American Women Artists in Wartime, Paper Politics: Socially Engaged Printmaking Today and The Design of Dissent. Fiorito has received grants from Change, Inc., the Puffin Foundation, the Pollination Project, A Well Fed World and LUSH Cosmetics for her public art projects.
One of her current public billboard projects, “Got Drought?” has been touring internationally since 2015. She is perhaps most noted for her controversial ‘Trumpocalypse’ billboard in downtown Phoenix (2017) which gained international media attention. She is the curator of many art exhibitions, including "Evolution/ Revolution: The Interconnectedness of All Beings" (2011), and "Indivisible: United We Stand, Divided We Fall" (2020).
Her work is in the permanent collection of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Center for the Study of Political Graphics and Self Help Graphics. She holds a M.F.A. from Arizona State University and a B.F.A. from the University of the Arts in Philadelphia. She is a member of the California Printmaking Society, the Center for Contemporary Printmaking and is the President of the Los Angeles Printmaking Society.
