Born in Buenos Aires, Argentina. Lives and works New York City.

COMMISIONS for public spaces

  • Guild Hall Museum, East Hampton, NY. The horizon is not a straight line, April 2021.

  • Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York. Tondos, October 2016.

  • Espacio Escultórico del Desierto, San Luis Potosí, México, Blue Oasis, 2014.

  • Museo del Barrio, New York, New York. Field I, January 2008.

  • SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York. Patience I, January 2004.

  • Plattsburgh Sculpture Park, SUNY Plattsburgh, New York. Puzzled, November 1999.

  • ART/OMI Sculpture Park, Ghent, New York. Fieldwork. June 1994.

  • Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York. Urban Boat. May 1993.

EXHIBITIONS

  • Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY. The Horizon Is Not a Straight Line. April-May 2021

  • Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, New York, El Dorado, November 2016

  • Amelie Wallace Gallery, SUNY Old Westbury, New York, Sculptures in four dimensions, November 2006

  • Haim Chanin Fine Arts, New York, NY. The Garden of Eden, March 2004.

  • Plattsburgh State Art Museum, Plattsburgh, NY. Sculptures and drawings, January 2000.

  • Museo del Chopo, Mexico City, Mexico. Sculptures and drawings, September 1997.

  • Fundación Banco Patricios, Buenos Aires. Sculptures and drawings. September 1996.

  • Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. Sculptures and prints. April 1993.

  • Tjaden Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca, NY. CCPA Grant Show. December 1992.

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • VK Module, New York, NY. Quieter than Silence/The Space Between, Nov-Dec 2021

  • Guild Hall, East Hampton, NY. All for the Hall, July 2020- Dec 2020

  • The Barn Show, Amagansett, NY, July 2019

  • Parrish Art Museum, Water Mill, New York. Artist Choose Artist, Oct 2016-Jan 2017.

  • Neuhoff Gallery, New York, New York. Natural Obsessions, May 2008-July 2008.

  • El Museo del Barrio, New York, New York. The (S)files, Biennial July 2007-Jan 2008.

  • SculptureCenter, Long Island City, New York. In Practice, January-April 2004.

  • Yvonamore Palix Gallery, Mexico City. November 1999.

  • Arte/Facto, travelling show, June-October 1999

  • Überseemusum, Bremen, Germany.

  • Unesco Institut für Pädagogik, Hamburg, Germany.

  • Bürgerhalle im Rathaus, Wolfsburg, Germany.

  • Plattsburgh Sculpture Park, NY. Sculpture Terrace,1997-1999.

  • Art Museum, SUNY Plattsburgh, N Y. Sculpture Park Projects, September 1996.

  • ART/OMI Sculpture Park, Ghent, NY. Fieldwork. August 1994.

  • Socrates Sculpture Park, Long Island City, New York. '93 NY 50.

  • Sculptors of the next century. May 1993.

  • Hartell Gallery, Cornell University, Ithaca. Sculptures and prints. April 1992.

  • Art from South America, University of Massachusetts. Amherst, Massachusetts. April 1990.

  • ACM Siggraph, Boston, Massachusetts, Animation, August 1989.

ARTICLES and REVIEWs

  • Harper Montgomery, Karin Waisman: Mediating the Landscape in a time of Crisis, Guild Hall Catalogue, East Hampton, NY, 2021

  • Mark Segal, Nature’s Beauty and Fury, The East Hampton Star, New York, April 23, 2021

  • Michelle Trauring , Artist Karin Waisman, SagHarbor Express, April 28, 2021

  • Claudia Calirman, Within Walls, Point of Contact Gallery, Syracuse University, NY, 20016

  • Joyce Beckenstein, When Artists Choose Artists, The Brooklyn Rail December 2016.

  • A Garden in the Desert, The sculpture Space of the desert of San Luis Potosi. Mexico 2015, Hardcover 132 pgs.

  • Victor Gutierrez Sanchez, El Espacio Escultorico del Desierto, Revista Habita. Mexico, 2014.

  • Jose Aldrete-Hass, Sculpture Space in the Desert, Editorial Pramana, Mexico. July 2012.

  • Saul Yurkievich, Letters between a poet and a translator. Visual text Karin Waisman. Point of Contact, Vol.9, June 2009.

  • Judith Tennenbaum, Styrofoam: from industrial invention to artistic transformation. Rhode Island School of Design,
    Exhibition Notes, Number 29, Spring 2008.

  • Fred Bernstein, The New York Times, July 24, 2008.

  • ARTMEDIA, Arte en Mesoamerica, Reviews, The Bienal, Costa Rica, #, Summer 2007.

  • Martha Schwendener,, Art review/The (S) Files 007, The New York Times. August 31, 2007.

  • Julian Zugazagoitia, Director Museo del Barrio, Introduction Catalogue 5th, New York, 2007.

  • E. Carmen Ramos, American Art Without Borders: The (S)Files Biennial 2007. Catalogue Museo del Barrio

  • Elvis Fuentes, Classified report on the S files, Catalogue 5th Bienal Museo del Barrio. New York, 2007.

  • Jonathan Goodman, Reviews, Sculpture Magazine, June 2006.

  • Gerard Mc Carthy, Reviews, Art in America, summer 2006.

  • Graciela Kartofel, News & views, Art Nexus, October 2004.

  • Hilarie Sheets, Reviews, ARTnews, summer 2004.

  • Alejandra Villasmil, Reviews, Arte al Dia, #103, June 2004.

  • Grace Gluek, Art in Review, The Garden of Eden, The New York Times. April 16, 2004.

  • Olivier Berggruen, Efflorescence & Evanescence. Catalogue Haim Chanin Fine Arts. March 2004.

  • Shirley Kaneda, Editor's Choice, BOMB Magazine, March 2004.

  • Arte Compartido, Harper’s Bazaar Magazine, Mexico, February 2000.

  • Barbara J. Bloemink, essay Catalogue Plattsburg Art Museum, January 2000.

  • Edward Brohel, "Introduction", Director Plattsburg State Art Museum. Catalogue Sculpture Park,1999.

  • Osvaldo Sanchez, "Tecali or the house where we never live…",

  • Catalogue Arte-fact Germany, July 1999.

  • Adrian Sina "Advento, the ethics of a shared transcultural utopia". Catalogue Arte-fact Germany, 1999.

  • Carlos Aranda and Paloma Porraz, "The illusion of construction". Catalogue Museo del Chopo, 1997.

  • "Exhibitions, Summer 1996, Sculpture Project and Proposals". Museum News. SUNY Plattsburgh, vol.6.

  • Elena Oliveras "Jugar en serio", Catalogue Fundación Banco Patricios. September 1996.

  • Juan Medrano-Pizarro "Circles, plans, spirals and puzzles",

  • Catalogue Fundación Banco Patricios, Sept. 1996.

  • Michael Kimmelman, “Outdoor Sculpture in Review". The New York Times. August 6, 1993.

  • Shelley Cryer, “A melting pot of Art”,. The Sunday Gazette, July 30, 1994.

  • "Art Criticism in Latin America", Karin Waisman, Q Journal of Art. Cornell University,1993.

  • "Interview with Ursula von Ridingsvard", Karin Waisman, Q Journal of Art. Cornell University, 1992.

GRANTS and AWARDS

  • Venture Found, Dartmouth College, Hanover, New Hampshire.

  • Multimedia piece: “(des)encounters”, The poetic gaze of Enrique Lihn in collaboration with Juan Medrano-Pizarro. June 1996-March 1997.

  • CCPA Grant, Council for Creative And Performing Arts,Cornell University,1992.

  • ACM Siggraph, Boston, Massachusetts. Computer Animation Show. Category: Projects.

  • "PotHeads", animation (3 minutes) in collaboration, August 1989.

  • School of Architecture, Buenos Aires. December 1983.

  • Architects Association of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Dec. 1981.

EDUCATION

  • Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA. Degree: Master in Fine Arts, May 1993.

  • University of Buenos Aires, Argentina. Diploma: Architect. December 1986.