About

ABOUT 

Karriena is an abstract and mixed media artist living in California. She is known for her expert techniques in blending and layering paint and texture to create surfaces with depth and strikingly emotive pieces. Her inspiration derives from her quest to understand what moments make life meaningful and why they are important to us. She explores themes such as existentialism and our human experience.These themes are at the core of all of her work. 

The textures that she uses illustrate the intensity and mood of the selected moment. She works with textures such as: paint thickener, crackle paste, pumice, sand, rocks and metallic foiling. Karriena is constantly experimenting with new techniques and textures and finding new to illustrate these concepts. 

BFA in Fashion Design (2009-2013), Parsons School of Design

PGCE (Teaching Certificate) (2018-2019), University of Sunderland

MA in Educational Technology (2021-2022) University of San Francisco

Bio and CV

B. 1991 | Grew up in Hong Kong

2018 | Began painting

2019| First Solo Exhibition in Hong Kong

2021| Moved to San Francisco and restarted my career as a full time artist

2021 | The Other Art Fair LA

2022 | Solo Art Show

2022 | Group Exhibition at The Brannan

2023 | Superfine Art Fair SF (March)

2023 | Superfine Art Fair SF (November)

2024 | San Francisco Art Fair (April) with Alessandro Berni Gallery 

2023 | The Art Coaching Club Podcast