—  About

Darina Karpov is a painter whose work moves between memory, myth, and psychological landscape.

Born in the Soviet Union and raised during its collapse, she draws on a lived experience of instability—of systems dissolving and meanings shifting—to construct luminous, psychologically charged environments where childhood appears not as innocence but as a volatile threshold. Her paintings unfold as fragile ecosystems of children, animals, interiors, and organic forms that resist hierarchy. Karpov’s works is available through Pierogi, Pato in New York, Hales Gallery in London, Mindy Solomon Gallery in Miami, and David B. Smith Gallery in Denver. She has participated in exhibitions at the Neuberger Museum, the deCordova Museum, and the Irish Museum of Modern Art. Her work is held in public and private collections including the Princeton University Art Museum, the West Collection, and the Zabludowicz Trust, London. She is the recipient of Pollock-Krasner Foundation grants (2009, 2024), 2020 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, residency fellowships at Yaddo, the MacDowell Colony, and the UCross Foundation, and Lower East Side Print Shop. Karpov received her MFA from the Yale School of Art and her BFA from MICA.

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Solo Exhibitions

2023
Hallucination: Darina Karpov. Ati Maier, Sarah Walker, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

2020
Between the no-longer and the still-to-come, Pierogi, New York, NY

2015
Ignis Fatuus, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

2013
Sudden Leap into the Interior, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

2012
New Paintings, Hales Gallery, London, UK

2010
Wayward, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

2008
Infinitely Small Disasters, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY 

2007
New Work, Pierogi, Brooklyn, NY

Recent and Upcoming Group Exhibitions

Upcoming in 2026
• Phantasma, Group exhibition, Opens March 12, 6 - 8 PM
• The Pierogi Flat Files, The Monira Foundation at Mana Contemporary February 27- March 27, 2026

2025
• Exaltation, Plato Gallery, New York, NY
• size matters, L’Space, New York, NY
• Luminous Forms, Art Ucross Gallery, Clearmont, WY
• Blood As Thick as Water, Plato Gallery, New York, NY
• Here’s Looking at You, Plato Gallery, New York, NY
• Fairyland 2, Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, FL

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Education

2001
MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT

1998
BFA, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

1991
Moscow Institute of Technology, St. Petersburg, Russia

Awards

2024
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant

2020
NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowships in Printmaking/Drawing/Book Arts

2016
· The Adolph and Esther Gottlieb Emergency Grant
· Artists’ Fellowship, Inc. Grant
· Ucross Foundation Residency

2012
Yaddo Corporation, Artists Residency, Saratoga Springs, NY

2011
Special Editions Residency Program, Lower East Side Print Shop

2011
Leon Levy Foundation Grant

2011
MacDowell Colony Residency, Peterborough, NH

2011
Virginia Center for Creative Art Residency, Amherst, VA

2009
Pollock-Krasner Foundation grant

2008
· Willliam A. Paton Prize for Watercolor, National Academy Museum
· Keyholder Residency Program, Lower East Side Print Shop

2007
West Collection Short List

2001
· Bradbury Thompson Memorial Prize, Yale School of Art
· Carl Purlington Rollins Fellowship, Yale School of Art

Select Press

Culture Catch
Inner Sanctuary, Interview with Cathleen Cullen

ephemera new york city art and culture
Ignis Fatuus by Darina Karpov

Gorky’s Granddaughter
Darina Karpov at Pierogi

BOMB Blog
Darina Karpov: Painting Q&A,”

artcritical
Hypothetical Landscapes at Janet Kurnatowski Gallery,

Beautiful Decay, Issue X
Exhibition Review (2008)

Brooklyn Rail
Darina Karpov: Infinitely Small Disasters (July 2008)

New York Magazine
Artist Darina Karpov’s Purple Hills (June 2008)

New York Sun
The National Academy Museum’s Grab-Bag Anthology (June, 2008)

New York Sun
Summer Gallery-Going: Hanging the Group Shows, (May 2008)

TimeOut New York
Darina Karpov: Infinitely Small Disasters (June 2008)

Art in America
Darina Karpov at Pierogi (September 2007)

The New Yorker
Goings on About Town (February 5, 2007)

artcritical
The Review Panel, Brooklyn Special (January, 2007)

Bon Magazine International
The Devil’s in the Details” (Issue 11, 2007)

Editions’12, Catalogue for 2012 Special Editions Residency
Lower East Side Printshop, New York (2012)

Frozen Dreams: Contemporary Art from Russia Thames & Hudson (2011)

Museo De La Ciudado De Mexico
Draw, Exhibition Catalogue (2010)

deCordova's outdoor Sculpture Park
Drawn to Detail, Exhibition Catalogue, 2009

ESOPUS
Sudden Appearances into Vanishing (2008)

Das Gefrorene Meer
n+4 Literary New York (2008)

New American PaintingsJuried Exhibitions-In-Print,” 2008 

Irish Museum of Modern Art
Order Desire Light,Exhibition Catalogue. Dublin, (2008)

Academy Museum and School of Fine Arts
183rd Annual: An Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary Art, National Exhibition Catalogue, (2008)