Karina Rovira (b. 1995, Florida) and is part of the Puerto Rican (Borinquen) diaspora. Her work moves through sculpture, analog photography, sound, drawing, installation, printmaking. She is always carrying her notebook with her, and a camcorder.
Her practice is rooted in repetition, connection, communication, and intuition; returning again and again to the relationships closest to her and the histories and stories they carry, in order to understand her own relationship to them. Working becomes a way of staying near, building relationships, and listening for fleeting emotional textures, trying to catch them in the light with a sensibility of quiet noticing, allowing meaning and history to surface, as something felt before it is fully known.
Currently in Amsterdam, occasionally in Berlin, and Puerto Rico
Contact
hello@karinarovira.com
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Education:
2026 MFA Fine Art, Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam, NL
2018 BFA Fine Arts, Savannah College of Art and Design
Residencies:
2025 Habitat, c/o Ca de Monti, Tredozio, IT
2022 The MacGown Art Residency, Starkville, Mississippi
Two-Person Exhibitions:
2025 I Know This Place by Heart w/ Ahnika Wood, Stelo Arts, Portland, OR, USA
2022 Dulce Tierra w/ Thorbjorg Jonsdottir, In Coversation with…, Gerichtstr. 45, Berlin, DE
2018 Refraction, Collaboration w/ Ahnika Wood, Fab’rik, Savannah, GA
2017 A Delicate Whatever, Collaboration w/ Jospeh MacGown, Berlin, DE
Group Exhibitions:
2025 Noc Kupaly, () In the Mountain, Den Haag, Netherlands
2025 AFTER IMAGE 003, After/Time, Portland, Oregon
2024 Spinning on top of a hurricane, NeverNeverland, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Publications:
2020 Under the Bridge Magazine (UTB), Cover Feature, Spring Issue
2017 The Hand, Issue #17
2017 Port City Review Annual Art Journal
2016 Scad District, “People of Savannah" Join together in a Silent March”