Honors/Awards
2024 Purchase Award – “Wanderers” – University of Texas – Tyler
2023 Honorable Mention – “Triumph” – VAA 39th Membership – Reeves art & Design
2021 Honorable Mention – “Fugue State” – Archway Gallery
2018 Honorable Mention – “Evening Star” – Conroe National Exhibition
2017 “Artist Inc”, Fresh Arts Houston
2017 Honorable Mention – “Landscape 17-3” – Archway Gallery
2016 First Place – “Landscape 15-8” – Conroe National Exhibition
2015 “The Block”, Glassell School of Art, MFAH
2013 Third Place – “Suspended Moment” – VAA Juried Invitational
Solo Exhibitions
2022 “Karen Eisele: Icons” – Museum of East Texas, Lufkin, TX
2021 “Encoded” – SFA University, Cole Art Center, Nacogdoches, TX
2016 “Suspended Moment” – Red Maple Gallery, Houston, TX
2015 “Selected Works” – Eleven XI, Houston, TX
Residency
2024 Burren College of Art, Ballyvaughn, Ireland
2019 Aletierhaus Hilmsen, Salzwedel, Germany
Selected Group Exhibitions
2025
“62nd Annual Juried Competition”, Masur Art Museum, Monroe, Louisiana
“Fashion A la Mode”, Mark Arts Gallery, Wichita, Kansas
2024
“Texas National”, SFA University, Nacogdoches, Texas
“New Texas Talent”, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“2024 Texas Artists”, Beeville Art Museum, Beeville, Texas
“39th Annual International”, University of Texas – Tyler, Tyler, Texas
“Connector: A Survey”, Rudolph Blume Fine Art, Houston, Texas
“Inspired by Ireland”, Glassell School of Art, MFAH, Houston, Texas
“Visual Arts Alliance”, Jung Center, Houston, Texas
2023
“Biennial 600, Amarillo Museum of Art, Amarillo Texas
“The Big Show”, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, Texas
“Texas National”, SFA University, Nacogdoches, Texas
“New Texas Talent”, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, Texas
“Rio Brazos Exhibition”, Tarleton State University, Granbury, Texas
“Visual Arts Alliance”, Reeves Art and Design, Houston, Texas
“Conroe International”, Conroe, Texas
2021
“ICON”, d’Art Center, Norfolk, VA
“Glassell Figurative Students – Past and Present Artists 2000-2021”, Houston, TX
“Archway Gallery Juried Exhibition”, Houston, TX
2020
“New Texas Talent XXVII”, Craighead Green Gallery, Dallas, TX
“Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art”, Houston, TX
“Visual Arts Alliance”, Rudolph Blume Fine Art, Houston, TX
2019
“Without Borders – Ohne Grenzen”, Monchskirche Gallery, Salzwedel, Germany
“Certificate of Achievement 2019”, Glassell, MFAH, Houston, TX
“Texas National 2019”, SFA Galleries, Nacogdoches, TX
“The Big Show”, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
“Water”, Glassell/Kinder Morgan Exhibition, Houston, TX
2018
“The Big Show”, Lawndale Art Center, Houston, TX
“Conroe National Show”, Conroe, TX
“VAA Open Exhibition”, BlueOrange Gallery, Houston, TX
“Real/Surreal”, Silos, Houston, TX
“Come Together”, Winter Street, Houston, TX
“Women of Winter Street”, Winter Street Gallery, Houston, TX
2017
“The Big Show”, Lawndale Arts Center, Houston, TX
“Ebb and Flow” – Selected Works of Karen Eisele and Penelope Ross,
West Gray Dental, Houston, TX
“Known and Underknown”, Brookfield -Two Allen Center, Houston, TX
“Trump This”, Art Car Museum, Houston, TX
“Landscape” – Glassell, Kinder Morgan Lobby, Houston, TX
“9th Annual Juried Exhibition”, Archway Gallery, Houston, TX
“VAA 12th Juried Invitational, The Silos, Houston, TX
“The Block” group show, Glassell, MFAH, Houston, TX
“Line”, Kinder Morgan Building, Houston, TX
“Conroe National Juried Exhibition”, Conroe, TX
“VAA 7th Juried Invitational”, The Silos, Houston, TX
“Houston Symphony Exhibition”, Jones Hall, Houston, TX
2016
“Tally Beck – New York”, Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, TX
“The Big Show – Lawndale Art Center”, Houston, TX
“3rd Coast National” – KSpace Contemporary, Corpus Christi, TX
“The Block”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
“VAA 34th Juried Member Exhibition”, Houston, TX
“Archway Gallery Juried Exhibition”, Houston, TX
“Glassell – Juried Student Exhibition”, MFAH, Houston, TX
“Conroe National Juried Exhibition”, Conroe, TX
2015
“8(1)” group installation, Cullen Sculpture Garden, MFAH
”SAO Juried Exhibition”, Glassell – MFAH
“VAA 33rd Juried Membership Exhibition”
“Block Exhibition”, Glassell – MFAH
“VAA Juried Invitational Exhibition”, Avis Frank Gallery
2014
“Assistance League Celebrates Texas Art”, Williams Tower, Houston, TX
“Audubon Society Juried Exhibition”, Archway Gallery
“Live Oak Art Center Juried Exhibition”, Columbus, TX
“VAA 32nd Membership Juried Exhibition”
“Departmental Focus Invitational”, Glassell – MFAH
“Juried Student Exhibition”, Glassell – MFAH
2013
“Juried Student Exhibition”, Glassell – MFAH
“Excellence in Art”, JoMar Visions Juried Exhibition
“SAO Juried Show”, Glassell – MFAH
“3rd VAA Juried Invitational Exhibition”, Total Gallery
“30th VAA Juried Exhibition”, Heritage Square
2012
“2nd VAA Juried Invitational Exhibition”, Lasslaux Gallery
2011
“Environment” Juried Exhibit, Perimeter Gallery, Glassell – MFAH
“SAO Select Juried Exhibition”, Glassell – MFAH
2010
“1st Annual SAO Select Juried Exhibition”, Glassell – MFAH
2009
“Juried Student Exhibition”, Glassell – MFAH
“Summer Open Juried Exhibition”, TAACCL, Nassau Bay, TX
2007
“Summer Open Juried Exhibition, TAACCL
2006
“Winter Open Juried Exhibition”, TAACCL
“Figurative” Fall Juried Exhibition”, TAACCL
2005
”Winter Open Juried Exhibition”, TAACCL
“Summer Open Juried Exhibition”, TAACCL