Karen Ingham was born in England but raised in the United States, Germany and Norway. She returned to England and studied creative photography and time-based arts in Nottingham.

Following graduation she worked as an independent film director and scriptwriter before moving to Wales where she initially worked at Chapter Arts Centre, Cardiff and the BBC.

In addition to her practice as a lens-based artist, Ingham now works with the Faculty of Art & Design at Swansea Metropolitan University where she directs a number of photographic and lens-arts initiatives.

For the past 8 years Ingham’s practice has focused on the interface between science, photography, and the arts, and specifically the discourse between medicine and the body.

She has received major support from The Wellcome Trust, The Arts & Humanities Research Council, The Arts Council of Wales and The Calouste Gulbekian Foundation, to explore, research, develop, exhibit, tour and publish a series of artists interventions. These interventions are staged in domains that are normally exclusive spaces such as the Dissecting Room, the Anatomical Museum, the Hospital Operating Theatre, and the Medical Research Laboratory.

The images selected for Oneofeditions are from the series Anatomy Lessons, 2002-05, which was a national touring exhibition and subsequently an international hardback publication from Dewi Lewis Publishing. The images were originated on medium-format 6x7cm colour negative.

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Selected Exhibitions and Publications
‘The Anatomy Lesson of Professor Moxham’ in (Ed. Maaike Bleeker) Anatomy that is Alive! University of Amsterdam Press (2008)

‘Architectures of Death and Dissection: how contemporary arts practice is reframing the anatomo-clinical theatre’ in The Past in the Present: History as Practice in Art, Design and Architecture, Glasgow School of Art (2007)
‘The Inverted Eye: a transdisciplinary gaze into the dysfunctional mind’ in MutaMorphosis: Challenging Arts and Sciences, Prague (2007)

Vanitas: Seed-Head in ENTER 3 Festival, CIANT, Prague (2007)

‘A Ticket to the Theatre of the Dead’ in Re:place, Berlin (2007)

`Corpus-Corporeal` in Organdi: Culture, Creation, Criticism No.9 December (2007) ISSN 1630-7712
 ‘Penetrating The Impenetrable in Sara Fletcher’s Spirit Level’ in Show One of Each, CTA publishing ISBN 0-9541810-2-6 (2006)

‘ AHRC Sciart Research Fellow’ at Cardiff School of Biosciences: collaborative project exploring the links between plant pharmaceuticals, Alzheimer’s and photographic memory; publication Seeds of Memory: art, neuroscience and botany, and national touring exhibition including National Museum and Gallery Cardiff and University of Oxford Botanic Garden. CLASI Publications ISBN 0-9545600-6-X (2006)

‘Descartes’ Eye’, conference paper and DVD installation at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney as part of ‘New Constellations: art, science and society’, published by Sydney MCA as a CD-Rom publication ISBN 1921034122 (2006)
‘Specimen’ at The Old Operating Theatre Museum, London (with funding from Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation) (2006)
 ‘A Dark Adapted Eye’ published in IRIS publication ‘Stilled: Women’s Contemporary Still Life Photography’ Ffotogallery Publishing ISBN 1 87277161 0 (2006)

Artist in residence, installation and live ‘web-cast’ of ‘Vanitas: Seed-Head’ with the ’Waag Society for New Media’ in Amsterdam (2005)

‘Anatomy Lessons’, hardback publication with Dewi Lewis Publishing, and touring national exhibition/installations (2003-5) supported by the Wellcome Trust ‘Engaging Science’ scheme and AHRC. ISBN 1-904587-14-3
‘Elsewhere’ Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea with catalogue ISBN 0903189690 (2003)

Contributor to publication, Talking Pictures, IRIS, SAPRE, and Imaginative Minds Ltd. ISBN 1 904806 00 7 (2003)
‘Ha Ha: Margam Re-visited’, publication. Co-curator and co-editor with Chris Coppock and author of introductory essay and contributor of 6 image plates Published by Ffotogallery and Seren Books ISBN 1 85411 330 5 (2002)

Wales Arts International group exhibition ‘New Welsh Contemporaries Milano’ at Galleria Communale, Milan, Italy (2001)

‘Death`s Witness’, exhibition with Ffotogallery Cardiff and UK touring. (2001-03) Publication ‘Death’s Witness’, December 2000. ISBN-1 872771 858

European group exhibition of site-specific works, Locws International, and publication with Wales Arts International, ISBN 0 9545291 03 (2000)

‘Paradise Park’, publication with Seren Books and exhibition with Glynn Vivian Art Gallery Swansea ISBN 1 85411 281 3 (2000)