Karen Guancione creates interdisciplinary art, including large-scale installations, public art projects, performances, sculpture, printmaking, papermaking, book arts, and video. Her work has been exhibited worldwide and is in numerous public and private collections. She has been awarded a Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation Artists and Communities Grant, four New Jersey State Council on the Arts Fellowships, a Ford Foundation Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, an Arts and Culture Exhibition Grant from the Nathan Cummings Foundation. She is the first time recipient of the Erena Rae Award for Art and Social Justice.