Karen Miranda Augustine is a Canadian writer, video and mixed-media artist, whose works have exhibited in Canada, the USA, Scotland, and Haiti.

Karen Miranda has been published and cited in a variety of publications, including Obsidian: Literature & Art in the African Diaspora, Refract: An Open Access Visual Studies Journal, Caribbean InTransit Arts Journal, The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts (Cleis Press), and The Art of Reflection: Women Artists’ Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press).

Formerly: She was CKLN 88.1 FM radio host of BASS: Black Afrikan Sistuhs of Soul, editor of MIX: Independent Art & Culture, and founding editor of At the Crossroads magazine. She was also a poet who opened for Philadelphia recording artist Ursula Rucker and recorded "Sapphire" for Urbanicity Recordings' jazz/poetry compilation The New World Reveal-a-Solution.

Born in Toronto, and raised in Scarborough, Ontario, she is of Dominican and Kalinago Indian descent. She holds an MA in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University, is the founder of ELEPHANT IN THE ROOM caregiving artist collective, co-founder of the Ancestral Arts Collective, and is a trained end-of-life doula.

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Backgrounders:
• Short bio (184 kB)

Kits and releases:
• June 2016 — Don't You Forget About Me: A two-person exhibition (5.9 MB)
• June 2014 — Outgraced (4.8 MB)
• November 2011 — Toronto artist honours Haitian women's rights activist (409 kB)
• October 2011 — Ghetto Biennale Participating Artist (882 kB)
• February 2010 — Magalie Marcelin obituary (679 kB)
• September 2009 — American Empress: Credit for the Empire's Troubled Royalty (357 kB)

Interviews and articles:
• July 2014 — Meet the artists: Karen Miranda Augustine (772 kB)
Feminist Art Conference
• June 2014 — In conversation: Karen Miranda Augustine (6.3 MB)
ARC Magazine
• April 2012 — After the Earthquake (2.2 MB), Dazed & Confused
• March 2012 — Rhizomatic Curation: The 2nd Ghetto Biennale in Port-au-Prince (6.1 MB), Intransit Caribbean Arts Journal
• September 2009 — Karen Miranda Augustine: Ritualistic pop artist (278 kB)
Shameless Magazine