Her works have exhibited in Canada, the United States and the UK at venues such as Gallerie SAW Video, Mayer Fine Art Gallery, A Space, OCAD, the Images Festival and Gallery 1313. She has been published and cited in a number of books and publications, including The Queer Encyclopedia of the Visual Arts (Cleis Press), The Art of Reflection: Women Artists’ Self-Portraiture in the Twentieth Century (Columbia University Press) and Red Light: Superheroes, Saints, and Sluts (Arsenal Pulp Press). As a poet, she recorded "Sapphire" for the 2004 jazz/poetry compilation Shannon Harris presents the New World Reveal-a-Solution for Urbanicity Recordings and opened for Philadephia recording artist Ursula Rucker.
Formerly, she was the founding editor of At the Crossroads: A Journal for Women Artists of African Descent, editor for the now defunct MIX: independent art & culture magazine, as well as radio host of BASS (Black Afrikan Sistuhs of Soul), from 1992–2003 on CKLN 88.1 FM.
Specializing in Visual Art, Women’s Studies and Humanities, she holds a Master’s degree in Interdisciplinary Studies from York University. Her accompanying video thesis project, paradise jacked — an experimental survey of Toronto women artists — premiered at Cachín Cachán Cachunga! in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 2009.
Born in Toronto, and raised in Scarborough public housing, Karen Miranda's creative projects interconnect spirituality, class, gender, pop and countercultural issues. She is of Dominican and Kalinago Indian descent.
