Keren Kroul

Keren Kroul creates landscapes of memory where time and place collapse into magnificent realities.

In large-scale watercolor on paper paintings and installations, tiny marks and shapes are fragmented, repeated, and layered into dense passages, moving forward and away, floating and sinking, over the silence of empty space.

Reflecting on the presence of the past in the present, and the inevitability of memory as identity, Keren Kroul uses the language of abstraction to note that beauty and structure lie precariously on the surface.

Born in Haifa, Israel, to an Argentinean father and Israeli mother, Keren grew up in Mexico City, Mexico and San José, Costa Rica. A visual artist and educator, she teaches painting, drawing, and art history at the high school and college level.

Keren exhibits nationally, and has received support from private and state foundations. Awards include a McKnight Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship in 2023, and a Visiting Artist Residency at the Hyde Park Art Center in Chicago in 2025. Her work has been featured on television in MN Original (TPT-Twin Cities PBS), and in print publications including Paint Lab, Color Lab, Tangled Art, New American Paintings, and The Southern Review.

Keren holds a BA in Fine Arts from Brandeis University (Waltham, MA) and an MFA in Painting from Parsons School of Design (New York, NY).