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Karen recently completed her Masters in Fine Art. Her thesis explored the methodologies of making and unmaking art within an abstract process of accumulated layers of addition and subtraction, reframed as a textile surface. She is interested in notions of palimpsest, mythic narratives on women and their re-examining, and how to transform conventions of abstract painting through revealing art processes as labour that favours a female domestic experience.

Karen Hoyer is a contemporary painter living in Auckland. Originally from the UK, she relocated 13 years ago with her young family and Kiwi husband. Before she left UK, she spent a summer at the prestigious Slade School of Art in University College London. This confirmed her need to be an artist. She has studied for three years at Browne School of Art in Auckland and has undertaken the BSA VAMP programme, being mentored for a year by Simon McIntyre and Emil McEvoy. She completed her MFA at Whitecliffe College in 2025.