PUBLICATIONS ARCHIVES
2025
Monograph. Sheen-Wah-Zree, edited by Ariane de Blois, published by Plein Sud, EXPRESSION Centre d’exposition de St. Hyacinthe, with texts by Laura Vigo, Alice Ming Wai Jim, Cheryl Sim, Marcel Blouin, Ariane de Blois, Karen Tam, 2025
2024
Exhibition catalogue. With wings like clouds hung from the sky, published by Art Gallery of Victoria, Richmond Art Gallery, Varley Art Gallery, with texts by Shaun Dacey, Haema Sivanesan, Lisa Baldissera, Gerta Moray, Karen Tam, 2024
2023
Exhibition catalogue. Whose Chinatown?, published by Griffin Art Projects, with texts by Lisa Baldissera, Joni Low, Karen Tam, 2023
2020
Exhibition catalogue. the chrysanthemum has opened twelve times, published by Koffler Centre of the Arts with text by Henry Heng Lu, 2020
Tam, Karen. "Acheter un petit chinois: The Jesuit Museum of Chinese Art in Québec. In Asia Collections Outside Asia: Questioning Artefacts, Cultures and Identities in the Museum. Eds. Iside Carbone and Helen Wang, Kunsttexte.de/Transcultural Perspectives, no. 4, 2020 (PDF)
2017
Blouin, Marcel, with illustrations by Karen Tam. Nous sommes tous des brigands. Saint-Hyacinthe: Expression, Centre d'exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, 23 p.
2016
Nolte, Victoria. “Staging Critical Chinoiserie: Karen Tam’s Terra dos Chinês Curio Shop.” Montréal: Articule (essay)
Dubé-Moreau, Florence-Agathe. Des mimes et des mites. Montréal: Conseil des arts de Montréal (brochure)
2014
Tam, Karen. Book chapter. "Dolce & Banana, a Shanzhai Creator’s Manual: Production and consumption of fake in contemporary
Chinese art practices," in Alison Hulme (ed.), The Changing Landscape of China’s Consumerism, Oxford: Chandos Books, p. 83-10
Hart, Heather, Steffani Jemison, Lisa Sigal, and Jina Valentine. The Intuitionists. New York: The Drawing Center, 109 p.
Baldissera, Lisa, Vinciane Despret, and Erika Dyck. Convoluted Beauty: In the Company of Emily Carr. Saskatoon: The Mendel/Remai Art Gallery of
Saskatchewan, 216 p.
2011
Luke, Suzanne, Jonathan Finn, and Sunil Kuruvilla. Opium Den. Waterloo: Robert Langen Art Gallery, Wilfrid Laurier University, 56 p.
2010
Tam, Karen. Essay. "Aux Sept Bonheurs," Sweet & Sour: Life in Chinese Family Restaurants by John Jung. Cypress: Yin & Yang Press, p. 217-238
Jenkner, Ingrid and Peggy MacKinnon. Oriental Ornamental. Halifax: Mount Saint Vincent University Gallery, 40 p.
2009
Daniel, Marko, Anthony Key, and Cynthia Morrison-Bell. Pot Luck. London: ArtCircuit, 40 p.
2008
Jim, Alice Ming Wai (ed.). Rearranging Desires. Montréal: Gail and Stephen A. Jarislowsky Institute for Studies in Canadian Art, FoFA Gallery, Concordia University, 45 p.
Ouellet, Geneviève (ed.). ORANGE: Como Como. Saint-Hyacinthe: Expression, Centre d’exposition de Saint-Hyacinthe, 160 p.
Bélisle, Josée, Paulette Gagnon, Mark Lanctôt, and Pierre Landry. Triennale québécoise 2008: Rien ne se perd, rien ne se crée, tout se transforme. Montréal: Musée d’art contemporain de Montréal, 216 p.
Clements, French and Mary Jane Jacob. Karen Tam. New York: CUE Foundation for the Arts, 20 p.
2007
Baldissera, Lisa. LAB 7.3: Pagoda Pads. Victoria: Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. (brochure)
Cho, Lily and Alice Ming Wai Jim. Redress Express. Vancouver: Centre A, 20 p.
2006
Conseil des arts de Montréal. Portraits d’artistes. Montréal: Conseil des arts de Montréal. (brochure and poster)
Bélu, Françoise, Marcel Blouin, Sylvie Lachance, and Day’s Lee. Gold Mountain Restaurant Montagne d’Or. Montréal: MAI (Montréal arts interculturels), 76 p.
Sung, Doris Ha Lin. Crafting Orbits. Toronto: A Space. (brochure)
Western, Jenny. Tam Times. Brandon: Art Gallery of Southwestern Manitoba. (brochure)
2004
Tam, Karen. "No MSG at Friendship Dinner," Visual Arts Nova Scotia, Vol. 25, No. 3 (Winter), p. 2-5
Urbani, Vittorio. Perspectives 04. Belfast: Ormeau Baths Gallery, 69 p.
