KARIM RASHID
Born, 1960, Cairo, Egypt
Lives and work in New York
Karim Rashid is an Egyptian-born, Canadian-raised industrial designer known for his prolific work in product, furniture, interior, fashion, and art design. One of the most prolific designers of his generation. Over 4000 designs in production, over 300 awards and working in over 40 countries attest to Karim’s legend of design.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2025
2022
2020
Javits Center, Transcend Talks stage, Level 3, Rear of Aisle 2300, New York
2018
“Drift – Crossed gazes between design and contemporary art”.Gas Natural Fenosa
Contemporary Art Museum (MAC) A Coruña, Spain
“O Oco, or Vago”. Galeria Luisa Strina, São Paulo, Brazil
2017
“Karim Rashid: Design Your Self Retrospective”, Artcenter IDA, South Korea
“Kasa Karim”, Tortona.15, Italy
2016
“Karim Rashid Prints”, Artbox, USA
“Digital Nature”, Abet Laminati, Italy
“Pepsi Mixiture”, PepsiCo, USA
“Trisaik”, Mosaico Digitale, Italy
“Tech-né-color”, Sandra Gering Inc, NY
2015
“Revolutionary Glass Design”, Gioara, Italy
“Bounce Booth”, Gufram, Italy
“Serial Beauty”, Cite du Design, France
2014
“Karim Rashid + Crated”, Pop Up Gallery, New York
“Sparkle Krib”, LG Hausys, Korea
“Immaginidlo Vase”, Tam Tam, Italy
“Globalove Sculpture”, Riva 1920, Italy
“Summer Art Festival 2014”, Kateshin Gallery & Waterfall Mansion, New York
2013
“Artban.com, La selection contemporaine art et design”, Paris
“Glaskape”, Glassstress, Italy
“Karim New York 2013”, Hotel Americano, New York
2012
“Ideology of Beauty”, MSU Museum, Croatia
“Evolutes Sculpture”, Burj Khalifa, Arab Emirates
“Opposite Table”, Base SRL, Italy
“Ikon Collection”, Bitossi, Italy
“20 x 12”, Gering & Lopez Gallery, New York
2011
Neue Masche – Gestrickt, gestickt und anders, Buseum Bellerive, Zurich
KARIMODWORKS, Retrospective, MOD, Moscow
“Kopperscape”, Edmonton International Airport, Canada
“L’Italia Ricomincia da Zero”, Zerodisegno, Italy
“Limited Edition of 20”, Christofle, France
“Karim Goes Dutch Exhibition”, Karim Rashid, USA
“Pink Swan Project”, The Breast Cancer Research Foundation, USA
“Cube Sculpture”, Caldia, Italy
“Elephant Parade Ikons”, Elephant Parade, Singapore
“Twist Sculpture”, Slide, Italy Effetto Acciaio, Edizioni Galleria Colombiari, Milan
Karim Sampler: Last 15 Years, Triennale, Milan
International LED Festival, Milan
2010
Unplanned Brutalism, Vintage 20, New York
Karim Rashid New York, Spoke Club, Toronto
Edizioni Galleria Colombiari, London
Technorganic, Claremont Blobular World, Galeria Arte em Dobro, Rio de Janeiro
2009
BLOBULAR WORLD Corkin Gallery, Toronto, Canada
BLOBULAR WORLD Galería Luisa Strina. Sao Paulo, Brasil
Totally Rad: Karim Rashid does Radiations, Museum of Arts & Design, New York
Reinventing Ritual: Contemporary Art and Design for Jewish Life – The Jewish Museum of New York, New York
Avantguardie? Opere uniche di Art-Design, One Piece Art, Rome
2008
Instituto Tomie Ohtake, Sáo Paulo, Brazil
Art and Design in a Global World, Retrostpective, Sao Paolo From 15 minutes into the Future, Retrospective, Domoteca Design, Warshaw Kasa Digitalia, Triennale, Milan
Eliptik, Light Lounge, Milan
Second Skin, Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Monterrey, Mexico
Bloblove, Elga Wimmer Galley, New York
Sex in Design/ Design in Sex, Museum of Sex, New York
2007
Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife
Karim Retrospective, OCAD, Toronto
Hotel Show, Dubai
Plastic Blobular Worlds, Gallery Hotel, Singapore
Design on Stage, Triennale Museum, MilanScenes and Traces, From the
Collection Design, photography & video, Stedelijk Museum Amsterdam, Amsterdam
2006
Roma Design Plus Kairotic paintings, via del Commercio 13, Roma, Italy
Price Tower Arts Center, Bartlesville, OK
Karim’s latest designs and prototype retrospective, Denizen Gallery, Culver City, CA
M Modern Gallery Palm Springs, CA 6-8pm
“Kairotics” Townhouse Gallery Cairo, Egypt
2005
Safe: Design Takes On Risk MoMA, NYC
Tatinsian Gallery Moscow, Russia
Galería Leyendecker, Tenerife, Spain
Albright Knox Extreme abstraction
Touch me V & A Museum, UK
Micro Action Design Fun, Karim Rashid New Works 2005, Sandra Gering
Gallery, NYC
Gaia & Gino “Turkish scape with Karim Rashid” MaxMara SoHo, NYC
Karim Rashid Milan Furniture Fair, Via Marco Polo 4, 1pm-9pm
GET OFF, Museum of Sex, New York, NY.
2004
MULTINATlONAL DESIGNERS IN NY, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2003
IMAGOLOGOS, Elga Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
KREEM, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
TURBOSCAPE, Capellini, Superstudio, Milan Italy
IDEAL HOUSE, Cologne Fair, Cologne, Germany
2002
LA TENT UTOPIAS, WOOM, Gratz, Austria
PLEASURESCAPE, Pron Gallery, Paris FRANCE
WHA T IS DESIGN TODAY?, The Design Center, Philadelphia University,
Philadelphia PA
INTERIOR BIENNALE, PLEASURESCAPE Kortrjik, Belgium Sandra Gering Art Gallery, New York, NY
“HABITAT: CANADIAN DESIGN NOW’ Winnipeg Art Gallery, Winnipeg, Manitoba Canada
SITTING PRETTY Belsay Hall, Northumberland, England
“SKIN: SURFACE, SUBSTANCE & DESIGN’ Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
GRID TO BLOB Roberto Giustini Gallery,Milan ITALY
INTERNA TlONAL GLASS VESSELS Kentucky Art and Craft Gallery Louisville, Kentucky
MOOD RIVER Wexner Center for the Arts, Colombus, Ohio
US DESIGN Denver Art Museum, Denver, Colorado
MATERIAL MA TTERS Red Gallery, Savannah, Georgia
2001
STRATASCAPE Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, Pa
“I Want To Change the World” EXHIBITION at ModernbookiGallery1 060 in Los Angeles, Ca
“DESIGNERS AT WORK: A VISUAL JOURNAL” Pratt University Manhattan Gallery, New York, NY
ORGANOMICS Johnson County Community College, Overland Park, Kansas
EXHIBITION at United Arrows Harajuku Annex 2F in Japan.
VITAL FORMS at Brooklyn Museum of Art Brooklyn, NY
ORGY SOFA at the International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) in NYC.
SURFACESCAPE at Salone Internazionale del Mobile in Milan, Italy PLOB, Capp St. Gallery, San Francisco, CA
MOMO 100 Pink/Pleasurscape, Deitch Projects, New York, NY
FURNITURISM Totem Gallery, New York, NY
WORKSPHERES, MOMA New York, NY
010101, SFMOMA, San Francisco, CA.
2000
Mutter und Kind, Versteigerung Zu Gunsten Der Aktion, Germany
PLEASURETRONICS, Sandra Gering Gallery, NYC
INTERIOR BIENALLE, MOMO 100 Kortrjik, Belgium
DESIGN MATTERS, MoCA Showcases, North Miami Florida
Der neue Schmann-Flugel, Museum fur Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg Germany.
World Design City Gifu “NEW YORK 10 DESIGNERS”, NYC
THE ART OF THE CHAIR (group show) Oh Chair Burchfield-Penney Art Center, Buffalo State College, NEW AMERICAN LANDSCAPE Deitch Projects Solo Exhibition.
DESIGN CUL TURE NOW, NATlONAL DESIGN TRILENIUM Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York, NY
1999
SALON OF THE 21sT CENTURY (group show) John Weber Gallery, New York, NY
Philadelphia Museum of Art, Collab Award exhibition, Philadelphia
PURE RASHID Inside Gallery, Toronto, Canada..
5 SENSESI BLOBJECTS Sandra Gering Gallery, Solo Show.
TRI-SPECTA TABLES Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, Ohio.
NEW UMBRA PRODUCTS (group show) Totem Gallery, NYC. NYC.
1998
DECOLA VITA (solo show) Idee Gallery, Tokyo, Japan. 10 furniture proposals
YOUND DESIGNER OF THE YEAR AWARD Modernism Show. Seventh Regiment Armory, NYC..
PURE RASHID Totem Gallery, NYC..
RECENT WORKS Totem Gallery, NYC. including 16 pieces of furniture and house ware.
Virtu 11, Toronto, Montreal, Vancouver, Canada. Arp stools, Garbo Waste can.
4 CANADIAN DESIGNERS FOR UMBRA Toronto Design Exchange, Toronto, Canada.
1997
GOOD Design Exhibition, Garbo Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture, Chicago, IL.
ECTACY OF THE UNNA TURAL (solo show) 28 furnishing prototypes. Idee Gallery, Tokyo, Japan.
Christie’s Auction for Cooper Hewitt National Design Museum, New York. Table Design, 10 Nambe Vases.
1996
Rosenwald-Wolf Gallery, Philadelphia, PA. ‘Faculty Focus: Art and Design’, Garbo.
Toronto Design Exchange, Canada. Virtu Retrospective. Pilgrim Chair, Kissing
Salt&Pepper, Arp Chair.
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture, Chicago, IL.
GOOD Design Exhibition, Nambe Salt&Pepper Mills
1995
Chicago Athenaeum Museum of Design and Architecture, Chicago, IL.
GOOD Design Exhibition and Permanent Collection, Nambe Studio Collection 1 (30 objects), 6 Abaxial Clocks (all versions).
Gallery 91, NYC. ‘Transparency’. Flex Bowls.
Museum of Modern Art, NY; Tokyo Gas Gallery, Tokyo; Taipei, Taiwan.
Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design.
1994
Third Order of Nature, Tokyo, Japan. ‘Digital Nature Installation.’ Gallery 91, NYC.
Office DeskTop Accessories, Office Clocks. Virtu 8, Toronto, Montreal, and Calgary. Couch Lamp and Pepper Mills.
British Design Museum, London, England. ‘Innovative chairs’. Arp stacking chair.
1993
British Design Museum, London, England. Permanent Collection, Abaxial Clocks.
Virtu 7, Toronto, Canada. Coffee Table and Mantle Clocks.
Design Center, Toronto, Canada. 3 furniture prototypes.
1992
Lamp & Chair 1992, Portland, OR. 3 pieces of furniture.
Gallery of Functional Art, Loa Angeles, CA. New Lighting, 3 Lamps.
Gallery 91, NYC. ‘Cheap Design’.
Gallery of Functional Art, Los Angeles, CA.
Architects’ Art, 6 objects
1991
Levison-Kane Gallery, Boston, MA. 10 Canadian Designers. Vanity.
Nolte Showroom, NYC. Six Furniture proposals.
Design Museum, London, England. 2 lamps.
1990
Virtu 5, Toronto, Montreal, Hong Kong. Vanity.
1989
Gallery 76, Toronto; NSCAD Gallery, Halifax; Emily Carr Gallery, Vancouver.
‘Theory & Practice: Karim Rashid, Hani Rashid.’ 5 Furniture proposals.
Virtu 4, Toronto, Montreal, and Taiwan. Chair.
Steelcase Design Center, NYC and 13 other US cities. ’30 Under 30′.
Axis gallery, Tokyo, Japan. Portfolio Works.
1988
Powerplant Art gallery, Toronto, Canada. Art and the Industries.
Design of Laser measuring device.
1986
Virtu 2, Toronto, and Montreal. Lamp.
McDougal Gallery, Minister of Culture, Toronto. ‘Creative Sparks’. Portable computer and cargo examination system.