Karen Oremus was born in Montreal Canada. She has worked as an artist and educator internationally in Canada, the United States, Italy, England, Germany, China, Estonia, Bulgaria, Croatia, Japan, Slovakia and the Middle East. She received her BFA in Visual Arts (Printmaking) and a minor in Roman Archaeology at Concordia University in Montreal Canada. She studied Painting at the Academia di Belli Arte di Roma, (Academy of Fine Arts in Rome), Italy, completed her archaeological field school at the University of Warwick in Coventry England and graduated with her MFA in Printmaking from the Tyler School of Art of Temple University, in Philadelphia. Karen is currently in her seventh year working as an Associate Professor in the Department of Art and Design at Zayed University and is responsible for the establishment and development of the first printmaking studio and printmaking discipline in the nation’s capital, at Zayed University’s Abu Dhabi campus.