SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 - 2020
Deep Connections - Metro Subway Construction Lightbox Display & Exhibition Catalog, Union Station Passageway Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2008
• The Ride Home - Celebrating Harley Davidson’s 100th Anniversary, Milwaukee Street Gallery, Milwaukee Wisconsin
1999
A Decade of Portraiture, Barnsdall Art Center, Hollywood, CA
Building the Red Line - Faces of Labor, Frances Goldwyn Library, Hollywood, CA.
Grand Opening Celebration, Hollywood Metro Line Station, Hollywood, CA
1998
Hollywood Subway Construction and Rose Bowl Swap Meet
Art on the Stairwell - Vroman's Bookstore, Pasadena, CA
1997
Hollywood Subway Construction, Edison International, Rosemead, CA
Tunnelers at Work and Other Urban Life Scenes, Artspace, Woodland Hills. CA
1996
Hollywood Subway Construction, Da Vinci Gallery, Los Angeles City College
1995
Photographs of the Metro Red Line Hollywood Subway Construction, Japanese American Cultural and Community Center, Los Angeles, CA
Photographs of the Metro Red Line, Barnsdall Art Center, Hollywood, CA
GROUP SHOWS
1999
Reflections 99, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
1997
Fifth Annual Photography Exhibition, Gallery at 777, Los Angeles, CA
1996
All California All Media, Downey Museum of Art, Downey, CA
Search for Transcendence, Benham Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Members Juried Exhibition, Center for Photographic Arts, Los Angeles, CA
About Face - Contemporary Portraits, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
1st Annual National Juried Exhibition, ARTernatives, San Luis Obispo, CA
New Photography, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA
Pasadena Society of Artists 68th Annual Juried Exhibition, Pasadena, CA
Fourth Annual Photography Exhibition, Gallery at 777, Los Angeles, CA
1995
California Works, California State Fair, Sacramento, CA
Fourth Annual Photography Exhibition, Gallery at 777, Los Angeles, CA
Annual Art Exhibit, Armenian Allied Arts Association, Los Angeles, CA
1994
New Photography, Los Angeles County Fair, Pomona, CA
SELECTED ARTICLES AND REVIEWS
2025
Rush, Jim. “LA Metro D Line Photo Gallery.” Tunnel Business Magazine, June 2025, pp. 24-29.
2024
Schallert, Patricia. “Exploring the Depths: Local Photographer Captures a Hidden World Beneath LA,” Ventura Breeze, 2024, pp. 4.
2023
Volpe, Heidi. “Ken Karagozian - Underground Subway Series,” A Photo Editor online.
Richardson, Doug. “Kenneth Karagozian USA,” Silvergrain Classics, Spring Issue 2023, pp. 68-73.
2000
“Hollywood’s Bone Man,” Archeology Dig, October/November 2000.
“Images of Labor,” Hayden's Ferry Review, Spring/Summer 2000.
1999
“L.A. Underground,” Life, May 1999.
“Creative Artist Going Underground,” Los Angeles, May 1999.
1998
"From the Photo Archives," Huntington Library Calendar, November 1998.
"I Am Woman Hear Me Drill," Los Angeles Times Magazine, October 11, 1998.
1997
“Putting a Human Face on Subway Construction,” Los Angeles Independent Newspaper Group, December 19, 1997.
“Ken Karagozian, Subterranean Photographer,” Photo District News, November 1997.
“Between the Rocks in a Hard Place,” Daily News, February 28, 1997.
1996
“The Human Side of L.A. Metro,” Civil Engineering, December 1996.
MTA Review, May, June and September issues, 1996.
1995
“Tales of the Bazaar,” Pasadena Magazine, Winter 1995.
“Men of Depth,” Los Angeles Times, August 6, 1995.
AWARDS
2021
American Public Transit Association - Adwheel Award Grand Prize for Deep Connections
1996
Best of Show, Pasadena Society of Artists Juried Exhibition, October 1996
Honorable Mention, Los Angeles County Fair, September 1996
Award of Excellence, California State Fair, August 1996
1994
Honorable Mention, Gallery at 777 Juried Exhibition, September 1994
Honorable Mention, Los Angeles County Fair, September 1994
PERMANENT COLLECTION
The Huntington Library
Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transit Authority