Karen K. Ho is a senior writer at ARTnews, covering art crime and business. She is based in New York City.
Before ARTnews, Karen covered the business of sustainability at Insider; global finance and economics at Quartz; as well as the media industry as a Delacorte Fellow at the Columbia Journalism Review. She has a Master of Arts with a specialization in business and economics from Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism, where she was a Lorana Sullivan Scholar.
As a freelancer, Karen has been published in outlets like GQ, The Cut, Glamour, NBC News, The Daily Beast, Men’s Health, Wealthsimple, Chatelaine, The San Francisco Chronicle, Bustle, The New York Times, Deadspin, TIME, The Outline, Refinery29, FiveThirtyEight, Cleo Journal, Dame Magazine, The Business of Business, Toronto Life, The Walrus, The National Post, The Globe and Mail, Today in Tabs, Torontoist, and the University of Toronto Magazine.
Karen has also been interviewed by outlets like Bloomberg’s Odd Lots, WIRED, CBC News, NPR, Toronto Star, BBC Radio, The Washington Post, Defector’s Namedropping, Al Jazeera English, Mel Magazine, KQED, Scientific American, Vanity Fair, The Fine Print, and The Small Bow.