Karena (Kaz) Dalla Rosa (b. 1962, AU) is a visual artist based on the Bellarine Peninsula, Victoria, Australia.

Painting from an early age, she commenced a Fine Arts degree at Caulfield Institute before leaving to embark on a career as a musician. Karena has performed consistently in Melbourne and around Australia until recently returning to her first love of painting.

Her work explores local places and landscapes of cultural and environmental significance like the Ocean Grove nature reserve on Wadawurrung Country, being the only parcel of remnant woodland on the Bellarine Peninsula. 

Recently she has been working on a series of close-up images of native flora. The proximity to the subject provides an intimacy to ecosystems humming with life and beauty. These paintings aim to bring awareness and a remembrance to the phenomenon happening in each moment in nature, often hidden or forgotten in the business of daily life.

In addition to her flora and landscape work are her abstracted ink paintings which explore geometric constructions of shape and color.

EXHIBITIONS

2023 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria

2024 Salt Contemporary Art, Queenscliff, Victoria

2024 National Contemporary Art Prize, Canberra

2025 Omnia Art Prize, Vic

2025 The Doyles Art Prize, Qld

2025 The Kennedy Prize, SA

2025 Talburac Art Prize, Vic

2026 Harlow Gallery, Brunswick, Victoria