MANAL KARA
Manal Kara (b. 1986 Pennsylvania, based in Gary, IN) is a Moroccan-American self-taught interdisciplinary artist. Their work has been exhibited extensively in Chicago and New York as well as in Istanbul, Vienna, and Berlin. Recent solo exhibitions include Sacred Topologies, Deli Gallery, New York (2023); Hypothèses, Pangée, Montréal (2022); Conjectures, Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles (2022); Xylem & Phlöem, No Place, Columbus (2021); The Viewing-Room vs. The Adoring-Gaze, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn (2020); Song of the Other Worm, Prairie, Chicago (2019), and Tearassin’ Like a Slug Outta Heaven, Basketshop, Cincinnati (2019). They have attended residencies at 8th House, Shandaken: Storm King, ACRE, Ox-Bow, September Spring at the Kesey Farm, and Project Freewill.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EXHIBITIONS
October 18th to November 20th 2021
MOLOCH
Jesse Guitar, 2023
plywood, bittersweet vine, sleeping bag, acrylic, rusted Skoal chewing tobacco can, chrome Bulova wristwatch from train tracks, 1/4" jacks, knobs, resin exoskeleton, Power Leech fishing lure, and lightning cable tip
54 x 13.3 x 2.3 in (137 x 34 x 6 cm)
MK0008
Argania Spinoza, 2020
ceramic, photographic prints on cotton
29 x 23 x 4 in (73.7 x 78.4 x 10.2 cm)
Fourth moon, seventh sun, a journey with no end in sight, past the pyla (orgones in tow), two false dogstars to the left, casseiopeia to the right, sidhe & djinns in every direction, 2021
ceramic, photographic prints on fabric
41.5 x 41.5 x 4 in (105.4 x 105.4 x 20.3 cm)