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

Syntax-Semantics Interface (2024) at M. LeBlanc, Chicago.

Syntax-Semantics Interface (2024) at M. LeBlanc, Chicago.

Overdetermine , 2024 oil on canvas 55 x 112 in. (139.70 x 284.48 cm) MK0011

Overdetermine, 2024
oil on canvas
55 x 112 in. (139.70 x 284.48 cm)
MK0011

Performing , 2024 oil on canvas 51½ x 24 in. (130.81 x 60.96 cm) MK0014

Performing, 2024
oil on canvas
51½ x 24 in. (130.81 x 60.96 cm)
MK0014

Cinepoetics 3 , 2024 oil on canvas 24 x 48 in. (60.96 x 121.92 cm) MK0010

Cinepoetics 3, 2024
oil on canvas
24 x 48 in. (60.96 x 121.92 cm)
MK0010

Syntax-Semantics Interface (2024) at M. LeBlanc, Chicago.

Syntax-Semantics Interface (2024) at M. LeBlanc, Chicago.

Cognitive Architecture , 2024 round leaf bittersweet, grape, steel, pine, acrylic, maple samaras, vinyl, stickers, chain mail, found objects 30 x 20 x 11 in. (76.20 x 50.80 x 27.94 cm) MK0016

Cognitive Architecture , 2024
round leaf bittersweet, grape, steel, pine, acrylic, maple samaras, vinyl, stickers, chain mail, found objects
30 x 20 x 11 in. (76.20 x 50.80 x 27.94 cm)
MK0016

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

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)

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

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)