Manal Kara (Moroccan-American, b. 1986 in Pittsburgh) lives and works between Gary, Indiana, and Queens, NY.

Solo Exhibitions

2024 The Wild Thing Rides Again, Hair+Nails, Minneapolis, US
Syntax-Semantics Interface, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, US
2023 Sacred Topologies, Deli Gallery, New York, US
2022 Hypothèses, Pangée, Montréal, QC
Conjectures, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, US
2021 Xylem & Phlöem, No Place, Columbus, US
2020 The Viewing-Room vs. The Adoring-Gaze, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, US
2019 Song of the Other Worm, Prairie, Chicago, US
Tearassin' Like a Slug Outta Heaven, Basketshop, Cincinnati, US
2018 Panty Hoes at the Dawn of the Chthulucene, Hume, Chicago, US
Chaotic Neutral, Tusk, Chicago, US
Immanentizing the Eschaton, Shoebox at Sector 2337, Chicago, US
2017 100% Raw Acid House Hoes Against Empire & Capital, Boyfriends, Chicago, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025 City in a Garden: Queer Art and Activism in Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
Fools for Truth, Pangée, Montréal, QC
2024 Looking Back / The 14th White Columns Annual, White Columns, New York, US
Freshly For You, Hair+Nails, New York, US
HEAT, Easy Does It, Los Angeles, US
Fever Dream, Swivel, Brooklyn, US
2023 Earthly Pleasures, Deli Gallery, New York, US
Emanate, Gaa Gallery, New York, US
2022 Ritual Being, Ryan Lee, New York, US
Dewdrops in the Garden, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, US
10 Years, Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, US
Mythopoeia, Acrosss, London, UK
THEM, Roots & Culture, Chicago, US
2021 K as in knight, Helena Anrather, New York, US
Jupiter Finger, Harkawik, Los Angeles, US
Suspended Disbelief, Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto, CA
Social Recession, NCECA, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, US
Moloch, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, US
The Human Scale, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, US
2020 The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
RIGHT NOW, Hair and Nails, Minneapolis, US
2019 kNOW you WON't, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, US
Form | Function, 123 Astronaut, Los Angeles, US
Mutant Dust Bunnies, Roots & Culture, Chicago, US
2018 International Chicago Underground Queer Transcendence Symposium, Chicago, US
The Beasts, Circle Contemporary, Chicago, US
Ugly Clay, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, US
2017 The Second Aspect Of The Same, Tim Nolas, Vienna, Austria Front and Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, US
Figured Out!, Andrew Rafacz, Chicago, US
2016 A Kook Milieu, Barney's, New York, US
Modern Africa, NoLab, Istanbul, TR