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Manal Kara
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Manal Kara (b. 1986; US) is a Moroccan-American artist and poet based in Gary, IN and Ridgewood, NY. They work across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and text, using a bio- and eco-semiotic framework to elaborate a poetics of the disenfranchised, dislodge hegemonic ontologies, and devise new ways of theorizing the world.
Recent solo exhibitions include Sacred Topologies at Deli Gallery in New York; Hypòtheses at Pangée in Montreal; Conjectures at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Xylem and Phlöem at No Place, Columbus, OH; THE VIEWING-ROOM VS. THE ADORING-GAZE at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn; and, Song of the Other Worm at Prairie, Chicago. Selected group exhibitions include Jupiter Finger at Real Pain, Los Angeles (now Harkawik); Suspended Disbelief at Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto; and K as in Knight at Helena Anrather, New York. They have participated in residencies at Shandaken Projects, ACRE, Ox-Bow, September Spring at the Kesey Farm, and Project Freewill. Their poetry has been featured by Changes Press, Poetry Project and the Academy of American Poets, among others. Upcoming exhibitions include those at Hair + Nails, Minneapolis, MN and M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL. Kara is currently based in Gary, IN.
Presentations:
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2025
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2024
︎ Dream 2nd
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2023
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2022
Press:
︎ Platform Interview
︎ Art & Object
︎ Inquire
Manal Kara (b. 1986; US) is a Moroccan-American artist and poet based in Gary, IN and Ridgewood, NY. They work across sculpture, installation, photography, video, and text, using a bio- and eco-semiotic framework to elaborate a poetics of the disenfranchised, dislodge hegemonic ontologies, and devise new ways of theorizing the world.
Recent solo exhibitions include Sacred Topologies at Deli Gallery in New York; Hypòtheses at Pangée in Montreal; Conjectures at Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles; Xylem and Phlöem at No Place, Columbus, OH; THE VIEWING-ROOM VS. THE ADORING-GAZE at Interstate Projects, Brooklyn; and, Song of the Other Worm at Prairie, Chicago. Selected group exhibitions include Jupiter Finger at Real Pain, Los Angeles (now Harkawik); Suspended Disbelief at Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto; and K as in Knight at Helena Anrather, New York. They have participated in residencies at Shandaken Projects, ACRE, Ox-Bow, September Spring at the Kesey Farm, and Project Freewill. Their poetry has been featured by Changes Press, Poetry Project and the Academy of American Poets, among others. Upcoming exhibitions include those at Hair + Nails, Minneapolis, MN and M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL. Kara is currently based in Gary, IN.
Presentations:
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2025
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2024
︎ Dream 2nd
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2023
︎ Outsider Art Fair 2022
Press:
︎ Platform Interview
︎ Art & Object