Manal Kara
(b. 1986, lives and works in Gary, Indiana)
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2022
[T.B.A.] Shulamit Nazarian, Los Angeles, CA (forthcoming)
[T.B.A.] HAIRandNAILS, Minneapolis, MN (forthcoming)
2021
Xylem & Phlöem, No Place, Columbus, OH
2020
The Viewing Room Vs. The Adoring Gaze, Interstate Projects, Brooklyn, NY
2019
Song of the Other Worm, Prairie, Chicago, IL
Tearassin’ Like a Slug Outta Heaven, Basketshop, Cincinnati, OH
2018
Panty Hoes at the Dawn of the Chthulucene, Hume, Chicago, IL
Chaotic Neutral, Tusk, Chicago, IL
Immanentizing the Eschaton, Shoebox at Sector 2337, Chicago, IL
2017
100% Raw Acid House Hoes Against Empire & Capital, Boyfriends, Chicago, IL
2016
Woedjeweol, Spears, Chicago, IL
2014
Raunchy Hauswarez: A Spoopy Home Companion, Templehead, Chicago, IL
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2021
Moloch, M. LeBlanc, Chicago, IL
Under the Moon, Camp Eternal Hell Chamber, Mineral Springs, NY
Summer Group Show, Stellarhighway, New York, NY
The Human Scale, Rochester Art Center, Rochester, MN
Jupiter Finger, Real Pain, Los Angeles, CA
Suspended Disbelief, Arsenal Contemporary, Toronto, Canada
Social Recession, NCECA, Weston Art Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
K as in knight, Helena Anrather, New York, NY
2020
RIGHT NOW, HAIRandNAILS, Minneapolis, MN
The Long Dream, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Chicago, IL
Exception of (not) being, Rhizome Parking Garage x Essenza Club (online)
Well Heeled, Carthage College, Kenosha, WI
2019
Form | Function, 123 Astronaut, Los Angeles, CA
kNOW you WON’t, Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York, NY
Mutant Dust Bunnies, Roots & Culture, Chicago, IL
Burned Mind, University of St. Francis Art Gallery, Joliet, IL
2018
International Chicago Underground Queer Transcendence Symposium, Chicago, IL
The Beasts, Circle Contemporary, Chicago, IL
The Ashtray Show, Fisher Parrish, Brooklyn, NY
Plants and Animals, The Learning Machine, Chicago, IL
Dream Time, Yolanda, Chicago, IL
Creatures of the Night (Shape) Shifters, No Nation, Chicago, IL
Ugly Clay, Elephant Gallery, Nashville, TN
2017
The Second Aspect of the Same, Tim Nolas, Vienna, Austria
Front and Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
Figured Out!, Andrew Rafaez Gallery, Chicago, IL
2016
A Kook Milieu, Barney’s, New York, NY
Modern Africa, NoLab, Istanbul, Turkey
Children of the Playhouse, Present, Chicago, IL
The Lamp Show, 99 Cent Plus Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2015
Riding Color Waves, Archer Beach Haus, Chicago, IL
Day Drinking, The Egg, Chicago, IL
Freudian Slippers, Good Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
RESIDENCES/AWARDS/FELLOWSHIPS
2020
Project Freewill, New Portland, ME
2019
September Spring, Kesey Farm, Pleasant Hill, OR
2017
Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Saugatuck, MI
Center Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2016
ACRE (Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions), Steuben, WI
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
“Artist Interview—Manal Kara”, De : Formal, March 24, 2021, https://www.deformal.com/artists/manal-kara
S. Nicole Lane and Willa Smart, “Double Feature: Intimate Justice: Manal Kara & ‘Immanentizing the Eschaton’”(Exhibition Review), Sixty Inches From Center, May 8, 2018, https://sixtyinchesfromcenter.org/double-feature-intimate-justice-manal-kara-immanentizing-the-eschaton-exhibition-review/
Jillian Steinhauer, “4 Gallery Shows to See Right Now”, New York Times, October 7, 2020, https://www.nytimes.com/2020/10/07/arts/design/art-gallery-shows-to-see-right-now.html
“In Conversation: Manal Kara” (video interview), Arsenal Contemporary Art, July 15, 2021, https://www.arsenalcontemporary.com/online/conversation/detail/manal-kara