Manal Kara is a Moroccan-American self-taught artist working across sculpture, photography, installation, video, and text. Recent solo exhibitions include Syntax-Semantics Interface, M. LeBlanc, Chicago (2024); 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 Bed-Stuy Art Residency, 8th House, Shandaken: Storm King, ACRE, Ox-Bow, September Spring at the Kesey Farm, and Project Freewill.
Their current exhibition, The Wild Thing Rides Again, is on view at Hair+Nails, Minneapolis, through September 2024.
You can read some of their poems here, here, and here.