KARA MARIa

Kara Maria is a visual artist working in painting and mixed media. Her recent work reflects on Earth’s biodiversity crisis and the role of animals in our increasingly unstable environment. Borrowing from the broad vocabulary of contemporary painting, Maria blends geometric shapes, vivid hues, and abstract marks with representational elements.

Maria received her BA and MFA from the University of California, Berkeley. She has exhibited her work in solo and group shows throughout the United States at venues including the de Saisset Museum at Santa Clara University, CA; the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art, Sonoma, CA; the Nevada Museum of Art, Reno, NV; and the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX.

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive; the Crocker Art Museum in Sacramento; the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco; the San Jose Museum of Art; and the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and the Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, Portland, OR, among others.

A native of Binghamton, New York, Kara Maria now lives and works in San Francisco, California.