Biography
Biography
Born and raised in San Francisco, Ana Karkar studied at the San Francisco Art Institute, the Sorbonne and the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris. She dropped out of her MFA for a job at Louis Vuitton HQ where she worked for 7 years in image production and digital media. In 2013 she was mentored in the TURPS Correspondence program based in London.
Her work is influenced by images held in the collective conscious, experimental film and cinema. She offers an alternative perspective to these images via painting. The storytelling in her work is inspired by film directors such as Stanley Kubrick, Brian De Palma and Dario Argento as well as a number of contemporary photographers. Her painterly stroke evokes that of Edvard Munch, Francis Bacon and Egon Schiele as well as the Viennese Secession reprised in Psychedelic Art from her hometown.
More recent exhibitions include a solo show at Galerie Marguo, Consulat de la Gaité in Paris, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, and DZIALDOV in Berlin. Her work has been presented by international galleries, mostly in Germany and Luxembourg, but also in France, Belgium, the UK and Japan.
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EDUCATION
2013 - 2016 : TURPS Art School, London, UK
2005 - 2010 : Université Panthéon-Sorbonne, Arts et Sciences de l'Art, Paris, France
2004 - 2008 : Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris
2002 - 2004 : San Francisco Art Institute, USA
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SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 - Solo show at Nosbaum Reding | Luxembourg, Luxembourg
2022 – Solo show at Galerie Marguo in Paris, France
2019 – We value your privacy, DZIALDOV, Berlin, Germany
2019 – Spine to Perform an Exorcism, Copie Service, Paris, France
2018 – Where there's smoke, Le Consulat de la Gaité, Paris, France
2015 – Unmanifest Territories, Meta-Gallery, Museum of Contemporary Art North Miami, USA
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SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
March-May 2022 – Fundamental Occurrences at Nosbaum Reding, Brussels, Belgium
April 2022 - group show at Minus 1 gallery, Tokyo, Japan
2021 – Seasons of Nebula, N.104 Gallery, Tokyo Japan
2021 – Portraits et figuration, regard sur la scène francaise, curated by Hervé Mikaeloff,
ArtParis & Hors Cadre at Grand Palais Ephémère, Paris
2021 – MISA Discoveries, König Galerie, Berlin
2021 – Messe in St Agnes, König Galerie, Berlin
2021 – Iwakan 2, Tata bookshop, Tokyo
2021 – Intimations, Horscadre, Paris
2020 – Brussels Galerie Ephémère, Nosbaum Reding, Bruxelles
2019 – Just So Stories, Nosbaum Reding, Luxembourg
2019 – Café Spit, Galerie PCP, Paris, France
2018 – Submission Friday, SFMOMA, online
2018 – Colourful Chaos, by Fluxkunst, Laundry Artspace, Brisbane, Australia
2017 – L'homme Sauvage, Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany
2017 – Et Tu, Art Brute?, Andrew Edlin Gallery, New York, USA
2017 – Night School, La Galerie 36 rue Notre Dame de Nazareth, Paris, France
2017 – BYOB_Lx, Zaratan Arte Contemporânea, Lisbon, Portugal
2017 – „…why not hug the strangers.“ , Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany
2016 – Submission Friday, SFMOMA, online
2016 – Turps Correspond, The Artworks, Halifax, UK
IR11, Edinburgh, UK
Londonewcastle Project Space, London, UK
2015 – Malfunction, Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany
2015 – Cold on the Outside, Glasgow Openhouse, UK
2015 – FTO #2, Passage Choiseul, Paris, France
2015 – Figure This Out, Assembly House, Leeds, UK
2014 – Correspond, Turps Painting Studio, London, UK
2014 – Re-Boot, Dzialdov, Berlin, Germany
2012 – Surf Your Mind, Galerie Christian Berst, Paris, France
2010 – Centre Commerciale Sans Commerce, CHIC Art Fair, Cité de la Mode et du Design, Paris, France
2010 – Chez Jack, Centre Culturel Auguste Dobel, Paris, France
2009 – Chemins de Fer, « La Petite Ceinture » 75020, Paris, France
2008 – Untitled, Centre Saint Charles, Paris, France
2006 – I V Y Paris, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
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NEW MEDIA PROJECTS
More on: https://www.linkedin.com/in/analeekarkar/
2010 – 2015 – Art Wall, Louis Vuitton interactive exhibition space, online
2015 – “Never Ending Story” video installation, Volez, Voguez, Voyagez, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2015 – Series 2 interactive animation, online
2011 – Louis Vuitton - Marc Jacobs aux Arts Décoratifs digital animation, online
2011 – Louis Vuitton Voyages Beijing animation and minisite, online
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GRANTS / RESIDENCIES
2014 – Atelier Austmarka Artist in Residence Grant, Norway
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PUBLICATIONS
2021, September - A Art Paris 2021, des retrouvailles enjouées, Le Figaro
https://www.lefigaro.fr/arts-expositions/a-l-art-paris-2021-des-retrouvailles-enjouees-20210910
2021, September - Il y a du Schiele chez Ana Karkar! Le Quotidien de l'Art
2020, August - Manon Sailly, directrice de Hors-Cadre: « Plus que jamais, je crois en la valeur ajoutée du modèle nomade de la galerie » Toute la Culture
2020, July – Room with a view: Ana Karkar, Loewe Contemporary
https://www.loewecontemporary.com/copy-of-luke-caulfield-q-a
2019, July – Ana Karkar What's it like to be an artist in the information age? The Gallery
https://www.thegallyry.com/post/what-s-it-like-to-be-an-artist-in-the-information-age
2018, October – Ana Karkar's Where There's Smoke, Le consulat.org
http://www.leconsulat.org/expositions/expostion_wheretheressmoke/
2017, May – Writer Lara Konrad Interviews Ana Karkar, Coeval Magazine
http://www.coeval-magazine.com/coeval/ana-karkar
2017, May – Carte Blanche à Xaver von Mentzingen :
Double Je, construire l'image des autres et/ou créer sa propre image, Mowwgli
2016 – Psych Out: Ana Karkar, Seymour Projects
2016 – Turps Correspond, exhibition catalogue
2014 – Correspond, exhibition catalogue
2012 – Mindsurf, exhibition catalogue
2010 – CHIC Art Fair, FAD Magazine
2010 – Halfslant at CHIC Art Fair, Halfslant.com