Kara Maria received her BA and MFA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley. 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, among others.

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

ARTIST’S STATEMENT

I am a visual artist working in painting and mixed media. My 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, I blend geometric shapes, vivid hues, and abstract marks with representational elements.