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Kika Karadi

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Kika Karadi
Born1975 (age 48–49)
Budapest, Hungary
NationalityHungarian
EducationMaryland Institute College of Art
OccupationVisual artist
Spouse
(m. 2017)

Kika Karadi (born 1975) is a Hungarian-American artist. She is known for her abstract painting style.[1]

Biography

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Kika Karadi was born in 1975 in Budapest, Hungary[2] and moved to the United States at age 11.[3] She attended Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and graduated with a B.F.A. in 1997.[3]

Karadi had her first European solo show in Naples, Italy, in 2006.[4] In 2017, she was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.[5] She has held solo exhibitions at the Jonathan Viner Gallery in London and The Journal Gallery in New York City.[5][6]

Technique

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Karadi is noted for her large-scale paintings made in response to the aesthetics of the film noir genre. Her paintings were described as "black stenciled signage on a white background", in which she "reintroduces hints of representation - atmospheric cinematic scenes, figurative forms and symbols which welcome the impurities of cultural collision."[7] She approaches painting with a monographic technique. Her body of work using this process refers to the abandoned Oak Park Mall in Austin, Minnesota where she maintained her studio since early 2014.[8]

Personal life

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In 2017, Karadi married the American musician John Maus.[9][10]

References

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  1. ^ Francesco, Stocchi (2006). "Kika Karadi at annarumma". Artforum. Archived from the original on 3 August 2018. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  2. ^ "Kika Karadi". www.artnet.com. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  3. ^ a b "Kika Karadi". www.absolutearts.com. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  4. ^ Kika Karadi Archived 26 July 2014 at the Wayback Machine, Art Forum, June 2006. Retrieved 9 June 2013.
  5. ^ a b "KIKA KARADI". Chinati. Retrieved 3 August 2018.
  6. ^ Barna, Ben (28 May 2014). "Reflections on the Magic of the Journal Gallery, From the Artists Who Show There". T Magazine. The New York Times. Retrieved 4 January 2019.
  7. ^ "Kika Karadi: Solo Show". Jonathan Viner Gallery. Archived from the original on 11 August 2014. Retrieved 29 July 2014.
  8. ^ Lacava, Stephanie (7 January 2015). "This Artist Made A Minnesota Shopping Mall Her Studio - OPENING CEREMONY". blog.openingceremony.com. Retrieved 3 August 2018.[self-published source?]
  9. ^ Pemberton, Nathan (25 October 2017). "John Maus Is Making Outsider Pop for the End of the World". Vulture.
  10. ^ Stark, Andrew (September 2017). "John Maus: Expectations Versus Reality Versus Reality". Malibu Mag.
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