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Tahir Carl Karmali

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Biography

The work of Nairobi-born and Brooklyn-based artist Tahir Carl Karmali spans photography, installation, papermaking, sculpture, and sound and concentrates thematically on migration, landscape/geology, labor, and belonging. His work has been exhibited at Circle Art Agency, Nairobi; High Museum of Art, Atlanta; Cleveland Museum of Art: Kunsthal Rotterdam; The Shed, Cleveland Museum, Leslie Lohman, and Guggenheim Museum Bilbao, among others. Karmali was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency (both 2019–20). Recently he was an artist in residence at The Watermill Center (2020) and Montello Foundation (2021). He was previously an Artist-in-Residence at Triangle Arts Association, Pioneer Works, Trestle Gallery, the MacDowell Colony, and BRIC.

News / Ranking / Titbits / Awards

2021 – Montello Foundation residence Nevada. 2020 – BRIClab with ThoughtThought.us Collective. 2020 – Watermill Center Residency. 2019 – Key Holder Resident at Lower East Side Printshop. 2019 – Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant 2019 – 2020. 2018 – OPEN CALL – The Shed Commission. 2018 – Triangle Artist Residency. 2017 – Forbes 30 Under 30 Arts & Style. 2017 – Pioneer Works Visual Artist Residency. 2017 – Trestle Gallery Visiting Visual Artist Residency. 2016 – MacDowell Visual Artist Residency. 2016 – BRIC visual artist in residency summer 2016. 2015 – IPA – International Photography Awards – Honorable Mention Professional Fine Art Collage.

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