Kika Karadi
Hungarian-American artist
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Kika Karadi (born Krisztina Karádi[1] in 1975) is a Hungarian-American artist. She is known for her abstract painting style.[2]
1975 (age 50–51)
Kika Karadi | |
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| Born | Krisztina Karádi 1975 (age 50–51) Budapest, Hungary |
| Education | Maryland Institute College of Art |
| Occupation | Visual artist |
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Biography
Kika Karadi was born in 1975 in Budapest, Hungary[3] and moved to the United States at age 11.[4] She attended Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) and graduated with a B.F.A. in 1997.[4]
Karadi had her first European solo show in Naples, Italy, in 2006.[5] In 2017, she was an artist in residence at the Chinati Foundation in Marfa, Texas.[6] She has held solo exhibitions at the Jonathan Viner Gallery in London and The Journal Gallery in New York City.[6][7]
Technique
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."[8] 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.[9]