kara lynch, a time-based artist, lives en exilio in Indian Territory and el Bronx. Conjuring autonomy for Black Indigenous people across Diaspora, kara's art practice is re-memory, vision, and movement.
kara lynch, a time-based artist, lives en exilio in Indian Territory and the Bronx. Conjuring autonomy for Black and Indigenous people across Diaspora, kara's art practice is re-memory, vision, and movement - collective feminist practice and social intervention animate lynch's aesthetic/political explorations of time + space.
lynch is anchor artist for INVISIBLE an episodic, multi-site installations excavating the terror and resilient beauty of Black-Indigenous experiences, and co-editor of ‘We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions’ an edited volume of Black Speculation, and director of ‘BlackRussians’, a feature documentary video.
kara completed the MFA in Visual Arts at the UCSD and has been a research fellow at the African and African Diaspora Studies Department, UT, Austin and the Academy of African Studies at Bayreuth University in Germany. kara is an emerit@s Professor of Video and Critical Studies at Hampshire College, a 2024-25 Interchange Arts Social Practice Awardee, 2020-23 Tulsa Artist Fellow, host of Blues U, a bi-weekly radio show on radiocoyote.org, a principled artist with GalleryOfTheStreets, core collective member of Black Life Response and a co-shaper of Black Flight Experiments.
