Kara Lynch

Kara Lynch

Tulsa, OK

kara lynch, a time-based artist, lives en exilio in Indian Territory. Conjuring autonomy for Black/Indigenous people across the 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; co-editor of We Travel the Space Ways: Black Imagination, Fragments and Diffractions, an edited volume of Black speculation; director of Black Russians, a feature documentary video; and host of Blues U, a bi-weekly radio show. kara completed the MFA in visual arts at University of California, San Diego, is professor emerita of video and critical studies at Hampshire College, and was a 2020–23 Tulsa Artist Fellow. kara is a principled artist with Gallery of the Streets, and a co-shaper of Black Flight Experiments and Black Life Response collectives.