e: [email protected] | Brooklyn, New York
gallery:
Circle | Nairobi – KENYA, Danda Jaroljmek, email: [email protected]
Management | New York – USA, email: [email protected]

The work of Nairobi-born and Brooklyn-based artist TAHIR KARMALI spans photography, installation, papermaking, sculpture, and sound and concentrates thematically on migration, landscape/geology, labor, and belonging. Solo exhibitions include Eternal Rent, Management, New York; Bound Between Cliffs, Circle Gallery, Nairobi; Paper Planes, Sotheby’s Institute, New York. Group exhibitions include The Wake, Dak'art Biennale, Dakar; Invocations, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi; Open Call, The Shed; Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, Leslie Lohman Museum; Second Careers, Cleveland Museum of Art; and Making Africa at High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Kunsthal Rotterdam, Blanton Museum, Houston, CCCB, Barcelona, Guggenheim Bilbao, and others. Karmali was awarded a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant and a Lower East Side Printshop Keyholder Residency. He was an artist in residence at The Watermill Center and Montello Foundation, Triangle Arts Association, Pioneer Works, Trestle Gallery, the MacDowell Colony, and BRIC