There is a distinct harmony of spontaneity and intention, intuition and calculation, in Karina Bania’s work. Each smear and transparent pool of color seems to have simultaneously found its own inevitable shape and to have been dictated with clarity. With her signature aesthetic vocabulary, Bania moves fluidly between abstract and form. The thoughtful arrangement and placement of objects amid abstraction form a sense of order and balance. Instinctive gestural marks lay disorder amid the arranged moment speaking to a sense of dualism in which contrary forces create interconnectedness. The placement of each object, mark and gesture is integral to the balance, symmetry, and ultimate transcendence of the work.
Karina Bania is an abstract painter living and working in California. Largely self-taught, her degree is in Business, but she picked up a paintbrush and a backpack the day after graduating. She spent many years living around the world developing her art. While studying in India, she began incorporating local pigments and dyes into her work, eventually developing her unique style of stained washes and vocabulary of shapes and marks on raw canvas. Her paintings are a synthesis of all she sees, studies, and surrounds herself with.
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KARINA BANIA | karina@karinabania.com
BIOGRAPHY
b. Menlo Park, CA
Lives and works in California
EDUCATION
1993 Bachelor of Science, San Diego State University, CA
1998-2000 Studies in Visual Arts + Textiles, Calcutta, India
2001 Studies in Visual Arts at UCSD, California
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
2024 Maybaum Gallery, solo exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2023 Uprise Art, Keepsakes, group exhibition, New York, NY
2023 Art Market San Francisco, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2023 Maybaum Gallery, two-person exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2023 Art Central Hong Kong, Uprise Art, Hong Kong, China
2022 Perspectives Space, group exhibition, Encinitas, CA
2022 Art Central San Francisco, Maybaum Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2022 Glass Rice Gallery, solo exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2021 Uprise Art, Make Arrangements, group exhibition, New York, NY
2021 Glass Rice Gallery, Impressions of Her, group exhibition, San Francisco, CA
2021 Anne Irwin Gallery, Together, three-person exhibition, Atlanta, GA
2019 Nest Gallery, Red Bank, NJ
2019 Communal Gallery, Solo exhibition, San Diego, CA
2019 Chief Showcase x Uprise Art, New York, NY
2019 Adams Ave Art Walk, San Diego, CA
2019 Modern Citizen Showcase x Uprise Art, San Francisco, CA
2019 Design Within Reach Showcase x Uprise Art, NY
2018 Affordable Art Fair, One Kings Lane, New York, NY
2018 Holiday House NYC, One Kings Lane, New York, NY
2018 Furbish Studio Solo Pop-Up, Raleigh, NC
2018 Anne Irwin Gallery, Pattern Play, group exhibition, Atlanta, GA
2018 Dixon Rye, Atlanta, GA
2018 Anne Irwin Gallery, Small Works, group exhibition, Atlanta, GA
2018 The Kitchen Table Showcase x Uprise Art, New York, NY
2017 BOW, The Midway Gallery x Uprise Art, San Francisco, CA
2017 Prelude Projects, The Echoing Green, group exhibition, Brooklyn, NY
2017 Anne Irwin Gallery, Women and Art, group exhibition, Atlanta, GA
2017 The Affordable Art Fair NYC, Uprise Art featured artist
2017 Elliott Fouts Gallery, Positive/Negative, group exhibition, Sacramento, CA
2017 West Elm Showcase x Uprise Art, New York, NY
2016 The Midway Gallery, Terrain: Navigating Landscapes, group show, San Francisco, CA
2016 Sea Contemporary Gallery, Topography of a Swim, two-person exhibition, Rosemary Beach, FL
2016 Kit & Ace, solo exhibition, Carlsbad, CA
2015 Kettle & Stone, solo exhibition, San Diego, CA
2015 Teeter, group show, San Diego, CA
2015 Gulf Labor West, group exhibition, Chicago, IL
2015 Abracadabra, Joshua Tree Art Gallery, Joshua Tree, CA
2014 Southern California/Baja Norte Regional Exhibition, San Diego Art Institute Museum, San Diego, CA
2014 Art Walk, San Diego, CA
2014 Haggus Society Los Angeles, Alta Dena, CA
2014 Biennial Roadshow Marfa, Marfa, TX
2014 Gulf Migrant Labor, San Diego, CA
2014 Cake Gallery, group show, San Diego, CA
2013 La Jolla Art Festival, La Jolla, CA
2013 Art Walk, San Diego, CA
2013 San Diego Central Library, permanent collection, San Diego, CA
2012 Art Between the Hours, Project X Gallery, Solana Beach, CA
GALLERY REPRESENTATION
MAYBAUM GALLERY, SF
UPRISE ART, NY
ANNE IRWIN GALLERY, Atlanta, GA
SELECTED PRESS
The Motherhood of Art Book, published 2020
Unexpected Color: Society & Culture, Modern Luxury Magazine
The Circle of Creation, Maker’s Magazine
Art of Living, LUXE Magazine
Drawn to Style, San Diego Magazine
A HomeMade Home - Maker interview, Zillow
Featured Artist, Studio Visit, Vol 31
Artist Interview, Blue Locket Art
KPBS video & article, San Diego Central Library
Central Library Opens, Union Tribune, San Diego
The Canvas-er: Karina Bania, Rivera Interiors