Kika Karadi

Who is Kika Karadi?

Kika Karadi is an American contemporary artist. Currently, she lives and works in New York. She has shown at the 51st Venice Biennale, Prague Biennale 2, and also at international art fairs such as Art Basel Miami Beach and the Armory. She is noted for her time-based, large-scale paintings with references to abstractions from the film noir genre.

Karadi was born in Budapest, Hungary. She received her BFA from Maryland Institute College of Art. In 1994 she was the youngest to win the Morris Louis Grant, for painting, which allowed her to travel to Paris.

She had her first European solo show in Naples, Italy in 2006, which was reviewed in both Artforum and Flash Art magazines. Artforum said of her exhibition, "Karadi creates a rich fantasy world, a painterly Wonderland well worth slipping into."