Kara Güt

b. 1989. Cleveland, Ohio

EDUCATION & RESIDENCY

2022 SPACES Artist Residency, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

2021 Technology Residency, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2016 BAiR Visual + Digital Art Residency, The Banff Centre

2016 MFA, Cranbrook Academy of Art

2012 BFA, Ohio State University

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2022 Plainchant for Paper Hands, Galerie Éphémère, Montréal, QC, Canada

2022 Hydra, SPACES, Cleveland, OH

2020 dungeon master, Washer/Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City, UT

2018 Presence, IRL Gallery, Cincinnati, OH

2017 Crystal Magic Weapon, Open Space, Baltimore, MD

2017 ESC, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH

2017 Permissions, The Muted Horn Gallery, Cleveland, OH

PERFORMANCES

2021 Intimacy Mod Live, PLAN K Güt, Azkuna Zentroa, Bilbao, Spain, curated by Karlos Martinez

2021 Welcome to my Desert Nexus, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2019 Intimacy Mod Live, Performance//Proxy, Rachel Finn Curatorial, Detroit, MI

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2022 Holding Patterns/Murmurations, Holland Project, Reno, NV curated by Nick Larsen

2022 Dungeon Crawl, Dream Clinic, Columbus, OH

2022 No es propio de esta época, Centro Cultural Las Cigarreras, Alicante, Spain curated by LAVA

2021 Dystopian Party Collection, Spas Setun, Moscow, Russia

2021 Flatland, Off-site exhibition, Cleveland, OH curated by OOO Collective

2021 Wheaton Biennial_final_final_FINAL, Wheaton College, Norton, MA, juror: Legacy Russell

2021 Spawning Point, Stone House Art Gallery, Charlotte, NC

2020 LAN Party, (ab)Normal x Dicho pavilion, Tbilisi Architecture Biennial, curated by Twee Whistler

2020 Shapeshifters: Transformations in Contemporary Art, Cranbrook Museum of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2020 The Retreat, Arebyte Gallery, London, England, curated by GoingAway.TV

2020 Daily Rush Season 3, Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit

2019 Games for Windows, Rochester Biennial, Rochester, NY

2019 Longing/Desire, Expose Art House, Montgomery, AL

2019 Friction, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH

2019 Beyond the Door, commissioned by Daata Editions, curated by Bob Bicknell-Knight

2019 The Edge of Reason, Phillips Auction House, New York, New York

2018 Pixel, Granite City Art and Design District, Granite City, IL, curated by PWMD

2018 La Croix™ Digital Oasis, Chromatic Festival, Montreal, QC, curated by Art Contemporary Club

2018 Visual Basic, Current Space, Baltimore, MD

2018 Midwest Markdowns, Wave Pool Gallery, Cincinnati, OH, curated by SUBSTUDIO

2018 Resonant Flesh, Space Heater Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2017 Life 2.0, isthisit? Pavilion, The Wrong Biennial

2017 out_of_body, isthisit?, curated by Drive-Thru Curatorial Collective

2017 Void 0, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH

2017 Sketch Organs, DEMO Project, Springfield, IL

2016 Back to the Future Part II, M.I.N.T. Collective, Columbus, OH

2016 New(er) Age, Studio 14, Bloomfield Hills, MI

GRANTS/AWARDS/RECOGNITION

2021 Ohio Arts Council Individual Excellence Award

2020 The Mohawk Show, Judge’s Choice Award

2019 Milan Machinima Festival People’s Choice Award Nominee

2019 Foundwork Artist Prize Finalist

2018 Greater Columbus Arts Council Resource Grant

2016 Peter MacKendrick Endowment Fund for Visual Artists

2016 Cranbrook Art Museum Committee Acquisition Prize

2016 Mercedes Benz Emerging Artist Award Nominee

2016 Warren and Margot Coville Scholarship

2014 Jerome Family Scholarship

LECTURES & ARTIST TALKS

2022 Playwriting for the Digital Space, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, NY

2021 Generating Community and Thought With Gaming Avatars, Killscreen Artist Lecture

2021 Visiting Artist Lecture, Cleveland Institute of Art, Cleveland, OH

2021 CultureSource Panelist, Watch This Space 2021, Detroit, MI

2021 Episode 3, Future Host Podcast, commissioned by Macalline Art Center

2021 Wheaton Biennial Artist Panel, Wheaton College, Norton, MA

2019 Friction Artist Talk, Hopkins Hall Gallery, Columbus, OH

2018 New Realisms: the media age aesthetic, Artist Panel, Chromatic Festival, Montreal, QC

2017 Void 0 Artist Talk and Q&A, Skylab Gallery, Columbus, OH

2017 ROY G BIV Gallery Artist Talk, Columbus, OH

2016 Merit Scholar Artist Lecture, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI

2016 Baby Peach Presents: The Culture of New Intimacy and the Internet, Society of Photographic Education National Conference, Las Vegas, NV

SCREENINGS

2022 Go Short International Short Film Festival, Nijmegen, The Netherlands

2021 Meet Me Here, GIRAF Animation Festival, Calgary, AB, Canada, curated by 24memespersecond

2021 VRAL, Milan Machinima Festival, Milan, Italy

2019 FILE ANIMA+ exhibition, FILE - Electronic Language International Festival, São Paulo, Brazil

2019 Uncanny, Milan Machinima Festival, Milan, Italy

2017 Stairs to Cinema, Screening, Nad Bogom Artist Residency, Vinnitsa, Ukraine

2017 Frame/s, Detroit Center for Contemporary Photography, Detroit, MI

2017 Wayshrines, Projection Room, The Unstitute

2016 Rubicon Cinema, Blue Sky Studio, Akron, OH

2016 Ohio Shorts, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, OH

BIBLIOGRAPHY

2021 Welcome to my Desert Nexus, Bulk Space, Detroit, MI

2020 Footnotes for The Pitbull’s Garden, No Place Gallery and GMO Gallery virtual exhibition

2019 RPG Gothic, New Archive Publishing

2017 Crystal Magic Weapon and other essays, Open Space, Baltimore, MD

2017 Is This It? Magazine, Issue 3

2017 Refigural Magazine, Issue 12, “Void 0”

2017 Forever?/Unfurnished/Sketch Organs, artist book arranged by Erin Hayden

2017 Refigural Issues 1-10 Abridged, “Baby Peach Crushes”

2017 Refigural Magazine, Issue 10, “Keep Calm And Your Text”

2016 Refigural Magazine, Issue 8, “Wayshrines”

2015 Refigural Magazine, Issue 5, “An Evening with Baby Peach”

2015 Refigural Magazine, Issue 3, “Baby Peach Crushes”

2014 Refigural Magazine, Issue 1, “Forms”