Adonna Khare is an American Artist mainly focused on carbon pencil on paper drawings. She received her Masters of Fine Art from California State University Long Beach. Her work has been collected by prestigious public and private collections throughout the world. In 2012 she won the world’s largest art competition ArtPrize, competing against over 1500 artists from all around the world.
She has been featured in the Los Angeles Time, NPR, The Huffington Post, Daily Mail, Juxtapoz Magazine, Mashable, My Modern Metropolis, Saatchi Gallery as well as thousands of blogs, Facebook, Pinterest and Instagram pages.
She has had group and solo shows throughout the country. Long Beach Art Museum, City of Carlsbad Art Gallery, Nassau County Art Museum, Yellowstone Art Museum, Grand Rapids Art Museum and Crystal Bridges.
B.A. in Art from California State University Long Beach
M.F.A in Art from CSULB
Permanent collection of the Long Beach Museum of Art, Grand Rapids Art Museum, Crystal Bridges Art Museum as well as numerous private collections throughout the world. Member of The Drawing Center New York.
2019
March 10th – May 19th
The Imaginary – Carnegie Art Museum – Oxnard, CA
2018
City of Carlsbad Public Library – Public Installation – Permanent Display
July 15th – August 19th
Bear Area Artists – SullivanGoss Gallery – Santa Barbara
June 8th – September 9th
Four Footed & Fanciful – Ormond Memorial Art Museum, Ormond Beach, FL
2017
November 9th – December 6th
Adonna Khare – Visions West Gallery, Denver, CO
September 9th – October 8th
Adonna Khare – AO5 Gallery, Austin, TX
September – Ongoing
GRAM Opening – Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
June 23 – October 30th
Animal Meet Human – Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art
May 26 – September 10th
State of the Art – Frist Center for the Arts – Nashville, TN
May 6th – June 23rd
National Contemporary Realism Show – MA Doran Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2016
November 17th – December 17th
Adonna Khare – Hollis Taggart Gallery, Chelsea New York, NY
October 22nd – December 3rd
Adonna Khare: Between the Lines – Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
September 9th – January 22 2017
Off the Page, Mesa Contemporary Arts Museum, Mesa AZ
June 25th – August 21st
A Fine Line, Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsberg, CA
April 22 – May 26
Natural Causes, Cass Contemporary Gallery, Tampa FL
February 18 – May 29
State of the Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN
February 6th – May 29th
Adonna Khare: Kingdom, Boise Art Museum Boise, ID
2015
October 2nd – November 30th
Adonna Khare: Playing with Matches at Visions West Gallery, Denver, CO
September 26th
Brand 43: Works on Paper Glendale, CA
June 11th
Never Say No, Galerie Wolfsen Denmark
May 16th
Menagerie at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids, MI
April 4th – 18th
Bunnymania at Chunking Studios, Los Angeles, CA
April 3rd
EMS Nude Survey 1 at Jamie Brooks Fine Art, Costa Mesa, CA
January 29th – February 18th 2015
The Natural World at Fullerton Art College, Fullerton, CA
2014
November 15th – December 14th 2014
38th Annual Salon National Des Artistes Animaliers Paris, France
September 13th – January 19th 2015
State Of the Art at the Crystal Bridges Museum, Bentonville AR
September 13th – November 30th 2014
ELEPHANT: FORGET ME NOT at The National Museum for Animals & Society Los Angeles, CA
March 20th – August 24th 2014
Face to Face at the Yellowstone Art Museum, Billings MT
March 8th 2014
Assembly-Line Collective 10 Year Anniversary at the Think Tank Gallery
February 25 – Thursday March 27 2014
Storytellers at the Earl & Virginia Green Art Gallery, Biola University
2013
June 8th 2013 – July 20th 2013
In the Clouds at the Lora Schlesinger Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica, CA
2012
September 17th – October 7th 2012
ArtPrize Entry “Elephants” at the Grand Rapids Art Museum, Grand Rapids Michigan – Winner of 2012 ArtPrize
August 4th – September 1st 2012
Summer Group Show at the Lora Schlesinger Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2011
May 7th – June 18th 2011
Menagerie at the Lora Schlesinger Gallery at Bergamot Station, Santa Monica
2010
September 12th – November 7th 2010
The World of Adonna Khare: Beasts, Backpacks and Curious Creatures
2009
December 5th 2009 – January 2nd 2010
Animal Attractions at PS Zask Art Gallery
November 21st 2009 – December 31st 2009
The Toy Show II at the Lora Schlesinger Gallery
October 16th 2009 – Feburary 14th 2010
Sweet Subversives at The Long Beach Museum of Art
June 13th 2009
Artists Reception June 13th from 5-7 PM
Draw the Line at the Lora Schlesinger Gallery
February 12th through April 19, 2009
Artists Reception February 15th from 2-5PM
WHIM-WHAM-at the Los Angeles Municpal Art Gallery
2008
April 5th, 2008
By A Thread, Lora Schlesinger Gallery, Bergamont Station Santa Monica, CA
2007
Saturday November 3rd
The Toy Show, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery, Bergamont Station Santa Monica, CA
Saturday June 16th 5:00PM
Luck of the Draw, Hunsaker/Schlesinger Gallery Santa Monica, CA
May 26 through August 12
Surrealism Today Nassau County Museum, Nassau County New York
“Raised in a small town in Iowa, I’ve been drawing my family and animals since I was three. I create using the pencil, the eraser and a sock as my tools. The drawings are not pre-planned rather they evolve through my experiences with people and the absurdities of life. The result is a group of drawings where the animals coexist in a world beyond ours, and are inexplicably tied together, often not by choice.” The animals, she explains, are sometimes stand-ins for us. A lot of her work deals with the absurdities in life. Juxtaposing predator and prey conveys a change of context, it brings the viewers in to really think about their understanding of not only the animals but those that are around them.