ANANDA KARABO

Visual Artist | Neo-Expressionist Painter

Los Angeles, California, USA | anandakarabo@gmail.com | www.anandakarabo.com

ARTIST STATEMENT

I create Neo-Expressionist paintings that explore the shifting relationships between identity, perception, memory, and the body. Through fragmented figures, symbolic forms, saturated color, and gestural mark-making, I translate invisible psychological and neurological experiences into emotionally charged visual narratives.

My practice was profoundly shaped by my diagnosis with multiple sclerosis in 2019, while extending beyond illness to examine transformation, vulnerability, resilience, human connection, and the ways identity is reconstructed following life-altering experiences. Working intuitively, I build layered surfaces in which abstraction and figuration coexist, allowing meaning to emerge through gesture, texture, color, interruption, and revision.

Rather than offering fixed narratives, my paintings create spaces of uncertainty and reflection, making visible experiences that often resist language and exploring what remains of the self through periods of change.

SELECTED RECOGNITION

2026 | Front Cover Artist — Novum Artis Magazine, Issue 016, featuring “LOVE ???”

SELECTED PUBLICATIONS & PRESS

2027 | Pennsylvania Journal of Arts & Science — Sophie Kadan | Winter 2027

2027 | Kitchen Table Quarterly — Hannah Matzecki | Winter 2027

2026 | Novum Artis Magazine, Issue 016 — Front Cover Artist, “LOVE ???” | November 2026

2026 | 13th Annual Abstract Sanctuary — Jen Cutshall | March 2026

2026 | Pigeon Magazine — Artist Feature, Chris Wojcicki | February 2026

2026 | Novum Artis Magazine, Issue 012 — Pat Flanagan | January 2026

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2026–Present | Neural Landscapes: Living with MS — Harbor Community Health Center | San Pedro, CA

2024–Present | Marilyn Hilton MS Achievement Center at UCLA | Los Angeles, CA

SELECTED EXHIBITIONS

2026 | The Good Stuff — Not Shockboxx, Artsy.net | Online | Forthcoming

2026 | Art for the View — Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital, Viewpoint Gallery | Schenectady, NY | Nov–Dec

2026 | HOPE — The Studio Door | San Diego, CA | Sep–Nov

2026 | Unbound 2: Anything Goes — ACE Gallery | Oceanside, CA | Sep–Oct

2026 | Wild Botanica — Palm Art Gallery | Los Angeles, CA | Sep

2026–2027 | Flowers 4 Peace & Prosperity — Red Bluff Art Gallery | Corning, CA | Aug–Jan

2026 | All That’s Pretty & Green — Las Laguna Art Gallery | Laguna Beach, CA | Aug

2026 | 59th Annual Newport Beach Exhibition | Newport Beach, CA | Aug

2026 | Abstract Sanctuary — Verum Ultimum Art Gallery | Portland, OR | Feb–Mar

2026 | Lottery for the Arts Fundraiser — Blue Line Arts | Roseville, CA | Feb–Mar

2025–2026 | Upcycling Exhibition — Tubac Center of the Arts | Tubac, AZ | Dec–Feb

2025–2026 | The Marketplace — Covet Art Gallery | Online | Dec–Jan

2025–2026 | Year End Extravaganza 2025 — KBM Art Gallery LLC | Online | Dec–Jan

2025 | HMVC Presents 2025 in Times Square — HMVC New York Gallery | New York, NY | Dec

2025–2026 | Fractured Forms — Woodward Contemporary | San Diego, CA | Nov–Jan

2024 | Creating Order — dnj Gallery | Santa Monica, CA | Sep–Dec

ONLINE

Portfolio: www.anandakarabo.com

DeviantArt: www.deviantart.com/anandakarabo

Instagram: www.instagram.com/anandakarabo