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Kaari Upson, Night Splitter

Kaari UpsonNight Splitter, 2019

HD film, color, with sound

15:49 min

About the artist

(San Bernardino, 1972 – New York, 2021) was an American artist based in Los Angeles. Her practice encompassed drawing, painting, sculpture, and video. Deeply rooted in personal experience, her work explored physical and psychological trauma, the uncanny, domestic life, and the blurred boundaries between fiction and memory. Her solo exhibitions include: Kaari Upson , Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2025); Kaari Upson: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection , Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Never Enough , Deste Foundation, Athens (2022); Clay Baby , Pièce Unique, Paris (2021); Go Back the Way You Came , Kunsthalle Basel (2019); Good Thing You Are Not Alone , New Museum, New York (2017); The Los Angeles Project , UCCA, Beijing (2014); One On One , SITE Santa Fe, California (2010); Hammer Projects , UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2007); The Larry Project, Chapter 2: The Honeymoon Period , D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts (2007).

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