Kara Hammond - BIO

A North Carolina native, Kara Hammond received her undergraduate degree in Painting from East Carolina University in 1985.  In 1987, she studied painting in Rome through the Tyler School of Art graduate program, Philadelphia, PA and went on to receive her Master’s Degree in 1989.

Since August of 2004, she has been an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the College of Charleston and continues to exhibit her work across the country. Hammond has lectured as a visiting artist/teacher at the Ringling School of Art and Design in Sarasota, FL, the North Carolina School of the Arts in Winston-Salem, NC, the American University in Washington, DC, The North Carolina Museum of Art and the Savannah College of Art and Design in Savannah, GA.

From 1990 to 2004, Kara Hammond lived and worked in Willamsburg, Brooklyn exhibiting frequently in New York.  She has also been included in several international exhibitions in London, Amsterdam, Paris and Bogota in addition to numerous exhibitions in galleries, museums and art fairs throughout the United States.

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