Kara Inez (b. 1991, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia)  a multidisciplinary artist who touches on a broad range of topics and political issues through her visceral works that interrogate the social constructs that shape and govern our respective realities. Inez transforms discomfort into confrontation through the incorporation of unconventional materials such as silicone and charged found objects. Inez is known for embracing the abject as a feminist aesthetic across diverse medi to address the absent narratives of women while paying homage to the corporeal female body to provoke a necessary feminist discourse.

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 Kara Inez is currently based in Melbourne, Australia where she completed a Master in Fine Arts at RMIT and was awarded the Nearly Mary Oliphant Prize. She graduated with a First Class Honours for her Bachelor’s in Fine Arts from Lasalle College of the Arts, Singapore in 2019 and was the recipient of The Winston Oh Travelogue Award (2019), which enabled her to venture to Tirupati, South India, to carry out research on the hair trade which translated into an exhibition at the Singapore Institute of Contemporary Art. She was formally  Gallery Executive focusing on sales and business development at Cuturi Gallery, Singapore.

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Her works have been exhibited locally and internationally in art fairs and exhibition spaces such as the Institute of Contemporary Arts Singapore, S.E.A. Focus Art Fair (Singapore), FORTHEART:forty five downstairs (Melbourne), The Singapore Art Science Museum, OBLAK Performances (India), Art Expo Malaysia (Kuala Lumpur), Gajah Gallery (Singapore), The Humid House, (Paris), and nATTA (Bangkok)) Gallery, to name a few. (M)othered Meat (2023) is her first solo exhibition which took place at The Backroom KL (Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia).