EDUCATION

2015
MPS, School of Visual Arts, New York

2009
BBA Marketing and Communications, Les Roches Switzerland

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2023
Valley of Unity, Open Source, Brooklyn, NY
Pulp Friction, testsite, Austin, TX

2022
Bound Between Cliffs, Circle Gallery, Nairobi, Kenya

2019
PAPERwork, STRONGROOM, Newburg, NY
Fibers of Being, LKB Gallery, Hamburg, Germany

2018
Paper Planes, Sotheby’s Institute, New York, NY

2017
PAPER:work, Pioneer Works, Brooklyn, New York

2016
Value, Brooklyn College Library, Brooklyn, New York
Jua Kali, United Photo Industries, Brooklyn, New York 

2014
Untitled, Art Cabinet, Nairobi, Kenya
Jua Kali, Kuona Trust Arts Centre, Nairobi, Kenya
Value, Kuona Trust Arts Centre, Nairobi, Kenya

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS AND FAIRS

2024
Erratic Behaviour, Kitchener Waterloo Art Gallery, Kitchener, Canada
INVOCATIONS, Circle Art, Nairobi, Kenya

2023
Eastern Voices, Addis Fine Art, London
Invitations to Tremble, Management, NY

2022
The Armory Show, Presents Section, NY 
Water Scarcity: Perpetual Thirst, Wave Hill, NY

2021
East African Encounters, Cromwell Place, Circle Galley, London
Collaborative Survival, Ecologies of Encounter, 601Artspace, NY
PPE, LeRoy Neiman Center for Print Studies Gallery at Columbia University, NY
Heimaten, Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg, Germany
Omniscient: Queer Documentation in an Image Culture, Leslie-Lohman Museum of Art, NY

2020
UNTITLED ART FAIR MIAMI, Online, Bode Projects
Second Careers, Cleveland Museum of Art, Cleveland, OH
Black Microcosm, CFHill Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden
Art Dubai – Presentation in Nairobi, Circle Art, Nairobi, Kenya
UNTITLED ART FAIR, San Fransisco, CA

2019
Düsseldorf Art Fair, Germany
Paper Boarders, IPCNY, New York, NY (2 Person)
No More Water, The Old Stone House, Brooklyn, NY (2 Person)
OPEN CALL, The Shed, New York, NY
PLAN B, Alaina Simon Inc., David Zwiner, New York, NY

2018
PRIZM art fair, Alaina Simone Inc, Miami, FL
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Blanton Museum, TX
Tracing Obsolescence, Apexart, New York, NY
CODE art fair, LKB Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark
Factors of Production, Rachel Uffner, New York, NY (2 Person)
Making Africa: A Continent of Contemporary Design, Albuquerque Museum, NM
New Threads, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi, Kenya
Immigrant Artists and the American West, Tacoma Art Museum, WA

2017
UPROOT, Smack Melon, Brooklyn, NY
How We Come and How We Go, Trestle Projects, Brooklyn, NY
Making Africa, High Museum of Art, Atlanta, Georgia 
Brassage Photographique, Villers-la-Ville, Belgium
My Collection, MoCADA, Brooklyn, New York
Biennial Fotografica Bogota 2017, Bogota, Colombia
Figure 8, Foley Gallery, New York, NY

2016
In Dialog II Photobastei, Zurich, Switzerland
Making Africa, at Kunsthal Rotterdam, Netherlands
Frontiers of The Present Exhibition, Circle Art Agency, Nairobi Kenya
Africa Reframed, Copenhagen, Denmark
GALERIA OLIDO for Afreaka Festival, São Paulo, Brazil
Making Africa, CCCB, Barcelona, Spain

2015
FUSE, SVA Gallery, New York, New York
Making Africa, at Guggenheim, Bilbao, Spain
OBSCURA Festival, George Town, Malaysia
Rencontres Internationales de la Photo de Fès, Fès, Morroco
LagosPhoto Festival, Lagos, Nigeria
IFCV Festival International de Fotografia, Mindelo, Cape Verde
Image Afrique ’15, in ArtBasel, Theaterplatz, Basel
Rencontres Internationales de la Photographie, Ghar el Melh, Tunisia
Edition POPCAP, at Artificial Image, Berlin
Making Africa, at Vitra Design Museum, Weil Am Rhein, Germany

AWARDS/GRANTS/RESIDENCIES

2021
Montello Foundation residence Nevada

2020
BRIClab with ThoughtThought.us Collective
Watermill Center Residency

2019
Key Holder Resident at Lower East Side Printshop
Pollock-Krasner Artist Grant 2019 2020

2018
OPEN CALL The Shed Commission
Triangle Artist Residency

2017
Forbes 30 Under 30 Arts & Style
Pioneer Works Visual Artist Residency
Trestle Gallery Visiting Visual Artist Residency

2016
MacDowell Colony Visual Artist Residency
BRIC visual artist in residency summer 2016

2015
IPA International Photography Awards Honorable Mention Professional Fine Art Collage
International Contemporary African Photography awards: POPCAP’ 2015 /Jua Kali
Candidate at The New York Times Portfolio Review
Editor’s Choice Selection for GuatePhoto 2015 /Displaced

2014
Kuona Trust Conceptual Exhibit Grant for Jua Kali,

SPEAKING ENGAGEMENTS

2021
FORUM Presents: Tahir Carl Karmali Artist Talk, CSU East Bay
Fashion, Culture, Futures Symposium, Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

2020
Artist Talk: STRATA and Kuba Cloth, UNC

2019
Tahir Carl Karmali in conversation with Jesse Bandler Firestone, Harvard Graduate School of Design

2018
Decentralizing Art: The Hype and Hope of Blockchain, Foley Gallery
UNGA African Identities Across the Arts: Second Generations, Africa House
Rachel Uffner, High Tea: A Discussion with Tahir Carl Karmali and Cullen Washington, Jr.,

2017
NY Photo Salon, Artist Talk
McGill University, Panel, Not African Enough?: In conversation with African Diaspora Youth,

2016
Brooklyn College, Panel,- ‘Artist Identity in Contemporary African Art,’
Yale, SOM, Panel, African Art Design and Entrepreneurship,

2015
Salone Del Mobile Vitra Design MuseumThe Global Shift: Who shapes the future of design?,

TEACHING AND WORKSHOPS

2019-2024
Professor at CUNY Brooklyn College, NY (Three-Dimensional Design and Form Studies)

2019
Columbia University, Intro to Architecture Studio Design Critique 

2018
Apexart, Clay and Fiber sculpture workshop
Columbia University, Intro to Architecture Studio Design Critique 
Pioneer Works, Recipe Exchange Roundtables (3 Parts)
Triangle Art Association, Clay and Fiber sculpture workshop

2017
Youtube SF, Photo weaving public engagement with Miguel Arzabe
School of Visual Arts, Professional Artist Grant and Residency Applications
Trestle Gallery, Artist critique Sessions

2014
Kuona Trust, Introduction to Photography