Kara Springer is particularly concerned with armature—the underlying structure that holds the flesh of a body in place. She works with photography, sculpture, and site-specific interventions to explore systems of structural support through engagement with architecture, urban infrastructure, and systems of institutional and political power. Springer holds degrees from the University of Toronto, ENSCI les Ateliers in Paris, and Temple University in Philadelphia. Her work has been exhibited at the Philadelphia Institute of Contemporary Art, Artists Space New York, TENT Rotterdam, the Frankfurt Museum of Applied Arts, the National Gallery of the Bahamas, and the National Gallery of Jamaica. She is an alum of the Independent Study Program at the Whitney Museum of American Art and currently holds a fellowship with the Museum of Fine Arts Houston Core Program.
The Earth & All Its Inhabitants (detail), commissioned by Small Axe, 2019