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K’era Morgan is a Los Angeles-based mixed media artist whose expressive abstract paintings capture the underlying patterns and energetic forces that shape and connect us.

Working with acrylic, oil stick, pastel, and grease pencil, Morgan layers bold fields of color with dynamic gestural marks and subtle textural variations. Her process moves between planning and intuition, balancing raw expression with an underlying sense of order. While her approach often involves journaling, research, and field studies, the final compositions emerge organically through her active engagement with materials—where accidents and imperfections open up new visual possibilities. 

Morgan approaches painting as a contemplative act and a portal into deeper states of awareness, channeling energy and spirit while evoking our inner emotional and psychological terrain,  and the layered, instinctual qualities of human consciousness. 

Her visual language draws from a range of influences: from natural forms such as cellular structures, spider webs, and aerial landscapes to African textiles, Aboriginal art, and, more recently, scarification practices rooted in her ancestral lineage in Equatorial Guinea. Her work is also in conversation with artists such as Alma Thomas, Sonia Delaunay, and Althea McNish—figures whose practices merge abstraction with textiles, pattern, and the expressive possibilities of color and form.

Morgan earned a BFA in Textile Design from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. This background continues to inform her sensitivity to scale, pattern, and surface, as well as how visual forms engage the body and space. Alongside her studio practice, she founded k-apostrophe, a homeware line translating her artwork into woven, knitted, and printed designs through collaborations with artisans in the U.S., Mexico, and the U.K. The collection received wide recognition, including a cover feature in Dwell Magazine’s Emerging Designers issue. Morgan’s paintings have been exhibited across the United States and are held in private and public collections internationally.

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  • Taylor Fine Art | September 2025 | A Refuge for Being

    Unrepd | November 2024 | Geoglyphs: Notes from the Interior

  • LA Design Weekend | September 2025 | Forms of Living

    Band of Vices | May 2025| I Can See the Sunrise

    Melina Finkelstein  Gallery | March 2025 | Painting on the Floor - 3 California Painters Design Felt Rugs

    Sovern | Los Angeles, CA | February 2025 |  Mapping Resilience & Care - 3 Woman Show

    Collar Works X Opalka Gallery | October 2024 | Painting at Night

    Market Market | March 2024 | Post Modern Palm Springs

    Saatchi Art.com | February 2023 | Piecing it TogetherGroup Show

    Art LeadHer | Silverlake, CA | August 2022 | Art Genesis: The Beginning of LegacyGroup Show

    Mojave Flea Trading Post Gallery | Palms Springs, CA | December 2021 | Solo Show

    Sovern | Los Angeles, CA | November 2021 | Alchemize

    Visionary Projects | Online | September 2021 | Overexposed

    Tiger Bunny Studio | San Francisco - CA | March 2021 | The Great Conjunction Group Show

    ShockBoxx Gallery | Manhattan Beach / Artsy.com | May 2020 | Not An Art Fair Group Show

    Female Design Council x 1st Dibs Women’s History Month Exhibition | March 2019

    Cold Coffee Gallery | Online | April 2020 | Global Pandemic: Works Created in the Reign of Covid 19

    Gallery 825 | West Hollywood - Los Angeles | June 2018 |  Apocrypha group show

    ShockBoxx Gallery | Manhattan Beach | Feb 2018 | Mini Art

  • Start-Up Art Fair in collaboration with Art Share LA Gallery | Los Angeles | February 2020

    The Other Art Fair | Santa Monica - Barker Hangar | Sept 2019

    Start-Up Small Works Art Fair | San Francisco | July 2019

    Craft Contemporary Museum Spring Art Fair | Los Angeles | April 2018

  • Hunker House | Venice California | Installation | Feb 2023

    SpiteHouse | Philadelphia, PA | Installation | June 2022 

    Burke Mercantile | Long Beach | Installation | Nov 2019

    District Wine | Long Beach | Installation | Sept 2019

    Make Collective | Long Beach | Installation | Oct 2019

  • Mother/Founder Book Launch Tour - Panelist | DEISEL, A Bookstore | 2024

    Saatchi Art “Piecing it Together” Panel Discussion on the Art of Assemblage and Collage within the Black Diaspora | February 2023

    The Jane Club | Fireside Chat | Sept 2019

    Newmark Merrill Kids Funzone Collage Workshop | July 2019

    Feminsist Sanctuary Retreat | Intuitive Collage Workshop | October 2018

    Mama Makers Collective x Amiga Wild | Intuitive Collage Workshop | August 2018

  • Revival Rugs Limited Edition “Bop” Rug Collection | Winter 2025

    Designer in Residency, Long Beach City College Professional Jewelry Department | Spring 2024

    Mother/Founder Book Feature | Fall 2024

    Revival Rugs Limited Edition Pillow Cushion Collection | Winter 2023

    Amazon Prime “Cultured Rated” Platform gifting collaboration |  January 2023

    Samsung Frame ArtStore Featured Artist | February 2023

    West Elm X Quiet Town Custom Shower Curtain Design - Benefit Auction for Her Project | March 2021

    Wall for Apricots Limited Edition Wallpaper Collaboration | Spring 2021

    Saatchi Art Black History Month Campaign | February 2021

    SpaRitual Holiday Collection Hand Painted Clutch | Winter 2020

    Revival Rugs Limited Edition Blanket Collection | Winter 2020

    Hers (wellness brand) 2020 Artist Campaign + Featured Artwork | June 2020

    Saatchi Art 100Voices, 100 Artist - Campaign + Featured Catalog Collection | March 2020

  • California College of the Arts | Oakland | 1993 - 1995

    The School of the Art Institute of Chicago | BFA, 1998

  • 2025 Cover Magazine, Business Insider

    2023 People Magazine, Remodelista, Architectural Digest, Hunker House, House Beautiful, Samsung

    2022 Hospitality Design, Ebony, Martha Stewart Living

    2021 Martha Stewart Living, Sight Unseen, Coeterie + Magic Blog, Hunker, Lonny, Remodelist 

    Elle Decor, Dwell, Los Angeles Times, Design Milk, Clever, Hospitality Design , Marie Claire, Sunset Magazine

    2020 Elle Decor, C Magazine, Lonny, Wescover, Clever by Architectural Digest, Los Angeles Times, GQ 

    NY Magazine, Essence Magazine.com, People.com, Making Do Podcast, In Her Studio

    Organic Spa, C Style Magazine, Clever

    2019 Gurl Museum Day, Archinect, Pasadena Magazine, Boutique Homes.com

    2018 California Home & Design, Thrive Global, Forbes.com, Voyage LA, Well + Good, Medium