Khara Oxier-Mori 

Idaho, USA (b. 1979)

Bachelor of Arts, Anthropology, BSU (2005-2016)

United States Marine Corps (2001-2005)

Khara Oxier-Mori is an artist recognized for her paintings and sculptures of the body as a dynamic system. Her work explores themes of power, violence, autonomy, epigenetics, mystery, and survival. These themes are combined with various physical, moral, and social restraints or liberations. Khara’s painted works depict dark, ethereal environments shrouded in mystery with life-size fleshy bodies that are represented open, incentivizing the viewer to simultaneously consider internal and external environments. This opens up questions about how outside factors influence the body and where the body ends and begins.

“I am fascinated with bodily and psychological perseverance. I communicate this through marks of deconstruction and reconstruction. The repeated action of opening and closing the body using surgical-like stitching procedures, combined with vegetation as medium and medicine invokes aspects of birth, growth, decay, death, and resurrection. Correlating an open body to the life cycle of plants, for me, is related to epigenetics and the possibility of repatterning our brains and bodies."

Curriculum Vitae

Exhibitions

2025  One Night in March (no. 2) Group Show, Mudai Gallery, Boise, Idaho, Opening reception, March 13, 7:00 PM

2025  Conversations, Group Show, Georges Bergès Gallery, Manhattan, NYC (SoHo),Thursday March 6, 6:00 PM

2023  Outside Art Comes Home: Selections from the Ioema Collection, The Tissue Farm, Confluence, PA June - July

2022  Sinopia, Solo show, Georges Bergès Gallery, NYC, USA, October 13

2022  Museo Tamayo presenta Arte Vivo, Ciudad De México

2021  Scarlet Women Project, Atelier de Melusine, France

2021  MAIA Contemporary presenta Arte Vivo, Ciudad De México

2020  Museo Jumex presenta Arte Vivo, Ciudad De México

2020  Virtual Open Studio with the James Castle House and Khara Oxier-Mori

2020  Georges Bergès Gallery, Winter Group Show, Manhattan, NYC (SoHo)

2019  Solo show, "Osmosis", Boise State University. Speaker series and exhibition, Fine Arts Gallery 

2019  LaBry Fine Art, Opening reception, January 17

2018  World Center for Birds of Prey. Nocturne. September, Boise, Idaho

2018  LaBry Fine Art, Group Show Benefit. Boise, Idaho

2017  LaBry Fine Art, Holiday group show. December, Boise, Idaho

2017  Solo show, LaBry Fine Art, September - November. Boise, Idaho

2017  The Atlanta School, Post Atlanta School Show, July 28th, Atlanta, Idaho

2016  Galleri Oxholm, Christmas Group Exhibition, (Frederiksberg), Denmark, opening December 10th

2016  Galleri Oxholm, 3 person group show, (Frederiksberg), Denmark, October 8th - October 30th 

2016  Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen (København), Denmark

2015  Khara Oxier Art Exposition, Metro Gallery, Iida, Japan メトロギャラリー飯田 Metro Gallery IIDA 長野県飯田市知久町 2-1

2015  "The Filthy Few", December group exhibition, Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen (København), Denmark

2015  Solo show, "Decultivated" Opening date, Nov. 7, Galleri Oxholm, Copenhagen (København), Denmark

2015  Two-person exhibition, La Bottega Dell’ Acquaforte, Laguna Beach, CA

2014  Two-person exhibition, “Half-Light”, Portland OR

2014  Art in the Bar, Boise, ID

2014  Eagle Arts Festival, Eagle, ID

2013  Art in the Bar, Boise, ID

2012  Art in the Bar, Boise, ID

International Art Fairs

2017  Rotterdam Contemporary Art Fair, World Trade Center Rotterdam, Rotterdam, Netherlands

2016  Edinburgh Art Fair, Edinburgh Corn Exchange, United Kingdom

2016  Art Copenhagen, København, Denmark

Residencies

2020  James Castle House, Boise Idaho, TBA

Honors and Awards

2020 James Castle House Artist-in-Residence, Boise Department of Arts and History, Boise, ID 

Discourse

2022  Final Taboos, Fleshy Bodies and New Boundaries, Scarlet Women In Dialogue

2019  "Osmosis" Artist talk, Boise State University. Speaker series and exhibition

2019  Arts Entrepreneurship, Guest Speaker, Boise State University 

Media

2023  Artist Khara Oxier-Mori: Beyond Her Own Private Idaho, By George Wayne, Park Magazine NY 

2019  New Sub Art Exhibit Explores Life and Consciousness, The Arbiter, Boise State University

2015  Boise Weekly cover artist, Volume 22 / Issue 22, USA

2015  Lathouses: Psicoanálisis, Arte y Humanidades, Mexico. Máscaras De La Locura Tercer Número Febrero 

2013  Boise Weekly cover artist, Volume 22 / Issue 23, USA

2013  The Stray Branch, Volume 5 / Issue 8, USA​

Collections

Ioema Collection, PA, USA

Private Collections

Canada

Denmark

Finland

France

Germany

Guatemala

Ireland

Italy

Japan

Mexico

Netherlands

Puerto Rico

Switzerland

United States of America