From 1990-2004, Kara Hammond lived and worked as an artist in Brooklyn NY, showing with various galleries and museums, as well as working as an installation technician, installing fine art master works in prominent museums. She has had eight solo exhibitions since 1997 and has been included in a number of national and international exhibitions.

She has been a recipient of two Pollock-Krasner grants, and has been awarded several residencies, including the World Views Program at the World Trade Center in 2001, The Ucross Foundation, The Santa Fe Art Institute in 2002, and the MacDowell Colony in 2004.

Ms. Hammond has lectured as a visiting artist/teacher in various institutions across the country, including the American University, Montana State University, University of Minnesota Twin Cities, the Ringling School of Art + Design, and the Savannah College of Art + Design. She has occasionally lectured on issues of art and technology at the International Conference on the History of Technology, in Manchester, Barcelona, and Leicester.

For three years, Ms. Hammond taught as an Assistant Professor of Drawing at the College of Charleston, Charleston, SC where she helped revive the drawing curriculum. She is currently teaching drawing and design at University of North Carolina School of the Arts.

From 2014 – 2019, Ms. Hammond was a lease-holding member of the Torpedo Factory Art Center in Alexandria VA, where she received an Alexandria, V.A. “Art in Public Spaces” project grant for the mural project “Dredging the Lethe”, in 2018.

A native of North Carolina, Ms. Hammond graduated Magna Cum Laude with a BFA from East Carolina University in 1985 and acquired her MFA at Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia in 1989.

She currently works from her studio in the Arts District in downtown Winston-Salem, NC, where she hosts a weekly salon for local artists, and runs the 24/7 storefront gallery, Vitrine.