Mira Kamada is a contemporary painter living in Bellingham, WA. Her current oil and acrylic paintings explore abstract forms drawn from nature. Kamada’s fascination with painting started early when she began to study traditional oil painting. Growing up in New Jersey she also frequented art museums and galleries in Manhattan. The landmark exhibition, “New York Painting and Sculpture: 1940-1970” at the Met, featuring the Abstract Expressionists, was a pivotal event in her artistic awakening.

 

While completing graduate studies in painting under June Kilgore at Marshall University, Kamada taught art in West Virginia. On a break from teaching she moved to California finding work as a graphic artist for a small book publisher, and a daily newspaper. In 1994 she opened a graphic design studio in Monterey, balancing a busy design studio with painting. In 2004 she moved to the Pacific Northwest to focus on fine art.

 

Kamada’s work has been exhibited across the US and in British Columbia. Her paintings are in both private and public collections, and have appeared in films.

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SELECTED JURIED and INVITATIONAL EXHIBITIONS

Matzke Fine Art Gallery, Camano Island, WA, 2022

Women Painters of Washington, Dreamscapes, Seattle, 2021

WPW, Small Packages, Seattle, 2021

WPW, Reflections, Seattle, 2021

WPW, Critters and Creatures, Seattle, 2021

Wenatchee Museum, WPW, 2020

Museum of Northwest Art, Auction, WA, 2016, 2018, 2019

Art in Bloom, Anacortes, WA 2015, 2016

Allied Arts, Bellingham, WA 2014

Scott Milo Gallery, Anacortes, WA 2011, 2012, 2014

CoCa Collision, Seattle, WA 2013

ArtsWest, Seattle, WA 2013

Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 2013

Anacortes Arts Festival, Anacortes, WA 2012

Washington State Convention Center, WA 2012

Whatcom Museum, Bellingham, WA 2011
Edmonds Arts Festival, Edmonds, WA 2009, 2010
Poncho Art Auction, Seattle, WA 2009
The Feminine Myth, ArtsWest, Seattle, WA 2009
Collective Visions Gallery, Bremerton, WA 2009
Federation Gallery, Vancouver, BC 2006

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