K'era Morgan Bio

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 that translates her artwork into woven, knitted, and printed designs in collaboration with artisans in the U.S., Mexico, and the U.K. The collection garnered wide recognition in the design world, 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.