Kaari Upson (San Bernardino, 1972 – New York, 2021) è stata un’artista americana con base a Los Angeles. La sua pratica ha spaziato tra disegno, pittura, scultura e video. Profondamente radicato nell’esperienza personale, il suo lavoro ha esplorato il trauma fisico e psicologico, l’inquietante, la vita domestica e le linee sfocate tra finzione e memoria. Le sue mostre personali includono: Kaari Upson, Louisiana Museum of Modern Art (2025); Kaari Upson: Selections from the Hammer Contemporary Collection, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2023); Never Enough, Deste Foundation, Atene (2022); Clay Baby, Pièce Unique, Parigi (2021); Go Back the Way You Came, Kunsthalle Basel (2019); Good Thing You Are Not Alone, New Museum, New York (2017); The Los Angeles Project, UCCA, Pechino (2014); One On One, SITE Santa Fe, California (2010); Hammer Projects, UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2007); The Larry Project, Chapter 2: The Honeymoon Period, D301 Gallery, California Institute of the Arts (2007).

Le sue opere sono state incluse anche in numerose mostre collettive, tra cui: Medardo Rosso. Inventing Modern Sculpture, Kunstmuseum Basel (2025); For Dear Life: Art, Medicine, and Disability, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (2024); She Said, She Said: Contemporary Artists from the Rubell Museum, Arlington Museum of Art (2024); Day for Night: New American Realism, Palazzo Barberini, Roma (2024); If not now, when?, Museum Beelden aan Zee, Den Haag (2024); Weight of Mind, Hessel Museum of Art, Bard College (2024); Transmissions: Selections from the Marciano Collection, Marciano Art Foundation, Los Angeles (2024); Hollow Earth: Art, Caves & The Subterranean Imaginary, The Lewis Glucksman Gallery (2023); Your Home Is Where You’re Happy, Haus Mödrath (2023); Chrysalis: The Butterfly Dream, Centre d’Art Contemporain, Ginevra (2023); Inaugural Exhibition, Season One, Start Museum, Shanghai (2023); Venice Biennial, Venezia (2022, 2019); Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2017); Full Moon, Museum Voorlinden, Wassenaar (2016); Sleepless: The Bed in History and Contemporary Art, 21er Haus, Vienna (2015); Second Chances, Aspen Art Museum (2015); Procession, CAPC Musée d’art Contemporain, Bordeaux (2014); Inner Journeys, Maison Particulière Art Centre, Bruxelles (2013); Test Pattern, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2013); The Residue of Memory, Aspen Art Museum (2012); American Exuberance, Rubell Family Collection, Miami (2011); George Herms: Xenophilia (Love of the Unknown), MOCA Pacific Design Center, Los Angeles (2011); Involuntary, Ford Project, New York (2011); Nine Lives, a cura di Ali Subotnick, Hammer Museum, California (2009); Sack of Bones, a cura di Ellen Langan e Blair Taylor, Peres Projects, Los Angeles (2008).