{{short description|American artist}} '''Adonna Khare''' (born {{Circa|1980}})<ref name="Boehm" /> is an American artist from Burbank, California<ref name="Kaczmarczyk">{{cite web|url=http://www.mlive.com/artprize/index.ssf/2013/09/artprize_2012_200000_prize_winner_adonna_khare_artprize_has_changed_my_life.html|title=ArtPrize 2012 $200,000 winner Adonna Khare: ArtPrize has changed my life|last=Kaczmarczyk|first=Jeffrey|date=September 11, 2013|work=MLive|accessdate=1 March 2014}}</ref> mainly focused on large-scale pencil drawings. She received her Masters of Fine Art from California State University, Long Beach.<ref name="Boehm">{{cite web|url=https://www.latimes.com/entertainment/arts/la-xpm-2012-oct-08-la-et-cm-adonna-khare-wins-200000-artprize-20121007-story.html|title=Unheralded Burbank artist wins $200,000 in populist ArtPrize show|last=Boehm|first=Mike|date=October 8, 2012|work=Los Angeles Times|access-date=1 March 2014}}</ref> Her work has been collected by prestigious public and private collections throughout the world. In 2012 she won the world’s largest art competition ArtPrize,<ref name="Rao">{{cite web|url=http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/09/adonna-khare-art-prize_n_1950922.html|title=Adonna Khare, Stay-At-Home Mom, Wins $200,000 Art Prize For 'Elephant'|last=Rao|first=Mallika|work=The Huffington Post|date=October 9, 2012 |accessdate=1 March 2014}}</ref> competing against over 1500 artists from all around the world.
She has been featured by ''Los Angeles Times'', NPR, ''The Huffington Post'', ''Daily Mail'', ''Juxtapoz'',<ref>{{cite web|url=http://www.juxtapoz.com/current/amazing-pencil-works-by-adonna-khare|title=Amazing Pencil Works by Adonna Khare|date=November 25, 2013|work=Juxtapoz|accessdate=1 March 2014}}</ref> Mashable, My Modern Metropolis, Saatchi Gallery.
==Career== *2014 State of the Art: Crystal Bridges Museum *2014 38th Annual Salon National des Artiste Animaliers *2014 Face to Face: Yellowstone Art Museum *2015 Natural World: Adonna Khare and Jon Ng: Fullerton College *2015 EMS Nude Survey 1: Jamie Brooks Fine Art: Costa Mesa, CA *2015 Bunnymania: ChunKing Studios, Los Angeles *2015 Menagerie at the Grand Rapids Art Museum *2015 Teton ArtLab - Artist In Residency *2016 Adonna Khare: The Kingdom: Boise Art Museum<ref>{{cite web | url=http://www.boiseartmuseum.org/exhibition/adonna-khare/ | title=Adonna Khare: The Kingdom }}</ref> *2016 State of the Art, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis *2016 Natural Causes, CASS Contemporary Art Gallery, Tampa Florida *2016 A Fine Line, Paul Mahder Gallery, Healdsberg, CA *2016 Off the Page, Mesa Arts Center, Mesa, AZ
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== External links == <!-- Per WP:ELMINOFFICIAL, choose one official website only --> *{{official website|http://www.adonnak.com/}}
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