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Born in 1959 in Los Angeles, California, Kamal Al Mansour graduated from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1981, with a degree in political science. In 1984, Al Mansour graduated from the University of California, Hastings College of the Law in San Francisco with a Juris Doctorate degree. Almost 30 years after he began college as an art major, Al Mansour had his first solo exhibition in 2005 at La Petite Gallery in Los Angeles. Although Al Mansour relocated from Los Angeles to northern California in 2005, his work was featured in group and juried exhibitions in Los Angeles in 2005 and 2006.
In 2007, Al Mansour established himself as a Bay Area artist of note with work on exhibit during the 11th Annual The Art of Living Black (San Pablo Art Gallery, Richmond Art Center & Prescott-Joseph Center), Joyce Gordon Gallery in downtown Oakland (CA), Esteban Sabar Gallery in Oakland, and Stanford University (Palo Alto, CA).
In 2008, Al Mansour exhibited in New Power Generation 2008 at Hampton University Museum (VA), PaperWORKS! at MarinMOCA (Novato, CA), Perfect with Pixel at the Dorothy Uber Bryan Gallery at Bowling Green State University (OH), and New Visions 2008 at Pro Arts Gallery in downtown Oakland.
In the beginning of 2009, Al Mansour opened in Truth and Consequences at NoneSuch Space Gallery in downtown Oakland, marking his second solo exhibition. Truth and Consequences was reviewed in Artweek magazine in April 2009. Later in 2009, Al Mansour exhibited work in the 22nd September Competition at the Alexandria Museum of Art in Louisiana.
At the start of 2010, Al Mansour was in another solo exhibition, Connected, at Tennessee State University’s Hiram Van Gordon Gallery in Nashville, followed by a group exhibition, the XXVI Biennial Exhibition, at the LaGrange Art Museum in Georgia.
Fela (see, Gallery) was on exhibit in the 25th International Juried Show, Silver Anniversary, at the Visual Arts Center of New Jersey (Summit), which opened January 14th 2011. Relevance, Al Mansour’s fourth solo exhibition, opened January 17th at the Bishop Joseph Johnson Black Culture Center at Vanderbilt University (Nashville, Tennessee). On February 6th Al Mansour opened in Made in America: An African American Fine Art Perspective at eVolve the Gallery (Sacramento, CA), featuring 29 other artists from across the country.
In April 2011, Al Mansour joined Catherine Kelleghan Gallery (CKG) in Atlanta, GA, as well as CKG’s sister gallery, Acacia Fine Art. Acacia Fine Art specializes in fine works of art by artists of African descent. Both galleries are located on East Paces Ferry in Atlanta.
Al Mansour's early career as the founder and president of AfroLink® Software, which created the first Afrocentric interactive multimedia software, continues to strongly influence his aesthetic and thematic approach — a rich graphic interface, and dynamic interactive content.
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