Kat Bawden (she/they) is an artist, educator, and curator in Chicago whose work explores and mediates relationships between the body, memory, and the self. Working with sensitivity to our physiological connection to light, her photography, video installations, and performances create opportunities for somatic experience and emotional exchange.
Kat holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been an artist-in-residence with Artists in Public Schools, ISSP Latvia, and Prairie Ronde. Before becoming an artist, she studied social science and environmental science at the University of Michigan and worked as a community organizer, teacher, and documentarian for nearly a decade.
Kat’s work has been supported by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and featured in Artforum, Der Grief, Lenscratch, Chicago Reader, and others. She has exhibited and performed at the International Center of Photography, the International Museum of Surgical Science, the Design Museum of Chicago, Prairie Ronde Artist Gallery, Iceberg Projects, Comfort Station, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and others.
In 2023 she started Murmuration, an exhibition space in Chicago.
Contact: bawdenka@gmail.com // Instagram // CV
