Kat Bawden is an artist, educator, and curator whose multidisciplinary practice spans photography, video, performance, and light-based installations. Kat constructs immersive spaces and suspended realities that probe the relationships between memory, time, and the body. Working with sensitivity to the physiological and emotional impact of light, her work is both experimental and deeply embodied.
Kat holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and has been an artist-in-residence with Prairie Ronde, ISSP Latvia, and Artists in Public Schools. 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/or performed at the International Center of Photography, the International Museum of Surgical Science, the Design Museum of Chicago, Iceberg Projects, Comfort Station, Co-Prosperity, Prairie Ronde Artist Gallery, the Los Angeles Center of Photography, and others.
In 2023 she started Murmuration, an experimental art space in Chicago.
Contact: bawdenka@gmail.com // Instagram // CV
