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 runs Murmuration, an experimental art space and artist residency in Chicago. She holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and is an adjunct professor of art at Dominican University.
Her work has been supported by the Chicago Department of Cultural Affairs and featured in Artforum, Lenscratch, Der Grief, the Chicago Reader, and others. She has exhibited and performed at the International Center of Photography, the Design Museum of Chicago, Iceberg Projects, Comfort Station, Co-Prosperity, the International Museum of Surgical Science, Prairie Ronde Artist Gallery, and others.