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Kat Bawden is an artist, educator, and curator in Chicago. She holds an MFA in Photography from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and a B.A. in Social Sciences (with concentration in Political Philosophy) and Environmental Science from University of Michigan -- Ann Arbor. Her multidisciplinary practice includes photography, video, performance, and light-based installations. Her practice explores photography as ontological inquiry — as a means to mediate, question, and reconstruct reality. Using the camera a tool for provocation and embodied exploration, she investigates how images shape perception and sensation. Kat’s work has been featured in Artforum, Der Grief, Lenscratch, Chicago Reader, Chicago Sun-Times, and others. She has exhibited and/or performed at the International Center of Photography, EXPO Chicago, the International Museum of Surgical Science, the Design Museum of Chicago, Iceberg Projects, Comfort Station, Co-Prosperity, Prairie Ronde Artist Gallery, and others. She runs Murmuration, a gallery and artist residency in Chicago.