Karen Bovinich is the artist behind the creative space known as Afternoon Camp. This art-focused studio, built primarily out of recycled wood and job site scrap, invites artists to create contemporary artwork among the forested environment of the Olympic Peninsula.

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Education

2006—10
BFA Columbia College, Chicago IL
Columbia College Alumni Scholarship + Retention Award 
Conferred May 2010, Cum Laude

2005—06
University of New Mexico, Albuquerque NM
Amigo Scholarship

Published Writing

2014
Composite Magazine No. 13 Still Life “Stillness and Presence"

2012
Composite Magazine No. 6 Process “A Lingering Curiosity”

Artist Residencies

2013
Center Program, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL (Jan - July)

2012
Residency Stone Quarry Hill Art Park Artist-in-Residence, Cazenovia NY (Aug) 

2011, 2010
ACRE Residency, Steuben WI (Aug)

2009
Harold Arts Residency, OH (Aug)

Restaurateur

2012-2020
Fujimura Hospitality

Arami
Arami Midway
Arami at TimeOut Market

Entente
Entente at TimeOut Market

Heineken Pub97
Lucky Klucker & more

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Group Exhibitions

2014

Off Center, Chicago Art Department, Chicago IL curated by Mike Nourse

Conduit, I AM Logan Square, Chicago IL  

Starwalker, Threewalls Gallery, Chicago IL  

Milwaukee Avenue Arts Festival, Chicago IL 

The Pram Endeavor Invitational, Hyde Park Art Center 

Untitled Exhibition, I am Logan, Chicago IL curated by Elliot Reichert

2013

In Bodies We Trust: Performance, Affect, & Political Economy, Northwestern University, Evanston, IL (catalogue)

Front & Center, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago IL 

The Power of Ten: Threewalls 10th Yr Benefit, Salvage One, Chicago IL (curated by Tricia Van Eck)

Ripple Effect, Southern Methodist University, Dallas TX (curated by Jessie Zarazaga) (catalogue)

The American Dream: The (W)holy Grail, 6018NORTH, Chicago IL 

Art + Design Fall Showcase, Dock 6 Collective, Chicago IL (curated by Carson Maddox)

Group Exhibition Rube Goldberg’s Ghosts: Confounding Design and Laborious Machinations, Glass Curtain Gallery, Chicago IL (curated by Elizabeth Burke-Dain) (catalogue)

2012

HOME: Public or Private?, 6018 NORTH, Chicago IL (curated by Tricia Van Eck) (catalogue)

Sic Transit Gloria Mundi: Industry of the Ordinary presents 773, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL (curated by Anna Trier + Meredith Weber)

Out of Site: encounters with public performance, Wicker Park Chamber of Commerce, Chicago IL (organized by Carron Little)

Rapid Pulse International Performance Festival presents Triage, Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space, Chicago IL (curated by Anna Trier + Meredith Weber)

24th Festival of Art in Alternative & Itinerant Spaces, 2nd Floor Rear + Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space, Chicago IL 

MDW Fair Fall Showcase, Mana Contemporary Art Center, Chicago IL (organized by Aron Gent + Ed Marszewski)

BUILT Arts Festival, Milwaukee and Ashland Ave, Chicago IL (organized by Tristan J.M. Hummel)

Solo Exhibition Not all days are the same, Roxaboxen Exhibition Space, Chicago IL 

Manifest Urban Arts Festival Columbia College, Chicago IL

2011  

There is no I in It with EJ Hill, The Hills Aesthetic Center, Chicago IL

2010

BFA Fine Art Exhibition, A+D Gallery, Chicago IL

2009                      

The Yield, Heaven Gallery, Chicago IL

2008             

The Pougialis Fine Art Exhibition, A+D Gallery, Chicago IL

Feeble Construction with EJ Hill Wirt Dexter Building (burned down in 2006), Chicago IL

Happenings 

2012

Isometric, Chicago Cultural Center, Chicago IL

2011

Isometric, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

2010                       

Girl: Please!, curated by Emanuel Aguilar, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago IL                     

This Is Not for Sale, curated by EJ Hill, Parking Space, Chicago IL

2009

Hermano, with Tannar Veatch, Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space (HCES), Chicago IL curated by Emanuel Aguilar

Monument General John Logan Memorial, Chicago IL

Before Cake, After Dinner

collaboration with Tannar Veatch, Ej Hill, Meredith Weber, Jesus Mejia, and Mat Wilson

2010

Version 10: Infrastructures & Territories curated by Dayton Castleman + Ed Marszewski, Zhou B Arts Center Chicago IL

This Is a Test//This Is Not a Test curated by Tannar Veatch, Hutten Showroom, Chicago IL

2009                     

Decibel, Tandem Co-Op Gallery, Chicago IL

2008 

BC,AD Happy Collaborationist Exhibition Space, Chicago

Accidental Subjects, Tandem Co-Op Gallery, Chicago IL