Karen Bondarchuk

Crow’s First Lesson: Mosquito
mixed media on paper
22 x 15 in.

Crow’s First Lesson: Shark
mixed media on paper
22 x 15 in.

Karen Bondarchuk is a Canadian-born visual artist whose work employs a broad range of materials and processes. Her current sculpture and drawing work, centering on crows and ravens, examines the complex, interwoven relationship between humans and corvids.

She has exhibited widely in the U.S., as well as in Canada, Italy and England. She is the recipient of several fellowships and grants, including Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL, and numerous grants from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI.

Her work has won awards in Virginia, Michigan, Illinois and Maryland, and is in the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and several other public and private collections. Bondarchuk is an associate professor and foundation coordinator at the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. She received an MFA in sculpture from The Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and a BFA in sculpture and video from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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