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Biography

2025:

9th Annual Center for Contemporary Arts National Juried Art Exhibition: Center for Contemporary Arts, Abilene, Texas

Juror: Robbie Barber, Artist and Professor of Art at Baylor University in Waco, Texas

Little Luxuries: An Exhibition of Small Works, Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Intersection Between Art and AI, Sasse Museum of Art, Pomona, CA Catalogue

Fine Art exhibition of the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts, State College, PA

Juror: Richard Rinehart, Director, Samek Art Museum, Bucknell University

Works on Paper: Firefly Artist Gallery, Northport, NY

Color Impact 2025: Color As Communication Juried Exhibition, Rochester Institute of Technology, NY Catalogue(108-109)

A Glimpse into American AI Art, Red Springs Artspace, Red Springs, NC 28377

‘AROUND’ Juried Exhibition, Community Arts Center, Wallingford, PA

Juror: Steve Olive, Award winning Artist

38th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA

Juror: Erika Olinger, Owner and Director of Cole Pratt Gallery in New Orleans, LA

Sticking Together: Approaches to Collage & Assemblage, Artlink Contemporary Gallery, Fort Wayne, IN

2024:

Stars and Stripes: Hickman Gallery, Adrian College, MI Press

CollageNow 2024: Denise Bibro Fine Art, NYC

Little Luxuries: Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Benefit Exhibition: Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, PA

Juror: Dr. Brittany Webb, Evelyn and Will Kaplan Curator of Twentieth Century Art and the John Rhoden Collection at Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts

Art For the View: Sunnyview Rehabilitation Hospital Foundation, Schenectady, NY

Flow Exhibition: Naturalist Gallery of Contemporary Art

2023:

Women Artists Making Their Mark 2023: O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA Catalogue

National Collage Society 39th Annual Juried Exhibition: Kean University, NJ

Juror: Jeff Katzin, Senior Curator, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH

Urban: UpwardGallery Juried Competition

Circle 2023: CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea, Catalogue

Exactly.ai: Shoreditch Arts Club London Juried Exhibition, England

Completely Color, Color and the Human Experience: ISCC Inter-Society Color Council, Rochester Institute of Technology

Flowers: UpwardGallery Juried Competition award winner

UPWARD's Quarterly Winter 2022-2023: Publication, page 2 and 59

Persistence: D'Art Center, Norfolk, VA

2022:

The Gendered Pandemic: The Ethics of Caring (Too Much): Publication, Visual Culture & Gender, 17, p. 28. 17

AmoreExhibit: Art Flyent, 1 Washington Mall #1218, Boston, MA 02108

Bower Center's Paper Art National Juried Exhibit: Bower Center for Art, Bedford, VA

Flowers 4 Peace: Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff, CA

Botanical Inspiration: Wickford Art Association, North Kingstown, RI

2021:

Botanical Art & Illustration: Las Laguna Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA

The Woven Tale Press Vol IX #9, Publication: East Setauket, NY

"Folk Is Art”: Womenswork.art, Poughkeepsie, NY

Americas COVID-19 Memorial: The Biennial of the Americas Denver, CO

2020:

When She Rises, We All Rise: 118 Gallery, online exhibition due to Covid 19

“One in a Year”: The Painting Center, New York, NY VIEW CATALOGUE

Early 2000s and 1990s:

Blurred Boundaries: Fabrications Retreat, kalamazoo, Michigan

Body Quilting: Solo Show, Walton Gallery, George School, Newtown, PA

Cultural Memory, Transdiasporic Art Practices: WomanMade Gallery, Chicago

New Narratives: Stories and Messages in Contemporary Art, Cade Center for Fine Arts Gallery, Arnold, MD

6th Annual Betsy Meyer Memorial Exhibition, Promoting the ideals of Experimentation and Pushing Boundaries: Main Line Art Center, Haverford

Maryland Federation of Art Merit Award: Work on Paper

Artstravaganza award winner: Hunter Museum of American Art, Chattanooga, TN

Residency Fellowship: Painting residency, Woodstock School of Art

Itzhak Sankowsky Award: Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Great Inspirations: St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO

Andrea Piel Prize: St. Louis Artists’ Guild, Clayton, MO

Organic Relief: Bockrath Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Positive/Negative: Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee University, TN

Contemporary Artwork Exhibition: Erector Square Gallery, New Haven

Art Now, Emerging Artists Exhibition: Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Curatorial Review Exhibition: Abington Art Center, Jenkintown, PA

Art on Paper:  Maryland Federation of Art, Annapolis, MD

Ancient Fragments in a New LightWomen Made Gallery, Chicago, IL

Beyond Axiom Before the Forseen: Carroll County Arts Council, Westminster, MD

VIRIDIAN 7th National Exhibition: Viridian Artists Inc., New York, NY

Resurgam's National Exhibition: Resurgam Gallery, Baltimore, MD

Elizabethtown College Juried Art Exhibit: Elizabethtown, PA

Art Under The Influence: Vincent's Gallery, Mansfield, OH

Reality Bites: Fredericksburg Center for the Creative Arts, Fredericksburg, VA

Divine Visions: Sea Cliff Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY

Intrinsic VisionsPyramid Arts Center, Rochester, NY

National Small Works Exhibition: An Art Place, Inc., Chicago, IL

The Friends of The Tim Mark Endowment Exhibit: Penn State, Media, PA

Venus: I.O. Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Obsessions & Reflections: ArtsBridge, Riverrun Gallery, Lambertville, NJ

Small Matters of Great Importance: Hopper House Art Center, Reston, VA

Adjunct Teacher: Drexel University, Philadelphia, PA

Adjunct Teacher: Hussian College, Philadelphia, PA

Divine Visions: Sea Cliff Gallery, Sea Cliff, NY

Adjunct Teacher: Trenton State College, Ewing, NJ

Venus, Art at the Powerhouse: E. I. O. Gallery, Cleveland, OH

Four Person Finalist Show: Reston Arts Center, Reston, VA

Color Now: Main Line Art Center, Haverford, PA

Images '95: HUB Gallery, Penn State University, PA

Adjunct Teacher: Rosemont College, Bryn Mawr, PA

Gods and Saints: Artscape ‘93, Baltimore, MD

Women in Art, Statements of Self: Setting the Stage Gallery, Alexandria, VA

University of Maryland: MFA, Full Teaching Scholarship, College Park, MD

Syracuse University: BFA, Davison Academic Scholarship and Academic Fellowship Program

Art Research Program: Carrara, Italy

Art Study Program: Briey, France

Born: New York

Kari Souders

Kari Souders