News & Recent Exhibitions

Forms of Flesh: Contemplating Embodiment

Jeremy Plotkin Wong, George Mosher, Kat Bawden

Chicago Grand Gallery, August 2025

During the exhibition opening, dancer Hannah Marcus and sound artist Maya Nguyen created a performance that both responded to and activated my video installation.

Artists in Public Schools: Kat Bawden & Nyia Sissac

EXPO CHICAGO, April 2025

Two-person exhibition including unique silver gelatin photograms, silver gelatin lumen prints, and cyanotypes from my series Sea of Grass, alongside inkjet and fabric prints by photographer Nyia Sissac.

I had never seen her face so read

Archive reading performance, April 2025

Chicago Cluster Project at 400 N Peoria, Chicago, IL

Documentation by Eugene Tang

Alive A Life A Light

Expanded cinema slide-show performance, April 2025

Chicago Cluster Project at 400 N Peoria, Chicago, IL

An aging couple in the Chicago suburbs give away their personal archive of family photographs to a stranger, discarding of hundreds of slide film photographs from the 1950s and 60s. The photographs are strange, tender, silly, mysterious, poetic, and they feel very much alive.

I bring this archive to life in a slide-show performance, asking: Why do we photograph our lives? Are photographs alive? If so, what is the lifespan of a photograph, of an archive?

These questions form the thread of an accompanying poetic essay. I photograph my writing, print it on transparency, and turn it into slides – allowing myself, and my questions, to both respond to and physically enter the archive.

Documentation by Eugene Tang