Karen Bondarchuk is a visual artist whose work—ranging from sculpture and drawing to video and bookmaking — 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. Her artwork has been exhibited widely in the United States, as well as in Canada, England, India and Italy. Bondarchuk has been the recipient of several fellowships and grants, including residencies at Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Amherst, VA, Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, VT, Ragdale Foundation in Lake Forest, IL, an Individual Artist Grant from the Arts Council of Greater Kalamazoo and numerous grants from Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI. Her work has won awards in Virginia, Michigan, Illinois and Maryland, and is part of the permanent collection of the National Gallery of Canada and several other public and private collections. Bondarchuk is also the foundation area coordinator and an associate professor in the Frostic School of Art at Western Michigan University in Kalamazoo, MI, where she has taught since 1997. She received her MFA in sculpture from Ohio State University in Columbus, Ohio, and her BFA in sculpture and video from the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design (NSCAD University) in Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada.

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