Kari Souders

Kari Souders was born in upstate NY in 1967. In 1985-86 Kari studied art and culture in France. She went on to attend Syracuse University and obtained a BA in Fine Arts in 1990. In 1994 Kari received her MFA in painting from the University of Maryland where she attended on a full tuition teaching scholarship.

With both a Bachelors and Masters in Fine Arts Kari has been honing her creative skills for decades. Her work is created through a ritualistic physical and structural approach. Her process involves mapping, exploring constraints and seeking the possibilities of continuous systems. Souders strives to harmonize mixed media through layering beeswax, paint and collage elements until they evolve to a mutual resolution over time. Unearthing the painting's hidden layers allows actual interaction between the inside and outside of the painting.

Kari has had numerous gallery exhibitions and won a host of art awards. A selected group of these can be found on her website Bibliography. Kari’s work is collected by a diverse group of corporations and patrons around the globe.

MFA- University of Maryland
BFA- Syracuse University

2023:
Women Artists Making Their Mark 2023: O'Hanlon Center for the Arts, Mill Valley, CA Catalogue
Circle 2023: CICA Museum, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea Catalogue
National Collage Society 39th Annual Juried Exhibit at Kean University: Juror, Jeff Katzin, Senior Curator, Akron Art Museum, Akron, OH
Urban: UpwardGallery Juried Competition
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
Breaking Ground: Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
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: Juried by Robert Stuart, Bower Center, Bedford, VA
Flowers 4 Peace: Red Bluff Art Gallery, Red Bluff, CA
Botanical Inspiration: Wickford Art Association, North Kingstown, RI
Permanent Installations: Morgan, Lewis & Bockius LLP, Princeton, NJ
2021:
Botanical Art & ...