Karen's profile

Karen Klinedinst is a visual artist using photography to explore themes of memory, place, nature and the environment. Using both digital and alternative photographic processes, she creates richly layered images that combine the real with the imagined.

Her work has been exhibited both locally and nationally at venues such as Fleckenstein Gallery, Massoni Gallery, Creative Alliance, Maryland Art Place, University of Maryland Global Campus, Center for Photographic Arts, Center for Fine Art Photography, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts, Biggs Museum of American Art, and Fort Wayne Museum of Art. In 2018, her series The Emotional Landscape was exhibited at the Griffin Museum of Photography in Stoneham, MA. 

She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA). In November 2022, she was awarded a PLAYA artist residency in Summer Lake, OR.  Other residencies include a 2004 Platte Clove artist residency at the Catskills Center for Conservation and Development in Arkville New York; and a 2006 National Park Service artist residency at Acadia National Park in Maine. In 2015, was awarded an Individual Artist Award from the Maryland State Arts Council. She was a Photolucida Critical Mass 200 finalist in 2018 and 2019. 

Her work is in private and public collections including the National Park Service, Liriodendron Mansion, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art.

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