2026 State of the Art Prize, Alabama

About Karen Brummund

Tuscaloosa, AL

Karen Brummund is a process-driven visual artist who creates video installations on architectural facades. Responding to each site and its community, Brummund uses drawing and video to explore aesthetic approaches for engaging dialogue in public space. These ephemeral environmental installations have been commissioned by architects, museums, and festivals around the world, including Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects in Chile; the Sirius Arts Centre in Ireland; the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York; the Foundation for Spirituality and Art in Charleston, South Carolina; and the Urban Video Project in Syracuse, New York. Support from organizations such as the Experimental Television Center, the Cornell Council for the Arts, and the Verdant Fund has enabled her to create new work in experimental and diverse locations. Working in Alabama, Brummund invests in multi-generational, educational groups to examine how creativity, play, and anxiety shape contemporary experience. Brummund is also a member of a local collaborative that integrates relational aesthetics with regional environmental research. She holds an MA in Fine Art from the University of East London, was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Architectural and Environmental Art, and is currently an Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellow in Visual Arts.

Karen Brummund is a process-driven visual artist who creates video installations on architectural facades. Responding to each site and its community, Brummund uses drawing and video to explore aesthetic approaches for engaging dialogue in public space. These ephemeral environmental installations have been commissioned by architects, museums, and festivals around the world, including Pezo von Ellrichshausen Architects in Chile; the Sirius Arts Centre in Ireland; the Burchfield Penney Art Center in Buffalo, New York; the Foundation for Spirituality and Art in Charleston, South Carolina; and the Urban Video Project in Syracuse, New York. Support from organizations such as the Experimental Television Center, the Cornell Council for the Arts, and the Verdant Fund has enabled her to create new work in experimental and diverse locations. Working in Alabama, Brummund invests in multi-generational, educational groups to examine how creativity, play, and anxiety shape contemporary experience. Brummund is also a member of a local collaborative that integrates relational aesthetics with regional environmental research. She holds an MA in Fine Art from the University of East London, was a New York Foundation for the Arts Fellow in Architectural and Environmental Art, and is currently an Alabama State Council on the Arts Fellow in Visual Arts.