Selected Juried Shows

  • Excellence in Quilts – Morph, Iowa Quilt Museum, September–December 2022

  • Quilt National 2021 – Invisible, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH,
    2021–2023

  • Quilt Visions 2020The Usual Suspects: Presto-chango, Empty Rhetoric, Caught Red-Handed and Sideshow, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, October 2020

  • Quilt National 2019 Disruption, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, May 2019

  • Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling. Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL, October-December, 2018

  • Quilts = Art = QuiltsLooking for the Pattern that Connects, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, November 2017

  • 59th Annual Delta Exhibition, Chaos Ensues, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, June 2017

  • Quilts = Art = QuiltsIncoming, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, November 2016

  • Quilt National 2017The Secret Life of Stones, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, May 2017

  • 58th Annual Delta Exhibition, Pollinators, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, June 2016

  • Quilt National 2015, Insomnia: His and Hers, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH, May 2015

  • Quilts = Art = QuiltsMemory’s Playground, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, November 2014

  • Earth Stories, SAQA Invitational Exhibition – Stream of Consequences, Michigan State University Museum, May 2014; University of Central Missouri Gallery of Art and Design, Warrensburg, MO, January 2015; Kennedy Museum of Art, Athens, OH, April 2015

Awards

  • Quilt Visions 2020 – SAQA Award, The Usual Suspects: Presto-chango, Empty Rhetoric, Caught Red-Handed and Sideshow, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA, October 2020

  • 58th Annual Delta Exhibition, Juror’s Award for Pollinators, Arkansas Arts Center, Little Rock, AR, June 2016

  • Excellence in Fibers 2015, Best of Show, Round and Round It Goes

  • Quilt National 2013, Award of Excellence, Round and Round It Goes

  • Quilts = Art = Quilts, Award for Machine Workmanship, Connecting Fantasy to Reality Proved Difficult, 2010

  • Quilt National 2009, McCarthy Memorial Award for 2009, City

Invitational and Gallery Shows

  • Herd, solo show, Austin Peay University New Gallery, Clarksville, TN, August–September, 2022

  • Paula Kovarik, solo show, Visions Art Museum, San Diego, CA,  April-July 2021

  • Memphis 2021, Dixon Gallery and Gardens, Memphis, TN, May-July 2021

  • Stitched Dissent, solo show, Beverly + Sam Ross Gallery, Christian Brothers University, Memphis, TN, January 2020

  • Spirit of Being, Curator: Barbara Galazzo, Rockland Center for the Arts, West Nyack, NY, March 2019

  • Paula Kovarik, World of Threads Festival, Toronto, Canada, October – November 2018

  • Artist Spotlight, Ogden Museum of Southern Art, New Orleans, LA, January - March, 2018

  • The Nature of Stitch, Whitman College, Sheehan Gallery, Walla Walla, WA, Aug - Dec 2018

  • Along the Horizon: Contemporary Drawing in Tennessee. Reece Museum and Slocumb Galleries, East Tennessee State University, Johnson City, TN, February, 2018

  • Thread That Connects, Arts in the Airport, Nashville International Airport, TN, January 2017

  • Drawing Lines Across Mediums, Site:Brooklyn Gallery, Brooklyn, NY, February 2016

  • ArtPrize 2015, Grand Rapids Art Museum, September 2015

  • Excellence in Fibers, Fiber Art Now magazine, November 2015

  • Quilts 20/20 Traditional Works/Contemporary Art , Susquehanna Art Museum, Harrisburg, Pa, June 2015.

Published

  • Art Quilts Unfolding, featured artist, Martha Sielman, 2018

  • Art Quilts International, Abstract & Geometric, featured artist, Martha Sielman, 2016

  • Fiber Art Now, “Paula Kovarik’s Storyline,” Suzanne Smith Arney, Winter 2016/2017

  • Art Quilting Studio, featured artist, Rice Freeman-Zachery, Summer 2016

  • American Craft Magazine, June/July 2015, Follow the Thread

  • Quilt National 2015, The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Dairy Barn Arts Center

  • Quilt National 2013, The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Dragon Threads Ltd., 2013

  • Quilt National 2011, The Best of Contemporary Quilts, Lark Crafts, 2011

  • Quilt National 2009, The Best of Contemporary Quilts, (Cover and inside page), Lark Books, 2009