Karen Klinedinst is an artist using photography to explore themes of place, nature and the human impact on the environment. Using digital, analog and alternative photo processes, she creates richly layered images that combine the real with the imagined. 

She has exhibited at the University of Maryland Global College, Center for Photographic Arts, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Washington County Museum of Fine Arts (Maryland), Biggs Museum of American Art, Griffin Museum of Photography, Maine Museum of Photographic Art, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. Her work is in private and public collections including the Liriodendron Mansion, the National Park Service, and the Fort Wayne Museum of Art. 

Karen was an artist-in-residence at the Catskills Center for Conservation and Development, a National Park Service artist-in-residence at Acadia National Park, and a 2022 PLAYA artist-in-residence in Summer Lake, Oregon. 

She is a graduate of the Maryland Institute College of Art.