Excellence in Quilts – Morph, Iowa Quilt Museum, September–December 2022
Quilt National 2021 – Invisible, Dairy Barn Arts Center, Athens, OH,
2021–2023
Quilt Visions 2020 – The 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 = Quilts – Looking 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 = Quilts – Incoming, Schweinfurth Art Center, Auburn, NY, November 2016
Quilt National 2017 – The 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 = Quilts – Memory’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

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

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.

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