Kim Charles Kay is an American interdisciplinary artist.[1][2]
Kim Charles Kay | |
|---|---|
| Born | Olympia, Washington |
| Education | BFA Rhode Island School of Design |
| Known for | Painting, Textile, Installation |
| Website | www |
Life and career
editKim Charles Kay was born in Olympia, Washington, and raised in "tiny timber towns" in the Pacific Northwest.[3] She studied psychology, women's studies, and video & media theory, at Washington State University and The Evergreen State College, before graduating from Rhode Island School of Design with a BFA in Painting.[4]
Kay collaborates with artists, educators, and researchers on projects. Kay and artist Lisi Raskin initiated MOTORPARK, a mobile collaborative platform at the ICA Maine College of Art,[5] and held a discussion on the project at Marianne Boesky Gallery in New York City.[6] Kay made costumes and set pieces for Jeanine Oleson's Hear, Here, an experimental opera that was presented at the New Museum in 2014.[7][8] Kay's installation project, A Version of One Truth, was presented by the Kentucky Museum of Art and Craft in 2015, where she was an artist-in-residence.[1][9]
As a teaching artist, Kay has created educational programs at Socrates Sculpture Park in Queens, NY, and at the Drawing Center in New York, NY.[10] Recently she was awarded an artist residency at the Bubbler[11] at Madison Public Library, in Madison, WI.[12][13] Also in Madison, she co-founded EVERYDAY GAY HOLIDAY, "an unusual new art and literary studio."[14]
Her installation Cat Mummies Came First, which was viewable night and day through a gallery's garage window from March 7 to May 30, 2020, at Sheherazade art space in Old Louisville, was "one of the few safe, in-person art experiences in Louisville" when museums and galleries closed to the public due to the Covid-19 pandemic.[15][16][17] Critic Megan Bickel, in reviewing the exhibition, wrote that "Cat Mummies Came First grants observation of a lived experience as a juxtaposed historical and contemporaneous moment—one with remarkable affection for those of the present, past, and future. This feels like a prize or gift in this world that has changed with effervescence over-night."[18]
Awards and honors
edit- 2017 Bubbler at Madison Public Library residency
- 2016 Vermont Studio Center Fellowship
- 2012 Quimby Foundation Grant[10][19]
- 2010 Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarship, U.S. Department of State[10]
References
edit- ^ a b Keel, Eli (1 June 2015). "KMAC's 'Food Shelter Clothing' exhibit is interactive, engaging and approachable". Insider Louisville. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ Krokus, George (13 November 2013). "Lesbian Herstory Archives Announces 40th Anniv. Art Benefit". Curve Magazine. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ "12.) Kim Charles Kay". Sheherazade. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ "Rocks and Piles". for the things i make, for the things you made, for the things we make, for the things never made... Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ Liz Insogna, Liz (13 May 2014). "Lisi Raskin's Mutual Immanence". Huffington Post. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ Russeth, Andrew (8 October 2012). "6 Things to Do in New York's Art World Before October 12". New York Observer. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ Martinez, Alanna (6 May 2014). "Voice, objects, collaboration, and audience participation in a new exhibition at the New Museum and". BOMB Magazine. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
- ^ "BOMB Magazine — Jeanine Oleson by Alanna Martinez". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "KMAC's 'Food Shelter Clothing' exhibit is interactive, engaging and approachable - Insider Louisville". Insider Louisville. 2015-06-01. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ a b c "<<>>about<<>>". for the things i make, for the things you made, for the things we make, for the things never made... Retrieved 2017-06-08.
- ^ "LEARN. SHARE. CREATE". The BUBBLER @ Madison Public Library. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
- ^ "Artist-in-Residence Nov + December 2017". The BUBBLER @ Madison Public Library. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
- ^ "Kim Charles Kay: Nov-Dec Bubbler Artist In Residence - WORT 89.9 FM". WORT 89.9 FM. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
- ^ "Podcast: Inside Everyday Gay Holiday". Tone Madison. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
- ^ "12.) Kim Charles Kay". Sheherazade. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ "Cat Mummies Came First — Ruckus". ruckusjournal.org. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ May 23, arts_louisville |; Arts | 0, 2020 | Visual. "12 Questions With Artist/Teacher Julie Leidner | Arts-Louisville Reviews". Retrieved 2022-01-13.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Your Past Needs You: "Cat Mummies Came First" at Sheherazade :: AEQAI". Retrieved 2022-01-13.
- ^ "Motorpark - Maine College of Art". Maine College of Art. Retrieved 2017-06-08.