Kim Charles Kay
American artist From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Kim Charles Kay is an American interdisciplinary artist.[1][2]
Kim Charles Kay | |
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| Born | Olympia, Washington |
| Education | BFA Rhode Island School of Design |
| Known for | Painting, Textile, Installation |
| Website | www |
Life and career
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Kim 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
- 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]
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