AboutS
** [Please find CV link down down down below, for quick condensed chronologies if that’s what your looking for]
“Artist”. love letter writer
Hi lovers! Thanks for visiting. I’m Kim. i work as an artist, as well as teach and write and some other things. It has taken years for me to write this “about” section (added in 2025) because i think it’s flawed to explain my life work with some sort of swift clarity or provide a discreet timeline as if artist-cum-brand – I guess I simply refuse to be condensed. And, these website things lack the ability to address the knotty labyrinth of experience, as if boxes and titles and lists can be the forever all-at-once reveal that are supposed illuminate a much more complex process of making, listening, reading, being, and working with others. Of course, in some ways, it makes a lot of sense to me this perpetual out-of-timeness, since the world and self and desire are not constituted through rationality. There is just no adequate way to constitute art-making into info-aggregates in the deficient architecture of websites. Despite this, i did squeeze in visual and written stuff into boxes for you to cannibalize info in some discreet way, or make coherence. Also, i am hesitant to give a personalized “about” statement here, because i don’t agree with how architectures of identity and hierarchy are utilized by (larger) institutions to keep us from peacefully co-existing and co-supporting, much less unify against much greater issues in a culture that promotes hyper-individualism. Socio-political pressures are already such crazy psycho-surrealist distortions…. with severe consequences. What i will say about my work is that i am interested in “We the Masses” as the ultra-fungible bodies of late capitalist emperialism, and even more so, am fascinated by the apocalypse (or “the end” and what happens after), and the world has always been ending for some and not for others (plants & animals included). i believe we all need to continue the fight to learn about and share/celebrate our differences. And endure in the madness together.
i suppose this website is a catalogue of sorts, a collection and archive that needs visibility because i have to think about practicalities of income and a rented life much much more than is comfortable (indentured academic servitude anyone?… happy i’m not alone!?). Compiling info and metadata for “the public” in this short-term rental feels like one piece of being pursued by an unevenly distributed catastrophe. Honestly, i am often lazy about filling in info here, because i think living breathing acts of daily shaping feels much more critical in this limited planetary atomized timeline we’re all subject to. i would prefer just leveling the playing field so that all artists can do what they desire (including myself), but i don’t have that power, and i’m not sure that its even possible in our continual class war and libidinal economies constituted by difference. Instead, i attempt to spend “free” time exploring other things inside and outside of our realms of what might constitute art-making and living. i truly wish you and i had more time to do just this kind of thing. If this site doesn’t provide what you were looking for, please check out those online aberrations with some of that web search spidering and reconstituted AI messiness for other unreliable smatterings of information, or you can really just directly drop me a line. i’m just one click away.
Stay curious and complex and fierce and compassionate! We all need more practice playing with and inside possibilities. Take care of yourself, its crazy out there.
xoxoo, kim
+ AroundS
(semi-recent news)
2025: exhibitions are being prepped…. specific dates + info forthcoming….
2024 Recipient: Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant ….. sooooooo much gratitude to the foundation and secret letter writers for supporting my work and future!!
Other Life Upgrades: no-thing, nada, rien, oh another new job, and that grant WAS amazing. truly. helped. everything.
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Kim Zumpfe 