Kim Charles Kay

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Kim Charles Kay
Born
Olympia, Washington
EducationBFA Rhode Island School of Design
Known forPainting, Textile, Installation
Website www.kimcharleskay.com

Kim Charles Kay is an American interdisciplinary artist. [1] [2]

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Life and career

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

References

  1. 1 2 Keel, Eli (1 June 2015). "KMAC's 'Food Shelter Clothing' exhibit is interactive, engaging and approachable". Insider Louisville. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015. Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  2. ↑ Krokus, George (13 November 2013). "Lesbian Herstory Archives Announces 40th Anniv. Art Benefit". Curve Magazine . Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  3. ↑ "12.) Kim Charles Kay". Sheherazade. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  4. ↑ "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.
  5. ↑ Liz Insogna, Liz (13 May 2014). "Lisi Raskin's Mutual Immanence". Huffington Post . Retrieved 8 July 2015.
  6. ↑ 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.
  7. ↑ 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.
  8. ↑ "BOMB Magazine — Jeanine Oleson by Alanna Martinez". bombmagazine.org. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  9. ↑ "KMAC's 'Food Shelter Clothing' exhibit is interactive, engaging and approachable - Insider Louisville". Insider Louisville. 2015-06-01. Archived from the original on June 14, 2015. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
  10. 1 2 3 "<<>>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.
  11. ↑ "LEARN. SHARE. CREATE". The BUBBLER @ Madison Public Library. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  12. ↑ "Artist-in-Residence Nov + December 2017". The BUBBLER @ Madison Public Library. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  13. ↑ "Kim Charles Kay: Nov-Dec Bubbler Artist In Residence - WORT 89.9 FM". WORT 89.9 FM. 2017-11-13. Retrieved 2018-02-10.
  14. ↑ "Podcast: Inside Everyday Gay Holiday". Tone Madison. Retrieved 2018-04-19.
  15. ↑ "12.) Kim Charles Kay". Sheherazade. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  16. ↑ "Cat Mummies Came First — Ruckus". ruckusjournal.org. Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  17. ↑ 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)
  18. ↑ "Your Past Needs You: "Cat Mummies Came First" at Sheherazade :: AEQAI" . Retrieved 2022-01-13.
  19. ↑ "Motorpark - Maine College of Art". Maine College of Art. Retrieved 2017-06-08.
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