Directory Profile

Kim Zumpfe is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles that works on individual and collaborative projects that engage with installation, sculpture, sound, architecture, land use, performance, video, photography, and experimental writing. The exploration of physical and sonic space is an inquiry into queered embodiments of place and placement, with a consideration of territories that extend beyond specific locations and inform relationship to the material and digital world as public, private, mediated, transient, and ecstatic. Exhibitions include Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Bangkok Biennial's MAHA Pavilion, DiverseWorks (Houston), MexiCali Biennial, Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Hammer Museum, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), UCR Culver Center for the Arts (Riverside), UCI Contemporary Arts Center, and several public and online sites.  Recognitions include CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts best in international feminist art and scholarship, Artforum’s Critics’ Pick, and an Individual Artist Award from the Santo Foundation.