Kim Kimbro

Los Angeles-based painter Kim Kimbro creates psychologically charged animal portraiture that is characterized by bold color combinations and sensitively rendered subjects. Stylistically, Kimbro operates somewhere between the real and the unreal, creating an atmosphere that invites personal introspection. Her concern is to convey the frailty of human experience within these often life-sized portraits.

Kim Kimbro received a BFA from the Parsons School of Design/New School for Social Research in New York, and has been exhibiting since 2007. Her paintings can be found in private collections throughout North and South America, Europe and Australia.

BFA, Parsons School of Design/New School for Social Research (New York)

2020
GROUP SHOWS
Wild Side, KP Projects Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Non Sequitor, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Exalted One, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Field of Vision, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Gleaming Apollo, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Petite Works, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Seclusion, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA
Perceive Me, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA
Streetlife / StraBenleben: Vienna meets LA
Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2019
SOLO SHOWS
Art Share LA at the Historic Train Depot (Groundwork Coffee), North Hollywood, CA

2019
GROUP SHOWS
Electric Koolaid Banana, Merchant Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA Painting (The Circle of Truth), MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA
Let me eat cake too, Blue Roof Studios, Los Angeles, CA
StARTup Art Fair, MOAH suite, The Kinney Hotel, Venice, CA
Peace on Earth - MOAH Museum of Art and History, Lancaster, CA

2018
SOLO SHOWS
The Secret Knot
Moorpark College Art Gallery, Ventura, CA
Briar Rose or, The Faerie's Revenge, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

GROUP SHOWS
NUMU presents Circle of Truth, New Museum of Art, Los Gatos, CA
Hecho a Mano (curated by Jillith Moniz) Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA

2017
4-PERSON SHOW
Short Days, Dark Nights, KP Projects/Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA
Drawn Together, Art Share-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Holiday Show, Art Share-LA, Los Angeles, CA

2016
GROUP SHOWS
Holiday Show, Art Share-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Zoo-Manity, Art Share-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Portraits, Beyond The Lines Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Dia de los Muertos Spring ArtsCollective, Los Angeles, CA
Spectrum Gestalt III, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
Out There, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA
Things Fall Apart, Artshare-LA, Los Angeles, CA
Premier Exhibition, Animal History Museum, Burbank, CA
The Foolish Game, Gallery 825, Los Angeles, CA  
Grayscale Wonderland II, BG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA

2015
GROUP SHOWS
Holiday Show, Sugarmynt Gallery, South Pasadena, CA
Tarfest Benefit, Launch LA, Los Angeles, CA
LAAA Benefit Auction, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA
Spectrum Gestalt II, BG Gallery Santa Monica, CA
Out There, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA
small time, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA
Grayscale Wonderland, BG Gallery Santa Monica, CA
144 II, BG Gallery Santa Monica, CA

2014
3 PERSON SHOW
The Queen of Calvary, Merry Karnowsky Gallery Los Angeles, CA 

GROUP SHOWS
LAAA Benefit Art Auction, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA
Perceptual Nature, MLY Gallery Malibu, CA

2013
GROUP SHOW
Gleaming Appollo, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA

2011
GROUP SHOW
Fast Living, Curated by Elizabeth East of LA Louver Gallery, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA

2010
GROUP SHOW
Topless Project, Artful International Los Angeles, CA

2009
SOLO SHOWS
Immortal Beloved, Cella Gallery Los Angeles, CA
Whales, Phantom Gallery, Long Beach, CA

GROUP SHOWS
Art in Review, Cella Gallery Los Angeles, CA
LAAA Benefit Art Auction, Gallery 825 Los Angeles, CA

2008
SOLO SHOW
To my widow, Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles, CA


3 PERSON SHOWS
Benevolent Beauty, Cella Gallery Los Angeles, CA
KIMBRO, OSUNA, TOLEDO Taller 410 Los Angeles, CA

2007
SOLO SHOW
Animus, Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles, CA

2007
GROUP SHOWS  
Small Wonders III, Pharmaka Los Angeles, CA
(Juried by LA art critic Holly Myers)
Tarfest, Korean Cultural Center Los Angeles, CA
(Juried by Michele Urton of LACMA)
Art of Elysium, Lawrence Asher Gallery Los Angeles, CA
California Open, TAG Gallery Los Angeles, CA
(Juried by LA art critic Peter Frank)
California Open, Barnsdall Art Center Los Angeles, CA