Kim Leutwyler

Sydney, Australia

About Kim Leutwyler

Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, printmedia and drawing. Kim holds concurrent bachelor degrees in Studio and Art History from Arizona State University, and additionally graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Painting and Drawing degree. Kim’s current work takes its form in paintings dealing with images of beauty, gender and Queer-identity. She has come to focus on painting as a medium because of its primarily masculine history in the western art canon. By entering into the modernist painting field Kim hopes to destabilize gender borders just as LGBTQ artists have been doing since the 70’s and earlier. Her artwork has been exhibited in multiple galleries throughout the United States and Australia. Leutwyler's recent accolades include being selected as a finalist in the Archibald, Sulman and Bluethumb Art Prizes, as well as the Portia Geach Memorial Award. She also won the Midsumma Visual Arts Guide Cover Competition, and her painting was the hero image for the 2016 LGBTQ Festival in Melbourne, Australia.

Education:

School of the Art Institute of Chicago 2008-2009
Painting and Drawing, Chicago, IL

Arizona State University (studied abroad at University of Auckland, New Zealand) 2002- 2007
Bachelor of Arts, Art. Katherine K. Herberger, College of Fine Arts, Tempe, AZ
Major: Art History
Major: Studio Art with emphasis in printmaking
* Concurrent degrees

Exhibitions:

2018
40 Years of Queer Art: Rebellion and Subversion, Comber St Studios, Paddington, Australia
NSFW, BSIDE Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
Ephemeral, Modern Eden Gallery, San Francisco, USA

2017
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Sir John Sulman Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia
Cliftons Art Prize, Cliftons, Sydney, Australia
Bluethumb Art Prize, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia
No Woman is an Island, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne, Australia
Virtual Connections, No.1 Martin Place Mezzanine, Sydney, Australia
Queer Art Prize Judges Exhibit, Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia

2016
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Trailblazing Women of Herstory, Neospace, Melbourne, Australia
John Copes Portrait Prize, BDAS Gallery, Bowral, Australia
Meridian: The Midsumma Visual Arts Exhibition, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia
Archibald Prize, Regional Art Museums and Galleries, Australia (toured nationally)

2015
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of NSW, Sydney, Australia
Home Free, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia

2014
Artfuly: A Digital Discovery, Zigi's Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia
New Work by Kim Leutwyler, Blacklisted at Black Penny, Sydney, Australia
The Comfort Zone, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia
Inquisitarium, Art @1 Spring Street, Melbourne, Australia

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