ARTIST BIO AND STATEMENT

  • Kimberlee Koym-Murteira makes video sculptures, hybrid forms of video, light, water, and installation. Moving from the material to immaterial, creating dialogues guided by the forces of Trauma, Healing, Spirituality, and Ecology. Kimberlee engages somatic connection - a relationship to the body in creation and exhibition - to respond to the complexity of power in relation to ecology and feminism. Employing tenets of embodiment to conjoin environmental concerns and social justice. She sees technology as both a tool and interrupter. Originally from Texas, Kimberlee’s connection to the environment was born on her family’s land near Austin. She holds a MFA from Mills College, a MA in Scenography from Central St Martin’s London and teaches at DVC, CCA, and Cal State East Bay.

  • Kimberlee Koym-Murteira makes video sculptures, hybrid forms of video, light, water, and installation. Moving from the material to immaterial, creating dialogues guided by the forces of Trauma, Healing, Spirituality, and Ecology. Kimberlee engages somatic connection - a relationship to the body in creation and exhibition - to respond to the complexity of power in relation to ecology and feminism. Employing tenets of embodiment to conjoin environmental concerns and social justice. She sees technology as both a tool and interrupter. Originally from Texas, Kimberlee’s connection to the environment was born on her family’s land near Austin. She holds an M.F.A. from Mills College (2007), an M.A. in Scenography from Central St Martin’s London(1999) and teaches at Diablo Valley College, California College of the Arts, and Cal State East Bay.

    Her work has been shown nationally and internationally. In 2022, Immersive Arts Alliance awarded her a grant for the social practice project, Unseen to Seen. In Northern California, she has shown her work at the DeYoung Museum(2023/24), Melissa Morgan Fine Art (2022), Gearbox Gallery (2020), the Museum of Sonoma (2018), Kala Art Institute(2017), the Zero 1 Bienniale (2012), Yerba Buena Center for the Arts (2008), Invisible Venue (2008),Mission 17 (2007), The Lab (2005), and Sonoma State University (2002). Other venues include Plexus Projects (2023) in Brooklyn and the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art (2001). In Europe, her work has been shown at the Future Places Festival (2008), the Biennial of Mediterranean Young Artist in Saravejo, Bosnia(2001), 'Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin.(2001), Porto 2000 Capital of Culture, Cultural Center Malaposta(2000), and Gallery ZDB (2000). She has been awarded residency grants by Lugar Comum in Lisbon, Portugal (2004) and Kala Institute in Berkeley, CA (2017).

Photo: Kimberlee in her studio

Trifolds of Recent Series