About

Kim Beck is a multi-disciplinary artist and educator working with photography, drawing, print media, installation and multiples to explore intersection of nature and time. Her work captures the casual absurdity of the everyday landscape; by drawing our attention to the overlooked, she brings the banal and peripheral aspects into focus. 

Kim Beck grew up in Colorado and spent a summer in rural Japan as an exchange student. She graduated from Brandeis University, with degrees in art and theatre and spent the following year as a Thomas J. Watson Fellow pursuing an independent project called “Process and Product in Art.” Notably, she worked as an assistant to Aboriginal artists in Australia and studied papermaking and ikebana in Japan. She returned to Colorado where she took classes at University of Colorado Boulder and University of Denver in art and Hebrew. In 1997, she earned an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Painting and Printmaking, with additional coursework in Judaic Studies from Brown University. After living and working in Alfred, New York, and Memphis, she moved to Pittsburgh, where she is now based. She is an Associate Professor at Carnegie Mellon University.

Kim Beck’s work has been shown on the High Line, NYC, Walker Art Center, Carnegie Museum of Art, Smack Mellon, Socrates Sculpture Park, Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center, Warhol Museum, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Omi International Arts Center and at the Indianapolis Museum of Art's 100 Acre Park and at galleries including Catharine Clark Gallery, Mixed Greens and Pentimenti. She has been a fellow at MacDowell, Yaddo, Bemis Center for Contemporary Art, Mass MoCA, Art Omi, Oak Spring Garden Foundation, Marie Walsh Sharpe Space Program, Montalvo Arts Center, Vermont Studio Center, International Studio & Curatorial Program in NY, Cité International des Arts in Paris, and VCCA and has received awards from among others ARS Electronica, the Pollock-Krasner Foundation, Heinz Foundation, and Printed Matter.