About Me
Bruno David Gallery:
http://www.brunodavidgallery.com/index.cfm
Quick Time Video:
http://illusionjunkie.blogspot.com/search?q=humphries
Many images are available on this site - see PICS
KIM HUMPHRIES - RESUMÉ
St. Louis, MO
kh_sc "AT" sbcglobal.net
EDUCATION
MFA, 1984, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD
BFA, 1982, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2006, Certain Areas, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO –gallery essay by Daniel Raedeke
2004, Collection, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO – gallery guide essay by Shannon Fitzgerald, curator
2000, Paintings, Weston Art Galleries, Cincinnati, OH
1999, Gillombardo’s Hams, Semantics, Cincinnati, OH
1997, Tertiary Revisionism, Forty Years of Truth and Fiction, The Ottoman
Project, Bobo a Baby Gorilla, DiLeia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH, Catalog essay by David Brown
1996, Recent Work, Teplitzky and Scott Fine Art, Cincinnati, OH
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008, Over_View, Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008, Take Out, Ellen Curlee Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2008, HOMEgrown, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis (Front Room) with Dana Turkovick & Sarah Colby
2008, Migration Platform, University of Cincinnati, School of Art Gallery
2007, TRUCK, Urban Culture Project, Kansas City, MO
2006, Certain Places, Bruno David Gallery (Project Space), Saint Louis, MO
2006, Summer Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2006, Selections from the Contemporary’s Flat Files, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis
2005, Inaugural Exhibition, Bruno David Gallery, Saint Louis, MO
2005, Drawings into Objects, Weston Art Galleries, Cincinnati, OH
2005, 8 The Hard Way, Philip Slein Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2004, 1984 - 2004 TWENTIETH ANNIVERSARY CELEBRATION, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
2004, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Art in St. Louis, Elliot Smith Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
2003, Recent Developments, Untitled / Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO
2003, Evidence divided by ephemera is greater to or equal than experience, Semantics Gallery, Cincinnati, OH
2003, untitled: THE SEQUEL, smaller cheaper, Untitled / Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO
2002, INSTALLATION, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Covington, KY
2001, Three Day Weekend, Critical Mass, St Louis, MO
2000, Portraits, Jorgensen Gallery, NYC, NY
1999, This Side Up, Spaces, Cleveland, OH
1999, Semantics, Semantics, Cincinnati, OH
1998, More Dirt, Dirt Gallery, Kansas City, MO
1998, Time Store, DiLeia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH
1998, New Spaces, Semantics, Cincinnati, OH
1998, Out.Fit, Newsense Gallery, Cleveland, OH
1998, Snapshot, Art Orgy, Seattle, WA
1997, Built, Rike Center Gallery, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
1997, project-t, Cultural Machine Complex, Cincinnati, OH
1996, Redundant Redundant, DiLeia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH
1996, Alex’s Cookies, Semantics, Cincinnati, OH
SELECTED PERFORMANCES
2006, THE KIM HUMPHRIES NEW YEAR’S EVE HOT TUB PARTY, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO
2004, The Collection (five action events), Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis, St. Louis, MO
2004, Cicadas the Musical, Contemporary Dance Theatre, Cincinnati, OH
2003, Fifty Stars, Zhang Huan, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH (participant)
1999, Gillombardo’s Hams, JayBar Studios, Cincinnati, OH
1999, Culture Wars, Cleveland Performance Art Festival, Cleveland, OH
1999, Public Display of Affection, Cincinnati, OH
1999, Culture Wars, InterMedia, Aranoff Center for the Arts, Cincinnati, OH
1998, Culture Wars: Trial by Fire, Cultural Machine Complex, Cincinnati, OH
1997, Culture Wars, University of Dayton, Dayton, OH
1997, Talent Show, DiLeia Contemporary, Cincinnati, OH
GRANTS/AWARDS
2003, Great Rivers Biennial Visual Arts Award, St. Louis, MO
1999, Cincinnati Arts Allocation, Individual Artist Grant
1997, Cincinnati Arts Allocation, Individual Artist Grant
1996, Cincinnati Arts Allocation, Individual Artist Grant
1996, Ohio State Arts Council, Individual Artist Grant
OTHER PROFESSIONAL
2006 – Present, Director of Installations and Collections Management, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO
1996 - Present, visiting artist, guest lecturer
2006 - Present, member – board of directors, White Flag Projects, St. Louis, MO http://www.whiteflagprojects.org/
2006 – Essay, Jill Downen exhibition, dis(embody), Bruno David Gallery, St. Louis, MO
2005 – 2007, Regional Arts Commission grants panelist
2005, Co-Curator, Illegal Video, Untitled / Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO
2003, Co-Curator, On And On ‘Til The Break Of Dawn, Critical Mass, St. Louis, MO
2003, Curator, George Kuchar: The Inmate and other Recent Video, Untitled / Fort Gondo, St. Louis, MO
2000 - Present, Treasurer & Chair of Fundraising Committee, Critical Mass for the Visual Arts, St. Louis, MO – An independent not-for-profit organization promoting regional arts awareness
1999, Curator, INSTALLATION, Carnegie Center for the Arts, Covington, KY
1998 – 1999, Artists Reaching Classrooms, Cincinnati, OH - Served as guest speaker/Visiting Artist in a variety of area high schools for this collaborative program organized by the Art Academy of Cincinnati and the Taft Museum of Art.
1998, Consultant, Kendall College of Art and Design, Lansing, MI - Contributed syllabi and text for the development of a Museum Studies program
1996, Advisory Panel Member, Art on the Square, Cincinnati, OH
Served on panel for development and management of regional arts festival
PRESS / MEDIA
July, 2007, Alex Schubert, Review Magazine, TRUCK
February 1, 2006, Ivy Cooper, Riverfront Times, Kim Humphries: Certain Areas
January 18, 2006, Hugh Beall, West End Word, Spirit of Duchamp is Alive and Well in Kim Humphries’ Work
January, 2006, Hugh Beall, Illusion Junkie podcast video, “Kim Humphries on view at Bruno Davidâ€
January 11, 2006, Kristie McClanahan, Riverfront Times, Certain Areas - Kim Humphries Moves Forward
November 17, 2005, Miller, Rob ’Over hung’ show or ‘Hung over’ critic?
November 9, 2005, Ivy Cooper, Riverfront Times, Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition
November 9, 2005, David Bonetti, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Bruno David Gallery
October 2005, Thomas Crone, 52nd City, Bruno David to Open on Friday
October 26, 2005, Hugh Beall, West End Word, The Bruno Buzz
October 25, 2005 Rob Miller, Saintlouisart, Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition
October 25, 2005, Hugh Beall, Illusion Junkie Web Video, Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition,
October 20, 2005, David Bonetti, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Bruno David Gallery: Inaugural Exhibition
October 19, 2005, Alison Sieloff, Riverfront Times, Grand Grand Center
October 1, 2005, David Bonetti, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Gallery Musical Chairs
February 2005, Ivy Cooper, Riverfront Times, Eight the Hard Way
January 2005, Jan Castro, Sculpture Magazine, Great Rivers Biennial
January 2, 2005, David Bonetti, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Arts Here…
December 26, 2004, David Bonetti, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Currents 93
December 22, 2004, Ivy Cooper, Riverfront Times (St. Louis), Out With The Old In With The New
October 3, 2004, David Bonetti, St. Louis Post Dispatch, 20
September, 2004, Tim McNabb, Five Hundred Words, Collection
September 29, 2004, staff, Riverfront Times, Best of St. Louis, September, 2004, Karin Moody, St. Louis Commerce Magazine, The Gateway Arts
August, 2004, Byron Kerman, Playback (St. Louis), Delirious Nomad
July, 2004, Rudy Zapf, Playback, Great Rivers Biennial (2 part)
July 28, 2004, Ivy Cooper, Riverfront Times, 2004 Great Rivers Biennial Artists Exhibition
July 21, 2004, Tim Woodcock, West End Word (St. Louis), Off the Wall
July, 2004, KWMU 90.7, Cityscape, radio interview with Mike Sampson, http://www.kwmu.org/Programs/Cityscape/archivedetail.php?dat
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July 2004, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Great Rivers, David Bonetti
July 2004, Shannon Fitzgerald, Chief Curator, Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis gallery guide essay
May 2004, Ivy Cooper, Art Papers, Surviving in St. Louis
May 27, 2004, St Louis Post Dispatch, Visual Arts, David Bonetti
June 21, 2004, Steve Ramos City Beat (Cincinnati), Like the Cicadas – Kim Humphries Returns
January 4, 2001, Kevin Kelly, City Beat, Online Lingo
December 28, 2000, Andy Knight, Cincinnati Enquirer, Can’t Miss Exhibits
April 27, 2000, City Beat, Steve Ramos, How Do We Keep Kim Humphries in Cincinnati?
January, 1999, Charles Yannopoulos, Scene (Cleveland), Domestic Bliss?
October, 1999, Steve Ramos, City Beat (Cincinnati), Hams-A-Palooza!
Note: Information on projects previous to 1996 available on request