Kim Schoenstadt

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Kim Schoenstadt was born in Chicago, Il. and currently lives in Venice, CA. She received a BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. She is known for large-scale wall drawings that weave architecture and sculptural shapes together to make a memory map. She is also known for projects such as Now Be Here which in 2016 gathered nearly 1,000 women-identifying and non-binary artists for a photograph that visually revealed to the world artists that are not always included in exhibitions and collections. One-person exhibitions of her work have been presented at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA; Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich, Germany; Chimento Contemporary, LA, CA; and M29 Richter & Bruckner Gallery, Koln, Germany. Her work has been included in thematic exhibitions such as Prague Biennale, Prague, CR; Poland Biennale, Lodz, PL; Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Il; Uneasy Angles/ Imagine LA, Sprueth/Magers Gallery, Munich, Germany; Rogue Wave, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Total Art Performance, Getty Center, LA, CA; When Attitudes Became Form, Become Attitudes, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, SF, CA. Schoenstadt was the recipient of the Volta/Bahamar Art Prize (2018), Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2013), and the Catherine Doctorow Prize (2011). Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as MOCA, LACMA and the Hammer Museum LA, CA; MOMA, NY, NY; MCA Chicago, IL; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL.