Kim Stringfellow
[Image description: Kim stands in a desert landscape. She has light skin and blonde hair, and wears a black and white knit poncho.]
Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator, writer, and independent curator based in Joshua Tree, California. She is a Professor Emeritus at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design. She received her MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000. Claremont Graduate University awarded her an honorary doctoral degree in 2018.
For the past twenty years, Stringfellow’s creative practice has focused on the human-driven transformation of some of the American West’s most iconic arid regions through multi-year, research-based projects merging cultural geography, public practice, and documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences. These art-centered projects combine writing, photography, audio, video, installation, mapping, and community engagement to explore the history of place while examining how the landscapes we inhabit are socially and culturally constructed. She is primarily interested in the ecological repercussions of human presence and occupation within these spaces. By focusing on distinct subjects, communities, or regions, she attempts to foster a discussion of complex, interrelated issues for each site while exposing human values and policy agendas that form our collective understanding of these places.
Stringfellow’s work has been exhibited at Desert X 2021, The International Center for Photography (ICP), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), and The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, among other venues.
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