ARTIST CV


EDUCATION 

2021 The Alternative School - Home in the Body - with Janine Antoni 

2007 Mills College  MFA in Studio Art  Oakland, CA

1999 Central St. Martins College of Art & Design Masters of Scenography London, UK

Attended sister Facilities at HKU, Utrecht School for the Arts, NL, University of Art & Design, UIAH  FI

1992 University of Texas @ Austin   BA in Theatre

AWARDS & ENDOWMENTS

2024 ARIM: Artist Residency in Mother - with Lenka Clayton

2021/22 Immersive Arts Alliance Grant 

2017 Kala Artist Parent Residency Award

2006-07 Eklind Merit Award  

Graduate Assistantship  Mills College

Hattie Strong Foundation 

Research Grant from Mills College

2006 Herringer Family Foundation Award

2004 Residency Grant from Lugar Comum   Lisbon, Portugal

1998 Marshall Plan Scholarship  

National Excellence Award   

Hattie Strong Foundation

1988-92 Baumberger Endowment 

Morton Brown Award

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2024 Pussy Pushback  Dreamfarm Commons, Oakland, CA

2022 Unseen to Seen Immersive Arts Festival, Oakland, CA 

2017 Key Ingredients  stARTup ArtFair SF, Hotel del Sol, SF, CA

       Crystallization  stARTup ArtFair LA, Highland Garden Hotel, LA, CA

2016 Crystallization  Gear Box Gallery, Oakland, CA  *two person show 

2014 Step on a Tin, the Tin bends French American School, Awaiting Dawn  SF, CA

2012 Fractured Weave Zero1 Biennial, Museum of Quilts & Textiles, San Jose, CA

Inner Lining Blindestiff Studio: Arctic Hysteria San Francisco, CA

2009 Fractured Translucence 1078 Gallery  Chico, CA

Watercolor: Site Specific Video Installation  SF Designers Showcase  San Francisco, CA

Pulsation Modesto Junior College Art Gallery Modesto, CA

2008 99¢ Bubble Invisible Venue Oakland, CA 

2004 Dance Dance Doll of Mine Lugar Comum Lisbon, Portugal

2001 Virginia’s Moving Blue House Fontera Fest  Austin, TX

2000 Changing Yaron Cultural Center Malaposta Lisbon, Portugal

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2024 Unbound Vessels Gallery-O-rama, SF, CA

Hurryup & Wait DVC Art Gallery Pleasant Hill, CA

Faculty Show  Cal State East Bay  Gallery Hayward, CA

2023 The DeYoung Open  De Young Museum SF, CA 

Faculty Show  Cal State East Bay  Gallery Hayward, CA

Gui/Gooey Plexus Projects Brooklyn, NY

2022 Fire & Water CSUEB Gallery Hayward, CA

Kipaipai Exhibition Melissa Morgan Fine Arts Palm Desert, CA 

2021 Moving Images Pause Restart Cabrillo Gallery Watsonville, CA 

Concrete House Ars Electronica  Linz, Austria

Soliloquies DVC Art Gallery Pleasant Hill, CA

Artists Around the Bay Jen Tough Gallery Santa Fe, NM

Fun Size  Jen Tough Gallery Santa Fe, NM

Resilience Chautauqua Visual Arts Chautauqua, NY

2020 Rough Around the Edges Jen Tough Gallery Santa Fe, NM

Sanctuary Gearbox Gallery Curated by Rene de Guzman, San Francisco, CA

Response Kala Arts Berkeley, CA

Socially Distanced Jen Tough Gallery Santa Fe, NM

Call & Response ShoeboxPR LA, CA

Collaboration at a Distance ShoeboxProductions LA, CA

Fire! DVC Art Gallery Pleasant Hill, CA

2019 Visions The Room Contemporary Art Space Venice, Italy

Consciousness Palazzo Ca’ Zanardi Venice, Italy

Nightlight Other Places Art Fair, San Pablo, CA 

What Climate?  HOTE Gallery, LA, CA

2018 From the Fire, A Community Reflects & Rebuilds The Museums of Sonoma Santa Rosa, CA

10 Artists to Watch  LA Center for Digital Art, LA, CA  Juror Joel Ferree - LACMA

Walking the Line Gear Box Gallery, Oakland, CA  Juror Drew Bennett

DVC Art & Digital Media Faculty DVC Art Gallery  Pleasant Hill, CA

Permeable Boundaries Plexus Projects  Brooklyn, NY 

Future Artifact Plexus Projects Brooklyn, NY 

Lumiere The Vast Lab LA, CA 

Child’s play The Vast Lab LA, CA

Kala Annual Artist Show Kala Arts Berkeley, CA

2017 Thinking Out Loud  CCA Street Galleries Oakland, CA

       That Blitz Mentality Wallspace Gallery LA, CA

2016 Fads & Freud WORM Rotterdam, the Netherlands

Faculty Art Show DVC Art Gallery  Pleasant Hill, CA

2015 Parts of the Whole DVC Art Gallery  Pleasant Hill, CA

2014 Faculty Art Show DVC Art Gallery  Pleasant Hill, CA

2011 Delta Waters  LH Horton Jr Gallery Stockton, CA 

Hello Tomorrow David Brower Center Berkeley, CA

2010 Temple of Flora Slingshot Gallery San Francisco, CA

Inner Lining Slingshot Gallery San Francisco, CA

2009 Non Mart Y2Gallery San Francisco, CA

Faculty Art Show Diablo Valley College Pleasant Hill, CA

2008 Future Places Festival UT Austin/Portugal Co Lab Porto, Portugal

Red Poppy Art House Yerba Buena Center for the Arts San Francisco, CA

The Water Project Thoreau Galleries The Presidio, San Francisco, CA

Miniature College of Marin Gallery  Kentfield, CA

Fluid Femina Potens San Francisco, CA  

2007 IOU Juried Show Mission 17 San Francisco, CA

Los Angeles Center for Digital Art LACDA LA, CA

Pathological  MFA Show Mills College Oakland, CA 

2006 Video Screening Rooftop Films Brooklyn, NY

Video Screening Slomo Video Tour Various locations worldwide

2005 Local Voice  Juried Show Bedford Gallery  Walnut Creek, CA 

International Video Art Festival Video Lisboa #5 Lisbon, Portugal 

Bayennale  Shadowcast, The Lab San Francisco, CA 

Sociedadal IV Salon de Arte Digital  Maracaibo, Venezuela 

The Diorama Show  Mission 17 San Francisco, CA

2004 International Kansk Video Festival Kansk,Russia

2003 OtherSelves Mission 17  San Francisco, CA

Experimental & Trans Disciplinary Arts Festival Herztscopio Lisbon, Portugal

V Salon Internacional de Arte Digital Centro Cultural Pablo de la Torriente Brau, Havana, Cuba

2002 Art in Motion Cellspace San Francisco, CA

Across the Generations Virginia Woolf Sonoma State University Sonoma, CA 

2001 Quick Flicks Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art’s Lakeworth, Florida

Biennial of Mediterranean Young Artists  Saravejo, Bosnia 

Beecher Center for Technology in the Arts   Youngstown, OH

RoARaTorio - Paris/ Berlin International Meetings 

Cinema Entrepot  Paris AROMA Gallery Berlin

Nat’l Exhibit of Young Creators Clube Português  de Artes e Ideias 

Porto, Portugal European Capitol of Culture 2001 

2000 Sound Installation Galeria Zé dos Bois Lisbon, Portugal

Imagination  Color & Paper Cultural Center Malaposta Lisbon, Portugal

1999 Scenofest  HKU Utrecht, Holland

ACADEMIC POSITIONS

2021-24 CSU East Bay

Senior Portfolio, 4D course & The Virtual Real: Making in Disembodied Times

The Virtual Real: Making what we Imagine Matter - 3D sculptural printing

2016-19 4D Foundation Course  CCA 

2009-24 Video Production & Motion Graphics Diablo Valley College 

2011-24      Digital Imaging Diablo Valley College 

2010-21 Graphic Design Diablo Valley College 

2007 Workshop Instructor Aftereffects  Mills College

Teaching Assistant  Video  Mills College

2005/06 Digital Lab Technician  Mills College

2005 Teaching Assistant  Digital Imaging  Mills College

THEATRE & FILM PRODUCTION selected credits

SCENOGRAPHY_SET DESIGN        

2015 Gem of the Ocean Marin Theatre Co. Marin, CA Director: Daniel Alexander Jones  

2005 Phoenix Fabrik Pillsbury House Theatre Director: Daniel Alexander Jones  

funded by Rockfeller Endowment   Minneapolis, MN

2002 Mennochio Berkeley Rep Theatre *Video Projections

Haroun & the Sea of Stories Berkeley Rep Theatre  *Video Projections

Rigaletto Austin Lyric Opera Assistant Designer

Misery Zach Scott Theatre Austin, TX    

1998 The Launderett  Collage Dance Theatre LA, CA  Director Heidi Duckler

1995-97 Fontera Productions  - Austin, TX  

Clay Angels  Director: Daniel Alexander Jones   

Earthbirths

Unmerciful Good Fortune

Blood Shock Boogie 

Black Power Barbie  Playwright: Shay Youngblood

BIBLIOGRAPHY / PRESS

Art & Cake

https://artandcakela.com/2023/04/28/artist-spotlight-kimberlee-koym-murteira/

Kate Mothes of @Dovetail

https://www.wethemuse.art/artistprofiles/2022kimberleekoymmateira

SF Chronicle

https://datebook.sfchronicle.com/art-exhibits/review-new-oakland-festival-explores-the-many-definitions-of-immersive-art

Broke Ass Stuart

https://brokeassstuart.com/2022/08/25/immersive-arts-artists-in-urban-life-oakland-ca/

Love Like Light: Plays & Performance Text by Daniel Alexander Jones 53rd St Press July 2021

Vovage LA

http://voyagela.com/interview/rising-stars-meet-kimberlee-koym-murteira-of-echo-park/

ShoutOut LA

https://shoutoutla.com/meet-kimberlee-koym-murteira-artist-video-sculptor-educator/

Stories from the Fire: Art Northern California Public Media

https://norcalpublicmedia.org/video/firerecoveryvideo/stories-from-the-fire-art

My work featured in broadcast about the show:

https://newsofthenorthbay.com/2018/10/from-the-fire-at-museums-of-sonoma-county/

Catalogue of From the Fire, Museums of Sonoma County

https://issuu.com/museumsc/docs/-fire-ctlg-cvr_int-single

http://artillerymag.com/fun-art-fair/

http://www.imgrum.online/i/BP3EAQOBpF8

Theatrical Jazz, Performance, Ase, & the Power of the Present Moment, by Omi Osun Joni L. Jones

http://theatreeddys.blogspot.com/2016/01/gem-of-ocean.html

http://www.marinij.com/article/NO/20160120/FEATURES/160129990

http://forallevents.info/reviews/a-journey-to-the-city-of-bones-in-gem-of-the-ocean-at-mtc/

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/pamela-feinsilber/another-gem-from-marin-th_b_9045114.html

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/george-heymont/to-exhume-or-not-to-exhum_b_9375876.html 

http://www.marintheatre.org/productions/august-wilsons-gem-of-the-ocean/gem-of-the-ocean-first-day-of-rehearsal-meet-and-greet

http://www.marinscope.com/ross_valley_reporter/lifestyles_entertainment/play-about-underscores-current-racial-dilemmas/article_1b892cc4-c09a-11e5-9357-9fce224c62b6.html

http://2012.zero1biennial.org/kimberlee-koym-murteira

http://www.chicoer.com/article/ZZ/20090813/NEWS/908139746

https://www.newsreview.com/chico/rainmaker/content?oid=1137529

http://www.sfgate.com/homeandgarden/article/Putting-the-pow-in-powder-room-3163094.php

http://www.homeworkshop.com/2009/07/03/a-multimedia-powder-room/

https://www.artslant.com/sf/events/show/38164-pulsation

https://blog.christinewongyap.com/tag/humor/

“The ‘Water Project’ at the Thoreau Center” Artweek pg.15, September 2008 

Pathological, Catalogue, Mills College, Oakland, CA 

Mission 17, The Early Years, Catalogue, San Francisco, CA 2008

http://futureplaces.org/2008/doku.php?id=exhibition:kimberlee_koym-murteira

https://www.mills.edu/academics/grants_and_special_programs/mfa_exhibitions/mfa_2007/html/koym.html

“30 Dias” Roteiro da Cãmara Municipal de Oeiras, Exposições Oeriras, Portugal pg 20, June 2004

Hamlin, Jesse. "Other Selves," SF Chronicle, San Francisco, CA December 9th, 2003

Orden, Abe. "Other Selves," Stretcher.org, December 2003 <http://www.stretcher.org/archives/r2_a/2004_01_20_r2_archive.php>

“Sarajevo 2001 Chaos & Communication” 10th Biennial of Young Artists from Europe & the Mediterranean, Catalogue, pg 116, Sarajevo. July 2001 

“Joven Criadores” Jornal de Letras, Artes e Ideias pg 18, Lisbon, Portugal. February 2001