October 2024
Sept 2024
Pussy Pushback
CSU East Bay Gallery - faculty exhibit
From teenage torsos to Guardian Mothers: A powerful statement on women's rights and the future of our democracy.
These plaster casts represent three 18-year-old first-time voters, including my daughter. As they join the circle of "Guardian Mothers," they embody the strength and wisdom needed to protect hard-won freedoms.Witness the power of "Teenage Torsos & Guardian Mothers" at Dream Farm Commons, Oakland. In a time when women's rights are under threat, art becomes our voice. This piece honors the strength of women past, present, and future. It's a testament to the power of art in sparking crucial conversations about rights, representation, and the world we want to build.
When art meets activism: Empowering the next generation of voters! 💪
Pussy Pushback
Bodies speak for freedom in times of restriction
Bodycasting with Community
Kimberlee Koym-Murteira hosts bodycasting events for mothers and daughters before the election, combining ancient and digital techniques to empower women and LGBTQIA communities facing rights challenges.
Dreamfarm Commons September 14th 5-7pm
JULY 2024
JUNE 2024
Hearts / Fists for Gaza
Solidarity_Strength
This sculptural painting honors Gaza's residents. Throughout the ongoing crisis, I've molded hearts and fists alongside diverse groups. I shaped left fists, for its proximity to the heart's main arterial network. The fist's form echoes a heart's shape. Fists also embody resistance and liberation.
Alter & Excavations Series
Using the ancient tradition of body casting alongside contemporary painting and videography, I explore identity and the act of claiming oneself. These projects aim to break taboos, share stories, and promote self-care. My goal is to establish a safe and inclusive space for conversations about comfort, care, gender, and sexuality.
SEPTEMBER 30, 2023 - JANUARY 7, 2024
Participating Artist for The De Young Open 2023
The De Young Open 2023, the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s second triennial juried community art exhibition, features work by artists from the nine Bay Area counties: Alameda, Contra Costa, Marin, Napa, San Francisco, San Mateo, Santa Clara, Solano, and Sonoma. Artworks are hung salon-style and installed nearly edge to edge and floor to ceiling in the de Young museum’s Herbst Exhibition Galleries, maximizing the number of works on view.
Exhibition Dates: Sept 30 2023 - Jan 7 2024
APRIL 28, 2023
Artist Spotlight on artandcake
artandcake’s Gracie Kendal features an interview with Kimberlee in their latest article, “Artist Spotlight: Kimberlee Koym-Murteira”
MARCH 1, 2023 - MAY 1, 2023
GUI/GOOEY
An online group exhibition of technological explorations of the biological world.
JANUARY 2023
Interview by Kate Mothes of @Dovetail
JULY 2022
ARTIST TALK for UNSEEN TO SEEN
In this artist talk between Kimberlee Koym-Murteira, Allison Pasquesi and Sylvie Minot discuss their work with the project Unseen to Seen part of the Immersive Arts Festival of Oakland July 2022.
JULY 2022
ARTIST TALK for UNSEEN TO SEEN
I had the pleasure of speaking with my longtime artistic collaborator Daniel Alexander Jones regarding our current project Unseen to Seen part of the Immersive Arts Festival in Oakland.
JULY 2022
UNSEEN TO SEEN: IMMERSIVE ARTS FESTIVAL
Videos encapsulating the whole Festival of Immersive Arts 2022.
Kimberlee Koym-Murteira invited groups and the public to create body casts of their hands for a part of the project named Gestures Toward Touch. The casts embody a physical manifestation of reconnection. Hands classically are said to be one of the most expressive parts of our body. They are also responsible for so much of the activation/engagement of our lives. As we leave the circumstance of the pandemic the act of making these plaster cast in groups and transforming remnants of people's bodies into fine art pieces to help bridge the many disruptions of the last few years.
JULY 2022
UNSEEN TO SEEN: IMMERSIVE ARTS FESTIVAL
Newsletter about the project, written by Kimberlee: “Unseen to Seen Summer Festival”
Features:
SF Chronicle’s “Review: New Oakland Festival Explores the Many Definitions of Immersive Art” & Brokeassstraut’s “Immersive Arts & Artists in Urban Life, Oakland CA”
FALL 2022 - SPRING 2022
The Virtual Real: Making in an Disembodied Times
Cal State East Bay Spring 2022
The embodied experience is evermore challenged in contemporary life; how do social media realities, and furthermore remote learning, shape us as artists and designers? The objective of this class is to contextualize and critically consider the various modalities of being in bodies - what does somatic work mean when so much of art making, being, learning happens in a virtual real?
Somatic Practice employs movement to integrate sensation and reflection. Brought awareness presencing the history of culture, story, fragility and power that a unique body possesses. Our class flows from body practice to art process. The course encourages students to develop new connections to understand artmaking from a different perspective, an invitation to find resonance in authentic voice.
During a time of dissociation, the class offers somatic connection. Employs Isolation as an opportunity to connect deeper to self. Students
create collaborative and independent projects, outcomes include emerging media, installation and performance.
Artist Lecture at Cal State Monterey Bay
Academic Positions for 4D Foundation at CCA, Motion Graphics and Digital Editing & Digital Imaging at Diablo Valley College
Teaching
The Virtual Real: Making What We Imagine Better
3D Sculptural Printing
Cal State East Bay Fall 2022
JULY 15-17 to JULY 22-24, 2022
Embodied in the Making: The Art Studio of Kimberlee Koym-Murteira
Unseen to Seen - Dialogues on Healing
A Collaborative Project Led by Kimberlee with Allison Pasquesi, Daniel Alexander Jones, Sylvie Minot (advisor), and Laura Inserra (soundscape)
Produced by the Oakland Festival of Immersive Arts
447 17th Street, Oakland, CA 94612 - ( enter on Broadway)
Two weekends: July 15-16-17 & July 22-23-24 // Friday - Sunday // 8 to 10 pm
SF Chronicle Review of Festival: Bravo writes, "The most commanding part of the project is the sculptural installation “Gestures Toward Touch,” which displays casts of community members’ hands."
OCTOBER 4 to NOVEMBER 5, 2021
Bedroom Soliloquies
Currently on view at: Cabrillo Art Gallery and DVC Art Gallery
Recently: Ars Electronica: Concrete House
AUGUST 01 to OCTOBER 01, 2021
Into What’s Next
An event hosted by the Chautauqua Visual Arts, as part of the Resilience: Open CVA Members Exhibition (Past 2021)
OCTOBER 6, 2018, to JANUARY 27, 2019
From the Fire: A Community Reflects and Rebuilds
Hosted by the Museums of Sonoma
A community project introducing video sculptures that project fire through water.
Press Covering the From the Fire Exhibition:
Join KRCB's Steve Mencher and MSC Executive Director Jeff Nathanson as they interview From the Fire artist Kimberlee Koym-Murteira, and visit the studios of Adam Shaw and Martín Zúñiga in The New Normal: Visions of Healing
Interviews:
April 2, 2019
Preserving Memories: From the Fire: Audio Interview
October 7, 2018
Interviews MSC Executive Director Jeff Nathanson and From the Fire artists, Adam Shaw and Kimberlee Koym-Murteira on Broadcast from News of the Northbay
October 20, 2018, at 7 pm
Artist Roundtable showcasing From the Fire: A Community Reflects and Rebuilds on Museums of Sonoma
OCTOBER 11 to NOVEMBER 2, 2018
10 Artists to Watch
Hosted by the LACDA Los Angeles Center for Digital Art
Curating Jurors: Joel Ferree
Director: LACMA Art + Technology Lab, L.A. County Museum of Art
MARCH 16-17, 2019
Lumiere
Art Fair hosted by The Vast Lab
Additional Features:
Humans of the Earth Presents: “WHAT CLIMATE?”, A Climate-Centric Art Exhibit
MAY 6-9, 2018
Rainbows in my Clouds
A digital media exhibition hosted by the Plexus Projects & Future Artifact, as part of the Creative Tech Week in Brooklyn, NY
JANUARY 29, 2017
Startup Art Fair Los Angeles 2017
Featured under the art fair’s 2017 photo essay series. Photo credits to Kristine Schomaker.
NOVEMBER 7, 2010
Inner Lining
With additional installations hosted by Arteaser’s event, “Artists as Curators: Two Shows, Lots of Black and White”
AUGUST 21 to SEPTEMBER 12, 2009
Fractured Translucence
Kimberlee Koym-Murteira installation
With additional work featuring sculptures and installations from Kimberlee’s PULSATION and CONTAINED series.
Reception Friday, August 21, 5–7 p.m.
Artist talk at 6 p.m.
Mandolin music by Rob Wilso
1078 Gallery, 820 Broadway, Chico, CA 95928
Interviews & Features
MAY 5, 2023
Instagram post by dovetail.mag, highlighting Kimberlee’s series “Vanishing Sanctuary”
AUGUST 25, 2022
Immersive Arts & Artists in Urban Life, Oakland CA written by Navya Pothamsetty
JULY 18
Review: New Oakland festival explores the many definitions of immersive art written by Tony Bravo of SF Chronicle
NOVEMBER 2021
Rising Stars: Meet Kimberlee Koym-Murteira hosted by Voyagela
FEBRUARY 15, 2021
Meet Kimberlee Koym-Murteira: Artist - Video Sculptor, & Educator and Meet Kimberlee-Koym Murteira: SHOUTOUTLA posted by SHOUTOUTLA
JUNE 5, 2020
Birthday Candle video by Kimberlee Koym featured on Shoebox
2020
Highlighting Instructions for Life: Pay Attention, Be Astonished, Tell About It on NOWBEHERE
NOVEMBER 7, 2020
MAY 7, 2020
Call and Response: Collaboration at a Distance Round 2 featuring Kimberlee Koym and Jody Zellen
OCTOBER 6, 2018 to JANUARY 27, 2019
From the Fire: A Community Reflects and Rebuilds is featured on the front of the catalog (with the full catalog here).
JANUARY 14 to FEBRUARY 14, 2016
Featured as the scenic designer for the creative team for the event of August Wilson’s Gem of the Ocean, directed by Daniel Alexander Jones
OCTOBER 12, 2016
Fads and Frued: Fascination for gadgets, feet devotion, fetish and gas taken in as a boost for rolling currencies. Fascination that has to do with desire and automatic mechanisms. Wobbly emotions that are easily manipulated by the sight of the cutest creatures or a news alarm. With films by Woody and Steina Vasulka, Pendar Nabipour, Kimberlee Koym, Mariam Eqbal and more.
ARPIL 26, 2009
Interview and promotion of ceiling art by Kimberlee Koym-Murteira hosted by the 2009 Decorator Showcase
NOVEMBER 2, 2001
Featured in the Local Arts Review posted by Barry Pineo highlighting Misery: King Overthrown