Harvesting marigolds for dye color, Brooklyn, NY, October 2020
Kim Reinhardt’s work explores the fertile edges between human anatomy, graphic design ecology, fiber, screen printing, place and painting. Reinhardt also creates and sells hand dyed, hand screen printed goods often using natural dyes with an interest in conscious sourcing of materials.
Reinhardt’s work has been exhibited nationally as well as internationally. Most recently her work was part of a textiles-based show at the White Rock Center for Sculptural Arts in Holmes, NY. Reinhardt attended Cooper Union for fine art and has also studied anatomy, kiniesology, developmental movement, mindfulness and teaching practice through an embodied pedagogy. Additional areas of interest and background encompass sustainable urban farming, gardening, green infrastructure and composting. Kimberly has participated in working groups through the School of Apocalypse as well as collaborated with the Environmental Performance Agency on workshops and actions. She completed a 6 month master composting apprenticeship with Earth Matter on Governors Island in 2017.
Recent teaching appointments include: Part Time Digital Imaging lecturer at Borough of Manhattan Community Collage and Summer Intensive Graphic Design Instructor at Parsons/New School Open Campus. Kimberly currently teaches Graphic Design and Digital Tools in the art department at Fordham University.
In June 2022 Reinhardt will be collaborating with yoga therapist Deborah Wolk at the SSB Away residency in Abiquiu, New Mexico on a book about the nervous system and the connection/ disconnection with place. Click here to see Deborah and Kim answer a selection if 50 questions posed by the residency.
Compost Triage at the School of the Apocalypse Field Trip:
Making Cultures in the In-Between. Liberty, New York. September 2017
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b. 1976. Baltimore, Md
lives in Brooklyn, NY
Education
1998 Cooper Union for the Advancement of Science and Art, New York, NY, BFA
1996 Gerrit Rietveld Academie. Amsterdam, Holland. Spring. Spring Semester
Group Exhibitions & Projects
Summertime Rolls Investigations into Image, Material & Process
Equity Gallery, New York, NY
2021
Summer Invitational III: Textile. White Rock Center For Sculptural Arts, Holmes, NY
2020
What We Create May Save Us. Ejecta Projects, Carlisle, PA
Ransom 2. Wayfarers Brooklyn, virtual
2019
Environmental Empathies. Callahan Center Art Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2017
Fertilizing Fire Circle: Exposing the Soil. Environmental Performance Agency Headquarters, Brooklyn, NY.
Co-creating futures: Moving at the Speed of Trust. Environmental Performance Agency Headquarters, Brooklyn, NY
Mapping the US EPA: Sensing the Bureaucracy, Who Has Agency? Environmental Performance Agency Headquarters, Brooklyn, NY
Re:Search: BMCC Faculty Exhibition. Shirley Fiterman Art Center, New York, NY
2015
Painting in Trees. The People’s Garden, Brooklyn, NY
2014
Sprunq. ABC No Rio, New York, NY
2013
Cloth Made More Interesting By People. Feature Inc, New York, NY
Permanent Summer. Civilian Art Projects, Washington DC
2012
To the Stars on the Wings of An Eel. Gowanus Ballroom, Brooklyn, NY
Ren·ais·sance. Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY
Love Conquers All. Strange Loop Gallery, New York, NY
2011
SICK! A Multi-Disciplinary International Group Show. Leo Kogan Project Space, Amsterdam, Holland
New Prints 2011/Summer, curated by Trenton Doyle Hancock. International Print Center, New York, NY
Pretty Vacant/ A Group Exhibition in a Modern Ruin. 95 4th Street, Brooklyn, NY
2010
BEDLAM, organized by Carlos Little and Bank Iran. 113 Leroy Street, New York, NY
2009
Work/ Waissac, I Heart Art, organized by B.W.A.C. Work Gallery. Work Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2008
Where We Are. Pearl Arts Gallery, Stone Ridge, NY
NEXT: The Invitational Exhibition of Emerging Art. CUE Art Foundation, NEXT Art Fair Booth, Chicago, IL
2007
RIATS Fest. 3rd Ward, Brooklyn, NY
2006
Contra Golpe - Reenacting a Failed Operation, organized by Instituto-Divorciad,. Karl Marx Allee 87, Berlin, Germany
1998
Junge Kuenstlerinnen aus New York, Verborgene Museum. Berlin, Germany
Residencies
2022, Some Serious Business, Artist Residency, Abiquiu, NM
2006 Cue Art Foundation, Artist Residency, New York, NY
Studio Residencies
2020-2022 Artbuilt, Studio Residency, Brooklyn NY
2019-2020, Wayfarers Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY
2012-2013, Chashama, Studio Residency, Brooklyn, NY