Kim Zumpfe is an artist, writer and educator that works in Los Angeles.
Primarily working in installation and performance, different modes of presence and representation are considered in relationship to performers, audience, and spaces to create individual experiences and social encounters. Structures are built and materials are used that can be understood in multiple ways, alternately as shelters, resting places, stages, and interactive objects to be experienced and manipulated. These relationships created in physical spaces are an inquiry into place and placement, including territories that can constitute and extend beyond location. Through individual and collaborative work, Zumpfe addresses questions around how the body experiences, integrates, and potentially resists a complex social, media-driven and material environment. Alternate possibilities are being considered in the order of things through working with space as a psychology and qualities of bent time(s) including properties of the transitory and the unstable. Zumpfe has exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Diverseworks Houston, Gallery TPW Toronto, Audain Gallery Vancouver, CSUF Grand Central Art Center, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Hammer Museum, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), UCR Culver Center for the Arts Riverside, Torrance Art Museum, and several public and online sites. Recent writings have been published by The Invisible Archive, Haunt Journal of Art, and in We Spoke published by Sming Sming books. |
Images of work (left to right):
1. Astral Projections, 2019
Photo credit: Ian Byers-Gamber
2. Astral Projections, idem
3. place where, before, In A In (Exhibition and Performance), 2019
photo credit: Chris Wormald
4. where is this place, i pinch myself (performance as part of Outside the length of a room | OR | diving into the blue sun), 2017
photo credit: Lainey LaRosa
5. Outside the length of a room | OR | diving into the blue sun, 2017
photo: Chris Wormald
1. Astral Projections, 2019
Photo credit: Ian Byers-Gamber
2. Astral Projections, idem
3. place where, before, In A In (Exhibition and Performance), 2019
photo credit: Chris Wormald
4. where is this place, i pinch myself (performance as part of Outside the length of a room | OR | diving into the blue sun), 2017
photo credit: Lainey LaRosa
5. Outside the length of a room | OR | diving into the blue sun, 2017
photo: Chris Wormald