KIMBERLY CHIARIS

www.kimberlychiaris.com

Education

Kansas City Art Institute - Bachelor of Fine Art Biography

Kimberly Chiaris received her BFA in Photography from the Kansas City Art Institute. She currently lives in Colorado. Her interest lies mainly in personal story telling through hand made processes. She blends historical imagery with contemporary imagery in hopes of creating a visual conversation that transcends time as well as speaks into the future. Her practices often involve digital composites combined with analog and alternative processes that include elements of mixed media. Her focus is primarily on themes of origin and identity and how trace memory, emotions, time and culture shape and shift our understanding of history.

She has recently exhibited her work with South East Museum of Photography at Daytona Beach College, What Will You Remember, Duncan Miller-Your Daily Photograph, Diffusion Magazine, Shadow and Light Magazine The Image Flow, South X Southeast Magazine, FotoFest, Fort Worth Community Art Center, The Bath House, Dallas, Wichita Falls Museum of Art, SE Center for Photography, Hardy and Nance Studio - Houston, Center for Fine Art Photography, PhotoPlace Gallery, South East Center for Photography, L.A. Photo Curator, Art Intersection, The Hand Magazine, Candela Books and Gallery, Colorado Photographic Arts Center

She had been interviewed by, South East Museum of Photography, RFotoFolio online gallery, The Halide Project, L. A. Photo, Center for Fine Art Photography, Light Box Photographic, Art Intersection, Amanda Smith Gallery

Recent awards include, Juror Selection in Amanda Smith Gallery-Blue 2- Juror: Melanie Walker ; Honorable Mention in PhotoPlace Gallery-Still Life: The Ordinary Made Extraordinary- Juror: Kate Breakey; 1st Place and online interview with L. A. PhotoCurator-The Tangible Photograph-Juror: Blue Mitchell.

Kimberly also loves teaching and igniting curiosity in people through art processes. She has taught numerous photo based art classes and workshops at Universities, Colleges, Museums, galleries, Artist associations and nonprofit organizations.

Artist Statement

Stories put us in touch with our origins, binding us to a collective culture and set a context for understanding ourself and our history. Stories bring identity and add significance to our personal and collective existence. I am interested in the shifting fluidity of how our Story is told over time and how memory plays a malleable and emotional role in the telling and shaping of these recollections.

I am on a quest to mine new anecdotes that arise from family conversations, photographs and inherited treasures. Out of these accumulated artifacts and stories, I extract new narratives to present as fresh visual tableaux. I blend digital contemporary imagery and ideas with historical relics to create a new folklore that transcends a chronological timeline. This series of work contains a mix of imagination, facts and recollections that invite a dialogue concerning trace memory, identity, origin, ancestry and history.

Exhibitions

2022 Analog Forever - Fabricated Realities Online Exhibition curated by Adam Finkelston

2021 ‘Picturing the Avant Garde: A Celebration of Alternative and Experimental Processes’, Southeast Museum of Photography at Daytona Beach College, 8 artist Invitational.

2021 ‘Fragmentary Blue’, Online Invitational Show, What Will you Remember, Curated by Elin Spring and Suzanne Revy

2021 ‘Featured Artist’, Your Daily Photograph Online Gallery, Duncan Miller Gallery

2020 Online Gallery Invitational show, Cyanotype, The Halide Project, Curated by Dale Niles

2020 ‘Lo-Fi’, Hardy and Nance Studio at FotoFest Houston

2020 Diffusion X Magazine, Curator - Blue Mitchell

2020 ’Mothers’ South X Southeast Photo magazine, Molena, Georgia Alternative Visions

2019 ‘An International Exhibit of Alternative Process Photography’ LightBox Photographic, Juror: Christina Z. Anderson

2019 ‘4th Annual Alternative Process Show’, The Image Flow Photography Center, Jurors - Ann M. Jastrab, Christina Z. Anderson, Unai San Martin, and The Image Flow, Honorable Mention

2019 ’The Intentional Hand: A Photographic Exhibition of Manipulated Imagery’, The Bath House, Dallas, Texas, Curator - Frank Lopez

2019 Shadow and Light Magazine, Featured Artist, Curator - Tim Anderson

2019 ‘Online Interview/Gallery feature’, RFotoFolio 2019 ‘Haunted Archive’, Ft.Worth Community Art Center, Ft. Worth, Texas Curator, Ellie Ivanova

2019 ‘Diversity: Alternative Paths in Contemporary Photography’ with Shootapalooza Collective, Wichita Falls Museum of Art,Wichita Falls, Texas, Curator - Gary Goldberg

2018 ‘Center Forward’, Center for Fine Art Photography, Ft. Collins, CO 2018 ‘Unbound 7’, Candela Books + Gallery, Richmond, Virginia, Curators - Gordon Stettinius and Ashby Nickerson

2018 ‘Light Sensitive 2018’, Art Intersection, Gilbert, AZ, Juror - Scott B. Davis

2018 The Hand Magazine, Issue 20, 21 2018 ‘The Tangible Photograph’, L.A. PhotoCurator, Juror - Blue Mitchell Awarded 1st Place and online Interview 2017 ‘Unique-Alternative Process’, Amanda Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX Juror - Christina Z Anderson

2017 ‘Still Life: The Ordinary Made Extraordinary’, PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT Juror - Kate Breakey, Awarded Honorable Mention

2017 The Hand Magazine , Issue 17 and Issue 18 2017. ‘The Women’s Show’, South x South East Gallery Molena, Georgia, Juror-Molly Roberts

2017 ‘Alternative Processes’, SE Center for Photography, Greenville, SC, Juror: Jill Enfield

2016 ‘Blue2’, Amanda Smith Gallery, Johnson City, TX, Juror - Melanie Walker Awarded - Juror Selection for "A Short Story”

2016 ‘A Hope, Prayer, and a Dream’, FotoFest 2016 Houston, TX , Wheat Pasting Exhibition for Main Street Projects Shootapalooza Collective, Jurors - Laura Corley Burlton and Martha Brasted Corn

2016 ‘Lumens’, Amanda Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, Juror - Vicki Richardson Reed 2016 The Hand Magazine Issues 15 and 16 2015. ‘H20’, Amanda Smith Gallery, Johnson City, Texas, Juror- S. Gayle Stevens.

2010 ‘Through the Lens: A collection of Fine Art Photographs’, Cultural Arts Council of Estes Park Colorado, Invitational Group Show

2008 ‘Photo De Novo’ Ft. Collins, Colorado Two Person Invitational

2006. Sierra Fine Art, Loveland, Colorado, ‘Featured Artist in May’

2006 Studio 121 Loveland, Colorado, Gallery Representation

2006 ‘Gathered Waters’, Mosaic Gallery, Berthoud, Colorado, Solo Exhibition 2003 ‘European Travel Journal’, Salon Bellissimo, Boulder, Colorado, Solo Exhibition

2001. ‘Andiamo!’, Kansas City Art Institute, Kansas City, Missouri

2001 Carol Keller Gallery, Invitational Two-Person Exhibition Denver, Colorado

2001 ‘Annual Members Exhibition’, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado

2000 ‘The Alternative Process Invitational Exhibition’, The Reality Gallery, Loveland, Colorado

2000 ‘Annual Members Exhibition’, Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado

2000 ‘The No Zone - A Traveling Invitational Exhibition’, The Market Street Gallery at Guiry’s , Denver, Colorado

Print Publications

Cyanotype Toning by Annette Golaz; Diffusion X Magazine, Curator - Blue Mitchell; Cyanotype: The Blueprint in Contemporary Photography, by Christina Z Anderson; The HAND Magazine; Shots Magazine; Shadow and Light Magazine

Honors and Awards

The Image Flow Photography Center, ‘4th Annual Alternative Process Show’, Jurors - Ann M. Jastrab, Christina Z. Anderson, Unai San Martin, and The Image Flow, Honorable Mention Lightbox Photographic Gallery, Alternative Visions, Juror - Christina Z Anderson, Honorable Mention L.A. PhotoCurator-The Tangible Photograph-Juror Award -1st Place and Interview Amanda Smith Gallery, ‘Blue2’, Johnson City, TX, Juror - Melanie Walker Awarded - Juror Selection for "A Short Story” PhotoPlace Gallery, Middlebury, VT Still Life: The Ordinary Made Extraordinary’, Juror - Kate Breakey, Awarded Honorable Mention Colorado Photographic Arts Center -Personal Vision Award-Two Person Exhibition

Kansas City Art Institute -Dean’s List of Academic Achievement Kansas City Art Institute - Connie Griffith Memorial Photography Award for Outstanding Achievement

Teaching Opportunities

Colorado Photographic Art Center - Bookmaking 1 and 2, Cyanotype 1 and 2

Center for Fine Art Photography - Bookmaking for Photographers, Cyanotype, Pinhole Photography, Encaustic on Photographs

Ft. Collins Museum of Art - Pinhole Photography, Cyanotype

Shootapalooza Photographic Collective - Cyanotype, Metal Leafing on Photographs

Private Tutoring - Handmade Artist Books, Painting, Cyanotype

Amy’s House - Recovery house for sex trafficked underaged girls - Bookmaking, Journal making, Painting, Collage,

Art Student League of Denver, Pinhole Photography

University of Missouri, Kansas City - Darkroom Black and White Silver Printing

Johnson County Community College , Kansas City- Hand Coloring Black and White Silver Prints

Associations

Shootapalooza Photographic Collective

Center for Fine Art Photography

Colorado Photographic Arts Center, Denver, Colorado