Kim Manfredi is an American artist who graduated from the Maryland Institute College of Art (MICA) in 1988. She later returned to MICA, studying under the guidance of Grace Hartigan and Joyce Kozloff, and earned an MFA in painting in 2009.
Following her MFA, Kim was represented by C. Grimaldis Gallery and attended residencies at RUC, Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, and Maryland Art Place. Most recently, she is presented a solo exhibition titled Lady Lazarus at Royale Projects in Los Angeles. Kim was also recently featured in Tutto a Tempo at the Camus Museum in Breno, Italy, and was awarded a full fellowship from the Torrance Art Museum to attend the Cycladic Arts Residency in Paros, Greece. Kim loves her local desert community and is a founder of the annual Desert Open Studios Tour.
Kim Manfredi
IG: @kimmanfredi
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EDUCATION
2009 MFA, Hoffberger School of Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore
2002 Advanced Studies in Venetian Plaster and Gilding, Sepp Leaf, New York
1988 BFA Painting, Maryland Institute College of Art, Cum Laude
1987 New York Studio Program, New York
RESIDENCIES & PORTFOLIO REVIEWED WORKSHOPS
2024 RUC residency, Cividate Camuno BS, Italy
2024 Vermont Studio Center, 30 day residency, recipient of the VSC Grant
2022 Anderson Ranch, Topics in Painting, Shahzia Sikander & Holly Hughes
2021 Anderson Ranch, Advanced Painting, Christina Quarles, Cathy Opie, & Helen Molesworth
2010 VCCA, Artists Residency, Amherst, VA.
2009 Vermont Studio Center, Artist Residency, Johnson VT.
2009 Maryland Art Place, Critics Residency Program, Curator: Vincent Katz.
SELECTED EXHIBITIONS
SOLO
2024 Lady Lazarus, Royale projects, Los Angeles
2023 Place of Wonder, Slate Contemporary, Oakland California
2011 Cells and Stars: New Paintings, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
GROUP
2024 Tutto a Tempo: Camus Museum, Breno Italy
2023 Snapshot of Sunsets: California Abstraction Now: Royale Projects, Los Angeles CA
2022 Color: Visible Windows, Gong Gallery, Newport Beach, CA
2022 Cultural Cannibalism, CVAC, CA; Curator: Susan Myrland.
2022-3 Intersect Art Fair, Palm Springs California, Curator: Bernard Leibov.
2021 Artists Comment, Outdoor Invitational, CVAC, CA, Curator: B Schinsky
2015 With Silence Comes Peace, Silber Art Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2010 185th Invitational Exhibition of Contemporary American Art, National
Academy Museum, New York, NY.
2009 Art Miami, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Miami, FL.
2009 Sublime Structure, C. Grimaldis Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2009 Conner Contemporary, Options Biennial Exhibition, Washington, DC.
2009/10 Sondheim Finalist Exhibition, Meyerhof Gallery, Baltimore, MD.
2009 Landscape Biology, Hemphill Fine Arts,, Washington DC.
PUBLICATIONS
2024 Desert Magazine, Is Perez Road the SOHO of our desert? Kent Blackburn
2022 Palm Springs Life Magazine, Inquiring Mind: Kim Manfredi, Steven Biller
2018 The Desert Sun, Artist Council Award Exhibition
2010 The Urbanite, Cells and Stars, Cara Ober
2010 New York Times, Academy Gives Art Some Wiggle Room, Karen Rosenberg
2010 & 2012 New American Painting
2009 Art News, December 2009, Sublime Structure, by Cara Ober
2009 The Baltimore Sun, A Closer Look at a “Body Of Work”, Tim Smith
2009 The Washington Post, Options, Unexpected Possibilities, Michael O’Sullivan
HONORS
2024 Vermont Studio Center VSC Grant
2021 Desert X Artists Relief Grant
2019 Board of Directors, Coachella Valley Artist Council, Professional Development
2018 Jack Farley Community Award for Painting
2010 Walter and Janet Sondheim Prize Semi Finalist
2009 Nominee, DCCA Biennial Exhibit
2008 Walter and Janet Sondheim Prize Semi Finalist
2008 Hoffberger & Polovoy Merit Awards
2007 Hoffberger & Polovoy Merit Awards
2005 Kristen Rita Strouse Foundation Artist Award
COMMUNITY SERVICE
2020 - 2023: Co-Founder and Organizer of Desert Open Studios Tour
2021: Coachella Valley Art Center, Painting Instructor for Veterans
2018 - 2020: Board Member, Coachella Valley Artists Council