Kim L Pace

UK-based artist Kim L Pace works across media with a focus on drawing and ceramic sculpture. She studied Fine Art at Exeter College of Art, Birmingham Institute Art & Design and Städelschule, Frankfurt. Previously, Kim worked in clay animation, and over the last ten years, her main focus has been ceramic sculpture.

Since graduating, Kim has been awarded four artist fellowships, including the Evelyn Williams Fellowship, The Linbury Fellowship, and the Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery Fellowship. She has also been guest artist-in-residence at the Royal College of Art, London, at Kunstnarhuset Messen, Ålvik, Norway and at Illinois State University, USA. Her commissioned work includes Fermynwoods Contemporary Arts; Hayward Gallery, London; Sheffield Museums & Galleries Trust; Nottingham Trent University; Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland and English Heritage.

Kim has received seven Arts Council England awards, most recently for developing her ceramic work and, in 2023, for traveling to Japan to work with academics and other artists on a project entitled ‘Re-Storying the World for Multispecies Survival’. Her contribution to the project was the presentation ‘Making New Stories about Multispecies Kinship through Vital Material Encounters with Clay’, which was published in Synthesis International Journal of Comparative Literature.

With over 25 solo & duo shows and numerous group exhibitions, internationally, her solo institutional exhibitions include: Bedroom Culture, Limerick City Art Gallery, Ireland; High Flyer, Ferens Art Gallery, Hull; High Flyer II, Northern Territory Gallery for Contemporary Art, Australia; Portrait of the Artist as a Young Woman, Graves Art Gallery, Sheffield; Double Fall Back Twister, McLean County Art Center, USA and Sea Change, Berwick Gymnasium Art Gallery, UK.

In addition to her art practice, Kim has been invited to curate projects like ‘Cult Fiction’ for Hayward Gallery Touring, London, ‘Labyrinth of Darkness’ at the Czech Centre, NYC, and ‘From Doodle to Digit’ at Tate Britain. She has also lectured extensively in BA & MA Fine Art, currently she is a visiting lecturer at Camberwell College of Arts, UAL.

Her recent group exhibitions include Summer Exhibitions at the Royal Academy, London; Cruel Intentions, Arusha Gallery, London; Power Colours, Terra Viva Galerie, Saint Quentin la Poterie, France; The Cosmic Garden, Villa Erba, Lake Como, Italy and 31 Women Artists, Sedona Arts Center, Arizona USA. Kim’s most recent solo exhibitions of ceramic work include ‘A Fantastic Fermentation of Matter’, Danielle Arnaud, London (2018), ‘Mercurious’, Danielle Arnaud, London (Duo, 2019), ‘Kindred’, Arusha Gallery, Edinburgh, (2022) and ‘Strange Company’ at Arusha Gallery, Somerset, Summer 2024.

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