Selected Available Works
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Contra Natura #3 (1/20), 1995
Van Dyke and cyanotype on silk and muslin; 24 x 72 inches

Contra Natura #4 (5/15), 1996/1998
Van Dyke and cyanotype on silk and muslin; 26 x 80 inches

Kimberly Austin
Aphrodesia No.3, ed.3/5, 1994
Van Dyke and cyanotype on silk and muslin; 87 x 30"

Kimberley Austin

Biography

Born
1965 San Leandro, CA

Education
1994          MFA, San Francisco State University, CA
1988          BFA, California State University, Hayward, CA
1986          California State University, International Program, Florence, Italy

Braunstein/Quay Exhibitions

2008          Holiday Special: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery,
                                       San Francisco, CA
2008          "12-Year Retrospective," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003           "Adam & Edna," Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Solo Exhibitions

2008          12-Year Retrospective, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006          Adam & Edna, Silver Eye Center for Photography Members'
                                       Gallery, Pittsburgh, PA
2005          Selected works from "Learning Normalcy" & "How to Live,"
                                       Go Fish Gallery, New York, NY
2004          Adam & Edna, Seippel Galerie, Cologne, Germany
                   The 2003-2004/2004 James D. Phelan Art Award in
                                       Photography Exhibition, Fiftycrows Gallery,
                                       San Francisco, CA
2003          Adam & Edna, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002          How to Live, Kunst: Raum Sylt-Quelle, Sylt, Germany
2001          How to Live, Seippel Galerie, Cologne, Germany
2000          How to Live, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA.
1999          Kimberly Austin: Werkubersicht 1989 - 1999, Galerie Elke Jensen, Hamberg, Germany
1998-9      Kimberly Austin: 1989 - 1999, Dorothea Deimann, Basel, Switzerland
1998          Learning Normalcy, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Contra Natura & Aphrodisia, Apolda Advantegarde, Apolda, Germany
                   Primavera de Foto, Aspectos, Barcelona, Spain
                   Learning Normalcy, Gallerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
                   Contra Natura & Aphrodisia, Galerie Jensen, Hamburg, Germany
1997          Impulse; Zeutgenossische Fotografie, Staditsches Museum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen,, Germany
                   Contra Natura & Aphrodisia, Museum Schlob Agathenburg, Agathenburg, Germany
                   Learning Normalcy, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
1996          Introductions 1996, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Contra Natura & Aphrodisia, Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
1996-94    Aphrodisia, Galerie Natkin-Berta, Paris, France; traveled to Gary Bastoky Gallery, Seattle, WA;
                                       Quadri, Zurich, Switzerland; Park Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Julie Rico Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
                   Les Oeuvres de Kimberly Austin, Les Productions de Virginie Paul, Paris, France
1992          New Work: Kimberly Austin, Park Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Group Exhibitions

2010            Introductions: Where They Are Now, Braunstein/Quay Gallery,
                              San Francisco, CA
2007          Coming Attraction: Gallery Group Show, Braunstein/Quay Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Currents in Photography, Center for Contemporary Art, Sacramento, CA
                   Contemporary Art from the Permanent Collection, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
2006          Image as Object, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UC Santa Cruz, CA
2005          Romancing the Shadows, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
2004          Epic, Southern Exposure Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Hard Candy, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2003          Art Frankfurt, Galerie Seippel, Frankfurt, Germany
2001          Toy With Us, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
                   Art Cologne 35, Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
2000          Art Cologne 34, Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
                   Fast, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MO
                   Circus SoEx, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
                   Self Developed, Eyre/Moore Gallery, Seattle, WA
1999          Korperinszenterungen, Oper Frankfurt, Frankfurt, Germany
                   Kunstmarkt Dusseldorf, Dorothea Diemann, Dusseldorf, Germany
1998          Art Cologne 32, Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
                   Artissima, Galerie Seippel, Turino, Italy
                   Concerning the Figure, University Gallery, California State University at Hayward, CA
                   Re-Membering, John F. Kennedy University Annex Gallery, Orinda, CA
1997          Art Cologne 31, Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
                   Pavillon, Artcircolo, Munich, Germany
1997          Kunsthaus Langenberg, Langenberg, Germany
                   L.A. Current; Photography in the 90’s, UCLA Art Rental and Sales Gallery,
                                       Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1996          L.A. Current: The Female Perspective, UCLA Art Rental and Sales Gallery,
                                       Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
                   Photographies, Galerie Natkin-Berta, Paris, France
                   11th National Photography Competition, Runnels Gallery, Portales, NM
                   Body Double, Grand Arts, Kansas City, MI
                   Mensch & Natur, Art Cologne, Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
                   New Art Barcelona ‘96, Aspectos, Magestic Hotel
                   L’Associacio Art Barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
1995          The Female Gaze: Nudes by Women, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
                   Mean Art, Traveling Exhibition with Julie Rico and Lollapalooza, U.S.A. and Canada
                   New Visions; Los Angeles Art in the Nineties, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA.
1995          Anima, Timothy Higbee Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   New Directions '95, Barrett House Galleries, Poughkeepsie, NY
                   Current Works '95, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City, MO
                   Photographische Inszenierungen, Galerie Seippel, Cologne, Germany
                   Obsession, Southern Exposure, San Francisco, CA
                   Photo Metro Contest 1995, Angel Cosmos Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Contemporary Photography: The California Focus, Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
                   3rd Annual Juried Photography Exhibition, Oakland, CA
                   Erotica, Architrave Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Selections Ninety-four, Eye Gallery, San Francisco, CA
                   Osmosis, MFA Graduation Exhibition, San Francisco State University Art Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1993          Pasos Hacia la Madurez, Galeria A.Isorna, Madrid, Spain
1992          Colectiva Isorna, Galeria A. Isorna, Madrid, Spain
1990          Sophia; By a Bunch of Artists, Art Lick Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Public Collections

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA
Museum Gelsenkirchen, Gelsenkirchen, Germany

Awards

2004 James D. Phelan Award in Photography, San Francisco, CA

Selected Bibliography

Baker, Kenneth, “Whole Lot of Art”, San Francisco Chronicle, July 1996
Boecker, Von Susanne, “Die Zartheit der Nackten”, Köllner Stadt Anzeiger, September 1, 1995
Boecker, Von Susanne, “Lust und Liebe auf Seidenbahnen”, Köllner Stadt Anzeiger, (Germany), November 16/17, 1996
Burkman, Greg, “Getting There is Half the Fun,” Art Access, December 1995
“Contra Natura,” Hamburger Rundschau, September 1999
C.P., “Colectiva Isorna: pasos hacia la madurez,” ABC Cultural, (Spain) March 13, 1993
Galloway, David, “Cologne Art Fair: Much Euphoria in A Smaller Gathering,” International Herald Tribune, November 23-24, 1996
HJL “Tücher Verschleiern Motive aus dem Alltag,” WAZ, (Germany) February 15, 1997
HJL, “Körper, Barock und Licht,” WAZ, (Germany) January 2, 1997
Hunt, David, “Kimberly Austin at Braunstein/Quay Gallery,” Artweek, May 1998
"'Image as Object' at Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery," Artweek, May 2005
-----, “Die inszenierte Wirklichkeit des Lichtbildes,” Lokalesm (Germany) January 31, 1997
-----, “Galerie Diese Woche,” Köllner Stadt Anzeiger, August 25, 1995
-----, “Künstlerin erläutert ihre Werke,” WAZ, (Germany) February 13, 1997
“Kimberly Austin at Braunstein/Quay,” Artweek, September 2001
“Kimberly Austin at Braunstein/Quay,” Sculpture Magazine, July 1998
“Kimberly Austin: Aphrodisia & Contra Natura”, catalogue, Kunstverein Apolda Avantagarde, Germany (essay by Ralph P. Seippel), 1998
Ross, Von Renate, “Ein Lufthauch zeiht die feinen Seidenbahnen mit”, Köllner Stadt Anzeiger, (Germany) October 24, 1996
Rump, Gerhard Charles, “Der Frosch in bunter Badehose”, Die Welt,(Germany), November 16, 1996
Schetzel, Florence, “Artistic Directions”, Poughkeepsie Journal, October14, 1995
Schroeder, Von Annette, “Helden in virtuellen Welten,” Koinilche Kundlchau, August 1995
Smythe, John, “Kimberly Austin,” Juxtzpoz, Summer 1995
Sylt, Aktuell, “How to Live,” Fotografin Zeigt, March 2002
Thorson, Alice, “‘Bodydouble’: Art and soul,” The Kansas City Star, August 2, 1996
“'Toy with Us' at the Palo Alto Art Center,” Artweek, September 2001
Zeitungsverlag, Schleswig-Holsteinischer, “Vom Normalen und Abnormalen,” April 2002