Kim Zumpfe (they/she) is an interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles that works with installation, sculpture, performance, video, photography, sound, experimental writing, and collaborative processes. This work explores how the body experiences the social and political imaginaries of working-class America through architectures and infrastructures, where economic, gender-based, and racialized hierarchies of power are embedded in experiences of land and location. These phenomenologies of place and placement are approached as territories that extend beyond specific locations and inform relationships to the material and digital world as public, private, mediated, transient, and ecstatic. Alternate understandings of how space might function are proposed to consider how expansive interiors and outer social bodies might transcend perceived and actual limits.

Kim studied architecture at the University of Colorado, Boulder before completing a BFA in 4D/Sculpture from California State University Long Beach, and has an MFA with a critical theory emphasis from University of California, Irvine. Kim has taught at several institutions including University of Southern California, Chapman University, University of California Irvine, and Santa Ana College. Exhibitions include Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Gallery TPW (Toronto), MOCA Geffen, Bangkok Biennial’s MAHA Pavilion, DiverseWorks (Houston), MexiCali Biennial, 4Ground Midwest Land Art Biennial, Audain Gallery at Simon Fraser University (Vancouver), CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Hammer Museum, Human Resources Los Angeles, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), UCR Culver Center for the Arts (Riverside), UCI Contemporary Arts Center, and several public and online sites. Kim also co-produces VOIDWAVE, a radio program that features interviews and experimental sound works from femme, queer, a non-binary artists. Recognitions include CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts best in international feminist art and scholarship, Artforum’s Critics’ Pick, and a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant.