Kim Schoenstadt

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA, USA

Artist statement

Kim Schoenstadt is a Los Angeles-based visual artist. Her work sits at the intersection of architecture and historical research, with a feminist bent. Recent work explores larger truths as told through architecture and gender equity issues, focusing on architect and designer Eileen Gray’s life and work. A significant bisexual architect working from 1878-1976, Gray contributed to the advancement of architecture but was sidelined by established men of the profession. Other projects by Schoenstadt include Now Be Here, which gathered nearly 1,000 women and non-binary artists from Los Angeles in August of 2016 for a photograph that visually revealed an artist demographic historically underrepresented in exhibitions/collections. She repeated the project in select major US cities. Born in Chicago with a B.A. from Pitzer College, CA, Schoenstadt’s selected solo and two-person exhibitions include: ArtCenter College of Design, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; BYU Museum of Art, Provo, UT.; Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA. Schoenstadt was the recipient of the Volta/Bahamar Art Prize (2018), the Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2013), and the Catherine Doctorow Prize (2011). Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as: LACMA; The Hammer; MOCA, LA, CA; MOMA, NY, NY; MCA Chicago, IL; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL.

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