Photo credit above: Someplace Magazine 2015

Biographical Information

Kim Stringfellow is an artist, educator, writer and independent curator based in Joshua Tree, CA. She is an Associate Professor at San Diego State University’s School of Art + Design. She received her MFA in Art and Technology from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2000.

Stringfellow’s work bridges cultural geography, public practice and experimental documentary into creative, socially engaged transmedia experiences that combine writing, photography, audio, video, installation, mapping and community engagement.

Stringfellow’s projects have been commissioned and funded by leading organizations including California Humanities, Creative Work Fund, Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Los Angeles County Arts Commission and the Seattle Arts Commission. She is a 2016 Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts Curatorial Fellow and a 2015 Guggenheim Fellow in Photography. In 2012, she became the second recipient of the Theo Westenberger Award for Artistic Excellence. The award honors the achievements of contemporary women whose work in photography, film, and new media transforms how we see the American West.

Stringfellow’s work has been exhibited at the International Center for Photography (ICP), Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), The Autry National Center, The Nevada Museum of Art, The John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Gagosian Madison Avenue, UC Berkeley’s Graduate School of Journalism, UC Riverside’s Culver Arts Center, The Santa Fe Art Institute and MOAH (Museum of Art and History) among others. International exhibitions include Cubitt, London, UK; the Inter-Society for the Electronic Arts (ISEA) in Tallinn, Estonia; and at the José Martí National Library in Havana, Cuba.

Her photographs are included at Yale’s Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Western Americana Collection, Comer Collection of Photography at UT Dallas, UC Riverside’s Culver Center for the Arts, The Altered Landscape Collection at the Nevada Museum of Art and the Margulies Collection at the WAREhOUSE in Miami, FL. Curatorial projects include After the Aqueduct at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) in 2015.

She is the author of two books, Greetings from the Salton Sea: Folly and Intervention in the Southern California Landscape, 1905–2005 and Jackrabbit Homestead: Tracing the Small Tract Act in the Southern California Landscape, 1938–2008 both published by the Center for American Places.