UPCOMING

The Corvallis Arts Center, Corvallis OR | March 19 - May 10, 2026

End Cycle, The Vestibule, Seattle | October 25 - December 7, 2025

photo by Mario Gallucci

 

Kim Smith Claudel

Portland OR

kimsmithclaudel@gmail.com


Education

SM Media Arts and Sciences — Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab | Cambridge MA, 2017

MFA Fine Art — School of Visual Arts | New York NY, 2012

BFA Fine Art — Oregon State University | Corvallis OR, 2005

Solo Exhibitions

2025

End Cycle, The Vestibule | Seattle, WA

Paper Prototype, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR

Starlight, No Vacancy Window Gallery | Portland, OR

Playground , The Painting Center | New York, NY

Tender to the Touch , Mt Hood Visual Arts Gallery | Gresham, OR

2024

Ghosts in the Void , Building 5 | Portland, OR

In Present Space , Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR

2023

A New Science for Every Object, KyotoBA | Kyoto Japan

2020

Spaces Between Edges, SOWA | Boston MA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2025

Horizon, PICA TBA Festival | Portland, OR

Lightness of Being, Create! Magazine (online)

2024

Decomposition, SOIL Gallery | Seattle, WA

En Motion, Well Well Projects | Portland, OR

2023

Going Steady, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR

Friend of a Friend, Carnation Contemporary | Portland, OR


2022

Smart Objects / Flattened Images, Well Well Projects | Portland, OR


2020

ROX/SE, Piano Craft Gallery | Boston, MA

Sizzle, Bromfield Gallery | Boston, MA


2019

WET, Bromfield Gallery | Boston, MA


2017

SOWA Open Studios | Boston, MA


2015

Uninhibited, Kathryn Shultz Gallery | Cambridge, MA

SOWA Open Studios | Boston, MA

Gathering Gestures | Cambridge, MA


2014

Emrupt, Leigh Wen Gallery | New York, NY


2013

How Was It?, Brooklyn Works | Brooklyn, NY

Bay Ridge SAW | Brooklyn, NY

Boundaries, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Media Lab | Cambridge, MA

289 Days, Allegra LaViola Gallery | New York, NY 


2012 

Boundaries, Skissernas Museum | Lund, Sweden

School of Visual Arts MFA Spring Open Studios | New York, NY 

Pulse: Post, Post, Post Modern, The Invisible Dog | Brooklyn, NY 

Every Once Sometimes Now, Visual Arts Gallery | New York, NY 


2011 

Portals, The Arts Center | Corvallis, OR 

Works In Progress, curated by Vic Muniz | Brooklyn, NY 

Everything Falls Apart, curated by Asya Geisberg, Visual Arts Gallery | New York NY 

School of Visual Arts MFA Spring Open Studios | New York, NY 


2010 

The Other Side, Arizona State University | Tempe, AZ 

Affiliations + Honors

2025 Career Opportunity Grant from the Oregon Arts Commission + Ford Family Foundaiton

2023-present Carnation Contemporary Gallery, member, Portland OR

2024 Building 5 Residency, Portland OR

2022-present WAVE Contemporary, member, Portland OR

2018 Boston Center for the Arts, Visual Arts Resident, Boston MA

2016 Learning Innovation Fellow, MIT Media Lab Learning Initiative, Cambridge MA

2012 Paula Rhodes Memorial Award, School of Visual Arts, New York NY