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Selena Kimball is a visual artist whose work transforms historical materials—books, newspapers, photographic archives—into deeply personal reconfigurations that question the authority of these materials to define our knowledge of landscape, territory, and place. Working across photomontage, collage, sculpture, and installation, Kimball is driven by an intimate understanding of how mediated representation often fails to capture lived reality. Her process deliberately disrupts the established visual record, honoring instead the body's complex and often unshareable way of knowing and remembering. 

Kimball has exhibited nationally and internationally, including the Katonah Museum of Art, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest. Her work has been reviewed in The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, Frankfurter Allgemeine and covered in Bomb Magazine, among others. Kimball has been awarded the Pollock-Krasner, a Jerome Foundation grant, an Asian Cultural Council award, and a Robert Rauschenberg Foundation Archives Research Fellowship. She is a NYSCA/NYFA fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, and a Guggenheim Fellow. Her long-term collaborations include films, writing, and experimental research with visual anthropologist Alyssa Grossman. Kimball splits her time between Maine, where she was born and raised, and Brooklyn, New York where she lives and works. She is co-founder and co-director, with Pascal Glissmann, of the Observational Practices Lab at Parsons, the New School, where she is currently Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Practice.

Research Interests

Contemporary Art, the Archive, Photography, Collage, Collaborative Practice, Visual Culture Studies, Experimental Cartography, Art and Anthropology, Observational Practices

Portfolio

www.selenakimball.com

www.observationalpractices.org