Kim Russo has exhibited her work throughout the United States and in Ireland.  She has received residency fellowships from the Lenz Foundation, Caldera, the Atlantic Center for the Arts, and Americans for the Arts, and a regional artist's grant from the National Endowment for the Arts. 

Her work is included in the permanent collections of the New Mexico Museum of Art (Santa Fe, New Mexico) and the Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum (Lafayette, Louisiana).  Her work is included in the private collections of Glenn Horowitz (New York), Shana Nys Dambrot (Los Angeles), Amanda and and Keith Innes (Santa Fe), Patti Crews (Dallas), Lynn Marchand Goldstein (Santa Fe), and Cyndi Conn (Santa Fe).

Russo was born in Darby, Pennsylvania, a suburb of Philadelphia. She received her BFA from Tyler School of Art (Temple University) and her MFA from Indiana University, Bloomington.

Kim Russo lives and works in Sarasota, Florida.  Previously she lived and worked in Santa Fe, New Mexico; Los Angeles, California; Lafayette, Louisiana; and Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.