Current Exhibition 

"Family" (solo exhibition)

Cornell Museum of Fine Arts, Winter Park, FL

October 22, 2011 - January 15, 2012 

 

Selected Solo Exhibitions
  
2008
"The Beauty of It All"
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
 
2001
"Wake"
LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
 
1999   
"Tongue Dwelling"
Installation installed in Black Friarʼs Abby, Waterford, Ireland 
(sponsored by Americans for the Arts and the Irish Arts Council)
 
1998 
"The Seventh Daughter"
LA Artcore Brewery Annex, Los Angeles, CA
 
1997   
"Recent Works"
Gascon Center Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
1994   
"Recent Works" 
Mendenhall Gallery, Whittier College, Whittier, CA
 
 
Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

"Case Studies from the Bureau of Contemporary Art"

(Amoung the 40+ artists whose works are in the exhibition, which is comprised of pieces from the museum's permanent collection:  Dieter Appelt, Erika Blumenfeld, Louise Bourgeois, Sarah Charlesworth, Constance DeJong, Eddie Dominguez, Eva Hesse, Tom Joyce, Sol LeWitt, Agnes Martin, Ana Mendieta, Delilah Montoya, Bruce Nauman, Larry Poons, Meridel Rubenstein, Kim Russo, Peter Sarkisian, Peter Voulkos, and Joel-Peter Witkin)

New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe,NM

"s/ART/q Invitational"

(s/ART/q is a dynamic, new, not-for-profit entity consisting of professional Sarasota artists who strive to present the community, the region, and visitors to the area with contemporary art events of the highest caliber)State Street Space, Sarasota, FL

"New Arrivals: works from the Collection"
(Charles Arnoldi, Francis Bacon, Elizabeth Kay, William Klein,  Susan Rothenberg, Gerry Snyder, Gunnar Plake, Milton Rogovin, Kim Russo, and Johnnie Winona Ross) 
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM 

 
2009
"Selected Gallery Artists"
Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
 
Invited Fundraiser 
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM 
 
2008
"Conventions and Attitudes at Habeas Lounge"
The Amie and Tony James Gallery, CUNY Graduate Center, New York,
NY, organized by Linda Pollack
          
"Conventions and Attitudes/ Exchange Rate 2008
Remyʼs on Temple, Los Angeles, CA, organized by Karen Atkinson
 
"Mind the Gap" 
Eight Modern Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (curated by Cyndi Conn of
LAUNCHPROJECTS)
                       
"Furies" (project space)
Art Santa Fe (international art fair), Santa Fe, NM
 
Invited Fundraiser
SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
 
Beaux Arts Ball Invited Fundraiser
Center for Contemporary Arts, Santa Fe, NM
 
2007  
"26 Hours" (project space)
Art Santa Fe (international art fair), Santa Fe, NM, (curated by Cyndi Conn
of LAUNCHPROJECTS and Zane Fischer, art critic, Santa Fe Reporter)
 
"Somewhere I Have Never Traveled" 
Cruz Gallery, Santa Fe, NM, (curated by Cyndi Conn of LAUNCHPROJECTS)
 
2006
"A Darkened Line"
Fine Arts Gallery, College of Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM
 
2004 
"Severe Negotiations" 
The Office, Huntington Beach, CA, (curated by Tyler Stallings, curator of
the Sweeny Art Gallery, UC Riverside, CA)
 
"Kim Russo, Dick Harvey, and Julie Zemel"
West Los Angeles College Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
 
2003   
"Annual Exhibition"
Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine, CA, (curated by Michael Darling, MOCA/Los Angeles)
 
1998   
"La La Loquita" (performance)
 Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL
 
"Heroes"
Handen Gallery, University of Massachusetts, Amherst, MA
    
1995   
"On a scale from one to one" (installation)
California State University, Los Angeles, CA        
 
1992   
"Flesh and Blood:  Seven Louisiana Figurative Painters"
Artists' Alliance, Lafayette, LA
 
"Under Glass and in the Round"
Galerie Simonne Stern, New Orleans, LA
 
"Selections from the Louisiana Collection"
University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, Lafayette, LA
 
 "Nineteenth Annual Juried Exhibition" 
 Masur Museum of Art, Monroe, LA, (curated by Donald Kuspit)
 
 
Residencies and Fellowships

2010
Frederick P. Lenz Foundation Fellowship for Buddhist Studies and American Culture and Values, Naropa University, Boulder, CO

2009  
Caldera, Sisters, OR 

1999  
Americans for the Arts and the Irish Arts Council 
(artist-in-residence with Waterford Spraoi in Waterford, Ireland)
 
1998  
Atlantic Center for the Arts, New Smyrna Beach, FL 
(collaborated with Guillermo Gomez Pena and Roberto Sifuentes)
 
 
Honors and Grants
2008  
Listed in "Top Talent, the 150 emerging, established and most
influential artists chosen by collectors, curators and gallerists."
Santa Fean (Santa Fe, NM) June/July issue

1994   
National Endowment for the Arts, Regional Arts Project Grant 
 Contemporary Arts Center, New Orleans, LA
 
 
Selected Collections
 
New Mexico Museum of Art, Santa Fe, NM
 
Paul and Lulu Hilliard University Art Museum, University of Louisiana, 
Lafayette, LA
 
Glenn Horowitz, Glenn Horowitz Bookseller, New York. NY
Shana Nys Dambrot, Managing Editor, www.Flavorpill.com/losangeles
 
The Diane and Sandy Besser Collection, Santa Fe, NM
 
Keith and Amanda Innes, Directors, EVO Gallery, Santa Fe, NM
 
Patti Crews, Dallas, TX
 
Cyndi Conn, LAUNCHPROJECTS, Santa Fe, NM
 
Lynn Marchand Goldstein, Santa Fe, NM
 
Rose Marcario, COO and VP, Patagonia
 
Seanne Farmer, Stage Manager, Bette Midler Productions
 
 
 
Press
 

"Fractured Art" (feature article), Sarasota Magazine, November 2010 issue

Art Writer (Blog)
Mind the Gap-Or Not, Leanne Goebel, February 23, 2009
http://leannegoebel.com/2009/02/23/mind-the-gap-or-not/
 
"Top Talent, the 150 emerging, established and most influential artists chosen by collectors, curators and gallerists." , Santa Fean, June/July issue, 2008
 
Albuquerque Journal North
Kim Russo's Artwork Paints Tragedy and Whimsy Along with Watercolor and
Graphite, Hollis Walker, April 25, 2008
 
Santa Fe Reporter
Big Bark, Small Bites, Zane Fischer, April 23, 2008
 
Santa Fe Reporter
Fight Numbness with Art (SFR Picks), Charlotte Jusinski, April 10, 2008
 
Albuquerque Journal North
ʻLost & Found' Reaches Deep to Give Presence to Those Who Otherwise Might
Be Invisible, Hollis Walker, October 19, 2007 
 
THE Magazine
24 HRS @ ART Santa Fe, Kathryn M. Davis, September 2007
 
Art Forum: Contemporary Issues in Art and Architecture
Interview, Santa Ana College, Spring 2005
 
Art Week
"Kim Russo at the LA Artcore Brewery Annex", David DiMichele, May 2001
 
The Irish Times
"Dot Warner in the pub with Kim Russo, artist in residence at Spraoi 99", Dot
Warner, August 1999



Art Writing

Blog author, www.artenvelope.blogspot.com

2010   OnBeing: blog.onbeing.org, "The Vanishing Ego in Painting:  An Interview with Painter Joan Watts"

2007-2009 
Art Critic, Albuquerque Journal North, Santa Fe, NM
Art Writer, The New Mexican/Pasatiempo, Santa Fe, NM

 

Education
    
1989, MFA, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN
1985, BFA, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA