Contributor

Kim Zumpfe is an artist and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work moves and negotiates between bodies, objects, and politicized space - to interrogate encounters where there is a collapse of identity, intimacy, and power structures. She investigates the self within constructed sites and architectures, spaces and where multiple bodies develop, displace, produce, and forget to maintain boundaries and relations. Her work investigates the possibilities of where borders within these forms disperse through engagement with various media, including images, sculpture, video, installation, sound, and performance. Within her collaborations and individual work, she works to expand the potentials of resistance by producing psychological spaces that contain porosities of bent time(s) including the provisional, temporary, transient, unstable, and the illegible. Zumpfe’s work has been exhibited at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), UCR Culver Center for the Arts Riverside, DiverseWorks, University Art Gallery Irvine, Visual Arts Center Fullerton, University Art Museum Long Beach, and several public and online sites. She is a member of Emily O, a free-floating artist collective that questions the relationship between individual and collective processes and identity through organizing exhibitions and collaborative writing.