BIO:
Kim Neudorf (they/he) is a queer, trans artist and writer based in London, ON. Their writing and paintings explore themes of resilience, healing, and survival, while seeking to undo easy legibility in order to honor the daily, more complicated modes of visibility and existence. Neudorf completed their BFA from Alberta University of the Arts in 2005 and their MFA from Western University in 2012. They attended the Optic Nerve Thematic Residency at the Banff Centre for the Arts in 2005, and in 2011 was named one of 15 semi-finalists in the 13th RBC Canadian Painting Competition. Their work has appeared most recently at Harkawik, New York, NY; Embassy Cultural House, London, ON; Support project space, London, ON; DNA Gallery, London, ON; Paul Petro, Toronto; Franz Kaka, Toronto; Forest City Gallery, London, ON; Modern Fuel Artist-Run Centre, Kingston; Evans Contemporary Gallery, Peterborough; and Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto.
ARTIST STATEMENT:
Guided by constraint-based processes, autobiographical ephemera, and dream logic, I seek to visualize the gestures, energies, and modes of visibility beneath and beyond narratives of trauma and survival. My work is informed by queer, trans and nonbinary theory and poetics which look to gaps in language and archives, daily rituals of rest and care, and nonnormative forms of embodiment and community as a practice of moving and being in the world.
Through visual research, I excavate literary and cinematic moments of energy and emotional states as expressed through unconscious gestures, daily rituals, and physical surroundings. Collage and painting processes then reorient these energies towards figural and material relationships where form and content, aware of and affected by each other, co-exist in a space of mutable relationality.
CONTACT INFO:
email: kimneudorf@gmail.com
Instagram: @kimneudorf
PRESS / INTERVIEWS:
On Figuring Out What Does Not Hold Well, by Laurence Pilon
totally ruinous/ totally ruin us: In Discussion with Kim Neudorf, by Adi Beradini, FEMME ART REVIEW