Kim Zumpfe

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Exhibited Work: View.

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Recent Exhibition:

May 23 - June 27, 2026.

Ground Truthing

Location: Reisig and Taylor Contemporary (603 N Western Ave, Los Angeles, 90004).

Type: Solo Exhibition [in collaboration with Luke Quezada].

• Release: File.

• Research Site: https://groundtruthingspace.wordpress.com

• Supplements: Historical Text.

• Reference: Checklist.

• Population: Bios.

• Resources: Research Bibliography.

• Publicity: Real Tear.

• Press: This Week’s Must-See Art (Curate LA: May 21-27, 2026).

• Exhibition Page: Site.

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Bio

Kim Zumpfe is an interdisciplinary artist and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. Exhibitions and Performances include Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), Gallery TPW (Toronto), Bangkok Biennial’s MAHA Pavilion, 4Ground Midwest Land Art Biennial, Diverseworks (Houston), MOCA Geffen, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, Audain Art Gallery (Simon Fraser University, Vancouver), MexiCali Biennial, CSUF Grand Central Art Center (Santa Ana), Human Resources Los Angeles, Culver Center for the Arts (Riverside), and Torrance Art Museum. Recognitions include a Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, Franconia Sculpture Park’s Mid-Career Fellowship, CAA’s Committee on Women in the Arts best in international feminist art and scholarship, and Artforum’s Critics’ Picks. Zumpfe also co-produces Voidwave, a radio program that features experimental sound works by femme, queer, and non-conforming artists.  Zumpfe holds an MFA in Art with a Critical Theory Emphasis from UC Irvine, is currently an Adjunct Assistant Professor at University of Southern California, and a Visiting Associate Professor in MassArt’s Graduate Program.  https://kimzumpfe.com/

Zumpfe engages with socio-spatial architectures through a multidisciplinary practice that includes installation, sculpture, performance, documentation practices, and experimental writing. Individual and collaborative projects explore how class, queerness, and race are embodied in infrastructures and designed environments. Structures and installations can be understood in flexible ways as resting places, elsewhere-locations, and stages to be interacted with. People can touch, listen, smell, sit on, sit in, and experience. Performative actions often takes the form of traveling through streets, navigating historical sites, and observing roadside plants, buildings, trees, construction sites, land divisions, and other visual and audible materials embedded in larger economies and living systems. These explorative performances can be seen through photography, video, and materials such as dirt, sand, plants, and found discarded items. These materials are integrated projects to point to larger questions about place and placement in living systems, with a consideration of territories that can constitute and extend beyond specific locations through various media forms. How the body senses and integrates within these complex location-based and media-infused environments remains an open inquiry. Zumpfe’s projects addresses class divisions embedded in ownership and land use, alongside destabilized concepts of home and belonging. Reconfiguring relationships to these spaces propose a future of expansive interiors and outer social bodies that can transcend perceived and material limits.

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