Paintings By Sydney Based Artist Kim Leutwyler

Paintings By Sydney Based Artist Kim Leutwyler.

ABOUT KIM LEUTWYLER

Born in America, Sydney-based Kim Leutwyler migrated to Australia in 2012. She works in a variety of media including painting, installation, ceramics, printmedia and drawing. Kim holds concurrent bachelor degrees in Studio and Art History from Arizona State University, and additionally graduated from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago with a Painting and Drawing degree.

Kim’s current work takes its form in paintings dealing with images of beauty, gender and Queer-identity. She has come to focus on painting as a medium because of its primarily masculine history in the western art canon. By entering into the modernist painting field Kim hopes to destabilize gender borders just as LGBTQ artists have been doing since the 70’s and earlier. Her artwork has been exhibited in multiple galleries throughout the United States and Australia.

Leutwyler’s recent accolades include being selected as a finalist in the 2015 Archibald Prize, 2017 Bluethumb Art Prize, 2016 John Copes Portrait Prize and the 2016 Portia Geach Memorial Award. She also won the Midsumma Visual Arts Guide Cover Competition, and her painting was the hero image for the 2016 LGBTQ Festival in Melbourne, Australia.

Art World Heroes and Influences:

Robert Rauschenberg 
Cecily Brown 
Jake and Dinos Chapman 
Jenny Saville 
Kehinde Wiley 
Margherita Manzelli 
Mark Gleason 
Geoff Farnsworth 
Ben Quilty 
Romaine Brooks

curriculum vitae 
KIMBERLEY LEUTWYLER

Exhibitions 
2017 
Bluethumb Art Prize, No Vacancy Gallery, Melbourne, Australia 
No Woman is an Island, BLINDSIDE, Melbourne, Australia 
Virtual Connections, No.1 Martin Place Mezzanine, Sydney, Australia 
Queer Art Prize Judges Exhibit, Chapel Off Chapel, Melbourne, Australia

2016 
Portia Geach Memorial Award, S.H. Ervin Gallery, Sydney, Australia 
Trailblazing Women of Herstory, Neospace, Melbourne, Australia 
John Copes Portrait Prize, Bowral Art Gallery, Bowral, Australia 
Meridian, fortyfivedownstairs, Melbourne, Australia (Feature Artist) 
Archibald Prize, Regional Art Museums and Galleries, Australia

2015 
Archibald Prize, Art Gallery of New South Wales, Sydney, Australia 
The Other Art Fair, aMBUSH Project Space, Sydney, Australia 
Home Free: A Midsumma Exhibition, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia

2014 
Artfuly: A Digital Discovery, Zigi’s Art Gallery, Sydney, Australia 
The Comfort Zone, Gasworks Arts Park, Melbourne, Australia 
Inquisitarium, Art @1 Spring Street, Melbourne, Australia

Prizes 
2017 Bluethumb Art Prize finalist, Australia 
2016 Portia Geach Memorial Award finalist, Australia 
2016 Midsumma Visual Arts Cover Guide Winner, Australia 
2016 John Copes Portrait Prize finalist, Australia 
2016 Spoon x Ello Finalist, featured in SPOON Magazine, USA 
2015 Archibald Prize Finalist. Portrait used as key marketing image, Australia 
2015 Jerry’s Artarama Self Portrait Finalist, USA

Collections 
Alex Mackay, Brisbane, Australia 
Brooklyn Art Library, Brooklyn, New York 
Printmaking Student Association Collection, Arizona State University

Education 
School of the Art Institute of Chicago Chicago, IL 2008-2009 Bachelor of Fine Arts, Painting and Drawing 
Arizona State University (Also studied abroad at University of Auckland, New Zealand) Bachelor of Arts, Art 
Katherine K. Herberger, College of Fine Arts, Tempe 
Double Major: Art History and Studio with emphasis in printmaking 
Graduated May. 2007 magna cum laude * Concurrent Degrees

Donations 
I create and donate cause-specific paintings for auction, with 100% of the proceeds donated to the following non-profit organisations: Global Women’s Project, TABLE, Arizona Human Rights Foundation, Phoenix Pride, Kenya School Libraries Program/Books Build Hope, Jordan Goodchild’s Kilimanjaro Challenge for Plan.org.au, Helping Hands Africa, PAD.org

Selected Recent Press 
Rainbow List: 50 of the most influental LGBTIQ+ allied Ausralians, Cosmopolitan, 2017 
Kim Leutwyler: Tits Out for the Girls, beautiful.bizarre, 2017 
LOTL Powerlist, LOTL Magazine, 2017 
Good Stuff Awards Finalist, Frankie Magazine, 2017 
‘New Feminists’ issue of PoetsArtists, 2017 
On the Rise Artist, beautiful.bizarre, 2016 
1 of 9 finalists for the Spoon x Ello Competition, SPOON Magazine, 2016 
Artist Kim Leutwyler reflects on what makes The Greats truly great at the Art Gallery of NSW – Central Sydney 2016 
23 LGBT Australians to Watch in 2016, GNN, 2016 
Emerging artists rule the roost at The Other Art Fair, The Sydney Morning Herald, 2015 
Eyes on the Prize: Introducing Archibald Prize Finalist, Queer Artist Kim Leutwyler, Gay News Network, 2015 
Kim Leutwyler on her bold and powerful portraits of women, Mamamia, 2015 
On the Couch with Kim Leutwyler, Australian Arts Review, 2015 
Audio – Interview with Myf Warhurst, Archibald Prize Featured Artist Q&A, Art Gallery of New South Wales, 2015

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