About the work

The works feel deeply personal. [They] belong to a new exploration of the idea of existing between two emotional spaces and the feelings of “otherness” that can arise from this space. (Christina Kimeze)

Kimeze’s paintings and works on paper, lend form to the rich quietude of our internal lives, in works that capture feelings and sensations born of memory and found through reflection. Emerging or retreating, the female figures of Kimeze’s works inhabit a space of thresholds – curtains, partitions, canopies or stairs –favoured motifs which serve as devices to both conceal and reveal the subject’s presence. Partly veiled by their surroundings and possessing an ethereal quality, her subjects are emblematic and relational, composed of many identities drawn from family and friends or modelled on her own form, but equally, the product of the recesses of her memory.

 

Date and country of birth

1986, GB

Career Highlights

Selected Shows and Residencies:

 

Soulscapes, Dulwich Picture Gallery (2024);

 

Present Tense, Hauser and Wirth, Bruton (2024);

 

Black Rock, Year 5 – multidisciplinary artist residency program in Dakar, Senegal (2024-2025);

 

 Oh telephone, black oracle…“, CNAC Le Magasin Grenoble, Julien Creuzet and selected artists (2023 – 2024);

 

Something other than the world might know, solo show at White Cube, Paris (2023);

 

Interior, group show at Michael Werner Gallery London, curated by Andrew Bonacina (2023);

 

The Great Women Artists IV, Residency and exhibition at Palazzo Monti, Brescia, Italy (2022);

 

Christies, group show of drawings from the Royal collection (May 2023);

 

Buckingham Palace, fundraising group exhibition and auction (July 2022);

 

Borgo Pignano Royal Drawing School residency, Volterra, Italy and group show (July 2022).

 

Prizes and Awards: The Sir Denis Mahon Award (2022-2023).

 

Kimeze received her undergraduate degree in Biological Sciences from the University of Oxford and her postgraduate degree from The Royal Drawing School, London.