Kimberlee Koym-Murteira
United States
Biography
Kimberlee Koym-Murteira makes video sculptures, hybrid forms of video, light, water, and installation. Moving from the material to immaterial, creating dialogues guided by the forces of Trauma, Healing, Spirituality, and Ecology. Kimberlee engages somatic connection - a relationship to the body in creation and exhibition - to respond to the complexity of power in relation to ecology and feminism. Employing tenants of embodiment to conjoin environmental concerns and social justice. She sees technology as both a tool and interruptor. Originally from Texas, She holds a MFA from Mills College, a MA in Scenography from Central St Martin’s London and teaches at DVC, CCA, and Cal State East Bay.