# Kim Dingle

URL: https://vielmetter.com/biography/wrklst-kim-dingle-10373/

Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA   1990 MFA, Claremont Graduate Univesity, Claremont, CA 1988 BFA, California State University, Los Angeles, CA

**Selected Solo Exhibitions**

  2023 "Open Call For Blue Lemons," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 2021 "Pudgey Pomona Presents," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "Dingle Does O’Flaherty’s," O’Flaherty’s, New York City, NY ([Link](https://oflahertysnyc.com/upcoming/)) 2020 "Restaurant Mandala," Andrew Kreps, New York, NY 2019 "I Will Be Your Server (the Lost Supper Paintings)," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Culver City, CA 2018 "Kim Dingle: Painting Blindfolded," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY ([Link](http://www.speronewestwater.com/exhibitions/kim-dingle_4)) 2017 "YIPES," Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Culver City, CA 2013 "Wine Bar For Children at Mister Ling’s Market,” Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles, CA 2012 "Kim Dingle: still lives,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 2008 "Cake," Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA 2007 "Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty’s,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 2000 "Kim Dingle Bell Gallery,” Brown University, Providence, RI  "Never In School,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 1998 "Fatty,” Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, Italy  "Fatty and Fudge,” Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 1997 "The Prisspapers,” Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1996 "Kim Dingle: A Survey,” The Renaissance Society, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL 1995 "Kim Dingle,” Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA  "A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle,” Santa Monica Museum of Art, Santa Monica, CA  SITE Santa Fe, NM  "Kim Dingle,” Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA 1994 "Kim Dingle,” Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, NY 1993 Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach, FL 1992 Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  "The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry,” Closet of Modern Art (COMA), California State University Los Angeles, CA 1991 "Portraits from the Dingle Library,” Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  "The Dingle Library Presents Paintings of the West with Horse Drawings by Teenage Girls,” Parker Zanic, Los Angeles, CA 1985 "pre-History A Dog’s Bach is Worse Than it Sounds,” Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1982 "Remembering Pencil,” Double Rocking G Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

**Selected Group Exhibitions**

  2025 “Blindfolded,” Kim Dingle and Ranee Henderson, Phase Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  "In the Midst,” JDJ Gallery, New York, NY  "The Kids Are Alright," Timothy Taylor Gallery, New York, NY 2024 "The Café," O’Flaherty’s, New York, NY 2023 “People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue,” albertz benda, New York, NY  "Perpetual Portrait," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2022 “For The Love Of Dog,” A.E. Sobieski Project Space, Studio44, Pasadena, CA  "Don’t Fuck with Our Humans" Galerie Fabian Lang, Zurich, Switzerland  "Plants Now!" Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "Women Painting Women," The Modern, Fort Worth, TX 2021 "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "Wood Works: Raw, Cut, Carved, Covered," Sperone Westwater, New York, NY 2020 "The Biblical Imagination," Mission Gathering, Pasadena, CA  "20 Years," Vielmetter Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA  "WOMAHR," Fondazione Molise Cultura, Campobasso, Italy  "Home Depot Coloring Books—Anyone Can Do It," Gallery Platform LA, online  "Double Take," CMAY Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019 "Coordinates: Maps and Art Exploring Shared Terrain." David Rumsey Map Center, Stanford University, Palo Alto, CA 2018-2019 "Terres de femmes," Praz-Delavallade, Los Angeles, CA 2018 "Re-celebration," Luckman Fine Arts Complex, Cal State LA, Los Angeles, CA  "Shift," Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA ([Link](http://www.denkgallery.com/exhibitions/shift)) 2014 "Secrets and Lies” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA  "The Avant Garde," Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA  Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emillia, Italy 2013 "Untitled (Giotto’s O),” Sperone Westwater, Lugano, Switzerland 2005 "Light Options; A Selection,” Lightbox, Los Angeles, CA 2001 "Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990’s,” Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA  "Uncomfortable Beauty,” Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera, New York, NY  "Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper),” Texas Gallery, Houston, TX 2000 "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000,” Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA  "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, CA (catalogue)  Whitney Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY  "Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio," Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Ravenna, Italy  "The End," Exit Art, New York, NY  "Emotional Rescue,” The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA 1999 "Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art,” curated by Susan Lubowsky Talbott and Lea Rosson DeLong, organized and circulated by Independent Curators International (ICI), Des Moines Art Center, IA; traveled to Tacoma Art Museum, Tacoma, WA; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; MoMA PS1, New York, NY; Fundació "la Caixa”, Barcelona, Spain; Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, Canada; Cleveland Center for the Contemporary Art, Cleveland, OH "Almost Warm and Fuzzy; Childhood and Contemporary Art," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa  "I’m the Boss of Myself", Sara Meltzer’s on View, New York, NY  "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA 1998 "Family Viewing," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA  "Presumed Innocence," Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH  "Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A. 1960–1997,” Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek, Denmark; traveled to Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, Germany; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy; Hammer Museum, Los Angles, CA  "My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women Artists," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL  "Women’s Work: Examining theFeminine in Contemporary Painting," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC  "Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves," California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA  "American Kaleidoscope," National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC  "Early Learning," Entwistle, London, UK  "Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century," Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ  "Playtime: Artists and Toys," Whitney Museum of America Art at Champion, Stamford, CT  "Space of Time," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, FL  "Inside Out: Psychological Self Portraiture in the 90’s," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT  "Gender, Myth and Exploration," University of North Texas, Denton, TX  "Wallpaper Works," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX 1994 "Mapping," Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY, curated by Robert Stor  "Bad Girls West," UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, curated by Francis Colpitt; traveled to University of Texas at San Antonio, TX; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA  "Arrested Childhood," Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, FL 1993 "Fourth Newport Biennial: Southern California 1993," The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA 1992 "Déjà vu," Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, CA  "I Thought California Would Be Different, New Work in the Permanent Collection," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA  "Fever," Exit Art, New York, NY  "Space of Time," America Society, New York, NY  "The Imp of the Perverse, Eight Artists from Los Angeles," Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, NY  "Group Show: Mary Beyt, Kim Dingle, David Dupuis, Scott Grodesky," Rubenstein/Diacono Gallery, New York, NY  "Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists. The 1993 Phoenix Triennial," Phoenix Art Museum, Phoenix, AZ  "Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial," Washington, DC 1991 "The Store Show," Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles  "Les Fleurs," Parker/Zanic Gallery and Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, CA  "Synthetic Histories," Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 1990 "Con-Text," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

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**Public Collections**

   Collezione Maramotti, Reggio Emilia, Italy  Columbus Museum of Art, Columbus, OH  Denver Museum Contemporary Art, Denver, CO  Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA  Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN  Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA  Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA  National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.  Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA  Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA  Pomona College Museum of Art, Claremont, CA  San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA  Seattle Museum of Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA  Sheldon Museum of Art in Lincoln, NE  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY