Kim Dingle
- 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)
- 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)
- 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 Human" 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)
- 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
Bibliography
- 2025
- "The kids are alright," Meer, June 26 (Link)
- 2023
- VIlla, Angelica. "A Closely Watched New York Gallery Returns, Offering a Smoke-Filled Café and Performance Art," Artnews, August 16
- Mac Adam, Alfred. "People of the Otherworld: Ken Kiff in Dialogue," Brooklyn Rail, July (Link)
- 2021
- Miller, Lia Clay. "Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021," Artfourm, December (Link)
- Stromberg, Matt and Elisa Wouk Almino. "Your Concise Los Angeles Art Guide for December 2021," Hyperallergic, November 30 (Link)
- Haramis, Nick. "New Kids on the Block," L’Officiel, Novemeber 23 (Link)
- Sieracki, Jill. "The Rubell Family’s New York Pied-à-Terre Features a Tasteful Mix of Art and Design," Galerie Magazine, November 19 (Link)
- Krasner, Bob. "Unique performance art experience with an Irish pub theme opens in East Village," AM NY, September 29 (Link)
- Scott, Andrea K., "“Dingle Does O’Flaherty’s”," The New Yorker, October 2 (Link)
- Rea, Naomi. "‘I Haven’t Seen Anything Cool in So Long’: Painter Jamian Juliano-Villani Is Opening a Gallery to Show Whatever She Wants (and Throw Parties)," ArtNet, August 16
- 2020
- Canova, Lorenzo. “Womahr: Women_Art_Human Rights for Peace,” Museum Laboratory of Contemporary Art, University of Molise. Gangemi Editore, Rome, Italy, 2020
- Avgikos, Jan. "Art Review: Kim Dingle at Andrew Kreps Gallery," Artforum, December
- Scott, Andrea K. "Goings on About Town: Kim Dingle," The New Yorker, October
- Urist Green, Sarah. "You Are an Artist: Assignments to Spark Creation," Penguin Books, New York
- 2019
- Ross, Claudia. "Hospitality, Mutiny," X-TRA, Fall (Link)
- Grundy, Gordy. "We Love Art Books! (Part 2)," Artillery, April 25 (Link)
- Barrie, Lita. "Kim Dingle: I Will Be Your Server (The Lost Supper Paintings)," Riot Material, April 5 (Link)
- Pagel, David. "Mayhem, table for 1: Artist Kim Dingle, Fatty’s restaurant and her ‘Lost Supper’ paintings," Los Angeles Times, March 18 (Link)
- Schneider, Tim. "Frieze Los Angeles Opens With Pop-Cultural Cachet in the Aisles, on the Stands, and in the Sales Figures," artnet, February 15 (Link)
- "Frieze Los Angeles Kicks Off Inaugural Edition at Paramount Pictures Studios This Week," Artfix Daily, February 13 (Link)
- 2018
- Brewer, Gary, "Studio Visit: Kim Dingle, Innocence and Pathos – the Chiaroscuro of the Soul," Art and Cake, October 5 (Link)
- Wolff, Natasha, “Change Agents Erin Christovale, Kim Dingle, and Maggie Kayne,” Muse, April 2 (Link)
- Becker, Noah, "Whitehot Suggests: Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater," Whitehot Magazine, March (Link)
- Moony-Martin, Lucia Love, "Muscle Memory: Kim Dingle talks about her Blindfold paintings with Lucia Love Mooney-Martin," artcritical (web), March 3 (Link)
- Yau, John ,"Painting by Touch, Not by Sight," Hyperallergic (web), January 27 (Link)
- 2017
- "Kim Dingle," ExtraArt Magazine, June
- Pashaie, Natalie, "Kim Dingle ‘YIPES’: From Playful to Notorious," Art Now LA, November 16 (Link)
- Miranda, Carolina, “Q&A: How Ed Sullivan, girls gone wild, an alligator and blindfold painting shaped the art of Kim Dingle,” Los Angeles Times, November 8 (Link)
- Hazani, Joseph A., "Kim Dingle at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects Review," A-dilettante, November 3 (Link)
- Zellen, Jody, “Kim Dingle at Susanne Vielmetter LA Projects,” Art and Cake (web), November 7 (Link)
- Pagel, David, “Kim Dingle lets her alter ego loose, and the result is a rip-roaring ride,” Los Angeles Times, October 28 (Link)
- Goldman, Edward, “Sizzling weather, cool art,” KCRW Art Talk (web and radio), October 25 (Link)
- Short, Alice, “Inside Rand Corp.’s impressive art collection,” Los Angeles Times (web), July 30 (Link)
- 2016
- Norman, Lee Ann, “EXPO 201: Critic’s Picks by Lee Ann Norman,” NewCity Art (web), September 25
- Goldstein, Andrew M., “5 Artists to Discover at EXPO Chicago 2016,” Artspace (web), September 23
- 2014
- Snyder, Garrett, "Hide & Seek – Chinatown’s Secret Wine Shop,” tastingtable.com, February 4
- Miranda, Carolina, "Crazy Babies and Pantyhose: 5 must-see works at OCMA’s ‘Avant-Garde’”, Los Angeles Times, September 10
- 2013
- Tiberghien, Giles A, "The Imaginary Cartographic World in Contemporary Art,” Espace, Spring / Summer Farabee, Mindy, "The Many Lives of Kim Dingle,” pasadenamonthly.com, June 20
- Vankin, Deborah, "Kim Dingle debuts ‘Wine Bar for Children’ at Coagula Curatorial,” Los Angeles Times, October 27
- Eisler, Maryam, Ed, "Art Studio America – Contemporary Artist Spaces,” London: Thames & Hudson
- 2012
- McLean, Madeline, "Dollies of Folly & Frolic: Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater.” Daily Serving, April 11
- Cembalest, Robin, "Having her cake and eating it too?” Let My People Show, April 12
- Herzlinger, Jamie, "Kim Dingle-So Interesting! Feminist Artist,” Jamie Herzlinger.com, April 24
- 2011
- "Goldmine,” Exhibition Catalogue: University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach
- 2010
- Gleason, Mat, "The Ten most UNDERRATED Los Angeles Art World Stars,” Huffington Post, August 17
- 2009
- Jacobs, Frank, "Strange Maps: An Atlas of Cartographic Curiosities,” New York: Penguin Group, p. 26
- 2008
- Evangelisti, Silvia, "Arte Fiera/ Art First,” Bologna: Renografica edizioni d’arte, p. 366
- 2007
- Cohen, David, "Art in Brief: Studies for The Last Supper at Fatty’s,” The New York Sun, April 7, p. 20
- "Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, April 16, p. 24
- Guest, Anthony, "Something personal this way comes,” The Financial Times, April 21
- Kreimer, Julian, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater,” Art in America, June/July, p.196
- Pagel, David, "Dingle’s Return is Delicious,” Los Angeles Times, November 23, p. E30
- Dingle, Kim, "Guest Lecture.” Artillery, Vol. 2, No. 2, Nov/Dec
- 2006
- "Heart of Palm; Sustainable wood and sensational art define George Yu’s addition to a 1920’s Los Angeles bungalow,” Interior Design, Volume 77, Issue 10 (1 August 2006), p. 232.
- 2003
- Harmon, Katherine, "You are Here,” New York: Princeton Architectural Press
- Tyler, Stallings, and Amelia Jones, David R. Roediger, "Whiteness: A Wayward Contruction,” Exhibition Catalogue, Laguna Art Museum
- Hackett, Regina, "Contemporary Art Project Vividly Takes on Hot Button Issues,” Seattle Post- Intelligence, January 3
- Chang, Richard, "Shining a light on white // A Laguna Art Museum show explores the meaning of whiteness. Series: whiteness.0331,” The Orange County Register, March 31
- 2002
- Corrin, Lisa, "SAM Collects Contemporary Art Project,” Seattle: Seattle Art Museum
- "Denver Art Museum gets highly sought after art collection,” Associated Press Newswires, February 8
- Burch, Peggy, "Snooty Art Ideas get a Dose of the Warm and Fuzzy (Almost),” Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN, June 23
- Phelps-Fredetter Suzanna, "Take a Kid to See ‘Warm and Fuzzy’; No ‘Serious’ art here so just enjoy it,” The Commercial Appeal Memphis, TN, July 7
- Aernst, Mark, "The Art of Now/ Exhibit Challenges traditional Views, Viewers early Notions,” The Gazette, October 4
- Voeltz Chandler, Mary, "Back to the Present; 25 Years of Contemporary and Modern Art Collecting Resurface in the in Dam Exhibit,” Rocky Mountain News, November 15
- Jana, Reena, "Kim Dingle,” Artnews, May
- "Retorno al País de las Maravillas, El arte contemporáneo y la infancia.” Barcelona: Centre Cultural de la Fundació "la Caixa”, Exhibition Catalogue
- Honigman, Ana, "Kim Dingle,” Frieze, May
- 2000
- Siegel, Katy, "The Long List,” Artforum, January
- Stevens, Mark, "Built for Comfort," New York, Vol. 33, no.13, April 3
- Schjeldahl, Peter, "Pragmatic Hedonism," The New Yorker, April 3
- Kramer, Hilton, "Artgoers ! Avoid Deadly Esthetic Virus at Whitney," The New York Observer, April 3
- Knight, Christopher, "Not Enough Reasons to Celebrate," Los Angeles Times, March 24
- Reichert, Herbert, "The Search for Life in an Alien Universe," Review, April 1
- Gopinath, Gabrielle, "A Patchwork Labyrinth," Review, April 1
- Maxwell, Douglas F., "Biennal Lite," Review, April 1
- Markham, Pamela, "Monumentalizing to a Fault," Review, April 1
- Berdé, Olga, "Ants Flies & Blondes in the Global Village," Review, 1 April 2000, pp. 83-86.
- Spadoni, Claudio, Alan Jones, Roberto Daolio, and Fernanda Pivano "Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio,” Exhibition catalogue. Ravenna, Italy: Museo d’Arte della Citta di Ravenna/Edizioni Gabriele Mazzotta
- "Whitney Biennial,” Exhibition catalogue, New York: Whitney Museum of American Art
- Richard, Paul, "Whitney’s Sampler; For Browsers, Biennial 2000 Goes Down Easy: Leaves no Aftertaste,” The Washington Post, March 31
- Siegel, Katy, "Biennal 2000; Whitney Museum of American Art, New York" Artforum, May
- Kutner, Janet, "New Looks; Whitney goes national with biennial survey of modern scene," The Dallas Morning News, April 23
- Gilman-Sevcik, "New York’s Mega-Shows; Whitney Biennial and Greater New York," Flash Art, Vol. XXXIII, no. 212, May-June 2000
- "Gian Enzo Sperone; Torino, Roma, New York; 35 Anni di Mostra tra Europa e America,” Torino, Italy: Hopeful Monster
- Zeraman, John, "Time to take out the garbage? Mixing business with Politics, at Art’s Expense,” The Record, Northern New Jersey, March 24
- Hall, Emily, "Childhood Art for More Than Children,” The Stranger, August
- "The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection,” Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- "With a Child’s Eyes,” The News Tribune, Tacoma, Washington, July 9
- Clayton, Alec, "Almost warm and fuzzy at TAM,” Fort Lewis Ranger, August 3 – 9
- Mahoney, Robert, "Emotion Detectors,” ARTnews, October 2000, p. 42.
- Gray, Channing, "Art Scene – Evil brats in party dresses,” The Providence Journal, November 30
- "Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, November 27
- "Kim Dingle,” The New Yorker, December 4
- Glueck, Grace, "Kim Dingle, ‘Never in School’,” The New York Times, December 1
- Minola, Anna, Maria Cristina Mundici, et. al "da Warhol al 2000: Gian Enzo Sperone,” exhibition catalogue, Palazzo Cavour, Regione Piemonte,Turin, Italy:Hopeful Monster
- Johnson, Ken, "’Uncomfortable Beauty’,” The New York Times, December 29
- 1999
- Mahoney, Robert, "Miracles of Girldom," Artnet, January 12
- Spada, Sabina, "Kim Dingle," Tema Celeste, no. 72, January–February
- Siegel, Katy, "Kim Dingle: Sperone Westwater," Artforum, vol. 37, no. 6, February
- Muchnic, Suzanne, "’Sunshine & Noir’," Artnews, vol. 98, no. 2, February
- Salvioni, Daniela, "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection,” Exhibition catalogue, San Francisco: San Francisco Museum of Modern Art
- D ‘Souza, Aruna, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater," Art in America, vol. 87 no. 3, March
- Lovelace, Carey, "Kim Dingle at Sperone Westwater” Art in America, vol. 87 no. 3, March
- Cho, Christina, "Kim Dingle” ARTnews, Volume 98, Issue 4, April
- "ZOO,” July, Purple House Limited
- Vogel, Carol, "Choosing a Palette of Biennal Artist," The New York Times, December 9
- Plagens, Peter, and Corie Brown, "Hollywood’s Big Art Deal," Newsweek, 6 December
- 1998
- Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle: Blum & Poe, Santa Monica." Art/Text, no. 60, February–April
- Duncan, Michael, "Import/Export: Variations in Noir," Art in America, vol. 86, no. 4, April
- Crutchfield, Jean, "Presumed Innocence,” Exhibition catalogue, essays by Kathryn Hixson and Robert Hobbs, Richmond, VA: Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, and Seattle and London: University of Washington Press
- Newhall, Edith, "Art Preview: Galleries," New York, 14 September
- Gilbert, David, "Interior Design’s Guide to Fall in New York," Interior Design, vol. 69, no. 11, September
- Ichihara, Kentaro, "New Figurative Painting in the 90s," Bijustu-Techo, vol. 50, no. 763, November
- Boodro, Michael, "People Are Talking about Art: Home Alone," Vogue (New York), November
- Pinchbeck, Daniel, "Art Market: Our Choice of New York Contemporary Galleries," The Art Newspaper, no. 86, November
- Wallach, Amei, "Malevolent Babies Busting Up Walls, Sharpening Darts," The New York Times, 1 November
- Smith, Roberta, "Art in Review: Kim Dingle," The New York Times, 27 November 1998, p. E43.
- Wallach, Amei, "Vision of the Void Behind the California Sun," The New York Times, 29 November
- Schwendener, Martha, "Kim Dingle, ‘Fatty and Fudge’," Time Out New York, 10–17 December
- Willette, Jeanne S. M., "Kim Dingle and Cohorts: The Writer, The Bad Girl, and The Seamstress," Artweek, vol. 29 no. 11, November
- Willette, Jeanne S. M., "The Little White Dress," Dutch, no. 19
- "Arte e Mercato," Arte, No. 304, December
- 1997
- Nittve, Lars and Helle Crenzien, Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A., 1960–1997,” Exhibition catalogue, Humlebaek, Denmark: Louisiana Museum of Modern Art
- Grisham, E, "Kim Dingle; Kara Walker.” Art Papers, v. 21, May/June
- Connors, T, "Kim Dingle,” Sculpture (Washington, D.C.) v. 16, May/June
- Kandel, Susan, "Sugar, Spice, and Everything Nice? Not Quite," Los Angeles Times, September 19
- Frank, Peter, "Pick of the Week," L. A. Weekly, September 19–26
- Fleming, Jeff, Women’s Work: Examining the Feminine in Contemporary Painting,” Exhibition brochure, Winston- Salem, NC: Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art
- Kozloff, Max, "Sunshine & Noir: Art in L. A., 1960–1997," Artforum, vol. 36, no. 3, November
- Gonzalez, Rita, "Poliester,” Winter 1997–98
- Harvey, Doug, "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe," Art Issues, November/December
- 1996
- Greenstein, M. A., "A Conversation with Kim Dingle, Artist.” Artweek, January
- Anderson, Isabel, "Kim Dingle at Otis Gallery," Artweek, January
- Schjeldahl, Peter, "The Dingle Flap,” Village Voice, January 30
- Rugoff, Ralph, "Crate Expectation," L. A. Weekly, January 12–18
- Pincus, Robert L. "Dreaming of Me,” February 11
- Lewis, Jo Ann, "Kaleidoscope, Pieces of a Dream," Washington Post, October 10
- Jones, Joyce, "American Art, Through a Prism," Washington Post, October 11.
- Artner, Alan, "Critic’s Choice," Chicago Tribune, November 24
- Artner, Alan, "Critic’s Choice," Chicago Tribune, December 1
- 1995
- Schaffner, Ingrid, "Kim Dingle: Jack Tilton Gallery," Artforum, vol. 34 no. 6, February
- Cameron, Dan. "Kertess’s List," Art & Auction, February
- Pagel, David, "Mayhem, Mischief & Little Girls," Los Angeles Times, February 7
- Kandel, Susan, "Naughty Dolls Don’t Make for Bad Girls," Los Angeles Times, February 8
- Darling, Michael. "Kim Dingle at Blum & Poe," Art Issues, March/April
- Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle: Blum & Poe, Los Angeles," Frieze, no. 21, March–April
- Zellen, Jody, Art Press, April 1995
- Kutner, Janet, "Artists Explore the Issues of Human Gender," The Dallas Morning News, April 30
- Pagel, David, "Kim Dingle," Bomb, no. 52, Summer
- Hoving, Thomas, "Art for the Ages," Cigar Aficionado, Summer
- Morgan, Susan, "Little Miss Mayhem," Elle, November
- Knode, Marilu and Peter Schjeldahl, "Kim Dingle,” Exhibition catalogue, Los Angeles: Otis College of Art and Design
- Greene, David, "Born to Be Bad," Los Angeles Reader, December 8
- Knight, Christopher, "Exposing the Inner Child of U.S. Politics," Los Angeles Times, December 3
- Wilson, William, "Eccentric ‘Glimpse’ at Norton Collection," Los Angeles Times, December 12
- Wilson, William, "Canvassing the Year of Brilliance," Los Angeles Times, December 31
- Gamblin, Noriko, "A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle,” Exhibition brochure, Santa Monica Museum of Art
- Gauthier, Jennifer, Angela Kramer Murphy, and Cynthia Roznoy, "Playtime: Artists and Toys,” Exhibition catalogue, Whitney Museum of America Art
- 1994
- Cohen, Jean Lawlor, "43rd Biennial Exhibition of Contemporary American Painting,” Art News, vol. 93 no. 2, February
- Knight, Christopher, "’Bad Girls’: Feminism on Wry, Tone Bemusedly Subversive in West Coast Edition of N.Y. Show," Los Angeles Times, February 8
- "The Space of Time," Art Nexus, no. 1, February–March
- Edelman, Robert. "The Figure Returns," Art in America, vol. 83 no. 3, March
- Roth, Charlene, "Bad Girls," Artweek, March 10–17
- Lumpkin, Libby, "Bad Girls West," Art Issues, no. 32, March–April
- LaBelle, Charles, "Biggest, Badettes," Cover, April
- Weissman, Benjamin, "Bad Girls Blues: Los Angeles (Sigh)," Artforum, vol. 33 no. 9, May
- Bertei, Adele, "Kim Dingle’s Wild Girls," Vibe, May
- Clearwater, Bonne, "Arrested Childhood,” Exhibition catalogue, Miami, FL: Center for Contemporary Art
- Kohen, Helen, "Naughty and Nice Show at COCA Explores Emotions of Childhood," The Miami Herald, May 22
- DeLeon, Jessica, "Reshaping the Globes," Denton Record-Chronicle, September 25
- Storr, Robert, "Mapping,” Exhibition catalogue, New York: Museum of Modern Art, and Harry N. Abrams
- Smith, Roberta, "Mapping," New York Times, 14 October
- The New Yorker, November 7–13
- Schjeldahl, Peter, "Bringing Up Baby," Village Voice, November 5
- Auerbach, Lisa Anne, "Kim Dingle’s Cherubic Brats," Vernacular, Winter
- Duncan, Michael, "L. A. Rising," Art in America, vol. 83, no. 12, December
- Cameron, Dan, "The Easel Way Out," Art & Auction, December
- Weil, Benjamin, "Mapping," Art Monthly, December 1994 – January 1995
- Young, Geoffrey, "Kim Dingle," Lingo, no. 3
- 1993
- Curtis, Cathy, "Upstairs Invigorate Art Scene," Los Angeles Times, January, Orange County Edition
- Scarborough, James, Art Press, no. 178, March
- Cottingham, Laura, "Fever," Frieze, March/April
- Crockett, Tobey, "Violent Femmes," Visions, Summer
- Hodges, Karen C, and Bruce D. Kurtz, "Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists,” The 1993 Phoenix Triennial, Exhibition catalogue, Phoenix, AZ: Phoenix Art Museum
- Wilson, William, "Biennial’ Uses Humorous Paradox to Tackle Issues," Los Angeles Times, October 9
- Curtis, Cathy, "Painting Pictures," Los Angeles Times, October 14
- Dash, Phillip, "Kim Dingle at Jason Rubell Gallery," Beach Weekly, vol. 1 no. 4
- Guenther, Bruce, "Forth Newport Biennial: Southern California,” Exhibition catalogue, Bruce Newport Beach, CA: Newport Harbor Museum
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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