EDUCATION

  • State University of New York at New Paltz: BFA in Painting, minor in Math, 2013

  • Columbia University Graduate School of Architecture, Planning and Preservation:

    Introduction to architecture , 2012

SOLO/ FEATURE EXHIBITIONS

  • Creatures and Comforts (feature): Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2025

    *exhibiting artist and curator

  • Magically Thinking (feature): Angels Gate Gallery, San Pedro, 2022

    *exhibiting artist and curator

  • In My Room (solo show): Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2022

  • Tactility (feature exhibition): South Bay Contemporary SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2020

  • Agglomeration (2-person show): Keystone Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

  • Familiar Places (window installation/solo exhibition): chashama 1351, Harlem, NY, 2014

  • A Subliminal Refuge (solo exhibition): Samuel Dorsky Museum of Art, New Paltz, NY 2013

SELECT GROUP EXHIBITIONS

  • The Middle Becomes Eclectic: The Middle Room Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2024

  • 35 x 35 Bicentennial: Consulate General of Mexico in Los Angeles, Los Angeles, CA 2023

  • Other Places Art Fair: Angel’s Gate Design Center, San Pedro, CA 2021

  • Projecting Possibilities: Helms Design Center, Los Angeles, CA 2021

  • Keystone Group Show: Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA 2021

  • The Era of Change: Visionary Projects, Virtual, 2021

  • IN REAL LIFE: Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA 2020

  • Museum Adjacent Plays Itself: virtual, 2020

  • QiPO Art Fair: Bucareli 80, Colonia Centro, Mexico City 2020

    *presenting as a member of Museum Adjacent

  • Adjacent, Adjacent: Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA 2019

    *exhibiting artist and curator

  • Museum Adjacent: Finishing Concepts, Monterey Park, CA 2019

    *exhibiting artist and curator

  • Generational Aesthetics: Cerritos College, Norwalk, CA 2019

  • (1+2) = TAM FORUM: AMAX Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019

  • FRESH 2019: South Bay Contemporary, SoLA Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2019

  • LA Open 2019: TAG Gallery, Los Angeles, CA 2019

  • Architectural Memory: Vedder Price and Associates with Patter Hellstrom Visual Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2018

  • 50|50: Sanchez Art Center, Pacifica, CA, 2018

  • UNDER CONSTRUCTION: Finishing Concepts, Monterey Park, CA, 2018

    *exhibiting artist and curator

  • STRIPES: bG Gallery, Santa Monica, CA, 2018

  • Reality Sandwiches: Art Share LA, Los Angeles, CA 2018

  • Memories on Location: Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA 2018

  • Off the Wall: Shoebox Projects, Los Angeles, CA 2017

  • Art in Place: Venice Institute of Contemporary Art, Newberry Lofts, Long Beach, CA 2017

  • Unita: First Thursdays Art and Music, El Segundo, CA 2017

  • Gimme 5!: Muzeumm and ViCA, Los Angeles, CA 2017

  • GCC Public Art Finalist Competition: Los Angeles, CA 2017

  • Fractured Lenses: Pilates and Arts, Los Angeles, CA 2017

  • Abstract II: Beyond the Lines Gallery, Santa Monica, CA 2017

  • 25 Below: UC Riverside Desert Campus, Palm Springs, CA 2017

  • Noisy Paint Box: sTudio 7 Gallery, Rockaway, NY 2016

  • Spring Salon Show: Greenpoint Gallery, Brooklyn, NY 2016

  • All Hallows Eve Show: G Gallery, Bellmore NY 2013

  • SUNY Student Best in Show Exhibition: The New York State Museum, Albany, NY, 2013

  • Failure to Communicate: Apostrophe Gallery, Brooklyn NY 2013

  • SUNY Student Art Exhibition: SUNY Administration Exhibition, Albany, NY 2012

    *best in show

  • MAYhem: The Shirt Factory, Kingston, NY 2011

  • Collectively Independent: Wallspace @ Backstage Studios, Kingston, NY 2010

PRESS

  • Not Real Art: (https://notrealart.com/kim-marra/): Artist Feature, 2022

  • Saatchi Art: (https://www.saatchiart.com/stories/22artists/) : Selected as one of “22 Artists to collect in 2022”, 2022

  • Shoutout LA: (https://shoutoutla.com/meet-kim-marra-painter/): Artist feature, 2020

  • Pigeons on Pages: (pigeonpagesnyc.com/hot-honey) : Artist Feature, 2018

  • Voyage LA (voyagela.com/interview/meet-kim-marra) : Artist Feature, 2018

  • Pop Ellay (popellay.com/press/13714): Artist Feature, 2017

  • Emergent Art Space (emergentartspace.org/forum/36873): Artist Interview, 2016

  • Paint Pulse Magazine, Issue 5 (paintpulsemagazine.com): Featured Artist, 2016

  • Kung Fu Breakfast (kungfubreakfast.com): Artist Feature, 2014

RECOGNITION

  • Museum Adjacent: artist run collective co-founder

  • Torrance Art Museum: FORUM 2019: Participating Artist and Curator

  • Glendale Community College Public Art Competition: Finalist, 2017

  • Los Angeles Art Association: Member, 2017- 2018