Kim Collmer creates animations and videos which are shown in galleries and museums, film festivals and urban screening events. She received her BA's in Art History and German Studies from the University of Washington. She was the Assistant Director at the Center on Contemporary Art in Seattle and later served as Vice President of their Board. After COCA she worked as a Producer and Art Director at Zombie Studies, a games company with clients such as Disney. She then returned to her studies and received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, where she also taught before relocating to Germany. After living in Berlin for two years working as a freelance designer and at Lexia, a study abroad program, she accepted a post as Guest Professor in Media Studies at the University of Applied Arts in Schwaebisch Hall. She left in 2008 to Cologne where she continues to work on her art and lives with her husband and daughter.
Her installation film "Berlin Skin" was recently part of the BBC's Big Screens shown through England. She also just completed two videos- Postcards from the Deep and the Water that Danced. Her next film, the Lighthouse, an installation video, will be completed very soon!
Selected Screenings- the Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago; Flik Film Festival ("Best of Show" 2008); Directors Lounge, Berlin; LACE, Los Angeles; Arsenal, Berlin; Darklight Festival, Dublin; Kunsthalle Duesseldorf; San Diego Women's Film Festival; Trampoline Urban Screens (Nottingham & Sydney). Selected exhibitions- Museum of New Art, Detroit; Project Room, White Columns, New York; Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle; Platform Festival- Installation Animation Exhibition, Portland. Selected reviews - the New York Times and the New Yorker magazine.
Affliations- Microcinema International, LiveBox Chicago, Voyuer International Video Collective , Slab Projects, Society for Animation Studies. Honor Societies- Phi Beta Kappa, Golden Key International Honors Society
