Kim Collmer- Resume

TEACHING
2004- present
Guest Professor, University of Applied Sciences, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
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2003-2004
Instructor, Lexia International, Berlin, Germany
2001-2002
Instructor, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
2000-2002
Instructor, Columbia College, Chicago
1999-2001
Teaching Assistant, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
1999-present
Freelance Designer
11/1994-1998
Art Director, Zombie Studios, Seattle
1-11/1994
Assistant Director, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle

EDUCATION
School of the Art Institute of Chicago,
Masters Degree, 1999-2001
Post-Baccalaureate Degree, 1998-1999
University of Washington, Seattle, Washington, 1989-1992
Bachelors of Arts, Art History, Honors
Bachelor of Arts, German Area Studies
University of Maryland, Munich Campus, Germany, 1987-1988

HONORS
Phi Beta Kappa National Honor Society
Golden Key National Honor Society
Delta Phi Alpha Honor Society, German Department, Univ. of Washington
Lambda Rho Honor Society, Art Department, Univ. of Washington
Nippon Steel Presidential Award, 1998-99, 2000-2001

REPRESENTATION
Microcinema International, San Francisco
LiveBox Gallery, Chicago
MULE Arts Collective, Los Angeles
Voyeur Video Art Collective, Melbourne, Australia

EXHIBITIONS
2007
69 Street Gallery, “The Launch”- Voyeur Video Collective, Melbourne, Australia
Arizona Museum for Youth, Tucson
Platform Animation Festival, Installation Animation, Portland, Oregon
University of Arts, Vision Creates Future, Aachen, Germany
2006
Miami Art Fair, LiveBox Gallery
Nova Art Fair, LiveBox Gallery, Chicago
Figures of Motion, Schloss Plüschow, Berlin
2005
Unstrung, LaTrobe Regional Gallery, Australia
Points of View, Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia
2004
University of Applied Arts, seque/überläppen, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Environmental Excursions, Artware, curator Jennifer Davy, San Antonio, Texas
European Environmental Excursions, Subspace Gallery, Berlin
Utopia- U Build It, Rocketshop Gallery, Berlin
2003
Deutsche-Amerikanische Freundschaft, Subspace Gallery, Berlin
2002
Project Room, White Columns, New York
Bricolage, Ruldolf Projects, Houston
Hobby Lobby, Gallery 312, Chicago
Blue Collar/Blue Blooded, Heaven Gallery, Chicago
2001
transpoly blu, Elliot Smith Gallery, curator Sabina Ott, St. Louis
Group Exhibition, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
MFA Exhibition, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
2000
Multiples, Bodybuilder & Sportsman, Chicago
Bliss/ Collaborations, Inside Art, Chicago
Group Exhibition, Gallery 2, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
1999
Post-Baccalaureate Exhibition, School of the Art Institute, Chicago
New Artists Exhibition, Refuse Salon, San Francisco
1996
Nirvana: Capitalism and the Consumed Image, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle

FILM SCREENINGS
2007
Ausstellungszentrum Pyramide, Director's Lounge, Berlin
Director‘s Lounge, Berlin
University of Chicago, Film Studies Center
LiveBox Screening,versionfest, Chicago
Watch This Space, Baltimore
2006
San Diego Women's Film Festival
Darklight Animation Festival, Dublin, Ireland
Gallery Inner Spaces, Poznan, Poland (presentation & screening)
Directors Lounge, Berlin (presentation & screening)
Trampoline Festival, Nottingham, England
Microcinema Festival, San Francisco and Houston
Deutsches Theater, Berlin
2005
Island Art Film Festival, London
SHowcase Film Festival, Schwäbisch Hall, Germany
Potsdam Film Museum
2004
Animation Festival, Pacific Switchboard, Portland, Oregon
2003
Anti-spacesuit, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Animation Collection, Texas Gallery, Chicago
Experimental Chicago Cinema,Arsensal Film Center, Berlin
H. Lewis Gallery, Baltimore, Maryland
Bill Cosford Cinema, University of Miami
Artspace, Billings, Montana
2002
Sparwasser, Berlin, Germany
Kuehleraume, kuehle raume, Torstrasse 111, Berlin, Germany
Madurai Collective, Madurai, India
Stray Show, Chicago
Animation Festival, Gene Siskel Film Center, Chicago
Combustive Art Center, Brooklyn, NY
In and Out of Control,Manchester Metropolitan University, England
THAW Film & Video Festival, Iowa
Multimedia Microcinema, Skopie, Macedonia
World Microcinema, Out North Contemporary Art House, Alaska
2001
Athens International Film Festival, Athens, Ohio
Chicago/ Moscow Film Exchange, Moscow, Russia
Independent Exposure, Henegelo, Netherlands
Ladyfest Midwest, Chicago
Sizzling Summer Festival, Seattle
All Experimental/ All Animation, Ann Arbor, Michigan
Heaven Gallery, Chicago
Fire Station # 3, Houston
Project 101, Paris, France
Barcelona Independent Film and Video Festival
Zero Room, Monterrey, Mexico
Multimedia Microcinema, Skopie, Macedonia
Het Wilde Weten, Rotterdam, Netherlands
Utazu Town, Utazu, Japan
2000
Spareroom, Chicago
Independent Exposure, Seattle

ONLINE EXHIBITIONS/ GROUP PROJECTS
2005
Notions of Expenditure, Alternative Energy Project, organized by Laurie Palmer
2003
Out of Space, online art project
2002
Versionfest, E-Literature Component curated by Niki Nolan, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
2001
3 Acres Project, Web Design and artistic participation for Laurie Palmer's Landscape Proposal
2000
HUB, online art project
1999
Transmute, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago

SELECTED REVIEWS
Berliner Morgenpost, February 2006
Icono Duel, Stray Show Assessment, 2004
Mouth to Mouth, "Voice Mail", Spring 2003
New York Times, Ken Johnson, Review, May 31, 2002
New York Times, Last Chance, Review, June 6, 2002
New Yorker, Review, May 27, 2002
Houston Press, I Hate My HGTV, 2002
Columbia Chronicle, Review, Intimate Bureaucracies, March, 2002
Seattle Post-Intelligence, 'Dusk' reveals somber theme with much wit, 2000

GRANTS
Rockerfeller Film & Video Grant, Nominee, 2004
Albert Murray Fellowship, 2001
School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Post-Baccalaureate Grant

RESIDENCIES
Subart, Razanj, Croatia, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007, underwater video residency

PAPERS
Memory and Animation, Memorialisation and Film Symposium, organized by Shaun Wilson (RMIT), 2006

FILMOGRAPHY
Berlin Skin, 2007
the Pin Ups, 2007
I Am the Fall, 2007
Camera in a Glass Bowl, 2007
Lichtwelten, 2007
Electric Blue, 2007
POD, 2006
Silver Seeds, 2006
The Fold, 2005
Spilt, 2005, collaboration
Mercury Moon, 2001
Stars of the Lid, 2001
Warm Jets, 2000
Portal, 1999
Big Sky, 1999

CURATORIAL PROJECTS
2007
Animate Locate, Director's Lounge Berlin
2006
Forming Motion: Animated Artistic Experiments, Director's Lounge, Berlin, in collaboration with Microcinema International
2004
Environmental Excursions, Subspace, Berlin
2002
Columbia College, Intimate Bureaucracies, Collaborative Computer Exhibition, part of course taught at Columbia
1999
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Dusk, end of the millennium exhibition
1998
Seattle Center, Arts Edge Festival, Zinefest II
1997
Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, Deep Space Electronica
Seattle Center, Arts Edge Festival, Zinefest I