kim shaw
artist & photographer

Kim Shaw is an American photographer who lives and works in London.  She is currently completing her MA in Contemporary Photography, Philosophy and Practice at Central Saint Martins. She was the Director of Brixton based arts organisation Photofusion from March 2015-January, 2024 where she was responsible for delivering the organisation's objective of supporting underrepresented artists alongside developing and delivering the organisation's artistic programme.  During her time at Photofusion her personal practice evolved from traditional photography to an expanded practice that uses photography, 3D build and installation to examine the mechanisms of the art-world and most recently, the medium of photography itself. 

 

Her current project, Pursuit of the Lesser God-Lobster, borrows from the conventions of the Trophy Room to examine the perils of subject-matter driven photography.  This work will make up her degree show at Central Saint Martins on June 25, 2024.

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Folly is an ongoing project that was exhibited at London Art Fair’s curated exhibition “Photo50" in 2020.  In this work,  Kim recreates the art-world that had denied her access, in miniature and reimagined to include her work.  It was  featured in Huck Magazine, Photomonitor, BBC online, and the weekend FT.  

 

In 2021, she was longlisted for the Photoworks Ampersand Fellowship.  Kim's earlier work was featured in a solo show, “Paper Ghosts,”  at Jenny Blyth Fine Art at Art Jericho in Oxford in 2014.  Since then, her work has been shown at Soho Photo Gallery in New York as a part of their international competition, Krappy Kamera, on three occasions.  In 2017, she was named overall winner. In 2018, Kim was nominated for the Royal Photographic Society’s 100Heroines, and in 2019 The Chaos Next Door was included in the RPS Heroines’ exhibition (Re)Framing Identity in London and Blackpool and featured in Uncertain States. She exhibited as a part of the group show "Looking for Spiders" as a part of Brighton PhotoFringe in 2022.  Her work is held in the permanent collection of the Kresge Art Museum in East Lansing, Michigan USA.