kim shaw
artist & photographer

Kim Shaw is an American artist who lives and works in London.  In 2024, she completed an MA in Contemporary Photography, Philosophy and Practice at Central Saint Martins. During her time at CSM her practice evolved from being primarily photographic, to an expanded practice that uses 3D build, installation and photography. Her work often contains an element of social or institutional critique. 

Her practice is also informed by her time as Director of Brixton based arts organisation Photofusion (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.  

 

Recent project include:  Corners, Pillars, Columns, which responds to Ursula K. Le Guin's "The Ones Who Walk Away From Omelas"; Pursuit of the Lesser God-Lobster, which borrows from the conventions of the Trophy Room to examine the perils of subject-matter driven photography; and Folly, an ongoing project (exhibited at London Art Fair’s curated exhibition “Photo50" in 2020) in which 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 2026, Kim was awarded a Hosking Houses Trust Residency.  The work will be exhibited in May, 2027 at ASC Studios Streatham Hill Project Space. 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.