ABOUT
Kim Coleman (UK) is an artist working in London. Her solo projects span expanded moving image, photographic processes, intelligent lighting and live performance.
Solo shows and performances include Borrowed Bodies, Five Years (London, 2023) produced by Phill Wilson Perkin; OHMMG, commissioned for Festival of the Not, The Star and Shadow, (Newcastle, UK, 2019) curated by Giles Bailey and Circa Projects; Winter Sun commissioned for Granary Square, Kings Cross (London, UK, 2014); and Suntrap, commissioned for MSdockville festival, (Hamburg, 2011). A recent major project for Richmond Council’s Planning Department (2025), with fellow artist Harun Morrison, examined needs for darkness in urban space.
Kim’s photographic work has been featured in major group shows, including Cultural Reforesting, Orleans House (London, 2025); Grace Before Jones, Nottingham Contemporary-curated by Cedric Fauq (2021); and Heaven and Hell, Tom of Finland Foundation, curated by Jess Scott and Seth Bogart (LA, 2020).
Between 2011 and 2015, Coleman designed and creatively directed live stage shows (lighting, video, set, costume) for rock bands including Django Django, Veronica Falls, Franz Ferdinand and Spoon. Since then, she has collaborated on a series of climate activist projection projects with XR (2019) and Greenpeace (2023).
Coleman is a frequent coauthor. Her PhD project If They Be Two: relationships in co-authored experimental moving image by women addressed relationships between coauthors - considering desires to work in this way. Endless Love Tapes, a collaboration with video artist Wendy Clarke, developed out of this research and was launched at the Berwick Film and Media Arts Festival (2025).
Coleman’s coauthored works with Susie Green, Cara Tolmie and Zoe Poluch, Matthew Noel-tod, and Laura Buckley, have been presented at Tate St.Ives (2020), Palais de Tokyo (2020), FRAC Champagne-Ardenne (2020), The Showroom (2016), Block Universe performance festival (2017), and Block 336 (2016).
Between 2003 and 2023, Coleman co-authored moving image and live work with Jenny Hogarth. Their works include If You Can’t See My Mirrors I Can’t See You (2010) commissioned for Serpentine Gallery’s CINACT programme London; Staged (2010) produced by the Collective Gallery for Edinburgh Art Festival; An Infusion of the Evening Air (2010) for Glasgow International Open Glasgow commission; Players (2009) for Frieze Projects; Glare (2009) for S1Artspace, Sheffield; and Kim Coleman & Jenny Hogarth with the Boyle family (2008) for the ICA. They have also shown at Tate Britain (London); Phillips De Pury NY (US); Picture This (Bristol); Talbot Rice Gallery (Edinburgh); and Minneapolis St-Paul Film Festival. In 2021 the artists rekindled their collaboration for a digital residency with Axisweb, producing a new video work, The Mechanics of Love (2021), a prequel and sequel to If You Can’t See My Mirrors I Can’t See You (2010).
TEXTS
Inga Fraser on Kim Coleman's photography ~ What the flame of a candle looks like after the candle has been blown out
Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth on their AXIS moving image commission and their co-authorship ~ On Reflection
Francis McKee on Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth's Staged commission for the City of Edinburgh - Pale Blue Dots
interviews
2021 Rachel Warriner interviews Kim Coleman and Jenny Hogarth on their video The Mechanics of Love - MoL Interview
contact
email: kimehcoleman@gmail.com