Kimberly Light

Since she opened her first gallery in 1992 on La Brea Avenue in Los Angeles, Kimberly Light has provided steady and critical support to emerging California and International artists. With Jeff Poe – now of Blum & Poe – as its director, the Kim Light Gallery was jump-started and helped boost the careers of many artists who emerged as important figures of the 1990’s international art scene including Janine Antoni, Kim Dingle, Anya Gallaccio, and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. The gallery established an international network of contacts, working with New York-based artists such as Polly Apfelbaum, Glenn Ligon, Karen Finley and curators such as Bill Arning and Simon Watson.

Light closed her La Brea gallery and moved to San Francisco to raise a family. While residing in the Bay Area she served on the boards of the Capp Street Project and the San Francisco Art Institute, and was an active participant in the Collectors’ Forum of the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. She also served as co-chair of SFMOMA’s New Forum. Where she helped raise money for the museum to purchase work by significant emerging artists, and organized various events such as Los Angeles art tours and, artist symposium and cocktail/dinner parties celebrating artists and their achievements.

Returning to Los Angeles in 2001, Light opened LightProject, a non-profit foundation, on Wilshire Boulevard. Among the projects LightProject sponsored were Rachel Lachowicz’s Cryc-Field Snap, Tom Hartman’s T-1200 at the Armory Show in New York, Rikrit Tiravanija’s “Untitled D” at Salon, Statements at the Art Basel Art Fair by Los Angeles artist Dean Sameshima, and Fischerspooner’s three-night performance at The Standard in Downtown Los Angeles.

Contact Information

KimLightGallery.com
Telephone: 310-559-1111
Kim@KimLightGallery.com