Kim Dingle
Priss, 1994
Born in 1951 in Pomona, California, Kim Dingle lives and works in Los Angeles. She spent her teens in Las Vegas where she began her 9-year career managing trade bookstores, which ultimately led her back to California. She left corporate retail management to take up house painting on an all-female crew while attending California State University, Los Angeles at age 27. To escape the drudgery of house painting, she applied to the Claremont Graduate School where she earned a Master of Fine Arts (1990). Dingle, having her first mainstream gallery show in Los Angeles on her 40th birthday, inspired Peter Schjeldahl to tag her a “late bloomer.” Early solo exhibitions of her work were presented at institutions including California State University, Los Angeles (1991); Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles (1995-96); and the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago (1996). Dingle was included in the 2000 Whitney Biennial, and her work appeared in the group exhibition “Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A., 1960-1997,” at the Louisiana Museum of Modern Art, Humlebaek (1997), which traveled to major institutions in Europe and the United States. Mid-career, Dingle, with partner Aude Charles, for no particular reason, opened and personally ran Fatty’s & Co., a full-service fine dining vegetarian restaurant in the middle of Dingle’s studio in Los Angeles. Though the artist has described the 13 year-long experience as a nightmare, she also considers it an enormous inspiration for her paintings. Following the sale of the restaurant, she opened “Wine Bar for Children” at Coagula Curatorial, Los Angeles (2013-14) (and was never arrested). Recently, her work was included in “Women Painting Women” at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth (2022). Among public collections owning her work are the Denver Museum of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C.; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Seattle Museum of Contemporary Art; Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C; and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Dingle had her first solo show at Sperone Westwater in 1998 and subsequent exhibitions in 2000, 2007, 2012, 2018, and 2023.
Downloadables
Kim Dingle
Blue Lemon 8, 2022
oil on acrylic in powder coated aluminum frame
36 x 30 inches (91,4 x 76,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (92,1 x 76,8 cm) frame
SW 22387
Kim Dingle
Blue Lemon 10, 2022
oil on acrylic in powder coated aluminum frame
36 x 30 inches (91,4 x 76,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (92,1 x 76,8 cm) frame
SW 22389
Kim Dingle
Blue Lemon 16, 2022
oil on acrylic in powder coated aluminum frame
36 x 30 inches (91,4 x 76,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (92,1 x 76,8 cm) frame
SW 22395
Kim Dingle
Blue Lemon 1, 2022
oil on acrylic in powder coated aluminum frame
36 x 30 inches (91,4 x 76,2 cm)
36 1/4 x 30 1/4 inches (92,1 x 76,8 cm) frame
SW 22380
Kim Dingle
Priss, 1994-95
mixed media
58 x 22 x 31 inches (147,3 x 55,9 x 78,7 cm) overall
SW 00334
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
Wild Girls (mashing puppies), 1993
oil on linen
72 x 60 inches (182,9 x 152,4 cm)
SW 00335
Collection of Columbus Museum of Art, Ohio
Kim Dingle
Untitled (Girls with Dresspole), 1998
oil on linen
84 x 72 inches (213,4 x 182,9 cm)
SW 98196
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
Cloud for Interview, 1999
oil on cotton vellum
30 x 25 inches (76,2 x 63,5 cm)
42 x 28 3/4 inches (106,7 x 73 cm) frame
SW 99059
Seattle Art Museum
Kim Dingle
63MG 4ME, 1999
midget MG with mixed media
48 x 144 x 53 inches (121,9 x 365,8 x 134,6 cm)
SW 99294
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
The Nelson: Takedowns and Pinning Combinations (messy shoes), 1999
oil on vellum
48 x 60 inches (121,9 x 152,4 cm) sheet
51 x 63 inches (129,5 x 160 cm) frame
SW 99160
Denver Art Museum
Kim Dingle
Never in School (playground), 2000
oil on vellum
24 x 19 inches (61 x 48,3 cm) sheet
32 13/16 x 27 13/16 inches (83,3 x 70,6 cm) frame
SW 00245
Whitney Museum of American Art
Kim Dingle
Never in School (classroom w/7 students), 2000
oil on vellum
24 x 19 inches (61 x 48,3 cm) sheet
32 13/16 x 27 13/16 inches (83,3 x 70,6 cm) frame
SW 00244
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty's (No I.D.), 2006
oil on vellum
76 x 96 inches (193 x 243,8 cm)
SW 07146
Kim Dingle
Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty's (Watermelon Martinis), 2006
oil on vellum
76 x 120 inches (193 x 304,8 cm)
SW 07149
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
Untitled (Birthday), 2007
oil on canvas
60 x 48 inches (152,4 x 121,9 cm)
SW 11423
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
Stuffing Pinky, 2007
oil on canvas
triptych; 30 x 24 inches (76,2 x 61 cm) each
30 x 72 inches (76,2 x 182,8 cm) overall
SW 07437a-c
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
Floater #9, 2009
oil on canvas
16 x 20 x 1 1/2 inches (40,6 x 50,8 x 3,8 cm)
SW 20073
Kim Dingle
Floater #30, 2009
oil on canvas on aluminum stretchers
66 x 60 x 1 1/2 inches (167,6 x 152,4 x 3,8 cm)
SW 20079
Kim Dingle
Floater #8, 2009
oil on canvas
16 x 20 x 1 1/2 inches (40,6 x 50,8 x 3,8 cm)
SW 20074
Private Collection
Kim Dingle
Study for Lemon Tart, 2011
oil on polyester
14 x 11 inches (35,5 x 27,9 cm)
14 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (36,5 x 28,8 cm) frame
SW 13391
Kim Dingle
Study for Lemon Tart, 2011
oil on polyester
14 x 11 inches (35,5 x 27,9 cm)
14 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (36,5 x 28,8 cm) frame
SW 13387
Kim Dingle
Study for Lemon Tart, 2011
oil on polyester
14 x 11 inches (35,5 x 27,9 cm)
14 3/8 x 11 3/8 inches (36,5 x 28,8 cm) frame
SW 13401
Kim Dingle
Untitled (not to worry), 2017
oil on Plexiglas, framed
51 x 41 x 2 1/2 inches (129,5 x 104 x 6,4 cm)
SW 17366
Kim Dingle
Untitled (tragedy on interstate 15), 2017
oil on Plexiglas, framed
51 x 41 x 2 1/2 inches (129,5 x 104 x 6,4 cm)
SW 17373
Kim Dingle
Untitled (my wiener), 2017
oil on Plexiglas, framed
51 x 41 x 2 1/2 inches (129,5 x 104 x 6,4 cm)
SW 17368
Kim Dingle
Untitled (where did you get your shoes), 2017
oil on Plexiglas, framed
51 x 41 x 2 1/2 inches (129,5 x 104 x 6,4 cm)
SW 17370
Kim Dingle
Untitled (portrait of the artist as a young girl without glasses), 2017
oil on Plexiglas, framed
51 x 41 x 2 1/2 inches (129,5 x 104 x 6,4 cm)
SW 17364
Private Collection
Exhibitions
Kim Dingle
still lives
Sperone Westwater, New York
5 – 28 April 2012
Kim Dingle
Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles
18 November 1995 – 27 January 1996