Artist Statement

Kimmy Noonen (she/her) is a multi-disciplinary artist, podcast creator, and mother. She has spent the last twenty years making art through painting, photography, and interactive installations while also teaching, parenting two children, running a small business, and doing a heckofa lot of therapy. In her work, she re-imagines the potency of overlooked ideas and discarded materials to give form to our invisible inner-landscapes, asking questions about control, interdependence, holistic health and the expansion of identity over time. Kimmy is the creator of Kimmy Not Kim Podcast where she talks to real artists about their process, personhood and purpose and she lives with her husband and kids in the northwest side of Chicago.

Bio

Kimmy Noonen (she/her) earned her BA in Visual Arts from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and her MFA from the University of Chicago. Exhibitions highlights include Chicago’s Corner Gallery, Terrain Biennial, Hyde Park Art Center, Smart Museum, Positive Space Studios, Dank Haus German Cultural Center as well as Schnormeier Gallery (Ohio), Draewell Gallery (Judson University) and Supermarket Independent Art Fair (Stockholm, Sweden). Noonen has received a Chicago Arts Assistance (CAAP) Grant, taught at Judson University, owned a commercial photography business, established a support community for creatives in the church, hosts Kimmy Not Kim Podcast about life in the arts, and recently organized her first art market (Cheers to Art). Noonen spends most of her time with her husband and two children at their home on the Northwest side of Chicago.