Born Pomona, CA, 1951

EDUCATION

1988 B.F.A. California State University, Los Angeles

1990 M.F.A. Claremont Graduate School, CA

ONE PERSON EXHIBITIONS

1991 "The Romance and Drama of the Rubber Industry," Closet of Modern Art (COMA), California State University, Los Angeles, 1991

"Portraits from the Dingle Library," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, 6 - 27 September 1991

"Dingle Library Presents Paintings of the West with Horse Drawings by Teenage Girls," Parker Zanic, Los Angeles, 1991

1992 Kim Light Gallery, Los Angeles, 1992

1993 Jason Rubell Gallery, Miami Beach, FL, 1993 (brochure)

1994 "Kim Dingle," Jack Tilton Gallery, New York, 12 November 1994 (closing date)

1995 "Kim Dingle," Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, CA, 21 January - 4 March 1995

1995-96 "Kim Dingle," Otis Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, 18 November-27 January; The Renaissance Society at The University of Chicago, 24 November 1995 - 29 December 1996 (catalogue)

"A Glimpse of the Norton Collection as Revealed by Kim Dingle," Santa Monica Museum of Art, CA, 9 December 1995 -25 February 1996; SITE Santa Fe, NM (artist's project; brochure)

1997 "Kim Dingle," Blum & Poe, Santa Monica, 6 September - 11 October 1997

1998 "Kim Dingle: 'Fatty'," Gian Enzo Sperone, Rome, 30 September 1998(opening date)

"Kim Dingle: 'Fatty and Fudge'," Sperone Westwater, New York, 7 November - 19 December 1998(catalogue)

2000 "Kim Dingle and the Wild Girls," Bell Gallery, Brown University, Providence, RI, 11 November - 31 December 2002

"Kim Dingle," Sperone Westwater, New York, 2 November - 22 December 2000

2002 “Kim Dingle," Galleria Cardi, Milan, 9 april - 31 May 2002

2007 “Kim Dingle: Studies for the Last Supper at Fatty's,” Sperone Westwater, New York, 29 March – 28 April 2007

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

1990 "Con-Text," Richard/Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, 1990

1991 "The Store Show," Richard Bennett Gallery, Los Angeles, 1991

"Les Fleurs," Parker/Zanic Gallery and Sue Spaid Fine Art, Los Angeles, 1991

"Synthetic Histories," Parker/Zanic Gallery, Los Angeles, 1991

1992 "Déjà vu," Asher/Faure Gallery, Los Angeles, 1992

"I Thought California Would Be Different, New Work in the Permanent Collection," Laguna Art Museum, CA, 1992

"Fever," Exit Art, New York, 1992

1993 "Space of Time," Americas Society, New York, 1993

"The Imp of the Perverse, Eight Artists from Los Angeles," Sally Hawkins Gallery, New York, 1993

"Group Show: Mary Beyt, Kim Dingle, David Dupuis, Scott Grodesky," Rubenstein/Diacono Gallery, New York, 1993

"Contemporary Identities: 23 Artists. The 1993 Phoenix Triennial," Phoenix Art Museum, AZ, 21 August - 10 October 1993 (catalogue)

Corcoran Gallery of Art Biennial, Washington, DC, 1993

1993-94 "Fourth Newport Biennial: Southern California 1993," The Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 2 October 1993 - 30 January 1994(catalogue)

1994 "Mapping," The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 6 October - 20 December 1994(catalogue)

"Bad Girls West," UCLA Wight Gallery, Los Angeles, 1994

"Arrested Childhood," Center for Contemporary Art, Miami, 19 May - 2 July 1994 (catalogue)

1994-95 "Mapping," University of Texas at San Antonio, TX; Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, CA (curated by Francis Colpitt)

1995 "Space of Time," Museum of Contemporary Art, Miami, 1995

"Inside Out: Psychological Self Portraiture in the 90's," The Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art, Ridgefield, CT, 1995

"Gender, Myth and Exploration," University of North Texas, Denton

"Wallpaper Works," Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, 1995

1995-96 "Playtime: Artists and Toys," Whitney Museum of America Art at Champion, Stamford, CT, 15 December 1995 - 20 March 1996(catalogue)

1996 "Narcissism: Artists Reflect Themselves," California Center for the Arts Museum, Escondido, CA, 1996

"American Kaleidoscope," National Museum of American Art, Smithsonian Institute, Washington, DC, 1996 (catalogue)

"Early Learning," Entwistle, London, 1996

"Between Reality and Abstraction: California Art at the End of the Century," Scottsdale Center for the Arts, AZ, 28 June-1 September 1996

1997 "My Little Pretty: Images of Girls by Contemporary Women Artists," Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, 1997 (catalogue)

"Women's Work: Examining the feminine in Contemporary Painting," Southeastern Center for Contemporary Art, Winston-Salem, NC, 19 July - 30 September 1997 (brochure)

1997-98 "Sunshine and Noir: Art in L. A., 1960-1997," Louisiana Museum of Modern Art; Humlebaek, Denmark, 16 May - 7 September 1997; Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg, fall; Castello di Rivoli, Turin, Italy, spring; UCLA at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center, Los Angles, fall (catalogue)

1998 "Family Viewing," Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, 1998

"Presumed Innocence," Anderson Gallery, School of the Arts, Virginia Commonwealth University, Richmond, 17 January-1 March; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH, 4 April - 14 June 1998 (catalogue)

1999 "Looking at Ourselves: Works by Women Artists from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 9 January-20 April 1999 (catalogue)

"I'm the Boss of Myself", Sara Meltzer's on View, 5 May - 12 June 1999

"Almost Warm and Fuzzy; Childhood and Contemporary Art," Des Moines Art Center, Iowa, 12 September - 21 November 1999 (catalogue)

2000 "Whitney Biennial," Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, 23 March - June 2000 (catalogue)

"Arte Americana; Ultimo Decennio," Museo d'Arte della Citta di Ravenna, Ravenna, 8 April - 25 June 2000 (catalogue)

"The End," Exit Art, New York, 29 January - 29 April 2000

"Emotional Rescue," The Contemporary Art Project Collection, Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA, 28 September - 28 October 2000

2000-2001 "Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000," Los Angeles County Museum of Art, 22 October 2000 - 25 February 2001

"The Darker Side of Playland: Childhood Imagery from the Logan Collection," San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, 1 September 2000 - 2 January 2001 (catalogue)

2001 "Uncomfortable Beauty," Jack Tilton/Anna Kustera, New York, 8 December 2000 - 13 January 2001

"Pop & Post-Pop (On Paper)," Texas Gallery, Houston, 23 January - 3 March 2001

2001-2002 "Almost Warm & Fuzzy: Childhood and Contemporary Art," Curated by Independent Curators International, Tacoma Art Museum, 8 July - 17 September 2000; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, 6 October - 14 January 2001; P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/MOMA Affiliate, Long Island City, 4 February - 8 April 2001; Fundació "la Caixa", Barcelona, 26 April - 8 July 2001 (catalogue); Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, 30 August - 4 November 2001; Art Gallery of Hamilton, Hamilton, Ontario, 24 November - 20 January 2002; Cleveland Center for the Contemporary Art, 6 September - 10 November 2002

"Lateral Thinking, Art of the 1990's," Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, 15 September 2001 - 8 January 2002 (catalogue)

2003 "SAM Collects: Contemporary Art Project," San Diego Art Museum, San Diego, CA, 20 December 2002 – 6 April 2003

"Whiteness, A Wayward Construction," Laguna Art Museum, Laguna, CA, 22 March - 6 July 2003.

“25 Years of Collecting Modern and Contemporary Art,” Denver Art Museum, 11 March 2002 - 3 August, 2003.

2005 “Light Opt(s): A Sele