Kim Dacres is a visual artist using found tires and rubber to create sculptures celebrating influential forces in her life such as family, community, musicians, athletes, and ideas. Dacres’ process involves collecting and disassembling tires, layering them around wooden armatures using screws, and treating them with spray paint. In her work, Dacres emphasizes the facial expressions and hair styles of each piece in order to capture some of their charisma and celebrate their Blackness while also considering who is entitled to space and deserving of honorifics and monuments.

She is attracted to discarded rubber because of the color, smell, and the material’s symbolism imbued with a wealth of experience paired with wear, tear, and sudden disregard. Through the process of layering the materials, the rubber’s journeying experience transforms into muscle, bone, skin, hair, and personal style. Her work considers the texture of experiences unique to Black People and women and the fragments of their experiences that shape a world view.

BIOGRAPHY

Kim Dacres (b. 1986, Bronx, New York; lives and works between Harlem and the Bronx, New York). She has a MS.Ed from CUNY Lehman College in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2010) and a BA from Williams College in, Political Science, Art Studio, and Africana Studies (2008.).

Dacres’s work has been exhibited internationally, including recent solo and two‑artist exhibitions at UTA Artist Space in Atlanta, GA (2024), Charles Moffett, New York, NY (2023), Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2020) and Palm Beach, FL (2021); as well as group exhibitions such as Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 at the Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (2024), Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial, Part 1 at The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY (2024), Dueling Consciousness at Zidoun‑Bossuyt, Luxembourg (2023), New Forms: that which constitutes (critical) matter at Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia (2023), Black American Portraits at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2023) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2021), Sounds of Blackness at The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines (2023), Godhead – Idols in Times of Crisis at Lustwarande, 12th Edition, Tilburg, Netherlands (2022), Arrangements in Black at Phillips, New York, NY (2022), From a Place, Of a Place, presented by ArtNoir x regularnormal x Meatpacking District, New York, NY (2021), and Through the Looking Glass, presented by UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA (2021).

Dacres’ sculptures are held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; The Bunker Art Space, Palm Beach, FL; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; the International African American Museum, Charleston, SC; the North Dakota Museum of Art; the Leslie‑Lohman Museum, New York City; and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Miami.

Kim Dacres presented her last solo exhibition at Zidoun-Bossuyt Paris in September 2025.

In the fall of 2025, she unveiled a new permanent installation of bronze sculptures in partnership with ArtBridge and Settlement Housing Fund at the historic Harlem River Houses in New York City.