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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.

 

Dacres was born in the Bronx to Jamaican immigrants. She has her MS from CUNY Lehman College in Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages (2010) and her BA from Williams College in Political Science, Art Studio, and Africana Studies (2008.) Dacres’ work has been exhibited around the world, including recent solo exhibitions at Charles Moffett Gallery in New York City (2023), Gavlak Gallery in Palm Beach, FL (2021) and Los Angeles (2020), as well as group exhibitions internationally and within the U.S., including Black American Portraits at Spelman College Museum of Fine Art, Atlanta, GA (2023) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2021), Sounds of Blackness at The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines (2023), The Beth DeWoody Collection at The Bunker in Palm Beach, FL (2022), 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), Through the Looking Glass, presented by UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA (2021). Dacres is the recipient of the Artadia New York Award Grant (2022). Her work is included in museum collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), the Institute of Contemporary Art Miami, the South Carolina International African American Museum, and the Nasher Museum at Duke University. Kim Dacres lives and works between Harlem and the Bronx, New York.

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EXHIBITIONS

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Dueling Consciousness - Kim Dacres, Genevieve Gaignard & Jeff Sonhouse

Exhibition Luxembourg 25 November 2023 - 20 January 2024

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Artsy Editorial The 10 Best Booths at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022 29 November 2022
Ayanna Dozier
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Juxtapoz Magazine Kim Dacres: Roll of Thunder, Hear Me Cry 2022
Charles Moore
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Artsy Editorial 10 Emerging Black Artist Show That Blackness is Not a Monolith 10 February 2022
Folasade Ologundudu
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Cultured Mag Kim Dacres Invites Us to a Chess Match with Her Own Rules 16 December 2021
Osman Can Yerebakan
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The Art Newspaper Lacma acquires 60 works with a focus on Black representation 16 December 2021
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Hyperallergic Sculptures in Showers, Paintings Above Toilets: Moments From the Felix Art Fair 30 July 2021
Samantha Helou Hernandez
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Cultured Mag Felix Art Fair Proves Creativity Flourishes in the City of Angels 29 July 2021
Dominique Clayton
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Forbes Tne Next Realm is Not Filled with Skinny White Girls 26 July 2021
Brienne Walsh
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Cultured Mag Los Angeles Art Today is Dexterous, Incisive and Unafraid 2 July 2021
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The Knocturnal UTA Artist Space Crushes Social Constructs of Feminity with Beyond the Looking Glass 29 June 2021
Naomi Pandolfi
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Italy's RAI Cultura Kim Dacres e le scultura in gomme 4 January 2021
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Artsy Editorial 19 collectors on the art they bought in 2020 24 November 2020
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KCRW Art Insider Tire tread expresses the complexity of the human experience 22 September 2020
Lindsay Preston Zappas
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Terremoto Kathryn Garcia & Kim Dacres at GAVLAK, Los Angeles 17 September 2020
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UTA Artist Space | We Insist Upon Ourselves in Perpetuity Throughout the Universe , featuring works by Kim Dacres

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Zidoun-Bossuyt Gallery at Untitled Art, Miami Beach 2022 I 29 November – 3 December 2022

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Studio visit: Kim Dacres
July 2022, 2022
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