DIGITAL RESIDENT
Mallory Kimmel

april 2025

Mallory Kimmel is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer who makes socially engaged work addressing and eradicating exclusionary design practices in the built environment. Through the process of object making, furniture design, performance, social practice, and the establishment of a community cry hotline, her practice dethrones political meta-narratives used to denote worth and expandability. She creates dedicated spaces to facilitate rest and healing. Centering joy as a design outcome and anecdote for liberating both people and objects from systematic use and abuse is at the core of her practice.

Kimmel earned her MFA in Interdisciplinary Art from California College of the Arts, a BA in Studio Art, and a BS in Ecology from Susquehanna University. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally at The Clarvit Courtyard at The University of Maryland, Minnesota Street Projects, and The Cultural Center Semberija. Her writing has been published by E-flux, The George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, and BmoreArt Magazine. She is the founder of Do Less Press, a small local press dedicated to artist literature on power, labor, rest, and healing. Kimmel co-founded the Black X Collective and organized an annual film festival screening at the Phillips Collection and THEARC. She was named the 2019 MFA Now, artist to watch in the Bay Area by Root Division. She was selected for artist residencies including the Social Studies Residency and the Outreach Artist Residency in the Arctic Circle funded by the NSF and NOAA.

Learn more about Mallory’s work here.