Kimberly Barnes is a multimedia artist based in Cambridge, MA. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Kinetic Imaging from the Virginia Commonwealth University and her Master of Fine Arts at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University with a concentration on sound installation, experimental animation, and video.
Kimberly is greatly invested in building a connection between the arts and the community, regardless of background. Her work examines:
- Complexities of mental illness within the black community
- Her relationship with her black identity
- The idea of double consciousness in America
- Symbiotic nature between negative and muted emotions
- The pairing of surreal imagery with the mundane