Kim L Pace

Kim L Pace is a British artist renowned for creating installations of surreal works that include ceramic sculpture, drawing and painting. Her works build a speculative world where unsettling and eerie characters act as cheeky allegories of power struggles – both personal and political – that play out between humans, as well as between humans and other species.

Personal experiences meld with an array of deep interests, from psychoanalysis and hallucinatory processes, such as pareidolia - the tendency to perceive faces-in-things, to literature, folk narratives and art history.

Pace’s unique blend of storytelling and material inventiveness instills her work with a distinct physical presence; the characters feel as if they might burst into your space. Frequently presented in dialogue with one another, they push beyond the ordinary or expected, where reality warps into the dreamlike, irrational, or uncanny and humour exposes deeper emotional and psychological truths.

Since graduating with an MA in Fine Art, Kim L Pace’s work has been recognised through many awards, including artist fellowships and residencies internationally, and from several private trusts, the British Council, ACE & the AHRC.

Supplementary to her art practice, Kim has been invited to curate projects for Hayward Gallery Touring, London, the Czech Centre, NYC and Tate Britain, and she has lectured extensively across BA, MA and PhD courses in London.

Kim’s work has featured in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions in the UK and internationally, including in over 25 solo shows. Her work has been contextualised within art history in recent publications such as The Medium of Leonora Carrington, Catriona McAra, Manchester University Press, 2022 and Surrealism and Animation, editor Abigail Susik. Bloomsbury Publishing, 2025.

Her most recent solo exhibitions include A Fantastic Fermentation of Matter, Danielle Arnaud, London, 2018; Mercurious, Danielle Arnaud, 2019 (duo); Kindred, Arusha Gallery, 2022 and Strange Company, Arusha Gallery, 2024. In Autumn 2025, she will install an intervention into the collection at Hastings Museum and Art Gallery.