Kim Coleman is an artist living in London. Her work in video, light, and photography installation has been staged nationally and internationally.
Current projects include Darkness in Urban Space, for Richmond Council’s Planning Department, with fellow lead artist Harun Morrison, and Endless Love Tapes, a collaboration with video maker Wendy Clarke (US, 1944) which launched at Berwick Film and Media Art Festival 2025. Other moving image and lens-based work has been featured in major gallery exhibitions at Nottingham Contemporary Arts,Tom of Finland House - Los Angeles, and Palais de Tokyo - Paris. Her public commissions have been staged at Five Years - London, Granary Square - Kings Cross, London, and MSDockville - Hamburg.
Outside of a gallery context, Kim has designed and creatively directed live stage shows (video, lighting, stage sets) for rock bands including Django Django, Veronica Falls, Franz Ferdinand and Spoon. More recently she has collaborated on major activists video projects with Extinction Rebellion and Greenpeace.
Kim Coleman is a frequent coauthor. Her practice-based PhD ‘If They Be Two: relationships in women’s co-authored experimental film and video’ addressed relationships between coauthors of moving image-including considering desires to work in this way. Her coauthored work with Susie Green, Cara Tolmie and Zoe Poluch, Matthew Noel-Tod, and Laura Buckley, have been presented at institutions including Tate St.Ives, FRAC Champagne-Ardenne, The Showroom, London, Block Universe, London, and Block 336, London.
Kim has co-authored moving image works with Jenny Hogarth since 2003. Their works have been commissioned by Serpentine Gallery (CINACT programme), The Collective, Edinburgh (Edinburgh Art Festival), Glasgow International, Frieze Projects, London, S1Artspace, Sheffield, The ICA, Tate Britain,Talbot Rice, and Axisweb (online) amongst others.
Kim has been a visiting lecturer for institutions including The Royal College of Art, University of the Arts, London, Goldsmiths College, University of Chicago, Edinburgh College of Art, and Glasgow School of Art.
Darkness in Urban Space. Documentation from research night walk. Photo: James Allen
Borrowed Bodies. Intelligent lighting and photographic installation. Five Years, London. Photo: Diego Hernandez.