Artist Statement
Kimmy Noonen (she/her) is a Chicago-based interdisciplinary artist and podcast host who uses abstraction, cartography and chance to give form to the invisible inner landscape and pose questions about autonomy, interdependence and the expansion of identity over time. Using installations, painting and photography, she creates visual metaphors about the rigorous work it takes to live into unknown futures while carrying the maps passed down from the past.
Bio
Kimmy Noonen (she/her) earned her BA in Visual Arts from Mount Vernon Nazarene University and her MFA from the University of Chicago. She has had the pleasure of being exhibited throughout the US and Stockholm, Sweden. Noonen has been an adjunct professor at Judson University, small business owner, commercial photographer, established a support community for creatives in the church, hosts Kimmy Not Kim Podcast about life in the arts, and recently organized her first art market. Noonen is mother to two daughters and spends most of her time with them and her husband in their home on the Northwest side of Chicago.