Kimber Shiroma

Kimber Shiroma (born June 2, 1977) is an American artist based in Portland, Oregon. Her work encompasses a wide range of media and approaches, from intricate and delicate works on a small scale, to abstract digital photographs, to monumental paintings with sculptural, aggressive surfaces.

Early life
She earned her Bachelor's Degree in Fine Art from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles, where she attended from 1995 to 1999. After finishing school, she and her husband moved to Oregon and settled near Portland.

Career
Shiroma was a member of the now-defunct Gallery500, as well as Gallery 114.

Her most recent show, "Entropy and Emergence," was at Gallery 114 in August 2007. She received some critical acclaim from T.J. Norris and Amy Bernstein of PORT for the forcefulness of the work, and Shiroma's bravery in departing sharply from the style of her previous work. Bernstein wrote:

This new work of Shiroma's is ambitious and experimentally thorough as the artist attempts to mold breath and symbolism into a mishmash of materials that run the gamut of malleability. Shiroma employs everything from photographs to baby powder in order to birth these beasts, and they are indeed, a lot to swallow. ... Upon entering the space, Shiroma's massive works hang disjointedly, like pensive and ominous herbivores, confronting the viewer in a vast yet awkward richness.

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