Selena Kimball  is a conceptual collagist working in a tradition with deep democratic roots. Here, the cut, the editorial rearrangement, and the shift of attention to what was overlooked become tools for remaking inherited images and the worlds they construct. Working with books, newspapers, and photographic archives, her work questions their authority to define our knowledge of landscape, territory, and place. She grew up next to Acadia National Park in Maine, where her family's farm was taken by eminent domain — a first lesson in how land, like an image, can be cut up and possessed.

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Her work has been shown at the Center for Maine Contemporary Art, the Portland Museum of Art in Maine, the Center for Contemporary Art, Warsaw, and the Museum of the Romanian Peasant, Bucharest. She has been reviewed in The Boston Globe, The New York Observer, and Frankfurter Allgemeine, and interviewed in Bomb Magazine, among others. Kimball is a NYSCA/NYFA fellow, a MacDowell Fellow, the recipient of Pollock-Krasner awards, a Jerome Foundation grant and an Asian Cultural Council award. She is a 2025 Guggenheim Fellow and collaborates with anthropologist Alyssa Grossman across book projects, film, and experimental research in a contemporary form of Surrealist ethnography. Kimball splits her time between Maine, where she was born and raised, and New York City, where she serves as Associate Professor of Contemporary Art Practice at Parsons, The New School.

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