Kim Lieberman was born in Johannesburg in 1969. She entered into the artworld in 1994 on beginning to study fine art at Wits Technikon. After, her undergrad she moved to Wits University to do her Masters degree. She lectured at both these institutions between 1996-2002. In 1996 she had her first solo exhibition at the Civic Gallery in Johannesburg. Since then she has had a further six solo shows at various galleries, including the Goodman Gallery, Johannesburg; the Esso Gallery in New York and AoP Gallery (formerly know as Art on Paper Gallery). She has been part of many group shows both nationally and internationally.
Her approach to making artwork has its source in a conceptual perspective. The medium is the carrier of the concepts she explores. While the mediums she has used have ranged over the years - from the likes of silk thread on postage stamp paper, to blood-red oil paint on postage stamp paper, to a canvas of white puzzles, to her most recent medium: hand-made bobbin lace and bronze figures – the conceptual subject matter remains intact and related. Taken from different angles of thought or understanding that seem to come from the same ‘philosophical’ source.
Every Interaction Interrupts the Future / Blood Relatives / Interpreting Surface Information / The Incredible Chain of Events / Carrier / Residue / Contact / Examining Every Interaction / Human Currents / Field of Influence / 6 Degrees of Separation / The Butterfly Effect / Our Connected Texture / Mesh / Paths – are titles of her works from 1999-2007.
They all deal in one way or another with the human condition – how we impact on the world and each other both in obvious and imperceptible ways.