EDUCATION
University of California at Los Angeles, M.F.A.
Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, B.F.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2007
Kim McCarty, Nicholas Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
2006
Kim McCarty, cherry and martin, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Kim McCarty, Briggs Robinson Gallery, New York, NY
2003
Under Glass, cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
Watercolors, Santa Barbara Contemporary Art Forum, Santa Barbara, CA
Kim McCarty, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
2002
Kim McCarty, Rebecca Ibel, Columbus, Ohio
Kim McCarty, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, CA
2000
Kim McCarty, Recent Paintings, De Chiara/ Stewart, New York, NY
1999
Kim McCarty, Peter Blake Gallery, Laguna, CA
Kim McCarty, Ochi Gallery, Ketchum, Idaho
1998
Drawings, Works on Paper Inc. Los Angeles, CA (catalog)
1997
Helen, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA
1996
Recent Paintings, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
1992
Recent Paintings, Janie Beggs Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2007
Hammer Contemporary Collection: Part 2, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
The Unexpected Watercolor, Contemporary Center of Art, Seattle, WA
2006
100 artists, 100 hundred watercolors, Jeannie Freilich Fine Art, New York, NY
August Light, Great Barrington, MA
Figuratively Speaking, Part 2, Elika Wimmer Gallery, New York, NY
LA: Now, Dominique Fiat Galerie, Paris, France
Portrait Show, Pharmaka Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2005
Contemporary Erotic Drawings, DiverseWorks, Houston, Texas
Aldrich Museum, Ridgefield, CT, (catalog)
Liquid Los Angeles,: Currents of Contemporary Watercolor Painting, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
The Unexpected Watercolor, The Art Gym, Marylhurst University, Portland, Oregon
Painted Ladies, William D. Cannon Art Gallery, Carlsbad, CA,(catalog)
2004
Drawn to the Present, Pace University Gallery, Pleasantville, NY
What’s Doin?, Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
Summer Group Show, Cherrydelosreyes, Los Angeles, CA
New Talent and Familiar Faces, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
LA Woman, Gallery C, Hermosa Beach, CA
Expect: Art, Sean Kelly Gallery, New York, NY
Behind Door Nine, UCSB University Art Museum, Santa Barbara. CA
2003
International Paper, UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA,
Smoking Pencils Rolling Papers, Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles, CA
The Great Drawing Show 1550-2003, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Wet Paint, Brea Art Gallery, Brea, California
Rebecca Ibel 10th Anniversary, Rebecca Ibel, Gallery Columbus, Ohio
Biosystems, USC Institute of Genetic Medicine Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Multiple Expressions, Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
What a Painting Can Do, Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Toyland, Alysia Duckler Gallery, Portland, Oregon
A Thousand Clowns, Robert Berman Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2001
Re-Configuration, Central Academy of Fine Arts Gallery, Beijing, China (catalog)
Re-Configuration, Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Ghent, Belgium
2000
H20, Works On Paper, Inc. Los Angeles, CA
For Example, Acuna Hansen, Los Angeles, CA
Paintings, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Exhibition, New Jersey Center For The Arts, Summit, NJ
Certain Things: Unlikely Treasures, Elsa Mott Ives Gallery, New York, NY
MOCA Auction, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA
1999
Works on Paper, Rebecca Ibel Gallery, Columbus, Ohio
Traces New Drawing, Katrina Traywick Gallery, Berkeley, CA
1997
LA Current: A Media Fusion, UCLA Gallery at the Armand Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles CA
The Painted Image, Deanna Izen Miller Gallery, Venice, CA
Group Exhibition, Sharon Truax Fine Art, Venice, CA
LA Current, The Female Perspective, UCLA Gallery at the Armand Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
1995
LA Woman, Lutz Hegenbarth, Cologne, Germany
SELECTED PRIVATE COLLECTIONS
Eileen Norton, Santa Monica, CA
Raymond Learsy, New York
Laura Donnelly-Morton, Los Angeles, CA
Rebecca and Alexander Stewart, Seattle, WA
Michael Lynne, New York, NY
Javier Baz, Denver, CO
Beth DeWoody New York, NY
AG Rosen, New York, NY
Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy, Los Angeles, CA
SELECTED PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY
UCLA Hammer Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Judith Rothschild Foundation, New York, NY
Latham and Watkins, New York, NY
Neuburger and Berman, Los Angeles, CA
Honolulu Academy of Art, Honolulu, Hawaii
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