Kim Dacres (b. 1986, Bronx, New York; lives and works between Harlem and the Bronx, New York.; MS CUNY Lehman College, Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages, 2010; BA Williams College, Political Science, Art Studio, and Africana Studies 2008.) Dacres’s work has been exhibited around the world, including recent solo and two-artist exhibitions at UTA Artist Space in Atlanta, GA (2024), Charles Moffett in New York, NY (2023), Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles, CA (2020) and Palm Beach, FL (2021); as well as group exhibitions internationally and within the U.S., including Surrealism and Us: Caribbean and African Diasporic Artists Since 1940 at Modern Art Museum of Fort Worth, Fort Worth, TX (2024), Part 1 of Bronx Calling: The Sixth AIM Biennial at The Bronx Museum, Bronx,NY (2024), Dueling Consciousness at Zidoun-Bossuyt in Luxembourg (2023), New Forms: that which constitutes (critical) matter at Artspeak, Vancouver, British Columbia (2023), Black American Portraits at Spelman College Museum ofFine Art, Atlanta, GA (2023) and Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA (2021), Sounds of Blackness at The Metropolitan Museum of Manila, Philippines (2023), Godhead – Idols in Times of Crisis at Lustwarande 12th Edition, Tilburg, Netherlands (2022), Arrangements in Black at Phillips, New York, NY (2022), From a Place, Of a Place, presented by ArtNoir X regularnormal X Meatpacking District, New York, NY (2021), Through the Looking Glass, presented by UTA Artist Space, Beverly Hills, CA (2021). Dacres is the recipient of the Artadia New York Award Grant (2022).  “Dacres’ sculptures are in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; the Bunker Art Space in Palm Beach, FL; Nasher Museum of Art at Duke University; the International African American Museum in Charleston, SC; the North Dakota Museum of Art; the Leslie-Lohman Museum in New York City, and Institution of Contemporary Art in Miami.” and add “In the Fall of 2025, she will unveil a new permanent installation of bronze sculptures in partnership with Artbridge and Settlement Housing Fund at the historic Harlem River Houses in New York City.

“Exploring the materiality and lived histories of found objects, and in particular tires, Kim Dacres’ idiosyncratic approach to sculpture and portraiture addresses the complexities of contemporary representation with sophisticated nuance and technical prowess,” stated Juror Susanna V. Temkin. 

“Kim Dacres repurposes scrap rubber, tires, and found objects to create sculptures that honor family members, friends, heroes, and other individuals of personal importance to the artist. These evocative works brilliantly combine formal ingenuity with a careful reconsideration of the form and function of memorial sculpture, resulting in a powerful and wholly original body of work,” remarked Juror Nat Trotman.