Based in Saint Petersburg, Florida, Kirk Palmer's art practice is informed by poetry, literature, philosophy, and myth, alternating between abstract and figurative painting.  Although individual dislocation tends to form a subtext in his work, he aims to engage the viewer to consider perspectives beyond fatalism and indifference.

 

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Education:

MFA, Maryland Institute College of Art

MA, Georgetown University

BA, Eckerd College, Visual Arts (Phi Beta Kappa)

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Artist Residencies

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2020 – Winter Residency (Painting & Drawing), Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

2018 – Winter Residency (Painting & Drawing), Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

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Solo Exhibitions:

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2025 – Debris Sketches (Works on Paper), Arthouse Upstairs, Katherine Gibson, curator

2019 – Talismans for the Glitter Thief, Helmar and Enole Nielson Center for Visual Arts, Saint

             Petersburg, FL

2016 – A Clear Day and No Memories, Leidy Gallery, Baltimore, MD

2013 – Impediments, Palm Harbor Center, Palm Harbor, FL

2010 – Mayday, Morean Arts Center, Saint Petersburg, FL

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Selected Group Exhibitions:

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2026 – Soft Cuts, 5th Street and Central, 2d Floor Gallery, Saint Petersburg, FL (July-August)

2025 – The Shape of Us (The Terrain of Our Undoing), Creative Pinellas, Largo, FL (May-August)

2022-23 – A Small Thing But My Own (Timm Metler, curator), The Studio@620, Saint Petersburg, FL

2021 – Art House 21, (Katherine Gibson, curator), Saint Petersburg, FL

2020 – Winter Residents' Exhibition, Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC

2019 – Left Space, Wicomico Street Industrial Space (7thfloor), Baltimore, Maryland

2019 – Priority Mail, Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 – Trestle Gallery Benefit, Brooklyn, NY

2018 – Introductions 2018, (Enrico Gomez, curator), Trestle Gallery, Brooklyn, NY

2018 – Postcards from the Edge, Gallery 524, (benefit) New York, NY

2018 – 5th St & Central Ave Studios Annual Exhibition, Saint Petersburg, FL

2017-18 – TPA, (public art exhibition), Tampa International Airport, Tampa, FL

2017 – Eckerd College Alumni Exhibition, Cobb Gallery, Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, FL

2017 – 5th St & Central Ave Studios Annual Exhibition, Saint Petersburg, FL

2015 – The Gaps Between Us, (Eric Hibit, curator), Ortega y Gasset Projects, Brooklyn, NY

2015 – MFA Studio Art 3d Year Show, FLIV Graduate Studio Center, Maryland

            Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD 

2014 – The Juried Art Show (Erica Schneider, juror), Studio@620, Saint Petersburg, FL

2014 – MFA Studio Art 2d Year Show, FLIV Graduate Studio Center, Maryland

            Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD

2013 – Size Matters (Hoffberger School of Painting, Janet Olney, juror), MICA, Baltimore, MD

2012 – Art Soup, benefit for multi-service center for the homeless, Mobile, AL

2011 – The Juried Art Show (Neil Bender, juror), Studio@620, Saint Petersburg, FL

2010 – 59th All Florida Juried Exhibition (Linda Norden, juror), Boca Raton Museum of

            Fine Arts, Boca Raton, FL

2009 – Print Exhibit, Morean Arts Center, Saint Petersburg, FL

2008 – Group Show, Art du Monde Gallery, Saint Petersburg, FL

2007 – War Paint, Elliott Gallery, Eckerd College, Saint Petersburg, FL

2007 – Eckerd College Faculty and Students Annual Show, University Partnership

            Center, Seminole, FL

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Private Collections:

Baltimore, Maryland 

Calgary, Alberta

Cochabamba, Bolivia

Jersey City, New Jersey

Mobile, Alabama 

New York, NY

Saint Petersburg, Florida

San Francisco, California

Santa Barbara, California

West Chester, Pennsylvania

 

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