Kirk Palmeris an artist based in Saint Petersburg, Florida. His art practice is informed by poetry, literature, philosophy, and myth, alternating between abstract and figurative painting.  Although political violence and individual dislocation tend 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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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

2013 – Impediments (solo), Palm Harbor Center, Palm Harbor, FL

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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