Kim Beck works in drawing and installation and has exhibited work at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, in New York at Printed Matter, Smack Mellon and Plane Space, Raid Projects in Los Angeles, Hallwalls in Buffalo, and the Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing. Her solo show in 2006 at Pittsburgh Center for the Arts was reviewed in Art in America. She has received Pollock-Krasner and Thomas J. Watson Fellowships, grants from NYSCA and the Tennessee Arts Commission, held residencies at ISCP-NYC, Cité Internationale des Arts Paris Vermont Studio Center, VCCA, The College of Fine Arts Sidney and currently at Artists Image Resource with the support of the Heinz Creative Heights program. Her artist's book,A Field Guide to Weeds, was published through the Printed Matter Emerging Artist Publishing Program. She received her MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design and BA from Brandeis University and is currently Associate Professor of art at Carnegie Mellon University. Beck’s artwork can be seen at www.idealcities.com.