Kim Turos

Collective and personal memory are at the heart of the work of Kim Turos, whose former career as a landscape architect and marriage to the physicist John Gilleland have led her to focus on the increasingly delicate symbiosis of nature and society. Many of her works deal with the mutual forces of natural and man-made environments, combining elements collected from contrasting ecosystems with urban infrastructure-remnants and sculpted hybrid objects.

Bio

Born 1955, San Antonio Texas

Lives in San Diego

Took classes at the McNay Art Institute, San Antonio , as a child. Received a B.S. in landscape architecture from Texas A&M University , College Station , in 1978. Moved to San Diego in 1985 and to San Francisco in 1987. From 1988 to 1991 she resided in both Berkeley and Germany , where she held a residency in Munich . Studied at the San Francisco Art Insttute in 1988-1989 and Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York , in summer of 1989. Held a residency at the Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito , California , in 2001, and earned an Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts grant the same year. Married to physicist John Gilleland. Artist and landscape architect known for sculpture and site-specific installations.