Kim Schoenstadt was born in Chicago, Il. and currently lives in Venice, CA. She received a BA from Pitzer College, Claremont, CA. She is known for large-scale wall drawings that weave architecture and sculptural shapes together to tackle issues of constructed realities. She is also known for projects such as Now Be Here which gathered nearly 1,000 women-identifying and non-binary artists for a photograph that visually revealed to the world artists that are not always included in exhibitions and collections. One-person exhibitions of her work have been presented at Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL; Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, CT; I.C.A.L.A. (formerly Santa Monica, Museum of Art), Santa Monica, CA; Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, Salt Lake City, UT; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, LA, CA; Perez Art Museum, Miami, FL; Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY; National Museum of Women in the Arts, Washington, DC; Susan Inglett Gallery, NY, NY; Sabine Knust Gallery, Munich, Germany; Chimento Contemporary, LA, CA; and M29 Richter & Bruckner Gallery, Koln, Germany. Her work has been included in thematic exhibitions such as Prague Biennale, Prague, CR; Poland Biennale, Lodz, PL; Mapping the Self, Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, Il; Uneasy Angles/ Imagine LA, Sprueth/Magers Gallery, Munich, Germany; Rogue Wave, LA Louver Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; New Prints, International Print Center, NY; How They Ran, Over The Influence, LA, CA; Total Art Performance, Getty Center, LA, CA; When Attitudes Became Form, Become Attitudes, Wattis Institute for Contemporary Art, SF, CA; and 100 Artists See God, Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, GB. Notable public art installations include Los Angeles Metro Fairview Heights Station, Inglewood, CA; LAX Airport, Terminal 3, LA, CA; and Mid-Valley Intergenerational Center, LA, CA. Schoenstadt was the recipient of the Volta/Bahamar Art Prize (2018), Smithsonian Artist Research Fellowship (2013), and the Catherine Doctorow Prize (2011). Her work is held in the permanent collections of institutions such as MOCA, LA, CA; MOMA, NY, NY; MCA Chicago, IL; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven, NL.