Kim Cardoso

I am a loud person who makes quiet art. I savor the craft-like method of encaustic painting in a meditative exploration of landscape and emotion. Relating to my formal training as a metalsmith and working with my hands as a midwife, I love the physicality of wax, pigments, hand tools, and fire. I know my work is complete when it feels familiar and sensual and evokes a fresh connectedness.

Kim Cardoso is a visual artist originally from Baltimore, Maryland. She received her degree in art and psychology and worked for several years as a metalsmith before settling into painting. Her work has been exhibited across the US and is collected internationally. She lives in Oakland, CA on a tiny urban farm, paints at the Norton Factory Studios, and continues to work as a midwife in community health.