Kim Mobey 

Welcome to the Studio

Over thirty years, my practice has explored a single question: what connects us across the distances we create between ourselves? Through hyper-surrealist portraiture, sculpture, and printmaking, I examine the liminal spaces where personal narrative becomes collective memory, where individual displacement speaks to universal human movement.

My work is made through dialogue — with subjects, with histories, with the material itself. The portraits that result are not documents of appearance but investigations of identity: what it is made of, how it shifts, and what remains when its coordinates are moved.

Current Practice

I am now an active participant in one of humanity's oldest experiences: migration. Having recently relocated to a new continent, my current work examines migration as foundational human practice — the continuous process through which belonging gets made and remade across generations.

My work has been cited in academic discourse since 2004, and I held a Goethe-Institut fellowship examining the intersection of art and artificial intelligence in 2023.