Mallory Kimmel is an interdisciplinary artist, educator, and writer whose socially engaged work challenges exclusionary design practices in the built environment. She serves on the College Art Association’s Design Committee. Her work has been exhibited at the U.S. State Department Inaugural Gallery, University of Maryland, George Mason University, California College of the Arts, The Umbrella Art Fair, The Peale, and Minnesota Street Project. Her writing has appeared in E-flux, the George Washington University Museum and The Textile Museum, and BmoreArt Magazine.
Kimmel has collaboratively curated exhibitions with The Phillips Collection, the Community College of Baltimore County, George Mason University, and Aggregate Space Gallery. She is the founder of Do Less Press, a small press dedicated to artist literature on power, labor, rest, and healing, which has exhibited nationally at art book fairs and zine festivals.
She is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Foundations at Lehigh University. Her work has been supported by residencies and fellowships with Hamiltonian Artists, Montgomery College, The Nicholson Project, The Social Studies Residency, and the Arctic Circle Outreach Artist Residency, funded by the National Science Foundation and NOAA.