Kim Wiggins

Growing up on a ranch in southern New Mexico, Kim Wiggins began his art career sculpting miniatures of the wildlife around him. Primarily self-taught, his only formal art instruction came through a master class at the Santa Fe Art Institute with his neighbor, Henriette Wyeth. Along with deep roots from his native New Mexico, Wiggins often cites European impressionists, American regionalists, and Hispanic folk art as major inspirations for his unique style.

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According to the late Sandra D’Emilio, Curator of Early 20th Century Art, Museum of New Mexico, Santa Fe, “Kim’s paintings . . . are his unique responses to what he sees and feels about New Mexico’s landscape, the smog-filled city of New York, or the everyday objects of his still lifes. His expressive use of color, provocative and rhythmical forms, and concern for composition combine to draw the view into his visionary works.”

Wiggins’s work is included in the books Art and the American West and Painters and the American West, and in the monograph K. Douglas Wiggins: A Sense of Place, A Sense of Spirit. He has exhibited with the National Society of American Impressionists; the Other Side of the West, the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, the Museum of New Mexico, the M. H. DeYoung Memorial Museum; and the Denver Art Museum. His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of New Mexico, the Anschutz Collection, the Staples Arena, and the Booth Western Art Museum. His monumental 7-by-9-foot oil, Lewis and Clark Among the Mandan, was purchased for the Autry National Center of the American West and added to its permanent collection. His work was recently included in Painters and the American West, an exhibition that traveled from the Denver Art Museum to the Corcoran Gallery of Art, the Joslyn Art Museum, and the Art Institute of Chicago.

Wiggins and his wife, Maria, are raising their family of five near Roswell, New Mexico.

Giclée reproductions of Kim Wiggins’s work are available through Greenwich Workshop dealers.

Kim Wiggins is represented by Manitou Galleries – Santa Fe.