bio

Expanding upon her undergraduate textiles education from Savannah College of Art and Design, Kimberly English (b. 1994) earned her MFA from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill as a Carolina Digital Humanities Fellow in 2018. Kimberly has been awarded residencies at the McColl Center, Woodstock Byrdcliffe Artist Colony, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, University of Colorado at Colorado Springs, Penland School of Craft, Berea College, and The Gibbes Museum. Her work has been featured in various publications including The New York Times, Burnaway, and Design Milk.

English’s fiber-based practice explores the connection between individual agency and collective experience through historical, personal, and perceptual interrogations of textile structure. Her woven and sewn forms synthesize narratives informed by the American South and globalized labor, investigating the nuance of interdependence between land, machines, people, and the objects they create. Her work has been exhibited widely and internationally, recently at the Spartanburg Art Museum, New Bedford Art Museum, the Delaware Contemporary, the Ackland Museum, Vox Populi, CICA Museum, and the Museum of Craft and Design. Kimberly was the ’24-‘25 Emerging Artist Fellow in Fiber at Virginia Commonwealth University and runs a weaving residency, Tabby Studio, out of the shared studio space on her property in Canton, North Carolina.

Contact / email directly at hello at kimberly dash english dot com

current + upcoming

2027

Southern Gothic (Solo), The Gibbes Museum, Charleston SC (upcoming)

2026

Heirloom (Solo), Winthrop University, Rock Hill SC (upcoming)

From Coverlet to Contemporary: Introduction to Overshot Weaving at Arrowmont School of Arts + Crafts (upcoming)

Process as Practice, NCMA-WS (upcoming)

With A Southern Accent, Cameron Art Museum, Wilmington NC (upcoming)

The New Weaving: Contemporary Cloth Culture in Appalachia and Beyond, Madison Co. Arts Council, Marshall NC (upcoming), Curated by Amber Jensen

Warp, Weft, and the Grid, Asheville Art Museum (upcoming)

Counterweight, Arcadia Art Consultancy, Charlotte NC