Kim Salac (b. 1999) is a Filipino-American artist and filmmaker who spent their childhood in Singapore and adolescence in Virginia. Their frequent inclusion of personal narratives seeks to problematize the notion of migrants as passive under globalized forces, working to feature them as dynamic subjects in their constant negotiation of space, and memory.
They have produced twenty-seven short films over the last six years, including the award-winning Diana, Diana, which was recently included in the New York Film Festival. Recognized through awards and fellowships, they taught at their alma-mater as an Aunspaugh Fellow, and later, exhibited their work as an artist-in-residence at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art.
They now reside in Brooklyn, New York, where they seek to expand their practice from one built on colonial grief towards a radical re-orientation of queer migrant people as time-keepers and time-travelers, as living and breathing archives.
For exhibition, screening, and program requests, please email kimberlyrose.salac@gmail.com
EDUCATION
2021 University of Virginia, Charlottesville, VA
BA in Studio Art, concentration in Film and New Media
BA in Computer Science
SELECTED PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE
2024 Audio-Visual Technician, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY
2022 Sound Recordist, Accidental Athlete, Directors Kevin
Everson, Claudrena Harold
Production Assistant, Gospel Hill, Directors Kevin
Everson, Claudrena Harold
Cinematographer and Editor, Pretend, Witness, Director
Matthew Shelton
Mount Assistant, Kluge-Ruhe Aboriginal Art Museum,
Charlottesville, VA
Cinematographer and Editor, Can’t Compromise My Joy,
Kori Price Solo exhibition
2021 Cinematographer and Editor, Black Monologues, Director
Theresa Davis
Cinematographer, —o towards an atlas of Port
Assurance, Director Matthew Shelton, Nikolai Noel
Audio Engineer, and Museum Coordinator, WTJU & The
Virginia Audio Collective
Associate Producer and Editor, Lessons in Adolescence,
Charlottesville, VA
2019 Creative Director, Iris Magazine, Charlottesville, VA
Producer, Speaking in Hues, Charlottesville, VA
EXHIBITIONS & SCREENINGS
2023 The Seafarer, Gelatin Film Festival, Charlottesville, VA
How do you find your way, to a place you’ve never been,
Transforming Horizons: Stories from the QTAPI
community Exhibition, Los Angeles, CA
2022 Diana, Diana, New York Film Festival, New York, NY
Province Song, Duo show at The Odd Little Museum,
Charlottesville, VA
The Seafarer, Trio show at Ruffin Gallery, Charlottsville, VA
The Seafarer, Gutterfest at Light House Studio,
Charlottesville, VA
2021 The Spaces Between, Group show at Ruffin Gallery,
Charlottesville, VA
Icons, Group show Las Laguna Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA
Diana, Diana, Group show at Ruffin Gallery,
Charlottesville, VA
Myopia, Group show for (Re)present Arts Prize,
Charlottesville, VA
2020 Myopia, Virginia Film Festival, Charlottsville, VA
Myopia, Artistic Tradition: A Celebration of Community
Screening, Charlottesville, VA
2019 Astronaut, Group Show for Spring Arts Exhibition,
Charlottesville, VA
AWARDS, RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2022 MASS MoCA Artist-in-Residence, Massachusetts Museum
of Contemporary Art
2021 Aunspaugh Fellowship, University of Virginia
Madison Lane Charitable Trust Visual Arts Prize Winner,
Diana, Diana
(Re)present Competition, Film Category Winner, Myopia
2020 Jefferson Trust Fund Grant Recepient
The Mentor’s Selection Award Runner-Up, Clear Skies,
The Adrenaline Film Project
Madison Lane Charitable Trust Visual Arts Prize Finalist,
Myopia
ARTIST TALKS
2022 Visiting Artist for Introduction to Studio Art, University of
Virginia