Biography

Kimberly Callas is a sculptor, educator, and social practice artist whose work explores embodied ecologies and the interconnection between body, psyche, and environment. Integrating traditional techniques with emerging technologies—such as 3D printing with bio-filaments and CNC—she merges the human form with natural patterns and archetypal symbols. Through her Social Practice project, Discovering the Ecological Self, Callas has led community-based workshops across the U.S. and internationally.

Read about Callas’s background and current work in this recent article: Waves of Creativity. 

Her work has been widely exhibited, with recent solo shows including Ocean Swimmers (Entanglement) at Arts Quarter Budapest and Ocean Bodies at Monmouth University. Other notable venues include the CICA Museum (South Korea), Flowers Gallery (New York City), and the Pensacola Museum of Art (Florida). She has received numerous honors, including a Pollination Project Grant, a Puffin Foundation Grant, JOYA: Arte + Ecología Residency, in Vélez-Blanco, Spain, an Artist-in-Residence Fellowship with Monmouth University’s Urban Coast Institute, and 1st place in sculpture at the Catharine Lorillard Wolfe Art Club’s Annual Exhibit in New York City. Her ongoing series Portrait of the Ecological Self was described by Art New England as “unforgettable.”

She is also the illustrator of Behold: Poems (2024), a collaboration with author Michael McCarthy exploring anatomy, astronomy, and spirit through image and verse. With her husband, she designed and built an off-the-grid, passive solar home and co-founded a sustainability institute in Midcoast Maine—an experience that continues to shape her engagement with materials, place, and the spiritual dimensions of sustainability.

Callas holds an MFA from the New York Academy of Art and a BFA from the University of Michigan. She is an Associate Professor of Art at Monmouth University and maintains studios in Maine and New Jersey.