Kim Casebeer’s interest in art dates back to her early childhood. Kim’s first art sale was a landscape she sold for $20 through a 4-H event when she was in 6th grade. Art continued to be a part of her life through high school, and she enrolled in the graphic design program at Kansas State University, where she received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in 1992. She worked as a graphic designer and art director in order to pay the bills, while spending evenings and weekends painting. In 2002, she was able to make the leap to full-time artist.
Kim is a Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America, the American Women Artists, and the Mid America Pastel Society; as well as a Member of the Oil Painters of America and the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters. She has exhibited in these prestigious national competitions as well as the Masters in Miniature Show at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; the American Art in Miniature Show at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma; the Salon International at Greenhouse Gallery of Fine Art in San Antonio, Texas; the Pastel Society of the Southwest; the Pastel Society of New Mexico; the Pastel National; and the Scottsdale Artists School Best and Brightest.
Kim has received many national awards, including the Col. George J. Morales Memorial Award at the Pastel Society of America Show in New York; Runner-Up and Award of Recognition at the American Women Artists shows in Santa Fe and Dallas; First Place Pastel at the American Academy of Women Artists Show in Denver, Colorado; 2nd Place at the Scottsdale Artists School Best and Brightest; 2nd Place in the Mid America Pastel Society National Juried Show in St. Joseph, Missouri; a Merit Award in the Rocky Mountain Plein Air Painters National Show; Honorable Mention in the Landscape Category for the Pastel Journal’s Pastel 100 Competition in 2004 and 2007; a Finalist in the Arist’s Magazine Competition in 2003; Jury's Top 50 Award at the Salon International in 2005 and 2007; and Honorable Mention at the Pastel National Show in Wichita, Kansas.
Kim has been featured in magazine articles in Southwest Art, The Artist’s Magazine, The Pastel Journal, and The K-Stater Alumni Magazine. Kim was also included in “Homage to the Flint Hills,” a 3 year traveling exhibit that culminated in an exhibit in Washington D.C.
She has had many one-person shows and exhibits her work at Galleries West Fine Art in Jackson, Wyoming; Rive Gauche Art Gallery in Scottsdale, Arizona; Leopold Gallery in Kansas City, Missouri; Strecker-Nelson Gallery in Manhattan, Kansas; and Silver Heron Gallery in Depoe Bay, Oregon. Kim has work in many corporate collections including H&R Block World Headquarters, Sprint, and Invista. Her work is also in many private and museum collections throughout the United States.
