Kim Casebeer • Kansas• waow
Kim Casebeer was born and raised in Kansas on a family farm. As part of a fourth generation farm family, she has been connected to the land for a long time. Kim still lives in Kansas and draws her inspiration from the simplicity of the Flint Hills, an area of wide open ranch land. “It’s a simple landscape,” she says. “It’s not grandiose. You have to spend some time and let it speak to you.” These days Kim travels to paint throughout the United States and Europe, particularly the western United States. “I think the simplicity of the Kansas landscape has helped me find the essence of other places. I’m able to focus on what’s important in a composition.”
Kim received her Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree from Kansas State University in 1992. She worked as a graphic designer and art director, while spending evenings and weekends painting until 2002, when she was able to make the leap to full-time artist. Kim has continued to study with artists such as Albert Handell, Michael Albrechtsen, Scott Christensen and Matt Smith.
Kim’s work has been featured in magazine articles in American Art Collector (2009, 2011), Western Art Collector (2010), Southwest Art (2011, 2015), Art of the West (2011, 2018), PleinAir Magazine (2013, 2015, 2018), and Fine Art Connoisseur (2014). She is featured in the Grand Teton and Yellowstone section of Art of the National Parks book co-authored by Susan Hallsten McGarry and Jean Stern. Kim’s work was featured on the cover and in Fine Art Tips, published by Northlight Books.
Kim is a Master Signature member of the American Women Artists, a Signature member of the American Impressionist Society and the Oil Painters of America, and an Associate member of Women Artists of the West. She received Honorable Mention in the overall 2012-2013 PleinAir Magazine competition. She received Honorable Mention, Landscape Category in the 2013-2014 Art Renewal Center’s Salon and an Award of Excellence in the 2014 Western Regional OPA Show. Kim received the OPAM Memorial Impressionist Award of Excellence in the 2015 National OPA Exhibition. Kim received the 2018 Superintendent’s Award at RMPAP Plein Air for the Park for her painting, “Oxbow Light Triptych,” which is now in the permanent collection. She received First Place in the wet paint competition for the 2022 AIS Small Works Show. Kim received Honorable Mention for Golden Cottonwood in the 2025 National AIS Show. For the past several years, she has focused on gallery shows.
Kim has participated in museum shows such as the Briscoe Western Art Museum’s Night of Artists in San Antonio, Texas; Western Visions Miniatures and More at the National Wildlife Museum in Jackson, Wyoming; The Russell Show and Sale at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; Small Works, Great Wonders at the National Cowboy Museum in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma; Cowgirl Up! at the Desert Caballeros Western Museum, Wickenburg, Arizona; C.M. Russell Masters in Miniature Show at the C.M. Russell Museum in Great Falls, Montana; and the American Art in Miniature Show at the Gilcrease Museum in Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Kim has work in many private, corporate and museum collections throughout the United States. She is represented by A Banks Gallery in Missoula, MT; Mountain Trails Gallery in Jackson, WY; Pairiebrooke Arts in Overland Park, KS; and Strecker Nelson West Gallery in Manhattan, KS.
Kim Casebeer divides her time between the studio and painting outdoors en plein air. Kim feels strongly that her plein airs give her valuable insight when working on larger pieces and therefore keeps outdoor studies as reference. The light, shadows, wind, rain, sun, and how she felt - these are all important notes to capture. She does not want to just paint pretty pictures. Kim has an uncommon command of color, light and atmosphere and using these skills, can take a landscape painting and elicit an emotional response. She may have 8-10 pieces at various stages of completion in her studio at any given time because she needs to put them away at various stages in order to be able to get them back out and look at them with fresh eyes. Kim’s ultimate goal is to keep the brush work fresh and stay true to the outdoor study that reminds her of the spontaneity of the plein air experience.
