For nearly a decade Kim Richardson photographed for New York City auction houses Sotheby’s and Phillips de Pury & Co.

Kim Richardson is a photographic artist based in Santa Fe, New Mexico. She studied fine art and photography at Moore College of Art and Design in Philadelphia, PA (BFA 1998) and Parsons Paris School of Design(1997). Her early collaborative projects were exhibited at the Centre Pompidou and Alleged Gallery in the early 2000s. More recently, her work was included in Breath Taking at the New Mexico Museum of Art (2021) and the Ballinglen Museum Biennale in 2024.

Richardson’s practice centers on the perceptual and temporal dimensions of photography, often employing long exposures and serial forms to explore repetition, impermanence, and cyclical rhythms. Her work engages the atmospheric and the elemental—particularly the ocean and sky—as sites through which to consider the experience of being.

She has been awarded a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation (2025-26) and will be an artist-in-residence at the Fallingwater Institute (2027), where she will develop a photographic project centered on the pawpaw tree and its ecological and cultural context. She is currently exhibiting at The Webster Collection in Santa Fe, New Mexico.

In parallel with her artistic practice, Richardson works in fine art printing in collaboration with master printer Steve Zeifman at Rush Creek Editions in Santa Fe, New Mexico.