Exhibits & Events

Solo exhibition: Dolls and Painting: Tools of Communication

Ocean City Art Center, August 2 - 29, 2005.

Opening reception Friday, August 8th, 7 - 8:30pm.

1735 Simpson Ave 2nd floor, Ocean City, NJ.

Gallery Hours Monday - Friday 9am - 9pm, Saturday 9am - 3pm, Sunday closed.

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Kimberly Camp began her career as a professional artist over 55 years ago. Since then, her paintings and dolls have been shown throughout the US in over 100 solo and group exhibitions at institutions that include the American Craft Museum, the Smithsonian Institution, the International Sculpture Center, the University of Michigan, and Prizm Art Fair in Miami during Art Basel. Her work has been prominently featured in traveling exhibitions including "Spirit of the Cloth: African American Quilters", for the Craftery Gallery; "Touch: Beyond the Visual",for the Arlington Art Center, VA; and "Uncommon Beauty in Common Objects" for the National Afro-American Museum and Cultural Center in Ohio, for which her doll “Twilight” adorned the cover of the catalog.
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Camp’s dolls were in a two-person show at InLiquid Gallery, “Dolls, Idols and Ideals,” in 2024. Asked to define Blackness, Camp created 14 new works that illustrated the indigenous reality of Black Americans, using archetypal characters from Geechee stories made American tradition in Uncle Remus books and film. Based on trickster myths, Camp crafted large dolls in stoneware, beads, fibers, textiles of B’rer Rabbit, B’rerGator, B’rer Toad, etc. For some, Camp designed cotton and silk fabrics carrying messages about the creation of race.