Kali Sime is an ATX-born artist working predominantly on oil paintings, digital media and hand-painted clothing. Their paintings & digital media are focused on exploring the bounds of identity as it’s related to the world, mainly through portraiture. Their clothes are much more abstract in exploring darker themes, with the focus being on upcycling clothing into wearable art.

Oil paint has a liveliness that makes it the best medium to create the eerie, but vibrant portraiture that captures my inner world . My work is heavily informed by both, the mundane beauty, and the worldly horrors that I witness while I aim to make sense of those perceptions and experiences. Though not everything I paint is a portrait, it is typically a moment captured in time that has the obvious touch of a human.

I also hand-paint and sew clothes when I want to explore those feelings more abstractly while creating sustainable and wearable art, hoping to inspire confidence in anyone who wears them.

I currently have a studio at 2324 Studios where I create a majority of my work. Message me to stop by the space and see more work than what is online.