b. 1980, Atlanta, GA. Lives and works in New York.

Kim Hoeckele works primarily with photography, and her practice spans video, performance, and text. Found images are inspiration and material. In photographic work, Hoeckele makes staged constructions for the camera, guided by the formal qualities and context of the material. Using studio lighting, she considers pictorial space as a painter might, creating depth and flatness out of raw materials. Across projects, Hoeckele restages male-dominant viewpoints within the Western Canon’s literary, art-historical, and philosophical works to explore how deep-rooted ideas about power and gender resonate in contemporary culture.

Hoeckele has exhibited and performed her work nationally and internationally at Bronx Museum (NY), Queens Museum (NY), University of Connecticut (CT), Storage Gallery (NY), Underdonk (NY), Smack Mellon (NY), and CONTACT Photography Festival (Toronto, CA), among other venues. Residencies and fellowships include Cornell Image Text Workshop Residency, Bronx Museum AIM, Lighthouse Works, Woodward Residency, and The Saltonstall Foundation for the Arts. She holds an MFA in Studio Art from Hunter College.

Her photo-illustrations appear in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and La Repubblica. For commissioned work, see Photo-Illustrations.