Associate Professor Kim William Fink has taught printmaking at the University of North Dakota since 1999. He received his BFA in Painting from the Pacific Northwest College of Art in Portland, Oregon and his MFA in Printmaking at the Tyler School of Art in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. His recent credits include participating as Artist-in- Residence at the Center for Contemporary Prinkmaking in Norwalk, Connecticut, and the KALA Art Institute in Berkeley, California.

Currently, Fink’s art explores issues of comparative culture and what is termed, “cultural memory,” implicit as well as explicit. He attempts to create a fusion of cultural realities that examine objective verses subjective visions and a synthesis between image and meaning, all of which define qualities that form us as individuals, as a group, and ultimately as a nation. Born and raised in the American West, Fink is fascinated with its truly postmodern expressions of poplular culture. Fink likes to quote the poet Richard Hugo’s observations of the West’s ancient newness: “...Out West... the only thing is neon...”.