Kimes divides his time between Italy, Chautauqua, NY, and Washington, D.C.   He is represented by E.J. Vaughn Associates in New York City. Recently he has worked extensively with multi-media steel pieces executed primarily in Umbria, a place where Kimes says he goes in order to find "the opportunity to have consecutive thoughts in a world where it is increasingly difficult to have the chance to simply focus".  Also included on this site are examples of collage, paintings and prints.

Kimes' work has been presented in more than 30 one person and 100 group exhibitions throughout the United States, as well as in Mexico, Germany and Italy.  These include shows at the Corcoran Gallery of American Art, Brooklyn Museum of Art, National Academy of Design, Baltimore Museum of Art, Florence International Biennale (Italy), Rocca Paolina (Perugia), Living Art (Milan), America Haus (Munich), Lucky Strike, The National Academy of Design, Ammo Artists Space, Claudia Carr Gallery, Kouros Gallery, Prince Street Gallery and Arsenal Gallery, Sotheby's, Ammo Artists Space (all New York City), Fondo Del Sol Museum of Art , Washington Project for the Arts, National Academy of Sciences, Montpelier Galleries (all Washington, D.C.) and many others nationally and internationally.  Click here for a complete listing of Kimes reviews.

He was also a recipient of a Medici Medal at the 2001 Florence International Biennale of Contemporary Art. Additionally he has received awards to spend a year painting near Todi, Italy (1994-95); a US Department of the Interior award to be artist in residence at Yellowstone (1993); a grant from the Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes to work in southern Mexico (1993); Eisenhower Foundation and Chautauqua Institution support to be the United States Visual Arts representative in the 1986 Jurmala Exchange in the Soviet Union; and studio residency awards from the Millay Foundation (1985) and the Assensore di Cultura in Corciano, Italy (1999, 2000 and 2001).

Currently Kimes is head of the graduate painting divisions of the American University MFA and visual arts programs in Washington (since 1988) and Italy (since 1996).  As a full Professor in studio art he was department chair from 1990 to 2001. He is also Artistic Director in the Visual Arts at the Chautauqua Institution in New York State.  Previously he was Program Director at the Studio School in New York City, where he also taught for 10 years. He has been a visiting artist at  the International School of Art in Umbria, the Universidad Juarez Autonoma in Mexico, Harvard, Dartmouth, Georgetown, Cleveland Institute of Art, Parsons, Maryland College of Art, Cooper Union, and many others.

For Kimes Academic Positions and education click here.