Kim Beck received a BA from Brandeis University in Waltham, Massachusetts, in 1992 and an MFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in Providence, Rhode Island, in 1999. Selected exhibitions include Hallwalls Contemporary Art Center (Buffalo), Smack Mellon (Brooklyn), Plane Space (New York), and Raid Projects (Los Angeles). She currently teaches at Carnegie Mellon University in Pittsburgh. Kim Beck lives and works in Pittsburgh.