Ingrid Maria Pimsner is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher whose work centers on visual thinking—the nexus of observation, representation, and empiricism.
She maintains a representational oil painting studio practice at SOWA Artist Studios in South Boston.
Her research focuses on sixteenth-century epistemic prints and their influence on subsequent modes of image production and reception.
Ingrid is also the founder and current director of the International Institute of Contemporary Art and Theory, an artist residency in Romania. She also co-curates The Archive Space, a curatorial project founded by Annie Daley and originally located in the Crane Arts Building in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
Additionally, she is the editor of D4L: Exploring Design for Longevity by Sheng-Hung Lee, forthcoming with Springer, and the author of the essay “Clocks and Unclocks: A Journey through Visualization.” Her writing has also appeared in Art and Digitalitate, Revista-ARTA, publications of the Institute of Contemporary Art Baltimore, The Vocabula Review, The Artblog, and The St. Clair.
She has also presented at the Bucharest Literature Museum and served as Symposium Co-chair for “The Ideal and the Real: Contemporary Positions in Art Criticism” at the Walters Art Museum.
Currently, she teaches studio art, design, and art history courses in the College of Arts, Media and Design (CAMD) at Northeastern University, as well as Information Design History for the IDDV graduate program.
Ingrid received her MA in Critical Studies and her Post-Baccalaureate in Fine Arts with Painting Concentration from the Maryland Institute College of Art. She earned a BA with a dual major in Fine Arts and Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania. She has also studied at the International School of Painting, Drawing and Sculpture in Umbria, Italy, and at the Institut für Deutsche Sprache und Kultur in Lutherstadt Wittenberg, Germany.
Publications
“Clocks and Unclocks: A Journey through Visualizations,” contributing essay in D4L: Exploring Design for Longevity by Sheng-Hung Lee, Springer (forthcoming 2026)
“Alexandra Croitoru: Between 00 and 30: A Review,” Art and Digitalitate, Revista-ARTA #38-39, 2019.
“A Speculative Conversation,” The St. Clair, 2015.
“Looking and Seeing Humanoid Boogy- 58 Drawings,” Catalog essay for Humanoid Boogy: The Work of William S. Dutterer, an exhibition curated by Caitlin Tucker-Melvin. In partnership with the Estate of William S. Dutterer and the Institute of Contemporary Art, Baltimore, 2014.
“The Still Life Effect,” Philomel, Fall 2013.
“Kityi Wong: It Takes Hundreds of Rebirths,” Article in catalogue accompanying EXCHANGE. Curated by Hyejung Jang at School 33, 2013.
Coauthored “‘Apt to call barbarous’: Stylistic Debates Involving Artwriting,” written by Kerr Houston, in The Vocabula Review, 2013.
“Random Walk Drawing (Eye Chart): Juxtaposing Sarah Sze’s Artwork against Chinese Landscape Painting,” Essay on Sarah Sze for the Contemporary Art Department of the Baltimore Museum of Art, 2013.
“Ambiguous Flower Power: Polly Abfelbaum at Locks Gallery,” The Artblog: Roberta Fallon & Libby Rosof, 2007.
Selected Solo Exhibitions
Ingrid Pimsner: Selected Paintings. Liz Afif Gallery. Philadelphia, PA (2013)
Selected Group Exhibitions
Sexy Person(s). Crane Arts Archive Space. Philadelphia, PA (2015)
Material Witness. Dalton Gallery. Decatur, GA (2013)
Plein Air. Liz Afif Gallery. Philadelphia, PA (2013)
30 Rooms. Six Summit Gallery. Chelsea, NY (2013)
Salon Show 2013. Greenpoint Gallery. Brooklyn, NY (2013)
Story Book Poem. Curated by Alan Siggers. West North Fifth Gallery, Baltimore, MD (2013)
Strokes of Genius. Juror’s Award. Curated by Stephen Doherty. Circle Gallery. Annapolis, MD (2012)
You Said You Loved Me, Why Did You Try To Kill Me? Red Hook Studios, Brooklyn, NY (2012)
Under Construction. Fox 3 Gallery. Baltimore, MD (2011)
Big Pointy Teeth. Space 500. Baltimore, MD (2011)
First Friday at the Cavalcades Moms Cavalcade Studios. Philadelphia, PA (2010)
Concrete, et cetera. VWVOFFKA Gallery. Philadelphia, PA (2010)
Psychedelphia. The Rotunda. Philadelphia, PA (2008)
Selected Works. Galleria ISA. Perugia, Italy (2007)
Jazz. Fox Gallery. Philadelphia, PA (2007)
Exhibition Reviews
“On Ingrid Pimsner’s Me and Spencer” by Loren Hunt, 2015.
“Review of MFA Circle Gallery, Bmore Art.” by Anna Fine-foer, 2012.
“Where is your Sting: You said you love me… I trust you.” by Hanna Kim, 2012.
Artwork featured on cover of Kedma, Issue 6, 2008.
Artwork published in Suede Magazine, 2008. Artwork published in Penn Review, 2008.
Departments
Art + Design
Education
- MA in Critical Studies, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, MD
- Post-Bacc Fine Arts with Painting Concentration, Maryland Institute College of Art. Baltimore, MD
- BA in Fine Arts and Political Science (Dual Major), University of Pennsylvania. Philadelphia, PA
Awards
- The Vermont Studio Center’s Joan Mitchell Memorial Fellowship
- Alexander Rutsch Painting Award Finalist
- Juror’s Award, Circle Gallery
- Maryland Institute College of Art Critical Studies Scholarship
- Maryland Institute College of Art Post Baccalaureate Scholarship
- Kelly Foundation Scholarship in Fine Arts
Research Focus
- representational painting
- oil painting
- sixteenth-century prints
- graphic design
- information design
Courses Taught
- Painting Basics
- Representational Drawing
- Elements of Visual Composition
- History of Graphic Design
- Information Design History
- Seminar in Design Perspective