Kim Piotrowski is an abstract painter born in Buffalo, NY. She has lived in the Chicago area since arriving in 1984 to attend the School of the Art Institute, where she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree and began her painting career.

For Piotrowski, color, surface, broad brushstrokes, and fine details are paramount in her abstractions. With both aggressive and gentle mark-making, Piotrowski deftly incorporates notions of order and chaos, tenderness, and violence, calm and anxiety, imbuing the right amounts of edginess, uncertainty, and mystery to keep herself inspired and her viewers engaged.

Kim Piotrowski's art has been featured in such venues as Grolle: Pass Projects in Wuppertal, Germany; Forum Gallery, NYC; Marcia Wood Gallery, Atlanta, GA; and Barbara Davis Gallery in Houston, TX. She has also exhibited extensively in the Chicago area at Cultivator Arts, Linda Warren Projects, Riverside Arts Center, 65Grand, Hyde Park Art Center, and most recently at the O'Connor Gallery at Dominican University.

Piotrowski is the recipient of such prestigious honors as the Artadia Grant, the Illinois Arts Council Visual Artist Grant, the IAC Artist Project Grant, the Sustainable Arts Foundation Artist Grant, and the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Grant. She has also been an artist in residence at Yaddo, Hambidge, Oxbow, and Ragdale.