MFA, University of Texas at San Antonio; BFA, Truman State University
Jimmy Kuehnle, has exhibited in the United States and internationally. In 2014, he was selected for the national survey exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. In 2015 he installed a large kinetic inflatable in the atrium of MOCA Cleveland as part of the group exhibition, How to Remain Human. In 2016 Kuehnle received a Creative Workforce Fellowship. His 2016 solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York was favorably reviewed in The New York Times, featured in New York Magazine’s “Approval Matrix” and recommended by online sites such as the New York Daily News, Artnet and Hyperallergic. Kuehnle’s inflatable work was included in Bubbletecture: Inflatable Architecture and Design published by Phaidon Press.
His 2016 monumentally scaled site-specific inflatables at the Akron Art Museum, Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle, was reviewed in the Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Canvas Magazine, CAN Journal, WCPN’s the Sound of Applause. In 2018 he exhibited a new interactive inflatable an exhibition at the Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco. In 2019 he opened Wow, Pop, Bliss an exhibition of 4 new interactive inflatables at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, South Carolina. In 2019 he unveiled a new interactive inflatable LED light sculpture for BLINK 2019 in Cincinnati. In 2023 exhibited with the Balloon Museum in Barcelona, Spain in the exhibit Pop Air that will travel to Berlin and Vienna.
Kuehnle is Professor of Sculpture + Expanded media at the Cleveland Institute of Art and received his MFA from the University of Texas at San Antonio. Kuehnle was awarded a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellowship to study and research public art in Japan.
Selected group exhibitions include How to Remain Human, MOCA Cleveland (2015); ARS, Fondazione Arnaldo Pomodoro, Milan, Italy (2010); and Betsu no Sekai, Nagakute Cultural Center, Nagoya, Japan (2008). Kuehnle has been awarded artist residencies from, SPACES, Cleveland, Ohio (2013); Sculpture Space, Utica, New York (2010); Albion College, Albion, Michigan (2009); and Ateljé Stundars, Vaasa, Finland (2009).