Kali Sime is an ATX-born painter creating original oil paintings and murals.

They began their formal education at Austin Community College in 2019 originally for Radio-Television-Film while self teaching themselves how to paint. Through waves of covid, much of their education was online, but that only lit a flame to find new ways to gain experience which sparked the desire to co-create a production company/collective to uplift Austin artists.

Though their hands remained full in several creative aspects, they strived to further their painting skills by taking a couple of one-off oil painting classed at Austin Community College 2024-2025. Not being in a position to fully be in school as a young working class individual, they continued to spend all of their free time teaching themselves how to better their oil paint works as well as well expand their knowledge to spray paint. With their film and production company mostly in the past, they have devoted their focus to painting solely. They’ve been featured in several group shows since 2023 and have murals around Austin that you can check out with their map.

I share my stories through visceral portraiture that exaggerates the unique physical aspects of a person’s lived experience. Exploring reactions to real events, I create a sensationalized response to it rather than focusing on the event itself. I want to center stories of women and the “weird” culture of Austin that I was raised around and forever want to enhance.

Though my macabre approach to my work is very prominent in my personal series, I have an array of experience in traditional portraiture, landscape. lettering and so forth that allows me to work on an array of different projects.

From film posters, to pre-school murals, or logos and personal commissions, I want to use my adept ability to bring creative ideas to fruition with those who reach out to work with me.