ART PROJECTS

 KELIMA K'S ART  PROJECTS HAVE BEEN SHOWN AT MUSEUMS
IN THE USA AND INTERNATIONALLY,

INCLUDING THE METROPOLITAN MUSEUM OF NEW YORK. AND
THE CENTRE POMPIDOU, PARIS.

KELIMA K'S WHITE FEATHER KIMONO, AND OTHER PIECES, DESIGNED FOR TERENCE KOH WAS FEATURED IN THE NEW YORK TIMES, ARTFORUM, ART OBSERVED, ARTNET, BRIDE'S MAGAZINES AND MORE.

HER SIGNATURE 'TRANSFORMATION CLOAK', WHICH SHE DESIGNED FOR
LEE MINGWEI'S SONIC BLOSSOM, IS ON PERMANENT COLLECTION AT THE
MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, BOSTON.

'CONNECTED'

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WORK BECOMES MEDITATION

"I LOVED CREATING THIS, FROM 50 YARDS OF SILK.
WITH NO SEWING MACHINES, SCISSORS, ZIPPERS OR ASSISTANCE, DESIGNING ALONE, I DIVED DEEP INTO MANY DARK NIGHTS, LOST IN TIME.
12 MODELS WORE THIS PIECE, WALKING SIMULTANEOUSLY, FOR MY NEW YORK FASHION WEEK SHOW" 
KELIMA K

TITLE: ‘CONNECTED’,
MATERIAL: SILK
INSTALLATION: KELIMA K ATELIER, SOHO, NY, NY.
WHITE FEATHER KIMONO
KELIMA K WHITE FEATHER KIMONO, CREATED FOR ARTIST TERENCE KOH.
KELIMA K WHITE FEATHER KIMONO, CREATED FOR ARTIST TERENCE KOH.
KIMONO NEW YORK TIMES, T MAGAZINE. PHOTO: ROBERT MAXWELL
KELIMA K ‘BUTTERFLY MIGRATION’ DRESS (RIGHT) AND KELIMA K ‘CLOUD’ DRESS (LEFT) AT THE WHITNEY MUSEUM NY FOR ARTIST TERENCE KOH'S OPENING SHOW. PHOTO: TERENCE KOH WITH FAMILY MEMBERS

TRANSFORMATION CLOAK

Designer/Artist Kelima K with opera singer, wearing Kelima's signature 'Transformation Cloak',
which she designed, created by hand, and named, for the
Museum of Fine Arts exhibit of Mingwei Lee's, ‘Sonic Blossom’.
Kelima K at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, for Lee Mingwei's 'Sonic Blossom' w/opera singer in Kelima K's signature Transformation Cloak
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston Transformation Cloak by Kelima K for Lee Mingwei, Sonic Blossom
Kelima K's Transformation Cloak, at the Pompidou Center Paris.JPG
Transformation Cloak by Kelima K for Lee Mingwei, Sonic Blossom, at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston
Transformation Cloak in progress at Kelima K's atelier.
Transformation Cloak in progress at Kelima K's atelier.
Transformation Cloak by Kelima K Museum of Fine Arts, Boston