kimi malka hanauer is an artist, writer, and publisher. kimi is a founding collective member of publishing initiative, Press Press (est. 2014), steward of nomadic political education project, Center for Ungovernable Study (est. 2021), and an assistant professor at Pratt Institute. In their practice, kimi cultivates poetic and material interventions into the intimate operations of imperial fields of power. Through various responsive forms, such as organizations, installations, texts, videos, programs and printed matter, they iterate methods and resources for scaffolding autonomous communities.

As an assistant professor of Graduate and Undergraduate Communications Design, kimi teaches courses in independent publishing, critical theory, writing, research-based and collective practices. Informed by anarchist and abolitionist frameworks, their work as a facilitator and educator aims to deepen our capacities for collective life-sustaining practices. Currently, they are a research faculty fellow with Pratt’s Center for Teaching and Learning.

kimi was a studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program (’24), earned an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio from the University of California, Los Angeles (’21), and a BFA in Interdisciplinary Sculpture and concentrated work in Printmaking from the Maryland Institute College of Art (’15). Kimi was born in Jaffa (“Tel Aviv”) in occupied Palestine, raised in Pittsburgh, and calls Baltimore home. They are a queer and neurodivergent diasporan of Sephardic and Ashkenazi descent.  They live in Brooklyn, NY on unceded Lenape Land.