Kim MacConnel is an American artist who works with painting, sculpture, and mixed media-collage. He was born in Oklahoma City (Oklahoma) in 1946. He moved to California, attending the University of California in San Diego where he received his BA with honors and a pre-doctorate fellowship. He taught at the University from 1977 and became professor in the Visual Arts Department in 1987 where he remained until 2006. He currently lives in Encinitas (California). MacConnel is one of the founding artists of the Pattern and Decoration movement of the 1970s. Collection Applied Design in 1976 was MacConnel’s first solo exhibition and was also his breakthrough in the United States. His work is in numerous public collections including the Brooklyn Museum in New York; Museum of Contemporary Art in Chicago; National Gallery of Art in Washington; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art and the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York. MacConnel's paintings, drawings and sculpture have been exhibited in museums and galleries around the world, amongst others the Whitney Biennials (1975, 1977, 1979), the Museum of Modern Art in New York and the Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Los Angeles.