Kirstin Lamb

Kirstin Lamb is a painter living in Providence, Rhode Island and working in Pawtucket, Rhode Island. She studied painting at the Rhode Island School of Design, graduating with an MFA in 2005, and she received her AB in Visual Art and Literatures in English from Brown University in 2001.

Lamb’s work has been shown in venues across the country and has attended residencies at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, Vermont Studio Center, Bunker Projects, the Wassaic Project, the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, DNA Artist Residency, The Ora Lerman Trust Soaring Gardens Artist Residency, and the Sam and Adele Golden Foundation. She has taught painting, drawing and art theory at a range of New England colleges including most recently Clark University in Worcester, MA and Salve Regina University in Newport, RI.

Her work is in the collections of Fidelity Investments, Boston, MA, the Fruitlands Museum, Harvard, MA, and Providence College, Providence, RI, among others.

“Though these paintings read as expressive, much of the work in making them is deeply tactical and repetitive.” - Kirstin Lamb