Instead, she went to art school at the Otis College of Art and Design.
In the 1980s, it was through art that she found music, coming to Sonic Youth sideways from an early interest in art, aesthetics, and performance.
Kim Gordon: Lo-Fi Glamour, the artist’s first North American museum solo-exhibition, features painting, sculpture, a new series of figure drawings, and a commissioned score for Andy Warhol’s 1963–64 silent film Kiss.Ĭelebrated for her work as a founding member of the experimental post-punk band Sonic Youth, Kim Gordon is a multi-disciplinary artist and thinker who has worked in fashion, publishing, film, and music.