Kim Abeles' art cross disciplines and media to explore biography, geography and environment. Abeles received the 2013 Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship, and fellowships from J. Paul Getty Trust Fund for the Visual Arts, California Community Foundation, and Pollack-Krasner Foundation. She has created projects with California Science Center, air pollution control agencies, health and mental health departments, and natural history museums. In 1987, she innovated a method to create images from the polluted air, and Smog Collectors brought her work to international attention. She has exhibited in 22 countries, and Kim Abeles: Encyclopedia Persona A-Z toured the U.S., and South America sponsored by United States Information Agency. Her work is in public collections including MOCA, LACMA, Berkeley Art Museum, and National Geospatial Intelligence Agency. Abeles’ journals and process documents are archived at the Center for Art + Environment, Nevada Museum of Art.