Portfolio
Workshop
Kirby Soderberg has been an actor, photographer and educator for more than 11 years in the Phoenix Valley. He received his Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in theatre and photography from the University of New Mexico and earned a Bachelor of FUN Arts at Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey Clown College.
Soderberg has performed as a solo artist around the Valley and also with theatre companies, such as Childsplay, Phoenix Theatre’s Cookie Company, Desert Dance Theatre and the Aurora Mime Theatre. Soderberg also instructs black and white photography at the Phoenix Visual Arts Center.
Education
1989 Bachelor of Fine Arts Theatre/Photography University of New Mexico
1989 Bachelor of FUN Arts Ringling Bros. and Barnum & Bailey Clown College
1992 Diploma Dell’Arte School of Physical Theatre International
Grants Awards/Competitions
2008 Arizona Commission on the Arts, Artist Career Development Grant, Trillium Performing Arts
Collective, Lewisburg, W.V.
2006 Tempe Arts Festival, Tempe, Photographs
2005 Scottsdale Arts Festival, Scottsdale, Photographs
2004 Arizona Commission on the Arts, Artist Development Grant, Mask Conference, University of
Iowa, Iowa City
Exhibitions
2008 Alwun House, Phoenix, selected photographic images
2006-07 United States Post Office, Tempe, photographs
2004-07 Ghost Ranch Mercado, Abiquiu, N.M., Photographs
2006 Trunk Space Gallery, Phoenix, the photograph show
2005 Tempe Public Library, Tempe, masks, paintings and photographs
2004-05 Pita Jungle, Tempe, landscape photographs
2004 Gentle Strength Co-op, Tempe, solo photograph retrospective
2004 Wet Paint Gallery, Tempe, skateboard art
2003 Red Door Gallery, Phoenix, 3 artists photograph show
2002 Paper Heart Gallery, Phoenix, nostalgic photograph show
1998-02 Phoenix Center Gallery, Photograph Shows I, II, III
Related Instructing Experience
2004-07 Pinhole Photography Exposed, Ghost Ranch, Abiquiu, N.M.
2001, 2004 Beginning B&W Photography, Phoenix Center, Phoenix
2001 Figure Model Photography, Phoenix Center, Phoenix
2001-02 Beginning B&W Photography for Summit Elementary, Phoenix Center
2000-04 Open Darkroom Monitor, Phoenix Center, Phoneix
2000-07 Open Darkroom substitute for Chandon Thorell, Arnie Williams, Kris Safford (Artists in
Residence) Phoenix Center, Phoenix
Other Instructing Experience
2004-10 Tempe Elementary School District, Mask Making Workshop
2007-08 21st Century After-school Theatre, Herrera Elementary, Phoenix
1995-10 Phoenix Christian Junior High, Theatre Workshop, Phoenix
2007 Anasazi Elementary, Clowning Residency, Scottsdale
1998, 2006 Grand Canyon School, Clowning Residency, Grand Canyon
1997-00 Phoenix Center, After-school drama/photography, Phoenix Elementary Schools, 3 locations
1994, 1995 Phoenix Center, Summer Thespians, Phoenix
1993 City of Phoenix, Parks and Recreation Sumer Camp, Northeast District