Kyle Parker Cunningham is a painter, intaglio printmaker and stone sculptor. He crafts a rich and interconnected body of work documenting both his own life, our shared reality and a speculative future. Born in Wyoming, raised in rural Montana, Cunningham then studied photography and philosophy at Montana State University. He spent 3 years volunteering with Tibetan refugees in northern India teaching filmmaking to monks documenting the teachings of His Holiness the Dalai Lama. Subsequently returning to the United States Kyle and partner Jeannie Ortiz set out to find a home in the southwest by hiking the Grand Enchantment Trail from Phoenix to Albuquerque. On this journey the vast landscape of the Gila captured their hearts and the last 12 years have found Kyle as a citizen of Truth or Consequences, New Mexico. Kyle co-founded Truth or Consequences Contemporary gallery six months after arriving in TorC, NM; 12 years on Kyle is still exhibiting constantly in an ever evolving conversation with this rural community. In 2019 he co-founded the MeTeORiC art and film festival in TorC which returns every February as an annual event. These projects explore building community through art while inspiring others to find magic in the small desert oasis of TorC. Kyle’s childhood spent wandering the mountains of rural Montana imparted a deep and fundamental love for the wild. The vast open wilds of New Mexico are what pulled Kyle to New Mexico and he still spends much of the year exploring them. The mental and physical challenges of wilderness travel delivers the mind to a trancelike state where ideas are cultivated and new connections flourish. Capturing, interpreting and sharing these new ways of thinking is paramount to his artistic output.