BRENNA KIMBRO
Brenna Kimbro was born in Seoul, Korea, in 1979. At 18 months old, she was adopted, becoming part of a family and finding a home on a working cattle ranch in Northeast Oregon. She began creating art from the moment she first held a crayon, while her connection with horses was innate. Horses have always held an important and noble role in her life, her family, and her art. Her experience with horses spans polo, rodeo, western riding, dressage, and professionally schooling, boarding, breeding, and selling horses.
Kimbro is recognized locally, nationally, and internationally for her original paintings, one-of-a-kind sculptures, and bronzes. Her admiration and respect for horses are expressed through a wide range of mediums, including bronze, paint, poetry, drawing, serigraphy, lithography, metalworking, wood, and clay. Her imagination is unlimited, and she embraces experimentation, exploring new artistic methods and materials to bring her ideas to life. Hundreds of her bronzes, original sculptures, and paintings have been collected across the country and around the world.
Horses remain Kimbro’s greatest muse and a central force in her artistic practice. Her deep understanding of and connection to horses informs the organic forms, paintings, and sculptures she creates, allowing her to reflect their spirit and character through her work. For Kimbro, art and horses are both ways of expressing herself and sharing a piece of her heart with the world—not always through words, but through a visual language that communicates emotion and connection.
At the heart of Kimbro’s work is a desire to bring joy to others. She finds particular fulfillment in seeing viewers light up in response to her art, much as her horses continue to inspire and reward her with a sense of joy. Through her paintings and sculptures, Kimbro sees her art and her horses as gifts she can share with the world, spreading positive energy and celebrating the beauty, spirit, and connection she finds in both.
