Kyle Reynolds (she/her) is a biologist and self-taught artist born in New York in 1971, living currently in Seattle. She earned her MS in Marine Ecology researching the evolution of deep-sea organisms at CSUMB-MLML. This marked a culmination of a lifelong interest in extreme adaptations, a topic she pursued professionally through the fields of genetics at Johns Hopkins, and reproductive biology, ecology, and environmental science at Moss Landing Marine Labs. Refugee advocacy work through her grassroots arts nonprofit provided her a more human lens on the topic of extreme adaptations.
After a shift in 2020, Kyle turned full-time to her studio work, honing her skills in clay sculpture. Her oeuvre of sculptural works maintains her focus on extreme adaptations, only now through a cultural lens, most often observing the evolution of humanity’s responses to extreme shifts in power.
Her work has been acquired in private collections and has been juried into multiple group exhibitions at the Confluence Gallery in Twisp, Washington, Art at the Cave in Vancouver, Washington, and 2022-2024 Edmonds Arts Festivals in Edmonds, Washington where she received the Pamela Mummy Award for sculpture. She was a recipient of multiple 4Culture grants in 2018 for her arts nonprofit as well as the 2024 Cultural Producer Grant.