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Kim Poor was born in Phoenix,
Arizona in 1952. Now living in Tucson, he has become one of
the world's best known space artists. His unique style and
dramatic use of color and perspective has won numerous
awards and has been seen in many publications worldwide,
including OMNI, SCIENCE DIGEST,
DISCOVER, ASTRONOMY, SKY & TELESCOPE, Germany's
KOSMOS, and Russia's popular
OGONJOK. His book credits
include SMITHSONIAN BOOKS, TIME-LIFE
BOOKS and Carl Sagan's COMET.
Movies and TV often use his work as background props as in
ALIEN NATION, SEAQUEST, STAR TREK
and BABYLON 5.
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Buzz Aldrin - Sally and
Kim Poor
Kim's
artwork is found in textbooks, encyclopedias, planetarium
shows and scientific presentations. His work has been
commissioned by the National Air & Space Museum and is found
in collections worldwide, including those of many astronauts
and NASA personnel. He headed up an American delegation of
space artists who were brought to Moscow, USSR in 1987 to
display their work for the thirtieth anniversary of Sputnik.
His work hangs in the Yuri Gagarin Museum in Star City,
Russia. This was one of the first overtures of Gorbachev's
glasnost, and resulted in an ongoing series of cooperative
workshops between Russian and American artists. Their
efforts culminated in a joint exhibition at the National Air
& Space Museum in 1992.
Tucson is surrounded by more than 25 major observatories
and is home to hundreds of top astronomers. From this base
of knowledge and his own research, he painstakingly renders
his subjects. Kim lives in the mountains outside of Tucson
with his wife, Sally, daughter Kelsey, and son, Nathan. He
was first President of the
IAAA, the
international guild of space artists, which was founded by
Kim, Michael Carroll and STAR TREK artist/technical advisor
Rick Sternbach.
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