Jimmy Kuehnle, who teaches at the Cleveland Institute of Art, has had solo shows at museums, galleries in the United States and internationally. In 2014, he was selected for the national survey exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art. As a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in Japan, 2008, he pursued his interest in public art and sculpture. In 2015 he installed a large kinetic inflatable in the atrium of MOCA Cleveland as part of the group exhibition, How to Remain Human. In 2016 Kuehnle received a Creative Workforce Fellowship, a program of the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture funded by the citizens of Cuyahoga County. His recent solo exhibition at the Hudson River Museum in Yonkers, New York was favorably reviewed in The New York Times, featured in New York Magazine’s “Approval Matrix” and recommended by online sites such as the New York Daily News, Artnet and Hyperallergic. Kuehnle exhibited new monumentally scaled site-specific inflatables at the Akron Art Museum in an exhibit titled, Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle. This installation was reviewed in the Plain Dealer, Akron Beacon Journal, Canvas Magazine, CAN Journal, WCPN’s the Sound of Applause. He exhibited a site specific interactive inflatable installation at Exploratorium Museum in San Francisco in 2018 as well as a public art commission in Cleveland. In 2019 he opens a solo show at the Columbia Museum of Art in Columbia, SC.