Kimber is a Sydney/Gadigal-based artist who makes textural paintings that extend into sculptural relief and site-specific installations to engage with the social dimension of architecture and its relationship to memory.

Growing up, Kimber's playground was an empty nightclub. It was here that his bar-owning father would often dream up pseudo-fantasy worlds using theatrical stages and lighting to reconfigure rooms. Roaming free and with a child’s eyeline, his gaze landed on objects and minutiae that became time-space portals. Buttons on the DJ mixer morphed into spaceship controllers. The grooves in vinyl records appeared like coded inscriptions. Glass fragments and the sticky surfaces of alcohol-soaked carpet offered clues to activities that occurred the night before.

Lingering through the venue’s back-stage areas—storage rooms, offices, behind stages—these interiors became living labyrinths that shapeshifted in the mind. As an artist, Kimber remixes images and casts of architectural fragments into embedded surfaces to envision how interiors can register histories within their skins.

Awarded a three-month studio residency at the British School at Rome, Italy in 2013, Kimber studied ancient fresco painting, which led him to look closely at the various connections between painting and the built fabric of cities. In 2025, Kimber completed his PhD at UNSW Art & Design, titled ‘Expanding Painting at the Surface’, examining how painterly surfaces can be expanded through processes of moulding, casting and framing.

Mason Kimber has been a finalist in the Sulman Prize, Churchie National Emerging Art Prize, Sunshine Coast Art Prize, and NSW Visual Arts Fellowship (Emerging) among others, and has been awarded studio residencies at Parramatta Artists Studios, Waverley Artists Studios and Artspace, Sydney. Kimber's works are held in the collections of Artbank and the Museum of Contemporary Art Australia. He is also a permanent Painting Lecturer at the National Art School, Sydney.