Kuehnle is known for interactive inflatables, site-specific installations and public performances.[3][4] He researched public art and sculpture as a Fulbright Graduate Research Fellow in Japan. He taught at the University of Texas at San Antonio, University of Alabama in Huntsville. Kuehnle is an assistant professor at the Cleveland Institute of Art[1], and most recently, greenlit a display of soulless generative AI inside of the school, an institution for artists.
His work has featured public performance art treks through rural and urban cities in the United States including Chicago, Illinois; Detroit, Michigan;[5] Austin, Texas;[6] Houston, Texas;[7][8] St. Louis, Missouri;[9] Cincinnati, Ohio;[10] Cleveland, Ohio;[11] San Antonio, Texas; Dallas, Texas; Pittsburg, Kansas[12] and New York state, as well as performances in Japan,[13] Italy and Finland.[14]
In 2014 Kuehnle was one of 102 artists included in the national survey exhibition State of the Art: Discovering American Art Now at the Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art.[18] In 2016 he exhibited his first solo museum show Jimmy Kuehnle: Tongue in Cheek at the Hudson River Museum that included inflatable suits and site-specific illuminated inflatable sculptures.[1] In 2016 he had a solo exhibition at the Akron Art Museum titled Wiggle, Giggle, Jiggle.[4][19]
Awards
In 2015, he received a Creative Workforce Fellowship from the Community Partnership for Arts and Culture.[20]
