06 - Kimberly Anderson, Salt Ramp and Pile, Great Salt Lake

Kimberly Anderson
American, 1915–1985

Salt Ramp and Pile, Great Salt Lake
2011
Pigment print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag
Museum Purchase with the Charter Member Endowment Fund, NEHMA
2018.15.1

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Kimberly Anderson’s work, Salt Ramp and Pile, Great Salt Lake, is part of a series of photographs of the Great Salt Lake that beautifully captures the diversity and remoteness around the perimeter of the lake.

Born and raised on a horse farm in rural northern Utah, Anderson earned both a Bachelor of Arts and a Master of Fine Arts degree from Utah State University. As a transgender woman who was raised in an orthodox Mormon home and was married for twenty years to a woman with whom she shares two children, Anderson is—in her own words— “embarking on the second half of her life reinventing nearly every aspect of who she is.”    

After 25 years working nationally and internationally as a documentary and fine-art photographer and 10 years as a university lecturer, Anderson earned a master’s degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of San Francisco.  

She currently practices as a Marriage and Family Therapist specializing in working with LGBTQ+ youth and their families through transitions related to faith and spirituality.