Artist Biography
The youngest of four siblings raised in Jacksonville, FL, Farish's work appears in the permanent collections of the Ackland Art Museum in Chapel Hill, NC; the municipal art collections in Raleigh and Rocky Mount, NC; and Fidelity Investments in Raleigh. Farish received the 2014-15 North Carolina Arts Council Fellowship and attended artist residencies in Sheridan, WY, New York Mills, MN and Penland, NC.

Farish has exhibited throughout NC, including the NCMA and Artspace in Raleigh, the SECCA in Winston-Salem, GreenHill in Greensboro and the Greenville Museum of Art in Greenville. Farish received her BS degree in Applied Mathematics from Meredith College in Raleigh and her MFA degree in Painting and Drawing from ECU in Greenville.

Kiki and her husband, live and work in Wake County on her ancestral home, Oakforest. For the past couple of years, they have culled wood piles, out-buildings, attics and trunks, sorting and preserving generations of possible useful items.