Kim Demuth was born in Crawley, England, but grew up in various countries as a child before his family finally resided in Brisbane, Australia when he was a teenager. He graduated from Queensland University of Technology (Australia) in 1999 with a BA (Honours) in Visual Arts.

Since graduating he has exhibited extensively, including solo shows at Artspace Mackay (2011-2012), Beam Contemporary (2010-2012), Jan Manton Art (2006-2010), Esa Jaske Gallery, Sydney (2004), The Farm, Brisbane (2004), The Institute of Modern Art, Brisbane (2003), Gallery 482, Brisbane (2003), Soapbox Gallery, Brisbane (1999-2002), and Satellite Space, Brisbane (2000). Various group shows include Project A7 Gallery, Santa Monica, USA (2012), Photo LA, Los Angeles, USA (2008-2012), Schwartz Gallery, London (2011), Kunst Pavilion, Munich (2010), Metro Arts, Brisbane (2009/2011), Ipswich Art Gallery, Queensland (2006), Blindside Gallery, Melbourne (2005), Arc Biennial of Art (2005), The Block, QUT, Brisbane (2005), Museum of Brisbane (2004). Demuth has also been commissioned for various public artworks including the Old Museum of Brisbane and the Queensland State Archives.

Demuth has employed a diverse array of media throughout the oeuvre of his practice, but over the past six years he has devised a particular way of working that remains dominant in his practice to date. It merges various techniques, that are manipulated behind a veiled surface, creating a kind of holographic effect, that appears to slip somewhere between our 2D and 3D points of perception.

For Demuth, illusion has remained an important aspect of his work for this reason, “it is a way of questioning our environment. If seeing no longer becomes believing, we are given the opportunity to judge it as such”. He creates imaginary environments that are obscure reflections of the outer world. The imagery being derived from his initial environment is transposed into a framework to be reflected back out again. In many ways, he wants these ‘mirror worlds’ to be as believable as the outer one that we occupy- “I am essentially interested in how we experience time, memory, our spatial environment, and our perception of, or belief in, a 'real' world and our place within it”.

His work belongs to various national and international private and public collections, and has received various awards and grants. He currently works and lives in Brisbane, Australia and is represented by Jan Manton Art (Brisbane) and beam contemporary (Melbourne).