Kim Berman is one of the founding team members of  The Lockdown Collection and is committed to engaging arts for social change through her activism and teaching. She is a Professor in Visual Art at the University of Johannesburg (UJ) and Executive Director of Artist Proof Studio (APS), a community-based printmaking centre in Newtown, Johannesburg which she co-founded with the late Nhlanhla Xaba in 1991. 

Berman received her B.F.A. from the University of the Witwatersrand  in 1981 and her M.F.A. from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/ Tufts University, USA in 1989. She completed her PhD at the University of the Witwatersrand in 2009. Berman has lectured and exhibited widely in South Africa and internationally. 

Her book: Finding Voice : A visual approach to engaging change is  published by the University of Michigan Press.