Born and raised just outside of Cheyenne, Wyoming Kyle Sims’ childhood interest in art led him to Rocky Mountain College in Montana where he graduated with a bachelor’s degree in art.  His early artistic influences have included such notable wildlife artists as Carl Brenders,  Daniel Smith and Paco Young.  As Sims' career matured his influences have also included Wilhelm Kuhnert, Carl Rungius, Joaquin Sorolla, Bob Kuhn, Richard Schmid, and Clyde Aspevig.

An avid outdoorsman, he often paints on location which has helped him to develop a precise color palette based on colors he observes in the wild.  He uses this palette in the studio in an attempt to help his paintings look more life-like rather than photographic. He notes, “Painting on location trains you to see and interpret how life really looks to the eye, rather than the camera.  If I go outside and do a really fine field study, it’ so much more satisfying than anything else I could do.  I love the sketchy spontaneity of painting in the field and I’m out to capture that same look and feel in my studio work.”

Kyle Sims is an annual exhibitor at the Prix De West Exhibition and Sale in Oklahoma City, where in 2009, he won the Major General and Mrs. Don D. Pittman Wildlife Award. He is also an exhibitor the Masters of the American West Sale at the Autry National Center in Los Angeles and in 2013 was the recipient of the 2013 Bob Kuhn Wildlife Award. Sims is the featured artist for the 2016 Southeastern Wildlife Exp in Charleston, South Carolina.