Additionally, a collection of Wiggins's work depicting the history of California has been exhibited at the Staples Center in Los Angeles since opening in 1999.

[3] Kim Wiggins was raised on a ranch in southern New Mexico[4] and began his art career sculpting miniatures of the wildlife around him.

[6] His father, Walt Wiggins, was a noted writer and photojournalist who traveled the world on assignment for major magazines like Sports Illustrated, Argosy and Look.

[7] Wiggins draws upon Postimpressionism, Expressionism, American Regionalism,[8] muralist folk art traditions, and it is this union that makes his paintings truly unique and unexpected.

His work is included in the permanent collections of the Museum of New Mexico, the Anschutz collection, Denver, CO; the Staples Center, Los Angeles, CA; the Booth Western Art Museum, Cartersville, GA; and the Autry National Center,[26] Los Angeles, CA.