BYRON KIM

Byron Kim has held solo exhibitions at numerous institutions including the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA (2015), Columbus College of Art & Design, Columbus, OH (2012-3), Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA (2006), Rodin Gallery, Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul, Korea (2005), and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY (1999). Group exhibitions include Anyang Public Art Project 5, Anyang, Korea (2016), Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, United Arab Emirates, Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ (both 2015), Unfolding Tales: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, NY (2011), Yi’s Emergence, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea (2010), Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today, Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY (2008), and KOREAMERICAKOREA, Artsonje Center, Seoul, and Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea (2000). Kim will participate in the Gwangju Biennale 2018.

Among Kim’s numerous awards is the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship for Fine Arts (2017), Painters and Sculptors Grant from the Joan Mitchell Foundation (1997), and National Endowment for the Arts Award (1995). Kim’s works are in numerous public and private collections, including Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA, the Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, NY, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, CA, National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY.

Courtesy Kukje Gallery