Byron Kim

• Born in 1961, La Jolla, US
  Lives and works in Brooklyn, US

Education

• 1986     Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, US
  1983     B.A., Yale University, New Haven, US

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2023
  Marine Layer, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea 
  
  2022
  Drawn to Water, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
  
  2019
  The Sunday Paintings, MOCA Cleveland, Cleveland, US
  
  2018
  Collection 1: Retrograde Perpetuum!, 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan
  Sky, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Sunday Paintings, 1/7/01 – 2/11/18, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
  
  2016
  Mud Root Ochre Leaf Star, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
  
  2015
  Pond Lily Over Mushroom Cloud: Byron Kim Adapts the Black on Black Cosmology of Maria Martinez, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, US
  
  2013
  Spencer Finch & Byron Kim: Day and Night, James Cohan Gallery, Shanghai, China
  
  2012    
  The Sunday Paintings, Columbus College of Art and Design, Columbus, US
  
  2011    
  Byron Kim, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
  Night & Day, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008    
  Irwin’s Disc, The U.N. Building, and Other Paintings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  Byron Kim, Meulensteen Gallery, New York, US
  
  2006
  Threshold, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, US; traveled to Samsung Museum of Art, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, US; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro, US; Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle, US; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdalem US; Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Recent Photographs and Sunday Paintings, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2005    
  Oddly Flowing, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  
  2004    
  Permanent, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, US
  
  2001    
  Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  
  1999
  Whitney Phillip Morris: wall drawings by Byron Kim, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York, US
  Roche's Point Studies, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  
  1998    
  Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, US
  Byron Kim: Process, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, US
  
  1997
  I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  
  1996
  Grey-Green, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., US
  Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C., Dieu Donne Papermill, New York, US
  
  1995
  Korea Arts Foundation of America, Los Angeles, US
  Kiang Gallery, Atlanta, US
  
  1994
  Matrix 125, Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, US
  Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern, Switzerland
  Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  
  1993    
  Baumgartner Galleries, Washington D.C., US
  Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, AC Project Room, New York, US
  
  1992
  Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  Byron Kim and Kiki Smith, AC Project Room, New York, US

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2025
  Celestial and Terrestrial Worlds, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, US 
  (Re)Generations: Rina Banerjee, Byron Kim, and Howardena Pindell amid the Mr. and Mrs. John D. Rockefeller 3rd Collection, Asia Society, New York, US
  Past as Prologue: A Historical Acknowledgment, Part II, National Academy of Design, New York, US 
  
  2024
  Get in the Game: Sports, Art, Culture, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  Blue Skies Ahead: Works by Russell T. Gordon, Patrick Hughes, and Byron Kim, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, US
  Brilliant Sunlight, SeokPaJeong Seoul Museum, Seoul, Korea
  A New Sense of A Shared World, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea
  The Shape of Time: Korean Art After 1989, Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, US
  
  2023
  The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989, Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, US
  Lineages: Korean Art at The Met, The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, US
  Come a Little Closer, DC Moore Gallery, New York, US
  Rules & Repetition, Wadsworth Atheneum Museum of Art, Hartford, US
  
  2022
  Monochrome Multitudes, Smart Museum of Art, Chicago, US 
  The Reason for the Neutron Bomb, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Downtown, San Diego, US
  Fleeting Moments of Joy, Sheldon Museum of Art, Lincoln, US
  Us Them We: Race Ethnicity Identity, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, US
  
  2021
  8 Americans, Chart Gallery, New York, US
  Artwork of Endurance, 1979-2018: Three Decades in Print from the Permanent Collection, The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
  Trauma : Shooting the Pulitzer + 15 minutes, Daejeon Museum of Art, Daejeon, Korea 
  The Slipstream: Reflection, Resilience, and Resistance in the Art of Our Time,  Brooklyn Museum, New York, US 
  Artists and the Rothko Chapel: 50 Years of Inspiration, Moody Center for the Arts, Houston, Texas, US
  Atmosphere: The Pace Staff Show, Pace Gallery, New York, US
  
  2020
  Unflagging, Ballroom Marfa, Texas, US
  Axis of Horizon, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Unconstrained Textiles: Stitching Methods, Crossing Ideas, Centre for Heritage, Arts and Textile (CHAT), Hong Kong
  Making Community: Prints from Brandywine Workshop and Archives, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, Philadelphia, US
  
  2019
  James Cohan: Twenty Years, James Cohan, New York, US
  This Skin of Ours (curated by Liz Park), Carnegie Mellon University’s Miller Institute for Contemporary Art, Pittsburgh, US
  Weather Report: Art and Atmosphere (curated by Richard Klein), The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum, Ridgefield, US
  One Shiny Day, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  Borders, James Cohan Gallery, New York, US
  
  2018    
  The 12th Gwangju Biennale: Imagined Borders, Gwangju, Korea
  Real DMZ Project, Cheorwon, Korea
  Tastes of Weather, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017
  Blue Black, curated by Glenn Ligon, Pulitzer Arts, St. Louis, US
  Cheap Suitcase, Invisible Exports, New York, US
  Indirect Representations, Cristin Tierney, New York, US
  What I Loved: Selected Works from the '90s, Los Angeles, US
  x ≈ y: An Act of Translation, Tiger Strikes Asteroid (TSA), New York, US
  
  2016
  5th Anyang Public Art Project, Anyang, Korea
  Certain Skins, James Cohan Gallery, New York, NY
  This is a Portrait If I Say So: Identity in American Art, 1912 - Today, Bowdoin College Museum of Art, Brunswick, US
  Human Interest: Portraits from the Whitney Collection, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, The Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Austin, Texas, US
  
  2015
  Immersed, Linda Pace Foundation, San Antonio, US
  Glenn Ligon: Encounters and Collisions, Nottingham Contemporary, Nottingham, UK; traveled to Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  The Untold Want, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
  Sharjah Biennial 12: The past, the present, the possible, Sharjah, UAE
  Come As You Are: Art of the 1990s, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, US; traveled to Telfair Museum of Art, Savannah, US; University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, US; Blanton Museum of Art, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, US
  
  2014
  Beyond and Between, Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013
  Spencer Finch & Byron Kim: Day and Night, James Cohan, Shanghai, China
  Eye to i: 3,000 Years of Portraiture, Katonah Museum of Art, Westchester, US
  Revelations, Eli & Edythe Broad Art Museum at Michigan State University, Michigan, US
  Skin: an Artistic Atlas, Royal Hibernian Academy, Dublin, Ireland
  NYC 1993: Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star, New Museum, New York, US
  Day after Day: The Diaristic Impulse, University Art Museum, University at Albany, State University of New York, Albany, US
  
  2012
  The Very Large Array: San Diego/Tijuana Artists in the MCA Collection, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, San Diego, US
  Look Both Ways, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, California, US
  Semi-permeable, Hosfelt Gallery, New York, US
  Radical Terrain, Rubin Museum, New York, US
  Time-Lapse, SITE Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
  Dislocation, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  
  2011
  Unfolding Tales: Selections from the Collection, Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn, US
  Time Flies, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, US
  Two Colors Two Colors, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts & Elizabeth Ivers Gallery, New York, US
            
  2010    
  Hard Targets, Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus, US
  Centennial Celebration of Yi Sang's Birth, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  
  2009    
  Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Queens Museum of Art, New York, US
  The Endless Renaissance, Bass Museum of Art, Miami, US
  Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour, 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool, UK
  
  2008    
  7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950 to Today – MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
  Patterns for Living, Queens, NY
  Abstraction Imagination, PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
  
  2007    
  Void in Korean Art, Leeum – Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Like Color in Pictures, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, US
  Not for Sale, P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, US
  Oustide the Box, Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco, CA
  
  2006    
  The Bong Show or This Is Not A Pipe, Leslie Artworks + Projects, New York, NY
  Gifts Go in One Direction, Apexart, New York, US
  New Now Next - The Contemporary Blanton, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, US
  Work in Progress, DUMBO Arts Centre, Brooklyn, US
  Frontiers – Collecting the Art of Our Time, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, US
  
  2005    
  Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, US
  
  2004    
  Specific Objects – The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, US
  
  2003    
  Visualizing Identity, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, US
  Approaching Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, US
  Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, US
  
  2002    
  Skin, Museé de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
  Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, US
  Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, US
  
  2001    
  American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Claude Monet and the Modern Age, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München, Germany And Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
  Here and Now, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland and Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
  It’s Not What You See: Perverting Minimalism, Reina Sofia, Madrid, Spain
  
  2000    
  Good Business is the Best Art, Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, US
  3rd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
  KOREAMERICAKOREA, Artsonje Center, Seoul and Artsonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea
  
  1999    
  Drawing for the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York, US
  Negotiating Small Truths, Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Austin, US
  Between the Unknown Straits - Art Now in Japan and Korea, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; traveled to The National Museum of Art, Osaka, Japan, and the Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
  Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ and Knoxville Museum of Art, Knoxville, US
  Contemporary Collectors XIV, Museum of Contemporary art San Diego, La Jolla, US
  
  1998    
  Kiki Smith, Byron Kim, Anne Chu, AC Project Room, New York, US
  Space/Sight/Self, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Chicago, US
  Formal Innovations: Reworking Minimalism in the 1990s, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, US
  From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, US
  T-Race, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, US
  
  1996
  Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, US
  Face Value, Wexner Center, Columbus, US
  A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle, Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, US
  Screen, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York, US
  Works on Paper, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  Contemporaneous, Newlyn Art Gallery, Penzance, UK
  
  1995
  The Figure/The Body, American Art: 1945-1995, Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, US
  Art at the Edge: Tampering: Artists & Abstraction Today, High Museum, Atlanta, US
  Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, US
  25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US
  Face Value: American Portraits, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, US
  Modesty, A Policy: Junge Malerie aus New York, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel, Germany
  Works on Paper, Todd Gallery, London, UK
  Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, US
  
  1994
  Pleasant Pebble, The Work Space at Dolgenos, Newman and Cronin, New York, US
  Stories, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  Practice Ground, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
  Drama, Max Protetch Gallery, New York, US
  
  1993
  Spheres of Influence: Artists and their Students in the Permanent Collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, Whitney Museum of American Art at Champion, Stamford, US
  Markets of Resistance, White Columns, New York, US
  American Academy Invitational, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, US
  Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kustverein, Frankfurt, Germany
  Biennial, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Skin Deep, New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, US
  Physical Evidence, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, US
  New Sculpture: Soft Surfaces, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco, US
  
  1992
  Sleeping with The Enemy: A Theory on the Persistence of Dialects, Four Walls, Brooklyn, US
  Slow Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Queens, New York, US
  Contemporary Surfaces, Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York, US
  Cultural Abstraction, John Good Gallery, New York, US
  Seventeen, 500 Greenwich, New York, US
  
  1991
  Color Theory, SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, US
  Salvage Utopia, AC Project Room, New York, US
  The Naked and The Raw, P.S. 122, New York, US
  Race and Culture, 494 Gallery and C.C.N.Y. Gallery, New York, US
  
  1990
  Micro-Colonization, AC Project Room, New York, US
  Artists in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, US
  China: June 4, 1989, organized by Asian American Arts Centre, P.S. 1, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Queens, US
  A Question of Paint, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, US
  
  1989
  China: June 4, 1989, organized by Asian American Arts Centre, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York, US
  Skowhegan Faculty and Staff Exhibition, Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME and Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, US
  Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, US
  
  1988
  34th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Institute at the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, US
  Yesterday: Reflections on Childhood, Asian American Arts Centre, New York, US

Selected Awards

• 2022
  Skowhegan Medal for Painting, New York, US
  
  2019
  Robert De Niro, Sr. Prize, New York, US
  
  2017
  Fine Arts Guggenheim Fellowship, New York, US
  
  2008    
  Alpert Award in the Arts, Santa Monica, US
  
  2002    
  UCROSS, Cal Arts Alpert Residency, Sheridan, US
  
  1998    
  Sirius Arts Centre, Residency Programme, County Cork, Ireland
  
  1997    
  Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, New York, US
  
  1995    
  National Endowment for the Arts Award, Washington D.C., US
  
  1994    
  New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, New York, US
  Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, New York, US
  The Korea Arts Foundation of America, Award for the Visual Arts, Los Angeles, US
  
  1993
  The Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York, US
  
  1991
  Diverse Forms Artists' Projects Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Jerome Foundation, New York, US
  
  1990
  Artist-in-Residence Grant, New York State Council on the Arts, New York, US

Selected Public and Private Collections

• Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, US
  Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
  Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, US
  Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, US
  Brooklyn Museum of Art, Brooklyn, US
  Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C., US
  John’s Hopkins Hospital, Baltimore, US
  Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, US
  Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, US
  Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, US
  National Gallery of Art, Washington D.C., US
  Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, US
  San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, US
  Smithsonian American Art Museum, Washington D.C., US
  Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, US
  Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, US
  Washington Project for the Arts, Washington D.C., US
  Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, US
  Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, US