Byron Kim, born in LA Jolla, California received his B.A. from Yale University in 1983. He later attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. Kim participated in the 1993 Whitney Biennial. In 1998 Kim exhibited a solo show entitled Wall Drawings at The Whitney Museum of American Art at Philip Morris in New York. He had his most recent exhibition, Oddly Flowing, at the Max Protech Gallery in New York in 2005.

Kim’s work is in the tradition of abstract expressionism and color field painting, however, he relates it to contemporary issues with a blend of abstraction and representation, conceptualism and sensuality. Memories of place, ethnic and racial identity, family and the legends of the Abstract Expressionists are some of the themes that run through Kim’s work.

Kim is represented by The Max Protech Gallery in NYC. He is in the Public collections of the Art Institute of Chicago, Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA, Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA, Wadsworth Atheneum, Hartford, Connecticut, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. (text from press release)

Byron Kim • PSU Monday Night Lecture Series
Mon • Feb 12 • 8:15p
510 SW Hall St • 5th Avenue Cinema Room 92