Born in 1961
Lives and works in New York
Education
1986
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, New York
1983
BA, Yale University, New Haven, Connecticut
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2011
“Byron Kim,” James Cohan Gallery, New York (forthcoming)
“Byron Kim,” PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul
2008
“Irwin’s Disc,” The U.N. Building, and Other Paintings, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2006
“Threshold – Byron Kim 1990-2004,” Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art – SMoCA,
Phoenix, Arizona
“Threshold – Byron Kim 1990-2004,” Henry Art Gallery, Seattle
Byron Kim, PKM Gallery, Seoul
2006-4
“Thereshold,” Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California; travelled to Rodin Gallery,
Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego;
Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro; Henry Art Gallery,
University of Washington, Seattle; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale,
Arizona; and Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2005
“Oddly Flowing,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York
2004
“Permanent,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisico
2001
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1999
“Whitney Phillip Morris: wall drawings by Byron Kim,” Whitney Museum of American Art
at Phillip Morris, New York
“Roche's Point Studies,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1998
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago
“Byron Kim: Process,” Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, Colorado
1997
“Wandered Lonely as a Cloud,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1996
“Grey-Green,” Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C.
Dieu Donne Papermill, New York
1995
“Korea Arts Foundation of America,” Los Angeles
Kiang Gallery, Atlanta
1994
“Matrix 125,” Wadsworth Athenaeum Museum of Art, Hartford, Connecticut
Galerie Francesca Pia, Berne, Switzerland
1993
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Baumgartner Gallery, Washington, D.C.
“Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon,” AC Project Room, New York
1992
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
“Byron Kim and Kiki Smith,” A/C Project Room, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2010
“Hard Targets,” Wexner Center for the Arts, Columbus Ohio
"Centennial Celebration of Yi Sang's Birth," Arko Art Center, Seoul
2009
“Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York,” Queens Museum of Art, New York
“The Endless Renaissance,” Bass Museum of Art, Miami
“Colour Chart: Reinventing Colour,” 1950 to Today, Tate Liverpool, Liverpool
2008
7th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
“Abstract Imagination,” PKM Trinity Gallery, Seoul
“Color Chart: Reinventing Color,” 1950 to Today – MoMA, Museum of Modern Art, New
York
“Patterns for Living,” Queens, New York
2007
“Void in Korean Art,” Leeum – Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
“Like Color in Pictures,” Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, Colorado
“Not for Sale,” P.S. 1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island, New York
“Outside the Box,” Hosfelt Gallery, San Francisco
2006
“Gifts Go in One Direction,” Apexart, New York
“New Now Next,” The Contemporary Blanton, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
“Work in Progress,” DUMBO Arts Centre, Brooklyn, New York
“Frontiers – Collecting the Art of Our Time,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester,
Massachusetts
“The Bong Show or This Is Not A Pipe, Leslie Artworks + Projects,” New York
2005
“Collection Remixed,” Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York
2004
“Specific Objects – The Minimalist Influence,” Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla, California
2003
“Visualizing Identity,” Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
“Approaching Objects,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Somewhere Better Than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art,” The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Ohio
“Whiteness, A Wayward Construction,” Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, California
2002
“Skin, Museé de la Civilisation,” Quebec, Canada
“Family Ties,” Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, Massachusetts
2002
“Mask or Mirror? A Play of Portraits,” Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
“Group Exhibition,” Nicole Klagsburn Gallery, New York
2001
“American Tableaux,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
“Claude Monet and the Modern Age,” Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, München,
Germany
And Fondation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
2001
“Here and Now,” Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland and Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
“It’s Not What You See: Perverting Minimalism,” Reina Sofia, Spain
“Here and Now,” National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2000
“Good Business is the Best Art,” Bronx Museum of the Arts, Bronx, New York
3rd Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
“KOREAMERICAKOREA,” Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea and Artsonje Museum, Kyongju,
Korea
1999
“Drawing for the Present Tense,” Parsons School of Design, New York
“Negotiating Small Truths,” Blanton Museum, University of Texas at Austin, Texas
“Between the Unknown Straits - art Now in Japan and Korea,” Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo; travelled to The National Museum of Art, Osaka, and the Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul
“Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America,” Montclair Art Museum, NJ and Knoxville Museum of Art, Tennessee
“Contemporary Collectors XIV,” Museum of Contemporary art San Diego, La Jolla,
California
1998
“Kiki Smith, Byron Kim, Anne Chu,” A/C Project Room, New York
“Space/Sight/Self,” David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, Illinois
“Formal Innovations: Reworking Minimalism in the 1990s,” University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, Michigan
“From Here to Eternity: Painting in 1998,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York
“100 Years of Sculpture: From the Pedestal to the Pixel,” Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
1997
“After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970,” Snug Harbor Cultural Center,
Staten Island, New York
“T-Race,” Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, Illinois
1996
“Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting,” List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, Massachusetts
“Face Value,” Wexner Center, Columbus, Ohio
1996
“Screen,” Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
“Works on Pap,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York
“Contemporaneous,” Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance, UK
“A Glimpse of the Norton Collection As Revealed by Kim Dingle,” Site Santa Fe, Santa Fe, New Mexico
1995
“The Figure/ The Body, American Art: 1945-1995,” Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania
Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia
“Art at the Edge: Tampering: Artists & Abstraction Today,” High Museum, Atlanta, Georgia
“Sites of Being,” Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, Massachusetts
“25 Americans: Painting in the 90s,” Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, Wisconsin
1995
“Face Value: American Portraits,” Parrish Art Museum, NY and Southampton, England
“Modesty, A Policy: Junge Malerie aus New York,” Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel, Germany
“Works on Paper,” Todd Gallery, London
“Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture,” Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase
College, SUNY, Purchase, New York
1994
“Pleasant Pebble, The Work Space at Dolgenos,” Newman and Cronin, New York
“Stories,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York
“Practice Ground,” Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
“Drama,” Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1993
“New Sculpture: Soft Surfaces,” Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco
“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, Connecticut
“Markets of Resistance,” White Columns, New York
“American Academy Invitational,” American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
“Prospect 1993,” Frankfurter Kustverein, Frankfurt, Germany
“Biennial,” Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
“Skin Deep,” New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
“1993 Physical Evidence, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson,” NY and Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, New York
1992
“Sleeping with The Enemy:” A Theory on the Persistence of Dialects, Four Walls, Brooklyn, New York
“Contemporary Surfaces,” Pamela Auchincloss Gallery, New York
“Cultural Abstraction,” John Good Gallery, New York
“Seventeen,” 500 Greenwich, New York
“Slow Art,” P.S. 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Queens, New York
1991
“Color Theory,” SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, New York
“Salvage Utopia,” AC Project Room, New York
“The Naked and The Raw,” P.S. 122, New York
“Race and Culture,” 494 Gallery and C.C.N.Y. Gallery, New York
1990
“Micro-Colonization,” AC Project Room, New York
“A Question of Paint,” Hallwalls, Buffalo, New York
“Artists in the Marketplace,” The Bronx Museum, Bronx, New York
“China: June 4, 1989, P.S. 1, Institute of Contemporary Arts,” Queens, New York (organized by Asian American Arts Centre)
1989
“China: June 4, 1989,” Blum Helman Warehouse, New York (organized by Asian American Arts Centre)
1989
“Skowhegan Faculty and Staff Exhibition,” Portland Museum of Art, Portland, ME and
Colby College Museum of Art, Waterville, Maine
1988
“34th Annual Juried Exhibition,” Art Institute at the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego,
California
1998
“Yesterday: Reflections on Childhood,” Asian American Arts Centre, New York
Public Collections
Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo, New York
Art Institute of Chicago, Illinois
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, California
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, Texas
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, California
National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.
Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, California
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, Connecticut
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, Minnesota
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, Massachusetts
Awards
2008
Alpert Award in the Arts
2002
UCROSS, Cal Arts Alpert Residency, Wyoming
1998
Sirius Arts Centre, Residency Programme, County Cork, Ireland
1997
Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1995
National Endowment for the Arts Award
1994
New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
The Korea Arts Foundation of America, Award for the Visual Arts
1993
The Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1991
Diverse Forms Artists' Projects Grant funded by the National
Endowment for the Arts, The Rockefeller Foundation and the Jerome Foundation
1990
Artist-in-Residence Grant, New York State Council on the Arts
Selected Bibliography
"Byron Kim and Kiki Smith." The New Yorker (June 1, 1992)
"Byron Kim/Kiki Smith, Art in Brief." Village Voice (June 2, 1992)
Baker, Kenneth. "Exhibitions explore shades of artist's abstract expression." SFGate.com (October 9, 2004)
Cotter, Holand. Byron Kim's Codes." The New York Times (July 5, 1996)
Ellegood, Anne. "Byron Kim, Drawings."
"Glenn Ligon and Byron Kim." The New Yorkers (April 26, 1993)
Glueck, Grace. "Byron Kim at Max Protetch." The New Yorkers (December 9, 2005)
Harrison, Helen."Skin Pigmentation as a Determinant of Attitudes." The New York Times (December 1, 1991)
Hirsch, Faye. "Byron Kim at Max Protetch." Art in America (January 1993): 101-102
Hughes, Robert. "Whitney Biennial: A fiesta of Whining." Time Magazine (March 23, 1993)
Huntington, Richard. "No Question, Reviews." The Buffali News (October 5, 1990)
Kim, Byron. "Ad and Me." Flash Art (October 2001): 161-2
Larson, Kay. "The Painting Pyramid." New York Magazine (May 25, 1992): 85
Lovelace, Carey. "Byron Kim." Art in America (October 2001): 161-2
Mcnally, Owen. "Artist Tells Life's Stories With Colors." The Hartford post (October 1994)
Ollman, Leah. "The inquiring mind of a restless, Energetic spirit." Los Angeles Times (June 21, 2005)
Pincus, Robert L. "Abstracts Offer a Unique Distraction From Everybody Life." The San Diego Union Tribune (November 18, 1993)
Princenthal, Nancy. "Byron Kim at Max Protetch." Art in America (February 2006)
Richard, Paul. " Gleanings ion Green." The Washington Post (August 4, 1996)
Rubenstein, Raphael. "Byron Kim." Art news (September 1994)
Schenk-Sorge, Jutta. "Byron Kim." Kunstforum (1993): 399
Sirmans, Fanklin." The Art of the Deal: The Bronx Museum sees the cash register behind a higher calling."
Time Out New York (June29-July 6, 2000): 159
"Slow Art: Painting in New York Now." Review, The New Yorker(May 1992)
Schwabsky, Barry. "Byron Kim." Art forum (October 2001)
Smith, Roberta. "Anne Chu, Byron Kim, Kiki Smith." The New York Times (February 13, 1998)
Smith, Roberta. " Body, Body Everywhere, Whole and Fragmented." The New York Times (May 15, 1992)
Smith, Roberta. Realism With Paintings by Byron Kim." The New York Times (June 13, 1997)
Schwendener, Martha. "Wall Paintings by Byron Kim." NY Arts (Summer 1999)
Zahm, Oliver. "Byron Kim: Cosmetic Politics." View on Color, Issue 3.