1961 Born in La Jolla, California
Lives and works in Brooklyn, New York
1986 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture
1983 Yale University, B.A
One and Two Person Exhibitions
2006 Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
2006 Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
2006 Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
2006 Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
2006 Byron Kim, PKM GALLERY, Seoul, Seoul
2005 Threshold - Byron Kim, 1990-2004
2005 Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
2005 Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
2005 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
2005 Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
2005 Rodin Gallery, Seoul
2005 Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
2005 Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
2005 Oddly Flowing, Max Protetch Gallery New York
2002 Threshold, Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA(travels to Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego; Weatherspoon Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Greensboro
2002 Henry Art Gallery, University of Washington, Seattle; Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
2001 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1998 Whitney Phillip Morris: wall drawings by Byron Kim, Whitney Museum of American Art at Phillip Morris, New York
1998 Roche's Point Studies, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1997 Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
1997 Byron Kim: Process, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
1997 I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1996 Gery-Green, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
1996 Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
1993 Korea Arts Foundation of America, Los Angeles
1993 Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
1993 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1993 Baumgatner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
1993 Byron Kim and Glenn Ligon, AC Project Room, New York
1992 Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1992 Byron Kim and Kiki Smith, A/C Project Room, New York
Group Exhibitions
2007 Like color in picutres, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
2007 Not For Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2006 Gifts go in one direction Apexart, New York City, NY
2006 New Now Next - The Contemporary Blanton Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2006 DUMBO Arts Centre, Brooklyn, NY
2006 Frontiers - Collecting the Art of Our Time Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2005 Collection Remixed, Bronx Museum of the Arts (BxMA), Bronx, NY
2004 Specific Objects - The Minimalist Influence, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
2003 Visualizing Identity, Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
2003 Approaching Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
2003 ere Better than This Place: Alternative Social Experience in the Spaces of Contemporary Art, The Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, OH Whiteness, A Wayward Construction, Laguna Art Museum, Laguna Beach, CA
2002 Skin, Musee de la Civilisation, Quebec, Canada
2002 Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
2002 Mask or Mirror? A play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2001 American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MU
2001 Claude Monet and the Modern Age, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munchen Germany and Foundation Beyeler, Riehen, Switzerland
2001 Here and Now, Zacheta National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland and Arsenal Gallery, Bialystok, Poland
2001 It's Not What You See: Perverting Minimalism, Reina Sofia, Spain
2001 Here and Now, National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2000 Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
2000 Sonje Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2000 KOREAMERICAKOREA, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea and Artsonje Museum, Kyongju, Korea
1999 Drawing for the Present Tense, Parsons School of Design, New York
1999 Negotiating Small Truths, Blanton museum, University of Texas at Austin, TX
1999 Between the Unknown Straits – art Now in Japan and Korea, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
1999 The National Museum of Art, Osaka, and the Korean Culture and Art Foundation, Seoul.
1998 Waxing Poetic: Encaustic Art in America, Montclair Art Museum, NJ and Knoxville Museum of Art, TN
1998 Kiki Smith, Byron Kim, Anne Chu, A/C Project Room, New York
1998 Space/Sight/Self, David and Alfred Smart Museum of Art, University of Chicago, IL
1998 Formal Innovations: Reworking Minimalism in the 1990s, University of Michigan Museum of Art, Ann Arbor, MI
1997 After the Fall: Aspects of Abstract Painting Since 1970, Snug Harbor Cultural Center, Staten Island, NY
1997 T-Race, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996 Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
1996 Face Value, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
1996 Screem, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
1996 Contemporneo.us, Newlyn Art Gallery, Newlyn, Penzance, UK
1995 The Figure/The Body, American Art: 1945-1955, Museum of American Art, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA
1995 Art at the Edge: Tampering: Artists @ Abstraction Today, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
1995 Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
1995 25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
1995 Face Value: American Portraits, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, traveling
1995 Modesty, A Policy: Junge Malerie aus New York, Galerie Sfeir-Semler, Kiel, Germany
1995 Works on Paper, Todd Gallery, London
1995 Critical Distance: Between Art and Architecture, Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase College, SUNY, Purchase, NY
1994 Pleasnat Pebble, The Work Space at Dolgenos, Newman and Cronin, New York Stories, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1994 Practice Ground, Ottawa Art Gallery, Ottawa, Canada
1994 Drama, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1993 New Sculpture: Soft Surfaces, Transamerica Pyramid Lobby Gallery, San Francisco
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, CT
1993 American Academy invitational, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1992 Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
1992 Biennial, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
1992 Physical Evidence, Bard College, Annandale-on-Hudson, NY and Lehman College Art Gallery, Bronx, NY
1991 Sleeping with The Enemy: A Theory on the Persistence of Dialects, Four Walls, Brooklyn, NY
1991 Contemporary Surfaces, Pamela Auchincliss Gallery, New York
1991 Cultural Abstraction, John Good Gallery New York
1991 Seventeen, 500 Greenwich, New York
1991 Slow Art, P.S. 1 Museum, Institute of Contemporary Art, Queen, NY
1990 Color Theory, SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, NY
1990 Salvage Utopia, AC Project Room, New York
1990 The Naked and The Raw, P.S. 122, New York
1990 Race and Culture, 494 Gallery and C.C.N.Y Gallery, New York
1990 Micro-Colonization, AC Project Room, New York
1990 A question of Paint, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
1990 Artists in the Marketplace, The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY
1989 China: June 4. 1989, P.S. 1, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Queen, NY (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, ME
1987 34th Annual Juried Exhibition, Art Institute at the San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA
1987 Yesterday: Reflections on Childhood, Asian American Arts Centre, New York
Public Collections
Art Institute of Chicago, IL
Berkeley Art Museum, Berkeley, CA
Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
Hirshhorn Museum, Washington D.C.
Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, CA
Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica, CA
Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford, CT
Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN
Whitney Museum of American Art, NY
Worckster Art Museum, Worcester, MA
Awards
2003 UCROSS, Cal Arts Alpert Residency, Wyoming
1999 Sirius Arts Centre, Residency Programme, County Cork, Ireland
1999 Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant
1995 National Endowment for the Arts Award
1994 New York Foundation for the Arts Grant
1994 Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award
1994 The Korea Arts Foundation of America, Award for the Visual Arts
1993 The Louise Nevelson Award in Art, American Academy of Arts and Letters, NY
1992 Diverse Forms Artists' Projects Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts,
1992 The Rockefeller Foundation and the Jerome Foundation
1991 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.