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
Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art - SMoCA, Phoenix, AZ
Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
Byron Kim, PKM GALLERY, Seoul, Seoul
2005
Threshold - Byron Kim, 1990-2004
Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego - MCASD La Jolla, La Jolla, CA
Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
Rodin Gallery, Seoul
Threshold - Byron Kim 1990-2004
Leeum - Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul
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
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
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
Roche's Point Studies, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1997
Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, IL
Byron Kim: Process, Hatton Gallery, Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO
I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud, Max Protetch Gallery, New York
1996
Gery-Green, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington, D.C.
Baumgartner Galleries, Washington, D.C.
1993
Korea Arts Foundation of America, Los Angeles
Galerie Francesca Pia, Bern
Max Protetch Gallery, New York
Baumgatner Galleries, 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
Group Exhibitions
2007
Like color in picutres, Aspen Art Museum, Aspen, CO
Not For Sale, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island
2006
Gifts go in one direction Apexart, New York City, NY
New Now Next - The Contemporary Blanton Jack S. Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX
DUMBO Arts Centre, Brooklyn, NY
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
Approaching Objects, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York City, NY
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
Family Ties, Peabody Essex Museum, Salem, MA
Mask or Mirror? A play of Portraits, Worcester Art Museum, Worcester, MA
2001
American Tableaux, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MU
Claude Monet and the Modern Age, Kunsthalle der Hypo-Kulturstiftung, Munchen Germany and Foundation 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, Spain
Here and Now, National Gallery, Warsaw, Poland
2000
Kwangju Biennale, Kwangju, Korea
Sonje Art Center, Seoul, 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, TX
Between the Unknown Straits – art Now in Japan and Korea, Meguro Museum of Art, Tokyo
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
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, IL
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
T-Race, Randolph Street Gallery, Chicago, IL
1996
Face to Face: Recent Abstract Painting, List Visual Arts Center, MIT, Cambridge, MA
Face Value, Wexner Center, Columbus, OH
Screem, Friedrich Petzel Gallery, New York
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
Art at the Edge: Tampering: Artists @ Abstraction Today, High Museum, Atlanta, GA
Sites of Being, Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston
25 Americans: Painting in the 90s, Milwaukee Art Museum, Milwaukee, WI
Face Value: American Portraits, Parrish Art Museum, Southampton, NY, traveling
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, NY
1994
Pleasnat 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, CT
American Academy invitational, American Academy of Arts and Letters, New York
1992
Prospect 1993, Frankfurter Kunstverein, Frankfurt, Germany
Biennial, Whitney Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
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
Contemporary Surfaces, Pamela Auchincliss 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, Queen, NY
1990
Color Theory, SUNY Old Westbury, Long Island, NY
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
Micro-Colonization, AC Project Room, New York
A question of Paint, Hallwalls, Buffalo, NY
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)
China: June 4, 1989, Blum Helman Warehouse, New York (Organized by Asian American Arts Centre)
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
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
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, NY
1992
Diverse Forms Artists' Projects Grant funded by the National Endowment for the Arts,
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.