BYRON KIM, studio visits and artist talk 2/8

 

image: artist: Guerilla Girls. Poster 1995.

 

Byron Kim was born 1961. He lives and works in New York City. Byron
Kim's work insist on subjectivity, specificity, and content within
traditional paradigms of the sublime, painting, and minimalism. Based
in seeing, memory and visual phenomena Byron's work delicately
balances personal narrative with formal constraints and a muted
pallet. Byron Kim has had numerous solo exhibitions at venues
including Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, The Berkley Art
Museum, Max Protetch Gallery, PKM Gallery, and James Cohan Gallery.
Notable group shows include 2008 "Color Chart: Reinventing Color, 1950
to Today", at the Museum of Modern Art, New York, NY. "Specific
Objects – The Minimalist Influence," at the Museum of Contemporary Art
San Diego and “Not for Sale,” at P.S. 1 Queens, NY. On of the most
significant group exhibitions was the 1993 Whitney Biennial. Described
as “a watershed” by Roberta Smith in her New York Times review, the
Biennial that year was both celebrated and reviled for its persistent
emphasis on what Smith writes as, “race, class, gender, sexuality, the
AIDS crisis, imperialism and poverty." Smith continues, "The work on
view touches on many of the most pressing problems facing the country
at the dawn of the Clinton Administration and tries to show how
artists are grappling with them.”

Kim’s work is in collections of numerous public institutions including
the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, The Brooklyn Museum, The
Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, The National Gallery of Art,
Washington, DC the Wadsworth Atheneaum in Connecticut and the Whitney
Museum of American Art, NY.

Byron Kim is a senior critic at Yale University School of Art.