Kimin Kim is a Korea-based painter currently living in Brooklyn, New York. His practice is a continuous exploration of the intersection between botanical symbolism, historical memory, and the ritualized engagement with grief. Drawing on the lyrical registers of Korean poetry, where floral and landscape imagery function as affective surrogates and decorative presences, he traces how these motifs circulate through daily rituals, offerings, and ceremonies of comfort and mourning as visual and symbolic lexicons.
EDUCATION
2024 Rhode Island School of Design BFA Painting
SOLO & DUO EXHIBITION
2025 | Undercurrent, Tutu Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | No Leaf Will Be Shaken, Space 776 Gallery, New York, NY
2023 | Supulneoul / Forestwaves, Nua Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
GROUP EXHIBITION
2025 | It would hurt us - were we awake -, NARS Foundation, Brooklyn, NY
2025 | Inside my Outside and Outside my Inside, Kunstraum LLC, Brooklyn, NY
2025 | Language of Visibility- Li Tang Community 5th anniversary show, BLANC, New York, NY
2024 | Living room hours, Site, Brooklyn, NY
2025 | I Can’t (Un)see it, All Street, New York, NY
2024 | Desire - Body without organs, Aspace, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | Site#003, Cooper Park Grass Fields, Brooklyn, NY
2024 | Senior Group Show, Memorial Hall, Providence, RI
2024 | RISD Painting Senior Show Pt. 2, Woods Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
2020 | The Color of My Land, Gelman Gallery, Providence, RI
2019 | Painting Triennial Exhibition, Woods-Gerry Gallery, Providence, RI
RESIDENCY
2025 | NARS Foundation Residency Season III