Byron Kim

Byron Kim, Senior Critic in Painting/Printmaking

Mr. Kim received a B.A. from Yale University in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. He has received numerous awards including the Alpert Award, a Ucross Foundation fellowship, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant. He has been exhibiting in solo and two-person shows since 1992 and has shown with artists such as Kiki Smith and Glenn Ligon. Mr. Kim has participated in group exhibition across the United States and in Korea, Poland, Spain, the United Kingdom, Germany, and Canada. His work is in the permanent collections of the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, Buffalo; the Art Institute of Chicago; the Berkeley Art Museum; the Blanton Museum of Art, Austin; the Hirshhorn Museum, Washington, D.C.; the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla; the National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C.; the Norton Family Collection, Santa Monica; the Wadsworth Athenaeum, Hartford; the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; the Whitney Museum of American Art; and the Worcester Art Museum. It has been reviewed in The New York Times, Artforum, NY Arts, The New Yorker, The Washington Post, Art in America, Newsweek, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, New York Magazine, Frieze, Time Magazine, and the Village Voice. Mr. Kim lives and works in New York and is represented by James Cohan Gallery. He was appointed senior critic in painting/printmaking in 2009 and again in 2012.