Yool Kim

  • Yool Kim is a contemporary Korean artist, based in Seoul.  Kim has exhibited her mixed media works across the United States, as well as internationally.  Her practice explores ideas of identity and the subconscious through a maximalist approach.  As she navigates these thoughts her work takes on a figurative form often featuring a single face repeated many times – suggesting a series of selves.  Her fast-paced thoughts and emotions are shown in her use of impulsive and overlapping mark-making. These layers represent her own personal experience and in her words, 'highlights self-expression through my deepest most inner thoughts’. 

"I paint the inside and outside of myself that surrounds me. I want to express everything I feel in life, such as my thoughts that are not organized, my image I want, me in relationships with people, me who wants to be recognized and acknowledged for my differences, my aspirations for happiness, and the things I love. Such thoughts are expressed in chaotic and dizzy body movements, and several faces are overlapped. Also, the number of body parts is different from the ideal number set by the world. Relationships with people, people's eyes looking at me/I, my appearance getting smaller behind my confident appearance, my appearance getting smaller but wanting to become more confident, the same face but the position of the dots expresses another me."

-Yool Kim