About

Byron Kim is an artist born in LaJolla, Calfornia who is based in Brooklyn, New York. He is a graduate of Yale University where he was a member Manuscript Society. Kim’s breakthrough project was Synechdoche, a grid of 400 monochrome paintings that explored racial identity, which was exhibited at the 1993 Whitney Bienial. He also collaborated with Glenn Ligon on Black & White series. Kim has since evolved in his monochromatic painting project , made photographic assemblages and painted numerous landscapes. In this show, Byron Kim features paintings from a series that adopts, as its …