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Steve Kim is an artist, illustrator, educator, and academic administrator. Born in Seoul, Korea, he immigrated to the states at the age of two and currently resides in Los Angeles. He received his undergraduate degree from Art Center College of Design and his masters from Claremont Graduate University. He has shown in Korea, Italy, London, Amsterdam, Krakow, Liechtenstein, Japan and throughout the United States and clients include The California Sunday Magazine, The Outline, FRAME, Matter/Medium, Adobe, SHOWstudio, Hohe Luft, The New Republic, Arc/New Scientist, Polygon and The Verge. His work has been featured in print in Quiet Lunch, New American Paintings, Computer Arts, Beautiful Decay, PRINT Magazine, and American Illustration and online on Dazed, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, BOOOOOOOM!, The Fox Is Black, Supersonic Art, and Tumblr's Radar. Most recently he completed residencies at Red Bull Arts Detroit and Smiling Gecko in Cambodia and currently teaches illustration full time at Otis College of Art and Design where he serves as director of the illustration program.
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Born in Seoul, Korea
Resides in Los Angeles, California
MFA, Claremont Graduate University
BFA, ArtCenter College of Design
Clients / Collaborations
The California Sunday Magazine, The Outline, FRAME, Matter/Medium, Adobe, Hohe Luft, New Republic, Arc/New Scientist, The Verge, Polygon, RAMP Recordings, FiXT Recordings / SHOWstudio, Fount Magazine, Kuvva, Forage Press, Samwon Paper Gallery, The Fifty New Logos Project
Print / Online
My Neighbor Hayao, Quiet Lunch, Mississippi Modern, Riverblood, American Illustration, Beautiful/Decay, PRINT, Computer Arts, New American Paintings, I.T Post, Vogue Girl Korea / Dazed, Hi-Fructose, Juxtapoz, BOOOOOOOM!, The Fox Is Black, iGNANT, Supersonic Art, Tumblr Radar
Teaching
Otis College of Art and Design
ArtCenter College of Design
University of La Verne
Residencies
2017 Smiling Gecko, Kampong Chnang, Cambodia
2017 Red Bull Arts Detroit, Detroit MI
Exhibitions
2023 Steve Kim & (3-person), Round Midnight Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2022 Touch (solo), Round Midnight Gallery, Fukuoka, Japan
2018 Possession (solo), NOH / WAVE, Los Angeles CA
2018 Artists For Smiling Gecko (3-person), Liechtenstein National Museum, Liechtenstein
2017 Resident Artists Exhibition (3-person), Red Bull Arts Detroit, Detroit MI
2011 Beyond the Inner Sphere (2-person), ADC Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
Group Exhibitions
2023 Salut! 8, Nucleus Portland, Portland OR
2022 Supersonic Invitational 10, Hashimoto Contemporary LA, Culver City CA
2019 All Good Things, Helikon Gallery, Denver CO
2019 Supersonic Invitational 8, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco CA
2018 INCOGNITO, ICA LA, Los Angeles CA
2018 HEAT / WAVE, NOH / WAVE, Los Angeles CA
2018 On/Off Grid, FAAIM, Chicago IL
2018 Pixel Palette II, Helikon Gallery, Denver CO
2018 Supersonic Invitational 7, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2017 NOH / WAVE x ART_MRKT, NOH / WAVE, Los Angeles CA
2017 Duets 2.0, Fort Works Art, Fort Worth TX
2017 Muses of Mount Helikon V, Helikon Gallery, Denver CO
2017 _Lo/WAVE_LA_2017, NOH / WAVE, Los Angeles CA
2017 Miyazaki Art Show, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2017 Exhibit #2, Prjct omni, Traverse City MI
2017 Supersonic Invitational 6, Spoke Art, New York NY
2016 Exhibit #02, Prjct omni, Traverse City MI
2016 Lo_01_LA_2016, DFLA Studio, Los Angeles CA
2016 Pixel Palette, Helikon Gallery, Denver CO
2016 Supersonic Invitational 5, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2015 AOKOA, TSA LA, Los Angeles CA
2015 Wild Imagination, JCC, Krakow, Poland
2015 Supersonic Invitational 4, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2014 Supersonic Invitational 3, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2013 Feathers, Kuvva Gallery, Amsterdam, Netherlands
2013 Poor/Fancy, Market Gallery, Los Angeles CA
2013 Supersonic Invitational 2, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2013 The Moleskine Project 3, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2012 Post Text, Samwon Paper Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 The New Cool School, White Box Contemporary, San Diego CA
2012 Go With The Flow, BonelliArte, Villa Bottini, Lucca, Italy
2012 Venice Art Walk & Silent Auctions, Venice CA
2012 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica CA
2012 Supersonic Invitational, Spoke Art, San Francisco CA
2011 Incognito, Santa Monica Museum, Santa Monica CA
2010 Salon No. 7 Works 222-247, Marine Art Salon, Santa Monica CA
2010 80th Anniversary, Art Center College of Design, Pasadena CA
2010 I Want to Feel At Home Here, MP5 Project Space, Portland OR
2010 Many Faces of Art, LA Contemporary, Los Angeles CA
2009 Without, New Wight Gallery, UCLA, Los Angeles CA
2009 Salon No. 2 Works 030-065, Marine Art Salon, Santa Monica CA
2009 You, Me and Everyone We Know, Alphonse Berber Gallery, Berkeley CA