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Kim uses her distinctive style to create a visual metaphor of both external and internal relationships
Yool Kim is a contemporary Korean artist, based in Seoul. In her mixed-media artworks, she navigates and explores the ideas of identity and subconsciousness.
Her practice has developed over time, currently involving the exploration of human connecion, both with others and within ourselves. Often the motif of a swan is used, mingling with her human figures and, in some works, merging with them. Kim uses her distinctive style, creating humans and animals out of smaller, interlocking faces, to create a visual metaphor of our relationships with others and how they shape ourselves.
Kim's artistic process is very complex, developed by her time studying colout at university. She starts with a one-colour base - often red, purple, blue, or green - and works over this in a rainbow palette. The result is works containing complex layers of colours and paint, often featuring 3-dimensional details around eyes and other key aspects of her compositions.
Yool Kim was born in 1982 and graduated from Hongik University Graduate School of Industry in 2015 with a degree in Colour Studies. She has since featured in group and solo exhibitions, and had works in the RHODES booth at UNTITLED Art Fair.
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Works
Yool Kim
So What, 2023Acrylic on Linen Canvas65.1 x 53 cm
25 5/8 x 20 7/8 inSigned on Reverse£ 1,450.00Exhibitions-
The Way We Were
Yool Kim 4 - 26 Jul 2025South Korean artist Yool Kim returns to RHODES for her second solo exhibitionRead more -
UNTITLED ART
Miami, Booth B20 3 - 8 Dec 2024Presenting these artists and more on our stand offers the gallery a prime opportunity to engage with the key US art market and its collectors as well as afford our...Read more -
Project Room: Kinship
Yool Kim 2 Feb - 2 Mar 2024Focusing on themes of human relationships and the connections that are made between us, Kim's new series of works have a self-reflective element to them with the artist drawing on...Read more -
HERO
Group Exhibition 24 Feb - 18 Mar 2023RHODES Contemporary Art is delighted to announce a new group exhibition HERO, featuring four East Asian artists whose works depict repeating characters – heroes . While all the represented artists...Read more
News-
How Yool Kim, Gavin Lynch & Peter Doyle's work reflects on memory and relationships
After their solo exhibitions this past summer, here’s how three artists take unique approaches to exploring key human experiences in their distinct artistic practices. September 3, 2025Despite differences in their style, Yool Kim, Gavin Lynch, and Peter Doyle have all engaged with ideas of memory and communal interaction in their solo...Read more -
Introducing: Yool Kim
New and Upcoming Korean Artist Yool Kim and What Influences Her Practice. January 23, 2024Yool Kim is a contemporary Korean artist based in Seoul. After graduating from Hongkik University Graduate School of Industry with a degree in Colour Studies...Read more
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