Byron Kim creates paintings that double as portraits and landscape paintings, utilizing the languages of formal abstraction, observational paintings, and conceptual art. His well-known Synecdoche series (1991–present) is a group portrait composed of hundreds of 10 x 8 in panels, each painted to match the skin tone of a sitter. Kim’s mid-career survey, Threshold traveled widely from the Berkeley Art Museum, CA to the Samsung Museum of Modern Art, Seoul and on to 5 other locations in the United States. His numerous awards include the Louise Nevelson Award in Art from the American Academy of Arts and Letters, the New York Foundation for the Arts Grant, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation Award, the National Endowment of the Arts Award, the Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant, the Alpert Award in the Arts, the Guggenheim Fellowship, the Robert de Niro, Sr., Prize and the Skowhegan Medal for Painting.

Kim received a B.A. from Yale University in 1983 and attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1986. He is Senior Critic in Painting/Printmaking at Yale School of Art and Co-Director of Yale Norfolk School of Art.

Byron Kim is the spring quarter spotlight artist in The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies.

Artist talk: Thursday, April 24 from 4:30 – 6 p.m., Manetti Shrem Museum. The talk is open to the public. Doors open at 4 p.m.

Organized by The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residences in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum.