Byron kim biography
Byron kim synecdoche!
Byron Kim
American painter (born 1961)
Byron Kim (born in 1961 in La Jolla, California) is an American contemporary artist.
Byron kim biography
He is Korean American, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.[1][2] In the early 1990s he produced minimalist paintings exploring racial identity. He graduated from Yale University in 1983 where he was a member of Manuscript Society.
Works
Kim's work in the early 1990s consisted of monochrome canvases depicting the skin tones of friends and family.[3] He gained early recognition for Synecdoche, his contribution to the 1993 Whitney Biennial, which embodied the aesthetic and political aspirations of the art in that year's exhibition.[4]Synecdoche (1991–1992) is a grid of 400 small, monochromatic paintings.
Each panel recreates the skin color of an individual who sat for Kim while he painted their portrait.[4] Although the works, at first glance, resemble minimalist paintings of the 1960s the rac