Hyunsik Kim

KIM Hyunsik (b. 1965) materializes colorful images through resin. His work may appear as abstract paintings, but they are flat sculptures with great weight and thickness. His work shows Bernard Waldenfels’s “transforming power of repetition” through its repeated process of filling space with color, scraping off fine stripes, and filling space with color again. Even though the series Who Likes K Colors? consists of identical groups of vertical lines, but the artist’s breath, speed of gesture, and intensity while scraping off the lines create personal and specific images with the line’s various thickness and depths. The importance of Kim’s works is not replicating the exact same things repeatedly, but to create distinction through repetition. The distinction of his work process creates endless depth on top of a layer of transparent and glossy epoxy. Each of his work creates distinct experiences through the harmonizing of various thicknesses and depths of color and shade. KIM Hyunsik was Born in Sancheong , Gyeongsangnam -do in 1965. KIM graduated from the Department of Painting at Hongik University. He major solo exhisbition include Art Chosun Space (2023, Seoul, Korea), Hakgojae Gallery (2021, Seoul, Korea), Noblesse Collection (2018, Seoul, Korea), Art Loft (2016, Brussels, Belgium), and Mogoe Modern Art (2013, London, UK). His major group exhibitions include Guangdong Museum of Art (2026, Guangzhou, China), Soluna Fine Art (2025, Sheung Wan, Hong Kong), Yoon Sun Gallery (2024, Daegu, Korea), Hakgojae Gallery (2023, Seoul, Korea), Hangaram Art Museum (2023, Seoul, Korea), Biseonjae Gallery (2023, Seoul, Korea), A’mei Museum of Contemporary Art (2016, A’mei , China), and Busan Museum of Art (2009, Busan, Korea). KIM’s works are also included in the collections of Gwangju Museum of Art (Gwangju, Korea), MMCA Art Bank (Korea), and UC Irvine Langson Orange County Museum of Art (California, US).