Bukang Y. Kim

Bukang Y. Kim is a Korean-born American artist whose work comes out of a rich dialogue between East and West. Educated at Seoul National University (B.F.A., 1965) and the University of Cincinnati (M.F.A., 1990), she highlights unique features of both the culture of her youth and the culture of her adopted home. While her painting tends towards abstraction, she nevertheless explores universal features of the natural world—the ocean, land, mountains, trees—along with more conceptual topics such as life and death or yin and yang. The dialogue of East and West is evident in other ways as well: her choice of materials, working in both oil and acrylics as well as ink painting; using supports such as canvas and traditional Korean mulberry paper; and presenting works both framed and mounted as hanging scrolls.

Kim has exhibited in over 30 solo exhibitions in the United States, South Korea, and the Czech Republic, along with being included in numerous group exhibitions. Her work is in several permanent collections, include the Cincinnati Art Museum, the Virginia Museum of Fine Arts, and the Seoul National University Art Museum.