BIO

Born in Seoul, South Korea in 1988,

Sehee Kim is a painter primarily focused on making large-scale abstract works. She explores the question of being through embodied use of oil paint and panoramic scale, providing physical context for the spectator to experience the work with one's essence in existence: the body.
Her solo exhibition Chronomatic Echoes was presented at A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn in 2025, and was featured in IMPULSE Magazine's Editors' Selects. She received the Howardena Pindell Excellence Award (2024), Kusama Art Award (2023), and the Dorothy G. Pieper Memorial Purchase Prize (2023), She holds an MFA from Stony Brook University and a BA from Hunter College.

She lives and works in Queens, New York.

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Education
MFA, Studio Art, Stony Brook University, 2024
BA, Studio Art, Hunter College, CUNY

Solo Exhibitions
2025 - Chronomatic Echoes, A.I.R. Gallery, Brooklyn, NY
2024 - In Between, Stony Brook University, NY
2022 - Not What You Think, Stony Brook University, NY
2022 - Horizon Series: Light and Beyond, Stony Brook, University, NY

Group Exhibitions
2024 - MFA Thesis Exhibition, Stony Brook University, NY

Award & Fellowships
2024 - Howardena Pindell Excellence Award
2023 - Kusama Art Award
​2023 - Dorothy G. Pieper Memorial Purchase Prize (Honorable Mention)
​2016 - Beatrice & Raymond Liebesman Completion Scholarship
2015 - Kossak Painting Fellowship

Press
2025 - Editors' Selects, IMPULSE Magazine

Contact
​[email protected]