CALVIN KIM (B.1992, Los Angeles) currently lives and works in New York City. In 2023, Kim received his M.F.A. in Visual Arts from Columbia University. In 2015, Kim received his B.F.A. and B.A. in Psychology at Cornell University, and was a recipient of the Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship to attend Yale Norfolk. Calvin Kim makes paintings and sculptures that engage questions of time, memory, and transformation as they persist within the layers of natural and man-made materials. His paintings often use humor, softness, and stupidity as an emotive stance for the rupturing condition of everyday living with hope and wonder.
Recent solo exhibitions: Departure Before Arrival, Harper’s, New York(2025); Soft Pangs,
SITUATIONS, New York(2024).
Selected group exhibitions: DRAW: Heat, Hudson River Museum, Yonkers(2025); What’s Carried Through the Winds?, AHL Foundation, New York(2025); HOLIDAY, Harper's, New York(2024); What's New In Still Life, Portrait, and Landscape, LaiSun Keane, Boston(2023); Sarang: Conversations on Love, Wellcome Collective, New York(2023); Genius Loci, Charles Moffett, New York(2023).
In 2023, Kim received an award through The Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts’ Studio Program, New York, NY. Reviews of his work have appeared in publications, including Boston Art Review, Korea Times, and New American Paintings.
yifan Jiang
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The Essential Doesn’t Change (hoping tree)
2025
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm / 24” x 20”
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![If I Hold My Breath, Will It Stay]()
If I Hold My Breath, Will It Stay
2025
Oil on Canvas
61 x 45.5 / 24” x 18”
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![Rendezvous Dilemma, Again and Again]()
Rendezvous Dilemma, Again and Again
2025
Oil on canvas
51 x 41 cm / 20” x 16”
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The Keeper
2025
Oil on canvas
51 x 61 cm / 20” x 24”
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Whole in Time
2025
Oil on canvas
36 x 28 cm / 14” x 11”
Selected exhibitions
2025 Algorithms of Longing, Pace Gallery, Hong Kong
2025 AI, as Seen at the End of Ownership, Guangdong Times Museum, Guangzhou, China
2024 Mirror, Mirror, Meliksetian | Briggs, Dallas, Texas
2024 Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2024 Spring Sprang Sprung, Hunsand Space, Beijing, China
2023 To your eternity- Art and Tech Biennale, Today Art Museum, Beijing, China
2023 The secret realm of thrills and concealment, BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China
2023 Night Skyline Stars, Laura, Houston, TX
2023 A bouquet of Senses, Meliksetian | Briggs, Dallas, TX
2023 Core Exhibition, Museum of Fine Arts Houston, Houston, TX
2022 Zero-sum Game, Christian Andersen, Copenhagen, Denmark
2022 Vacation, Sweet Pass Sculpture Park, Dallas, TX
2022 Vacation, Roswell Museum, Roswell, NM
2021 Names for airy nothings, Meliksetian | Briggs, LA
2021 Medium-sized dry goods, Meliksetian | Briggs, LA
2021 Desire Encapsulated, Make room, LA
2021 Welcome, Tomato Mouse, New York, NY
2020 The practice of everyday life, Meliksetian | Briggs, LA
2020 Art on the Grid, New York Public Art Fund, New York, NY
2020 M.I.O.K, Leroy Neiman Gallery, New York, NY
2019 Shadow Tongue, Duplex, Vancouver, Canada2017 Pivots and Spins, Access Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
screenings
2025 Experimental Tuesday, University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI
2024 Harvard University, Cambridge, MA
2024 Transfiguration International Film Festival, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, ON
2024 Human Recourses, Los Angeles, CA. Dirt Palace, Providence, RI
2024 Slamdance Film Festival, Park City, Utah
2023 Eyeworks Festival of Experimental Animation, Museum of Moving Image, NY
2023 REDCAT, Los Angeles, CA, 2220 Arts, Los Angeles, CA, Block Cinema, Chicago, IL
2023 Tabor Film Festival, Desinic, Hrvatsko Zagorje, Croatia
2023 World Panorama, Animafest, Zagreb, Croatia
2023 Mid-Length, Flatpack Festival, Birmingham, UK
2022 2020 UK2023 Festival of hand-drawn animation, Tomato Mouse, New York, NY
2023 International Film Festival Rotterdam, Netherlands
2022 Edge of Frame, London International Animation Festival, London, UK
2020 States of Emergency, London International Animation Festival, London, UK
2020 Commiserate Chicago, Media Art Festival, University of Chicago, Chicago, IL
publicactions
2023 To your Eternity, y, By Ekalan Hou, Art Forum
2023 On the contemporary moving image, by Xianhui Meng, Vogue China
2023 Going Dutch, On the 52nd International Film Festival Rotterdam, by Beatrice Loayza. Art Forum
2021 Yifan Jiang: ‘Names for airy nothings’ Where Reality and Fantasy Collide, by Jody Zellen, ArtNowLA
residencies
2022 The core program at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, TX
2021 Roswell Artist-in-resident program, Roswell, NM
2019 Mildred’s Lane, PA