Lucy Kim - September 2021
Lucy Kim is a visual artist working in painting, sculpture, and biological media. Her work explores visual mechanisms, such as distortion and projection, that are involved in the transition from physical subject to image. Recent exhibitions were held at the ICA Boston; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge; Institute of Fine Arts-NYU, New York; Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore, Saratoga Springs; Lisa Cooley, New York among others. She received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design, and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art, and is a recipient of the ICA Foster Prize, Artadia Award, Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship and the Mass Cultural Council Grant. Kim has participated in artist residencies at the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, MacDowell, and the Broad Institute. Her work is in the collection of the ICA Boston; Kadist Foundation, Paris/San Francisco; MFA Boston; and the New York Public Library, New York. Kim is an Associate Professor of Art at Boston University.
Dr. Melissa Doft, Plastic Surgeon 1. Oil paint, acrylic paint, urethane resin, epoxy, fiberglass, wood framing, 92 x 60 in., 2016. Photo: Tony Luong
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Auto-Synthetic (Orange). Oil paint, acrylic paint, urethane resin, epoxy, fiberglass, powder-coated aluminum frame, 37 x 23.5 x 2 in., 2018. Photo: Tony Luong