about
photo credit: Lauren Andersen
Dave Young Kim 김재권 (b. 1979) is a fine artist who was born and raised in Los Angeles. He received a BFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Davis and an MFA in Studio Art from Mills College where he worked closely with renowned painter Hung Liu. His work engages with the intangible quality of home and explores themes of nostalgia, war, conflict, and displacement. By interpolating cultural motifs into personal and larger histories of struggle, Kim explores the unifying search for belonging across disparate conditions. He is a recipient of the Asian Pacific American Heritage Award 2015 and grants from the California Arts Council and City of Oakland. His work has been exhibited at the Asian Art Museum, Ewkuks, Vessel Gallery, Berkeley Art Center, SFAC Main Gallery, Kang Collection, and the Yerba Buena Center for the Arts. In 2020, he co-founded the Korean American Artist Collective (KAAC), a group of artists building community around work rooted in the Korean American experience.
He is currently working on his upcoming solo exhibition at Reese Bullen Gallery in Humboldt and a landmark mural in Koreatown Los Angeles.