ARTIST STATEMENT
My work investigates the tension between structure and impermanence, control and unpredictability. Working across painting, installation, and organic materials, I construct layered environments where natural forms interact with built frameworks, allowing time to quietly reshape the composition.
Rooted in years of floral design and expanded through fine art practice, my work moves beyond representation toward spatial inquiry. Flowers, sculptural elements, and painterly gestures coexist in varying states of vitality—blooming, stabilizing, and gradually withering. Rather than concealing fragility, I allow transformation to remain visible, treating change itself as part of the artwork.
While earlier series explored memory and psychological fragmentation, my recent work turns outward—examining how organic systems, architectural space, and human intervention intersect. Through process-driven construction and material experimentation, I seek to create environments that invite pause and contemplation, where viewers can sense both order and quiet instability within the same frame.
BIOGRAPHY
Binna Kim was born in Busan and raised in the natural landscapes of Gimhae, South Korea, where mountains, fields, and coastal horizons shaped her early visual sensibility. Influenced by her mother, an artisan and painter, she developed an early awareness of material, craft, and quiet observation.
In her twenties, she moved to New York City and built a career as a floral designer, creating large-scale installations and window displays across the city. Working at the intersection of organic materials and architectural space marked a turning point in her practice, leading to the development of Integration — an evolving body of work that merges painting, sculptural elements, and natural forms within spatial environments.
Her practice has since expanded across painting, installation, and material experimentation. Drawing from botany, structure, and temporality, Kim constructs layered compositions where control and impermanence coexist. Through both abstract and representational works, she investigates how organic systems interact with built frameworks, allowing time and transformation to remain visible within the work.
She currently lives and works in New York.
Group Exhibition
- 2025 ‘Student Art Exhibition’ at Shirley Fiterman Art Center April 23rd – May 15th
- 2022 'Art Exchange America & Japan, members only' Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Art curated by Julienne Johnson from April 10th - 15th.
- 2021 Market Art & Design The Hamptons Art Fair
- 2020 Art Series IX "Real, Surreal scape & Contemporary Abstractions" at Studio Anise in Soho, NYC
- 2020 "She is..." at One Art Space in Tribeca, NYC
- 2019 Spatial Transformations Part 1,2,3 & "Painting vs Drawing" at Studio Anise in Soho, NYC
- 2019 Winter Group Shows Part 2 at Onishi Gallery in Chelsea, NYC
- 2019 Group show at NAWA (National Association of Women Artists) in NYC
- 2018 Off The Wall at Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, NY
- 2018 ARTIF ACTS at One Art Space in Tribeca, NYC
- 2018 Benefit Auction at The Drawing Center, NYC
- 2018 Eternal Summer at One Art Space in Tribeca, NYC
- 2018 Transformation at One Art Space in Tribeca, NYC
- 2018 Drawing 2017, an exhibition of 20 international artists at Gallery 25N
- 2017 Making Connections ll at The City Deford Gallery in Long Island City, NY
- 2017 Making connections at The Plaxall Gallery in Long Island City, NY
- 2017 Winner of Drawing category : 9th Artslant Prize
- 2017 IGOA gallery, Theme "Anima l& wildlife"
- 2017 Projekt 30, Monthly Exhibition in May and July
- 2017 Bauhausprairie art gallery, Theme "Abstract" and "Artist's favorite work"
- 2016 Honorable Mentions : IGOA (www.international-gallery.org) Art-open "No Theme"
- 2016 Projekt 30, Monthly Exhibition in October and November
Private Collections
Apex No.3, Tribeca, New York
Companion, The Drawing Center Benefit Auction, Soho, New York
Dancing Divas No.1, Soho, New York
Emotions series, Confidence and Jealousy”, Soho, New York
Heart series, sketches, Tribeca, New York
Heart series, 5 paintings, Soho, New York
Hear series, 2 paintings", New York
Rejuvenating No.1 and No.2, Soho, New York
Serenity-Celestial dance No.2, Soho, New York
Serenity No.1, Tribeca, New York
Serenity No.3, Brooklyn, New York
The Universe in a leaf No.3, Astoria, New York
The Universe in a leaf No.2, Tribeca, New York 3
Topper, Commission drawing, Great Neck, Long Island
