ARTIST STATEMENT
My work explores how forms and relationships change through time, perception, and intervention. Working across painting, drawing, installation, and organic materials, I examine tensions between structure and impermanence, control and entropy, resistance and surrender, and observation and interpretation.
Rooted in years of floral and spatial design, my practice begins with an understanding of organic materials as both visual forms and changing bodies. In my ongoing Integration series, I construct environments where living flowers, painted surfaces, and sculptural elements coexist and transform over time. These environments become sources for observation through painting and drawing, but also points of departure. As the work moves toward interpretation, observed forms are fragmented, accumulated, reorganized, and transformed.
This interest in unstable form extends across my practice. In Fragmented Familiar, recognizable botanical and anatomical structures are dismantled and recombined into ambiguous forms that resist fixed classification. In the emerging Formation series, waves become a means of examining movement and the temporary structures that arise within continuous change.
Rather than treating transformation as the loss of an original state, I approach it as a generative process. Forms accumulate traces, dissolve, reorganize, and enter new relationships. Through these shifting states, I am interested in the moment when something familiar begins to become something else.
BIOGRAPHY
Binna Kim is a multidisciplinary artist based in New York, working across painting, installation, and material experimentation. Born in Busan and raised in the natural landscapes of Gimhae, South Korea, she developed an early sensitivity to organic form, atmosphere, and quiet observation. Influenced by her mother, an artisan and painter, she became interested in the relationship between material, craft, and visual structure from an early age.
In her twenties, Kim moved to New York City, where she built a career as a floral designer, creating large-scale installations and window displays throughout the city. Working between organic materials and architectural space became a turning point in her artistic practice, eventually leading to the development of Integration — an evolving body of work that merges painting, sculptural elements, and natural forms within layered spatial environments.
Her practice explores the tension between structure and impermanence, examining how organic systems interact with constructed frameworks through time, transformation, and material change. Moving fluidly between abstraction and representation, Kim creates works that allow fragility, instability, and quiet transformation to remain visible within the composition.
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
Serenity No.8, Celestial Dance, Jersey City
The Universe in a leaf No.5, Jersey City
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
