Byron Kim

OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | A senior critic at Yale, Byron Kim is perhaps best known for Synecdoche, his ongoing work, begun in 1991, and since on display in the National Gallery in Washington DC. Kim’s most recent work, a series of hauntingly mimetic, large-scale ‘bruise paintings’ described by Art in America’s William Smith as “a strange form of realism,” can also be readily viewed as a return to his longstanding exploration of the tensions between modernist abstraction and identity politics.