Danym Kwon

Medium	Mixed Media
Location	Korea
Date of birth	1982

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Danym Kwon (b. 1982) is a Korean-American artist with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Finding inspiration in everyday life, Kwon uses scenes around her to create images that embody warmth, comfort, and an optimistic perspective. As the artist passes through unforeseen hardships in life, she discovers gratitude and joy for her surroundings. To cherish and appreciate these moments in life even more, the artist wants to see them from a new perspective by staging them in still lifes, such as flower vases and piles of laundry, in a surreal manner. The artist invites viewers to find moments of happiness and rest inside everyday moments, as well as through her soft colors on the canvas.

Kwon received both her BFA and MFA from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. She has shown at Ilmin Museum in Seoul, with Hashimoto Contemporary in New York and San Francisco, and at the Palo Alto Art Center.

Curriculum vitae

Solo Exhibitions

2025 ‘Dear Moments’, Hashimoto Contemporary, New York, NY
2024 ‘A Soft Day’, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2008 1st Solo Exhibitions, Gallery Dos, Seoul, Korea

Group Exhibitions

2025 ‘General Strike’, Joy Machine, Chicago, IL
‘Light Preserver’, Joy Machine, Chicago, IL
2024 ‘시가 있는 그림’ , Gallery Seorim, Seoul, Korea
‘Vanguard’, Outre Gallery, Fitzroy, Australia
2023 ‘시가 있는 그림’ , Gallery Seorim, Seoul, Korea
‘Lone Splendor’, Paradigm Arts, Philadelphia, PA
‘Multiples’, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
‘LUSH’, Hashimoto Contemporary NYC
‘Inaugural Minnesota Street Project Exhibition’, Hashimoto Contemporary SF, CA
2022 ‘Restart(Juried by Patricia Hickson)’, Palo Alto Art Center, Palo Alto, CA
‘Vessel’, Hashimoto Contemporary LA, Los Angeles, CA
‘Friends and Family’ , Hashimoto Contemporary SF, San Francisco, CA
LUSH, Hashimoto Contemporary NY, New York, NY
2021 Everything Good in the World Art Show, Jcos Arthaus, Los Gatos, CA
2018 Artist Mom by SimpleSteps , Consulate General of the Republic of Korea(한국 영사관) ,
San Francisco
2010 ‘MOVING ON’, PaikHyeYoung Gallery, Seoul
2009
‘Wonderful pictures’, Ilmin Museum, Seoul
‘Another Eye, Another Sentiment’, Gallery 4 Walls, Seoul
‘Metaphorical Playfulness:’ Danym Kwon and Minjeong Kim, Next Door Gallery, Seoul
‘Next Door Presents!’, Next Door Gallery, Seoul
2008
‘Culture, Everyday, Public’, Space 15th, Seoul
‘Ouip Meets Christmas’, Lab and Gallery Delitoys, Seoul
‘Negative TV’, Television 12, Seoul
‘ASYAAF’, Seoul Railway Station old building, Seoul

2007 ‘Public Text’, Ewha Art Center, Seoul
‘The Voyage of Young Korean Women Artists’, Candle Factory, Zurich, Switzerland
‘World Art College Vision Exchange Show (WAVE Award)’, Ewha Art Center, Seoul

Art Fair

2024 KIAF (Korea International Artfair), Seoul
Gallery Art Fair (화랑미술제), Seoul
2021 CONTEXT: Art Miami curated by Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami, FL
2009 Seogyo Nanjang New Generation Art Fair, Seoul
Salon Des Arts Seoul, Seoul

Publish

2024 Create Magazine
2008 SSE ZINE #8, Cut and Pasted Landscape

Award

2007 World Art College Vision Exchange (WAVE Award), Casamia Prize, Seoul

Education

MFA; Painting, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea
BFA; Painting, Ewha Women’s University, Seoul, Korea

Press

Through Stacks of Laundry and Humble Vessels, Danym Kwon Cherishes the Mundane
Juxtapoz Magazine - Experiencing the Moment: An Interview with Danym Kwon
Colossal
Creative Boom
Frankie Magazine