Hae Yuon Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and immigrated to the suburbs of Chicago with her family when she was 6. She received a bachelor's degree in art at Stanford University, studying painting and printmaking with Frank Lobdell and Nathan Oliveira. She works as a graphic designer -- her firm Tobi Designs specializes in brand and publications design -- in Oakland, California. Her most recent body of work is a return to the principles of abstract painting -- mark-making and responding to what happens on the surface of the painting. She revels in the drama of taking risks in paint, always on the verge of ruining it all, and hopefully arriving at a resolution.
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