Vestibule Artists

Philippe Hyojung Kim grew up in a small town outside of Nashville, TN, and moved to the Pacific Northwest in 2013. He responds to his cultural and physical surroundings by crafting objects and environments that exist in the space between painting and sculpture. His work references queer identity, artificiality, and language. He collages discarded plastic onto paper in configurations that read at once as painting, text, and sculpture. He reuses plastic to create playful, neon-saturated sculptures. Kim exalts this quotidian material, at once giving it new life and highlighting the existential danger plastic poses. His work has been exhibited at galleries, museums, universities, and alternative art spaces across the US. Philippe is a member of SOIL Artist-Run Gallery and co-founder/curator of Specialist, an experimental art gallery in Seattle. He teaches at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Central College. He also serves as one of the curators for Washington State Arts Commission (ARTSWA) and as a board member of King County Public Art Advisory Board at 4Culture. Philippe received his MFA in Painting from Central Washington University, and he currently lives and works in Seattle with his husband, Drew.
More from this series is on view at Actualize AiR in downtown Seattle at The Coliseum 500 PIKE ST SEATTLE WA at and @philippepirrip