Jane Kim (artist)

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Jane Kim
Born1981 (age 42–43)
United States
NationalityAmerican
Education Rhode Island School of Design,
California State University, Monterey Bay
Known forConservation murals
StyleScientific illustration
Website http://inkdwell.com/

Jane Kim (born 1981) is an American painter, science illustrator and the founder of the Ink Dwell studio. She is best known for her large-scale murals, created with the purpose of promoting advocacy of the natural world.

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Biography

Jane Kim was born in 1981, and raised in Mount Prospect, Illinois. [1] [2] Kim studied at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and received her B.F.A. in printmaking in 2003. [3] She moved to San Francisco the same year of her graduation in 2003, living initially in the Tenderloin neighborhood. [4] Kim later attended California State University, Monterey Bay to study scientific illustration, graduating in 2010. [5]

In 2012, Kim started the process of creating the Migrating Mural, a series of six murals featuring Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. [6] The murals span 120 miles of California’s Highway 395. Fundraising for the project took place on the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter. [7]

Kim was a featured artist in the Facebook Artist Residency program. [8] Her work is located in a Facebook campus stairwell featuring graphic portraits of local, native birds and a second mural with illustrations of the local Facebook campus foxes. [9] [10]

In 2015, Kim completed a 70-foot by 40-foot mural called the Wall of Birds at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology. [11] [12] The mural depicts 243 modern bird families, all life size and superimposed on a map of the earth. [11] It took her two and a half years to complete the work. [12]

In 2016, Kim served as an artist-in-residency at the De Young (museum) and explored the idea of native and non-native ecology in San Francisco. [13]

In 2017, Kim painted the Flora From Fauna series of six murals around Redwood City, California to commemorate a lost industry of the 1920s when Japanese immigrants were growing and exporting chrysanthemums from the city. [14] Unfortunately much of the chrysanthemum industry was lost during World War II and the internment of Japanese-Americans. [14]

InkDwell studio moved to Half Moon Bay, California in 2018 and is by appointment only. [15] [16] [17] In 2023, she was interviewed by Half Moon Bay Review where she highlighted that she has been focusing on making her art pieces more nature-oriented and further stating, "Nature has always been my muse, but in art school I was discouraged from doing this kind of work." [18]

Publications

Murals

This is a list of select murals completed by InkDwell studio and Jane Kim.

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