Born in New York, 1988

Alex Young Kim (b. 1988, New York) is a painter whose work moves between memory, perception, and the act of staying with uncertainty. Having lived between Korea, the United States, and now Indonesia, his paintings often emerge from the spaces between familiarity and estrangement—where remembered scenes begin to dissolve into something newly seen.
Working primarily on raw linen, Kim allows the surface to hold the record of his process: accumulations, erasures, revisions, bleeds and traces of time spent looking. His practice centers on painting as a way of registering experience rather than depicting it—each work unfolding through cycles of doubt, unlearning, and rediscovery. He currently lives and works in Jakarta.