01/25/2022
By Deborah Santoro

The Department of Art & Design is honored to present "Skin Might See," an exhibition of recent work by Lucy Kim, a 2022 recipient of a Creative Capital award. Kim will present an artist's talk to the campus on Thursday, Jan. 27 at 3:30 p.m. in Coburn Hall Room 255.

Skin Might See includes the first gallery showing of Kim’s Knife Paintings, as well as work from her Auto-Synthetic series. Kim is a visual artist who uses mold making and illusionistic painting to create hybrid objects that navigate the borderlands between painting and sculpture. She describes mold making and casting as a “sculptural surrogate for photography.“

Kim holds an MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art and a BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design. She has shown at the ICA in Boston, MA, the Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, the ICA at the Maine College of Art & Design in Portland, ME, and the deCordova Sculpture Park & Museum in Lincoln, MA, to name just a few. Kim is a recipient of many awards including the Creative Capital Award, ICA Boston’s James and Audrey Foster Prize, Artadia Award, MacDowell Fellowship, Massachusetts Cultural Council Grant, Hermitage Fellowship, and Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship. From 2018-2021, Kim was an Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute and she is currently an Associate Professor of Art at Boston University.