Jinwoo Kim

Illustrator//

I first started drawing pictures when I was young, imitating my mother who was a painter. I enjoyed drawing objects around me even before I entered the elementary school, and I astonished people by bold imagination. I kept studying design and painting throughout middle and high school, attending the art institute, and tried to draw pictures different from the exiting frames.

When in college, I majored in Fine Art, and drew pictures with passion, but my passion drifted into a different direction since I got discharged from military service in 1999. I became more interested in teaching than learning, and I spent 8 years with students at a private art institution. At that time, I taught them design, and my techniques of fine art painting combined with a creative, rational, and design-like way of thinking were well received by students. However, the repeated daily life coupled with the college life I quit halfway through visited me again, making me feel frustrated later on. My life as an illustrator I found as escape out of this routines was a ray of light in the dark tunnel.

My current job, which requires me to think like children think, see what children see, and stimulate children’s imagination, helped me r...

Chonnam National University
Fineart

2011 Gallery " I'am" / KOREA

2013 Fort Mason Center / San Francisco CA

2103 Gallery "Las Laguna" / Laguna Beach CA

2014 CCKPC "Show & Tell" / San Ramon CA

2015 Showcase 100: One Hundred Illustrators / The Framers Gallery / London UK

2016 "The Art of Illustration" / The Gallery at 48 Natoma / Folsom CA