Yula Kim

Yula Kim is a London-based painter whose work explores nature, movement, memory, and the feeling of being fully alive. Her work has been presented through exhibitions and creative projects with institutions including Tate Modern and the Science Museum, alongside projects in the UK and internationally. Alongside her larger works, Kim creates paintings on an intimate scale that are well suited to domestic spaces, allowing both established and first-time collectors to form a personal connection with her practice.

Her paintings bring together birds, flowers, imagined landscapes, and organic forms through layers of colour, texture, and movement. Working primarily with oil paint and natural pigments, Kim uses nature not as a literal subject, but as an emotional space through which ideas of presence, memory, freedom, and belonging can emerge.

Alongside her larger works, for Saatchi Art site, Yula creates paintings intended to live comfortably within domestic spaces, offering independent and emerging collectors an approachable way to begin or develop a personal art collection.

2023-2024
MA Museums and Galleries in Education, University College London
(Distinction Award)
2021-2023
MA Contemporary Art Practice-Public Sphere,
Royal College of Art
(Distinction Award for Dissertation)
2018-2021
BA Fine Art-Studio Practice and Critical Studies, Goldsmiths University of London
(2.1)

2026 The Table Gallery and The Brooklyn Fashion Week Event, London, UK
2025 Art Gemini Prize Exhibition 2025, The Exhibionist Hotel, London, UK
2025 Emerging Artist Launchpad x London Design Festival, Tradestars Islington, London, UK
2025 DGTL GRL, Galleria Objets, London, UK
2025 SAGACIOUS, The Koppel Project Space, London, UK
2025 Fringe Arts Bath x Screenplay, The Old Post Office, Bath, UK
2025 Best of Sprung 9, Arthouse NYC, New York City, USA
2025 Riffle Effect, Art Works East, London, UK
2025 Silpa: Arts Exhibition, Central Saint Martins, London, UK
2025 Concurrence, The Koppel Project Space, London, UK
2024 Falling, Hennarch Galleries, London, UK
2024 K-Women: Celebrating Korean Female Artists, Kingston Museum, London, UK
2024 Grand Yaji Gathering, Screening of Artwork, Science Museum, London, UK
2024 Potluck, 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK
2023 Welcome To Playground for All, M P Birla Millennium Art Gallery, London, UK
2023 Aesthetics of Bliss, 67 York Street Gallery, London, UK
2023 Bodyscape Canvas International Art Fair, The LINE Contemporary Art Space, London, UK
2023 Coronation Concert for His Majesty Charles III, Windsor Castle, Windsor, UK
2023 Beyond Surface Tactile Presence x Tate Modern Late, Tate Modern, Lond...