Hayen Kim is a South Korean artist based in Rotterdam and Busan who creates conceptual works to unravel her narratives of moving and adjusting, and to respond to social events and phenomena, especially in her home country. Kim’s artistic practice acts as a ground to polish her thoughts and a channel to enunciate her research findings to the outside world. Kim uses diverse mediums ranging from painting, drawing, sculpture, textile, photography, artist books, and workshops to communal projects to transmit her thoughts.

Born in 1997, Kim grew up in South Korea and the Philippines. She studied Visual Art at Walnut Hill School for the Arts (Natick, MA), foundation in Fine Arts at the School of Art Institute of Chicago (Chicago, IL), Fine Arts at Paris College of Art (Paris, France), and is currently majoring in (de)Fine Art at Willem de Kooning Academy in the Netherlands. 

In recent years, she showed her works Remember 0146 at Delbridge Family Center for the Arts in Massachusetts and Conforming at TENT Rotterdam, collaborated with LoveRePaper in Incheon, and worked as a volunteer artist for the Democratic Party of Korea.