When the Earth Broke Open, 60 × 120 inches (diptych), acrylic on canvas, 2025

 
 

Soyoung L Kim is a multidisciplinary artist creating works across painting, installation, video, performance art and printmaking. As a diaspora artist with a nomadic past, the layers and textures in her work represent the influences of her various homes. Born in Seoul, grew up in Nairobi, and currently calling Boston her home, her art is a vehicle for her to explore how to cross boundaries created by societies, to imagine a world where those walls come down and to leave behind traces of herself in the world.