Jane Kim (artist)
Jane Kim | |
|---|---|
| Born | 1981 (age 44–45) United States |
| Education | Rhode Island School of Design, California State University, Monterey Bay |
| Known for | Conservation murals |
| Style | Scientific illustration |
| Website | http://inkdwell.com/ |
Jane Kim (born 1981) is an American painter, science illustrator and the founder of the Ink Dwell studio. She is best known for her large-scale murals, created with the purpose of promoting advocacy of the natural world.
Biography
Jane Kim was born in 1981, and raised in Mount Prospect, Illinois.[1][2] Kim studied at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and received her B.F.A. in printmaking in 2003.[3] She moved to San Francisco the same year of her graduation in 2003, living initially in the Tenderloin neighborhood.[4] Kim later attended California State University, Monterey Bay to study scientific illustration, graduating in 2010.[5]
In 2012, Kim started the process of creating the Migrating Mural, a series of six murals featuring Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep.[6] The murals span 120 miles of California’s Highway 395. Fundraising for the project took place on the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter.[7]
Kim was a featured artist in the Facebook Artist Residency program.[8] Her work is located in a Facebook campus stairwell featuring graphic portraits of local, native birds and a second mural with illustrations of the local Facebook campus foxes.[9][10]
In 2015, Kim completed a 70-foot by 40-foot mural called the Wall of Birds at Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology.[11][12][13] The mural depicts 243 modern bird families, all life size and superimposed on a map of the earth.[11] It took her two and a half years to complete the work.[13]
In 2016, Kim served as an artist-in-residency at the de Young Museum and explored the idea of native and non-native ecology in San Francisco.[14]
In 2017, Kim painted the Flora From Fauna series of six murals around Redwood City, California to commemorate a lost industry of the 1920s when Japanese immigrants were growing and exporting chrysanthemums from the city.[15] Unfortunately much of the chrysanthemum industry was lost during World War II and the internment of Japanese-Americans.[15]
InkDwell studio moved to Half Moon Bay, California in 2018 and is by appointment only.[16][17][18] In 2023, she was interviewed by Half Moon Bay Review where she highlighted that she has been focusing on making her art pieces more nature-oriented and further stating, "Nature has always been my muse, but in art school I was discouraged from doing this kind of work."[18]
Publications
- Kim, Jane; Walker, Thayer (2018). The Wall of Birds. Harper Collins. ISBN 9780062687869.
Murals
This is a list of select murals completed by InkDwell studio and Jane Kim.
- Migrating Mural (2012) featuring Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep in multiple murals, 120 mile stretch along Highway 395 in California[6][7]
- Wall of Birds (2015) Cornell University's Lab of Ornithology, Ithaca, New York[11][12][13]
- Flora From Fauna (2017), six murals scattered around downtown, Redwood City, California[15]
- Migrating Mural (2017), featuring an array of monarch butterflies and caterpillar on the side of an eight-story-tall air traffic control tower at the airport, Springdale, Arkansas[19][20]
- Migrating Mural (2018), featuring images of monarch butterflies on plants, Full Sail University, Winter Park, Florida[21]
- Migrating Mural (2018), featuring monarch butterflies in three murals, Ogden Nature Center, Ogden, Utah[22]
- Migrating Mural (2019), featuring monarch butterflies in multiple murals, San Francisco, California[4]
References
- ^ "Kim, Jane, 1981-". Virtual International Authority File. OCLC. 29 May 2019. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ Hageman, William (19 August 2019). "Artist creates a 3,000-square-foot mural devoted to birds". Chicago Tribune (published 30 November 2015). ProQuest 1736844282. Archived from the original on 4 January 2023. Retrieved 31 August 2020.
...said the 34-year-old artist who grew up in Mount Prospect.
- ^ Madren, Carrie (16 March 2013). "Protecting Endangered Species". Rhode Island School of Design. Archived from the original on 3 April 2013. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ a b Sisto, Carrie (2 October 2019). "Massive mural planned for Tenderloin aims to make Monarch butterflies 'impossible to ignore'". Hoodline. Archived from the original on 10 May 2025. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ "Painting on Walls: The Art and Illustrations of Jane Kim". Guild of Natural Science Illustrators. 1 November 2015. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 27 December 2015.
- ^ a b Pandika, Melissa (2 April 2015) [4 March 2013]. "Jane Kim's Migrating Murals". Sierra. Sierra Club. Archived from the original on 12 April 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ a b McIntire, George (28 September 2012). "Saving Nature Through Art: Jane Kim and Her Migrating Murals". 7x7. Archived from the original on 20 June 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ Binlot, Ann (14 May 2014). "Facebook 'Likes' Art". The Daily Beast. Archived from the original on 8 February 2025. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ Moss, Ceci (20 January 2015). "Up in the AIR: How will tech residencies reshape Bay Area art?". Rhizome. Archived from the original on 11 August 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ Bamberger, Alan. "Art and the Corporate Life: Facebook Artist in Residence Program". ArtBusiness.com. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b c "Jane Kim's Bird Mural". The New York Times. 8 December 2015. ISSN 0362-4331. Archived from the original on 4 August 2023. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ a b Baumgardner, Julie (8 December 2015). "270 Kinds of Birds, in One Gigantic Life-Sized Mural". The New York Times. ProQuest 1746689183. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
{{cite news}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ a b c Hohenadel, Kristin (10 December 2015). "This Monumental Mural Depicting the Evolution of Birds Took 2½ Years to Paint". Slate. ISSN 1091-2339. Archived from the original on 8 December 2024. Retrieved 28 December 2015.
- ^ "'(non)NATIVE', by June Artist-in-Residence Jane Kim". de Young Museum. 10 March 2016. Archived from the original on 25 June 2022. Retrieved 28 April 2016.
- ^ a b c Brinklow, Adam (24 March 2017). "San Francisco artist festoons Redwood City with wildlife bearing flowers". Curbed SF. Archived from the original on 28 March 2023. Retrieved 22 February 2018.
- ^ Clark, Zachary (2 June 2018). "Wildlife-centered art studio opens". San Mateo Daily Journal. Archived from the original on 27 November 2022. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ^ Guz, Sarah Griego (30 May 2018). "Artist, studio swim into Harbor Village". Half Moon Bay Review. Archived from the original on 29 September 2018. Retrieved 8 June 2018.
- ^ a b Tokofsky, Peter (5 July 2023). "Art and science converge in redwoods project". Half Moon Bay Review. Archived from the original on 31 January 2024. Retrieved 31 January 2024.
- ^ "First of New Mural Series Installed in Springdale". KNWA-TV. 26 September 2017. Archived from the original on 9 January 2023. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ Joyner, Jennifer (7 September 2017). "At-risk monarch butterfly the subject of public art at Springdale airport". Talk Business & Politics. Retrieved 4 November 2025.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: deprecated archival service (link) - ^ "Large-Scale Art Makes Tiny Creatures 'Impossible to Ignore'". National Geographic Society Newsroom. 28 November 2017. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
- ^ Saal, Mark (17 September 2018). "Migrating Mural: Ogden spreading its wings with monarch murals around town". Standard-Examiner. Archived from the original on 25 September 2019. Retrieved 3 October 2019.
External links
- Ink Dwell studio official website
- "Our Feathered Planet", an in depth look at the Wall of Birds Mural from Google Arts & Culture