Danym Kwon

Biography
portrait of Danym Kwon - woman wearing blue sitting crossed legged on a stool in front of pastel paintings

Danym Kwon (b. 1982) is Korean-American artist with roots in the San Francisco Bay Area. Finding inspiration in everyday life, Kwon uses scenes around her to create images that embody warmth, comfort, and an optimistic perspective. As the artist passes through unforeseen hardships in life, she discovers gratitude and joy for her surroundings. To cherish and appreciate these moments in life even more, the artist wants to see them from a new perspective by staging them in still lifes, such as flower vases and piles of laundry, in a surreal manner. The artist invites viewers to find moments of happiness and rest inside everyday moments, as well as through her soft colors on the canvas. 

 

Kwon received both her BFA and MFA from Ewha Women’s University in Seoul, Korea. She has shown at Ilmin Museum in Seoul, with Hashimoto Contemporary in New York and San Francisco, and at the Palo Alto Art Center.

 
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Works
  • two part piece on a hinge, on the right a painting of a vase with a scene on it, and on the left a hand in a field of circles
    A Message of Comfort, 2025
  • sculpture of two people sitting and reading
    A Saturday Afternoon #1, 2025
  • Painting by Danym Kwon of a laundry pile
    A Soft Conversation, 2025
  • two vessels, one with a plan coming out of it with a scene of a parent and child on it, the other with a child sitting on top of it with toys and books around them on an orange background
    A Still Life of you, 2025
  • Painting by Danym Kwon of piles of laundry folded with small scenes hidden in the clothing with a light orange background
    Dear Moments, 2025
  • sculpture of a child laying down with the book the very hungry caterpillar next to them
    Dreaming... The Very Hungry Caterpillar, 2025
  • a child laying down asleep with the book guess how much I love you next to them
    Dreaming...Guess How much I Love You, 2025
  • two part piece on hinge, on the right a painting of warm tones circles, on the text a person and their dog walking on a path
    Evening Walk, 2025
  • sculpture of two people walking while holding hands
    Holding Hands #1, 2025
  • a pile of folded laundry with various volored and patterned pieces and small scenes such as the beack on them with a green background
    Sand, Stories and a Small House, 2025
  • sculpture of two people sitting on a grass patch
    Sunday, 2025
  • sculptures of two people riding bikes
    You Are My Favorite, 2025
  • a vase with a plant poking out and a scene of two people riding bikes on it on a brownish orange background
    You are my Favorite III, 2025
  • painting of a jar with a scene of a woma walking on a path on a green background
    My Favorite Path, 2024
  • flatly painted scene of a house in the forest contained in a pot
    Breeze in a Bowl, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - Painting of scenery, yellow shade sky and cloud, green shade mountains and trees, a small house with red roof in the mountains, front ground of lawn with white and yellow flowers
    Warm Greetings, 2023
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