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
  • flatly painted scene of a house in the forest contained in a pot
    Breeze in a Bowl, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - Painting of a yellow interior space with a beam of light shines in. From back to front, a window with scenery, a potted plant, a girl sleeping sideways, a mug with coffee, sprouts growing from the floor, a plate of sliced apple and its peel on the side.
    Everything Grows in Sunshine, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - painting of a vase with plants in front of a duck blue background. On the vase painted a couple walking through a lawn in front of orange sky and a colorful forest of green, pink , and yellow.
    Heart to Heart, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - Painting of stacked clothes. Some clothes are patterned with sceneries of nature. The background is solid pink.
    Lean On Me, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - Painting of a woman walking down the yellow checker road surrounded by trees and greens. She's wearing a red top a pair of blue jeans. The sky is painted pastel red.
    Listen Closely, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - painting of vases and a bowl. On one vase painted a father bringing his son to camping in a forest, in the bowl was a forest and a lake, the father and son doing stand up paddle board. The background is pastel purple.
    Listening to You, 2023
  • Danym Kwon's painting of folded blankets with scenes in each blanket
    Saturday, 2023
  • nigh time scene of a house in the forest contained in a vase over a pink background
    The Moon and I, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - A 3 panels painting of vases, plants, and a bowl with back ground of low saturated green sky and yellow landscape. From left to right, a vase with greens and painted scenery of a person in snowy forest on it; a person laying on a bowl of noodle reading; two potted plants; an empty vase with painted scenery of a person swimming in a lake surrounded by forest.
    The Season of You, My Dear, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - painting of a vase painted with a scenery of a person walking through the purple and yellow checker road into the forest. The background is pastel red with yellow dots.
    Thinking of You, 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
  • Danym Kwon - painting of stacked clothes. the clothes are either in pastel colors or painted with sceneries, such as a couple walking down a road into the forest. The background is painted pastel crimson.
    With You I Am Home, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - Painting of stacked clothes. Some clothes are patterned with sceneries of nature and family memories. The background is solid midnight blue.
    You Are My Favorite, 2023
  • Danym Kwon - Painting of landscape, people, and potted plant with pastel orange. On the left top is the landscape painted in pink and green with a house with red roof. on the center left, teo figure sit side by side reading a book together. On the right of the canvas, a tree in a blue dotted pot on a yellow floor painted in oval.
    A Cozy Afternoon With Frederick, 2022
  • Danym Kwon - painting of a vase with solid pink background. On the vase painted a snow scene in forest, a white house with red roof in the center and in the end of the road, the sky is dark navy.
    Cold But Cozy, 2022
  • Danym Kwon - painting of flowers in shades of purple and yellow. the background is painted in pastel olive green.
    Flower Study, 2022
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