Bo(Boram) Kim 

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Born in 1986 in Busan, South Korea. Lives and works in Amherst, MA, Northern Virginia

Bo (Boram) Kim is a visual artist, educator, and researcher whose interdisciplinary practice bridges painting, drawing, installation, stop-motion animation, and digital fabrication to explore themes of cultural memory, displacement, and ecological awareness. Working with traditional Korean materials such as sumi ink, natural pigments, and mulberry paper, Kim reinterprets archives and artifacts to question how visual language shapes identity and collective history.

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Currently based in Amherst, Massachusetts, Kim teaches Drawing and Painting at the University of Massachusetts Amherst, where she is completing her MFA in Studio Art. She holds an MA in Art Therapy and Counseling from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, an MFA in Oriental Painting from Hongik University, and a BFA in Painting from Dongduk Women’s University.

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Her teaching and research emphasize inclusive, process-based, and interdisciplinary learning—integrating critical inquiry, community engagement, and creative experimentation. Kim has been recognized with the 2025 Distinguished Teaching Award and has participated in residencies at the Massachusetts Museum of Contemporary Art (MASS MoCA), Blue Mountain Center, Haystack Mountain School of Crafts, and the Vermont Studio Center, with additional grant funding. Through her art and pedagogy, she seeks to cultivate spaces where making becomes a form of dialogue, empathy, and transformation.

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Email: kboram0522@gmail.com

IG: @bokim_studio