Nationality American | Known for Conservation murals | |
Education Rhode Island School of Design (RISD),
California State University, Monterey Bay Style Scientific illustration | ||
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
Kim studied at Rhode Island School of Design (RISD) and received her B.F.A. in printmaking in 2003, then attended California State University, Monterey Bay to study scientific illustration, graduating in 2010.
In 2012, Kim started the process of creating the Migrating Mural, a series of six murals featuring Sierra Nevada bighorn sheep. The murals span 120 miles of California’s Highway 395. Fundraising for the project took place on the crowd funding platform, Kickstarter.
Kim was a featured artist in the Facebook Artist Residency program. 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.
In 2015, Kim completed a large 70-foot by 40-foot mural called the Wall of Birds, which was commissioned by the Cornell Lab of Ornithology . The mural depicts 243 modern bird families, superimposed on a map of the earth. It took her 2.5 years to complete the work.
In 2016, Kim serves as artist-in-residency at the De Young (museum) and exploring the idea of native and non-native ecology in San Francisco.