philippe hyojung kim

⏱️ got a minute? ICYMI, peep the route tour recap with our WALKDONTRUN curatorial team from last week (or so). westlake park >> pioneer square and while you’re watching, here’s your timely PSA— OPEN CALL FOR ARTISTS DEADLINE >> FRI, MAY 15 there’s still time to get your submissions in and stipends earned for your project—if it makes the cut. what are you waiting for? seize the day! 🔗 submission link in bio #artisthemovement #walkdontrun #seattle #art #stepintotheknow

❓riddle me this❓ what’s spicy, toasty, cheesy and built like a great idea? 🌶️ a little heat 🔥 a strong foundation 🧀 something unexpected that makes people stop [ you’ve probably had one after a seattle show ] drop your guess 👇 then tell us what you’re bringing to the WALKDONTRUN art marathon this year 🎨 art, music + performance…delish 🏁 proposals due may 15 #artisthemovement #artistopencall #opencall #seeattle #artmusicperformance

✨Meet the Jury | 2026 Pratt Fine Art Auction: Kaleidoscope✨ With less than two weeks left to submit, we’re thrilled to introduce this year’s incredible jury panel—leaders shaping contemporary art across the private, public, and artist-run sectors. Tommy Gregory Tommy is the Senior Manager & Curator of the Public Art Program at the Port of Seattle, overseeing one of the region’s most expansive and visible public art collections across SEA Airport and Port facilities. His work centers artists, equity, and meaningful civic engagement—bringing art into the daily lives of millions of travelers and community members each year. Philippe Hyojung Kim An artist, curator, and educator, Philippe works across painting, sculpture, and installation, exploring materiality, queer identity, and artificiality. He is a member of SOIL Artist-Run Gallery, co-founder of Specialist, and a faculty member at Cornish College of the Arts and Seattle Central College. Philippe also serves as a curator for ARTSWA and on the King County Public Art Advisory Board at 4Culture. Sarah Traver Director of Traver Gallery and Vetri, Sarah has organized over 750 exhibitions and worked with more than 500 artists worldwide during her two decades in the field. Deeply committed to long-term artist support, she brings a collaborative, education-centered approach to curating and community building. Sarah currently serves as President of the Seattle Art Dealers Association and is a longtime advocate for Seattle’s arts ecosystem. We’re excited to see a dynamic, thoughtful lineup of work that reflects the historic and pioneering reach of the Pratt artist community. 📆Submit by January 7 at 11:59 PM PST 🔗Link in bio or visit: pratt.org/annual-auction!

This is the 3rd iteration of my new project for this year about our ecosystem in, around, and along the Duwamish River, its history, its importance, and my deep appreciation for the river and the tribal land that has provided and continues to provide growth and inspiration for me one project after another. Now showing in @soilart Booth C14 @seattleartfair ! Title: dxʷdəw (Duwamish River) Year: 2025 Medium: Planter box with Clay, Urethane casts, Ground moss, Soil sourced from Duwamish River during low-tide, Native Duwamish Riverbank plants, Laser-cut MDF Dimensions: 55”L x 25”W x 45”H Founded on Coast-Salish/Duwamish Native American ground by White settlers in 1851, Seattle is one of the most dramatically engineered cities in the United States. Its shorelines have been extended, lagoons filled, hills flattened and rivers re-routed. Built on an active geological fault near a large volcano, Seattle has also been jolted by huge earthquakes, washed by tsunamis, covered by volcanic mud and ash, fluted by glaciers and edged by rising seas. (info source: Burke Museum, The Waterlines Project) Reflecting on this colonial and ecological history alongside the similarly entangled and complex past of Mexico City (CDMX) and its waterways, for the first iteration of this installation at @tlaxcalatres , CDMX, soil and water from Xochimilco Canal were gathered to provide silhouetted trace of Duwamish River, dxʷdəw, nested between dried moss ground in the outdoor patio garden at Tlaxcala3. For this iteration, soil was gathered from Duwamish River during low tide to provide the ground cover with ground moss and various native plants, including Tufted Hairgrass, Beach Strawberries, Wood Sorrels, and Ground Ferns, that can be found along the riverbanks to accentuate the trace of the river. This “original” pre-serpentine pattern of the river is in fact still continuing beneath the surface in various parts of South Seattle region along the river.

Now that we are slowly but surely settling in, I feel a little bit more relaxed to make the announcement…My husband and I bought our first home!!! 🏠 🎉🥰 I feel incredibly grateful and fortunate to have arrived at this juncture in our lives together. For years, my husband and I saved and saved, working multiple jobs and taking on gigs after gigs, without really even expecting that something like this could even be possible, especially in a time when the world is falling apart into pieces. I cannot help but to hold this deep sense of gratitude and responsibility even closer as we face a new chapter in our lives. Without our friends, our family, and our community, we couldn’t have done this. So, thank you thank you thank you. 😍🥰🥳

📷 New headshots by @chiemichonga for yearbook photo @actualize.air !!! 🥰

🌈🎉 I HAVE A NEW WEBSITE!!! 🪴🥳 Thanks to my amazing friend, Michael Raka (@artsidersdesign ), a fellow queer foodie and a man of many many talents and passions, my website got a major new face lift on par with the infamous K-cosmetics industry. 🤩🤣 Please join my mailing list by signing up for a quarterly newsletter and announcements for future sales! ❤️🧚Go to (link in bio) and check it out! 🦄🪸

👋🎉Hello to all my artist friends in Seattle and our PNW region!!!🌈📣 Announcing the inaugural Walk Dont Run event taking place Saturday, September 20, 2025, that will activate Seattle’s urban parks, sidewalks, plazas, and vacant storefronts with music, visual art, and performance along a 3-kilometer route from Pioneer Square to Belltown! I’m thrilled to share that I will be curating the visual arts portion of this exciting event, and I would love to see your work and imagination come to life to help activate our downtown core! You can apply for the current artist call through end of the month by going to our website / and click on Artist Call link. (Link in Bio!) Please feel free to DM me for questions!

🌈🪴OPENING ANNOUNCEMENT 📣📢!!! For the last 4.5 months of this spring semester, I’ve been incredibly honored and lucky to work with an amazing group of 12 young artists in their junior year @cornishcollegeofthearts . Their hard work and dedication are simply unparalleled and will be celebrated this Friday at the opening of their exhibition, “OH, TO RETURN”, @thebehnkegallery !!! “OH, TO RETURN” April 18-May 1, 2025 Opening Reception: April 18, 2025 5-7pm “OH, TO RETURN” is a collaborative group exhibition of work by junior art students from Cornish College of the Arts, as part of the course Platforms of Exchange. Through individual and group research, the artists identified thematic connections and overlap while developing their individual voices with a collaborative spirit through drawing, painting, sculpture, photography, and installation. This show is the result of a semester of planning, discussion and work that necessitated the artists to balance their own curiosities and experimentations with those of their peers, while addressing the complex expectations of exhibiting in the public realm. This collection of work addresses a range of themes that are distinct, yet share common concerns, creating a narrative that explores complex weavings of ideas around home, memory, and childhood, while holding tensions in the space between reality and surreality, between representation and abstraction, between digital and analog processes. Exhibiting Artists: Webb Akamine-Rogers @til.deathmyhandscreate Matthes Boyd @running_on_fungusfuel Kyla Crockett @kyla.gc Christy Gibson @christylizgibson Jed Judt @wormsinmycrocs Kaila Macaluso @kaila_mac Madeline McKinney @madelinemck17 Sean Minchak Cloe Short @cloecaroljane Selena Tacazon Mason Webb @masonsmixedmedia Logan Worth Behnke Family Gallery 1077 Lenora St., Seattle, WA Faculty contact: Philippe Hyojung Kim ([email protected]) Image Credit: Christy Gibson. “Aliasing (Reredos).”acrylic and oil on panel. 36” x 60”. 2025.

Hi friends. Really excited to let y'all know I've been working on a new art project/event with the folks in this pic called Walk Don't Run. We have been collaborating for a few months working on what we hope will be a staple in the NW community and schedule your life around the event because you can't miss it. More soon...

🌈🎉🍾HAPPY 9TH ANNIVERSARY, hubbbbband!!!!!!! Thank you for being my best friend, partner, lover (we don’t like that word lol makes us both shiver😝 lol), companion, bringer of water and all things yummy when I’m in bed, and being the center of my world for the last 10 years!!!!!! Earlier this year, realizing that we met and started dating 10 years ago, I wanted to do something special for him. What would be a good way to sprinkle and celebrate 10 years of our love full of queer joy? I asked the one and only, @kelly_bjork , who is the only artist I know who can do justice to this amazingly silly, funny, and 100% GAY picture of us together. And you know what y’all, they slayyyyyyyed and slayed hard!!!! 🌈🎉🥳🥰😍🍾 Thank you KELLY for the AMAZING work and THANK YOU @frame.central for helping us getting it beautifully framed just before our anniversary! I LOVE YOU HUBBBBBBAAAAAAAAANNNNNNNDDDDD! 😘🥰😍