Sean Sungho Kim is a Korean-American painter who creates large scale oil works that explore the balance of light and dark — yin and yang, feminine and masculine — through war, nature, love, and fear. His paintings fuse graffiti scrawls, thick impasto, and explosive color.

Kim’s work engages enduring questions of darkness and light, addressing collective fear and spiritual duality. Drawing from biblical and contemporary narratives, his paintings depict esoteric figures while responding to current concerns such as climate change and the complex dynamics of human relationships. Scrawled symbols, fragmented tags, and gestural marks are layered over geometric forms, dripping paint, and bold fields of color.

His work is held in private collections across the United States.