Christine Kwon
B. 1977, Seoul, South Korea
Lives and works in New York, NY and Miami, FL.
Christine Kwon is a Korean American abstract painter whose work explores memory, sensory experience, and material through layered compositions. Working with acrylic on unprimed canvas, she builds translucent fields of color that shift between softness and density, often incorporating colored sand to introduce texture and subtle sculptural weight. Influenced by abstract expressionism and color field painting—particularly Joan Mitchell, Larry Poons, and Jill Nathanson—as well as the compositional rigor of James Little, Kwon combines gestural movement with organic geometric structure. Her practice is shaped by lived and inherited memory as a woman navigating Korean and American cultural expectations, where being seen, unseen, and quietly resilient coexist.
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Blush & Lavender
2025
Acrylic with colored sand on unprimed canvas
18.5 × 20 × 1.5 in.
47.0 × 50.8 × 3.8 cm
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Pink Sand (NO. 2)
2025
Acrylic with sand on unprimed canvas
20.25 × 30.75 × 1.5 in.
51.4 × 78.1 × 3.8 cm
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Luminus Grid
2026
Approx. 37 × 37 in
Acrylic on stacked mesh layers
Candyfloss Winter
2026
45 X 35 inches
Layered mesh on unprimed canvas with acrylic and colored sand
Pink Lines
2025
Approx. 24.5 ×17 in
Layered silkscreen on unprimed canvas,
painted with acrylic and colored sand