Dae Hong Kim
Fine Artist (Painting, Drawing & Sculpture)
Lives in Mount Gretna.
Dae Hong Kim is a Korean American artist, creating handmade original paintings, drawings, and sculptures spotlighting particularities of nature narratives and remarkable lives for hope, renewal, and restoration.
He received a bachelor's degree in Art and Design from University of Maryland, and additional training from Art League in Arlington, VA, Art Students League of New York, Philadelphia Academy of Fine Arts, Studio Incamminati, and The Grove Center for the Arts & Media.
Born in the 70’s in Seoul Korea, his first memory of making art was drawing with oil pastel, one of which was of a larger than life stone sculpture of King Se-Jong, historical figure remembered for the creation of Hangul, the native alphabet of the Korean language.
Since relocating to the states in the 80s, the elements of language, translation, and identity moving through time, place, and how people relate are integral to his work.
This moving through is a journey of life, faith, and remembrance for which he often incorporates how art might be traveling train stations, bringing about change for hope, renewal, and restoration.
He resides in The Preserve at Mount Gretna, where he creates a wide range of piece(s) for private and commercial installations across categories of portraits, landscapes, and abstracts using traditional materials such as graphite, watercolor, ink, oil pastels, acrylic, and clay.
Regular posts of select pieces are published on my Instagram. For direct inquiries about purchasing artwork, commissioning, and upcoming events, contact via https://www.onceuponadae.com/contact or email art@onceuponadae.com.
