Heejo Kim is a South Korean painter born in Seoul, South Korea, in 1995, and currently based in Baltimore, Maryland. She received her MFA in 2023 from the LeRoy E. Hoffberger School of Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art. Kim’s figurative paintings unfold through curving, molten forms and intimate scenes of domesticity, candor, and emotional proximity. Her work imagines a world in which figures move tenderly through relationships with their surroundings and with one another. Through vibrant color, shifting light, and dreamlike spatial tension, Kim creates images suspended between lived experience and memory. She has exhibited with C. Grimaldis Gallery, The Peale Museum, LaiSun Keane Gallery, and Uprise Art Gallery, and has shown at art fairs including Art Miami, Art Palm Beach, San Francisco Art Fair, and Palm Beach Modern + Contemporary.