I was born in Los Angeles, California in 1982. I have lived in several parts of the US, as well as in Korea, Japan, Australia and Canada. I was fortunate to spend my high school years at the amazing Cardinal Carter Academy for the Arts in Toronto. I attended the Rhode Island School of Design for one year before transferring to Tisch School of the Arts at New York University and graduating with a Bachelor's degree in Film and Television. I then returned to Los Angeles and have been here happily drawing pictures ever since.

I'd love to hear from you. Feel free to hit me up for work inquiries or just to say hello. And check out my comic strip, Skribl and the Skwod!

CLIENTS/COMPANIES

944, BigStar, Blind, Buck, Brand New School, City Pages, Color Lines, Diet Coke, Education Week, Elastic, Hyphen, Imaginary Forces, Koream, Lifelong Friendship Society, Logan, Motion Theory, PandaPanther, Picture Mill, Popular Mechanics, Prologue, Royale, Runner's World, Stardust, The Ebeling Group, Thomson/Nelson, This American Life, Transistor, Utne Reader, Village Voice, Wieden+Kennedy

PUBLICATIONS

Illustration Now! 3 2012 Calendar (Taschen, 2012)
Illustration Now! 3 2011 Calendar (Taschen, 2011)
Illustration Now! 3 (Taschen, 2009)
Illusive. Contemporary Illustration Part 3 (Gestalten, 2009)
Outlaw Territory (Image Comics, 2009)
Secret Identities (New Press, 2009)

PRESS

Empty Kingdom Interview: Ian Kim - Empty Kingdom, 2010
Ian Kim - Empty Kingdom, 2010
The Creative Work of Ian Kim - Motionographer, 2009
Ian Kim - Drawn.ca, 2007

AWARDS

Certificate of Merit - Illustration West 46, Society of Illustrators, Los Angeles, 2007
Selected Entry - Illustrators 50: Annual Show, Society of Illustrators, New York, 2007

EXHIBITIONS

My Life In Progress - Asian/Pacific/American Institute, New York, 2003