The Artist
Korean-American Painter, Round Rock Resident
Born in Seoul and painting for more than thirty-five years, Kristin Sue Kim now works from a studio in Round Rock, Texas, after moving with her family through Maryland, Florida, California, North Carolina, and Germany. Seoul taught her oil painting; Texas gave her a language for it.
Her recurring motif — the Angel Puzzle — began in the snow angels her youngest son, Daniel, made as a child with mild autism. Angel-shaped pieces and water-drop figures return in her canvases as caregivers and as the lonely people they carry the love of Jesus toward.
Across the Angel Puzzle, Angel Flower, Angel Town, and Angel City series, the subject is the same: healing, faith, and the quiet insistence that with love, you can heal.
Galleries
Selected Works
Explore
Four ways into the work
Four bodies of work. Twenty years of gallery shows. A library mural, a Vogue feature, and a public studio in Round Rock — all linked below.
Four Series
Series
Angel Puzzle, Angel Flower, Angel Town, Angel City — each a chapter of the healing-through-art motif.
Features & Catalogs
Press
Vogue Manhattan 2025, Round Rock Arts, the Round Rock Library mural, and an interview with Korea.net.
Across Decades
Exhibitions
Nineteen groups, four hundred and fifty-three photographs — a visual record of shows from the 1980s onward.
Biography & Statement
About
Born in Seoul, now in Round Rock. Biography, artist statement, and the career archive — in her own words.
- 35+
- Years Painting
- Since 1989
- 20+
- Exhibitions
- Solo & Group
- Vogue
- Manhattan 2025
- Featured Artist
- RRPL
- Library Mural
- Round Rock, TX
- 4
- Series
- Angel Puzzle · Flower · Town · City