Cheolyu Kim is an experiences drawer and painter born in 1968 in Goseong and is currently based in Paju-si, South Korea. He holds an MFA in Sculpture from Brooklyn College-University of New York and a BFA in Sculpture from Chung-Ang University of Seoul.

His practice is entirely devoted to archival pen drawing on either paper or wood. The “outer-space fantasies” in his works is informed by a childhood raised in a 16-household village at the DMZ border between North and South Korea. Surrounded by mountains and clear night skies that young child saw strange objects journeying to and from nowhere: thousands of balloons often mysteriously emerge overnight carrying foreign and enigmatic propaganda; on one occasion a spy plane from a foreign land dropped and crashed from the skies.

His artistic excellence has earned him international acclaim, with exhibitions across South Korea, USA, Australia, New Zealand, Italy, the UK, and Indonesia. With Redbase Art Sydney, Kim has exhibited five solo shows and participated in major international art fairs such as Sydney Contemporary, Art Jakarta, and Aotearoa Art Fair. His art is in major international collections, including Museum MACAN, Indonesia; Portland Art Museum, United States; Gwangju Museum of Art, and Yangpyung Art Museum, South Korea; and TWT Property Group, Australia.