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 Name: Kim Hoang
D.O.B: May 16
Currently residing in: Ottawa, ON, Canada
Specializing in: Comics, Printmaking, Bookmaking.
Likes: tea, kittens, comics, Spoon.
General Artists' Statement
It is the small and precious details in life that excite me. I am curious about tales of small successes and slices of life.
My fascination with these kinds of narratives leads me to drawing and bookmaking, with a specific interest in sequential art.
As a child of the 90s raised on comics, I find the medium accessible and malleable. A collaboration of both written and visual language, it can be all at once didactically clear in ideas yet subtle in delivery. Comics have a wide appeal to most ages and cultures, as well as a long tradition in storytelling that is commonly overlooked; however its condition is merely budding the North American art and literary circles.
I see this time of flux to be ideal for building a community and dialect about the stories that I love, as well as for my own artistic experimentation. Similar to how comics are a partnership of visuals and prose, my I feel that my practice as an artist is also enhanced by working alongside others. I believe that working in collectives is a strategy which could defeat contemporary misconceptions about comics.
Being an underdog medium, the basement history of comics itself is an appealing story to me, as it is thematically suited to my own work. My pieces address human obsessions about identity, love, and the occasional quest. A sense of family and active interaction with others is essential for me. I
strive to be universally empathetic, playing on the idea that as humans, despite being trapped in individual bodies and souls, we find comfort in knowing we are not unique in our loneliness.
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