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 Kim Hoang is an emerging illustrator and comic book artist, recently graduated from Emily Carr University of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts with a focus in drawing and printmaking.
Her work can be described as mainly figurative drawings in defined line work and bright colouring: a hybrid of both western and eastern comic book styles. Her mediums of choice range from traditional ink, pencil, and silkscreen, to more modern methods utilizing digital processing and printing. Her stories are currently exploring themes around identity, love, and the occasional quest, with a slice-of-life approach.
Kim has a keen interest in self-publishing and small press art books. She tends to work collaboratively; contributing comics for anthologies such as
You Ain’t No Dancer 3. She has also produced an extensive body of work as part of the Radar Friends collective.
An additional interest in curating has also spawned numerous online fanzines and projects such as
Kissybook, an illustrated art book featuring the work of emerging international artists. Her commissions include visual content on projects such as Ian Verchere’s “Localman” comic for his 2006 book,
General Delivery: V0N 1B0, and Ingrid McCarthy’s proposal for
The Black Pearl of Osis children’s graphic novel series. Kim also creates original illustrations for various clients, including
Ricepaper magazine.
Kim currently resides in Montreal, Quebec, Canada, surrounded by culturally diverse art and artists, which fuel her eagerness to always be learning.
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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.
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. |
Links to friends:
Julie Man
Wai Khan Au
Barbara
Saicoink
Colleen MacIsaac
Jordyn Bochon
New Reliable Press
Ed Brisson
Jason Turner
Steve Wolfhard
Jeff Werner
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