HaYoung Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea in 1983. She received her BFA Painting from Hong-ik University, Seoul in 2007 and completed her MFA at the Royal Academy in London, UK in 2011. Kim describes her work as looking at humans with a curious gaze, as if through an endoscope. The artist is interested in the mind and body and a being's endless desire for perfection - DNA, designer babies, superhumanity, posthumanism, the primordial soup, and the animality and vegetability of outside and in. HaYoung Kim’s work has been exhibited in the UK, Korea, China. Japan, France and Scotland and won major prizes including the Jerwood’s Prize for painting in 2010 and The Dunoyer de Segonzac award in 2011. She also completed residencies in New York and Scotland.