Kim Cogan is a Korean-born American painter residing and working in San Francisco, CA. His work explores the boundaries between realism and memory. His rooftop panoramas, composed city scenes and impressionistic figures are grounded in explorations of place and characterized by an atmospheric intentionality. By using light, color and contrast, he exploits paint’s tactile form to create a mood and convey emotional content. Cogan’s work captures the passage of time and vanishing landscapes, the relationship between structured and natural forms and the iconography of our memories.  

Kim Cogan is an award-winning artist who has exhibited paintings to great acclaim nationwide. His work has appeared in ARTnews Magazine, ART FORUM, the San Francisco Chronicle, American Arts Quarterly, Harper’s Magazine, Playboy and American Art Collector Magazine.

Solo Exhibitions

2023 Embers, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2021 Here Nor There, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2019 Evergreen, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2018 Parallel Transformations, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2017 Flashback, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2015 The Other Side, Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY
2013 Flotsam, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Sea Change, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2009 City And Soul, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2009 Inside Out, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2008 Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2007 Beyond the Gates, The White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2006 Still City, The White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2005 City Portraits, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2003 Christensen Heller Gallery, Oakland, CA
2002 M Forbes Gallery, Sacramento, CA
2001 Figment Gallery, Santa Rosa, CA
2000 iMPACT Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1999 Premier solo exhibition, Academy of Arts College, San Francisco, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2024 New Salem Museum & Academy of Fine Art
2023 De Young Open, De Young Museum, San Francisco, CA
2022 Art Miami, Hashimoto Contemporary, Miami, FL
2018 CONTEXT Art Miami, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY                 
2018 Summer Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2018 Art Market, Hashimoto Contemporary, San Francisco, CA
2018 LA Art Show, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, CA
2017 Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2017 LA Art Show, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, CA
2016 ArtMRKT, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
2015 ArtMRKT, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
2015 Art Silicon Valley, Hespe Gallery Silicon Valley, CA
2014 ArtMRKT, Hespe Gallery San Francisco, CA
2014 Scope New York, NY
2014 Arcadia Gallery, New York, NY
2014 Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Culver City, CA
2013 ArtMRKT, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2013 20th Anniversary Show, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Grand Opening, Maxwell Alexander Gallery, Culver City, CA
2012 ArtMRKT, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2012 Dallas Art Show, Gallery Henoch, Dallas, TX
2012 Resolve, Joshua Liner Gallery, New York, NY
2011 Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2011 ArtMRKT, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2011 Art Chicago, Hespe Gallery, Chicago, IL
2011 Dallas Art Fair, Gallery Henoch, Dallas, TX
2010 San Francisco Art Fair, Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2010 Art Chicago, Hespe Gallery, Chicago, IL
2010 Dallas Art Fair, Gallery Henoch, Dallas, TX
2009 Art of the 20th Century, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2009 Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2009 Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2009 Los Angeles Art Show, Gallery Henoch, Los Angeles, CA
2008 Red Dot Miami Beach, Hespe Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2008 Art of the 20th Century, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2008 US Artists, Gallery Henoch, Philadelphia, PA
2008 Los Angeles Art Show, Gallery Henoch, Santa Monica, CA
2008 Hespe Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2007 Art of the 20th Century, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2007 US Artists, Gallery Henoch, Philadelphia, PA
2007 Art Now, The White Walls Gallery, Miami Beach, FL
2007 Los Angeles Art Show, Gallery Henoch, Santa Monica, CA
2007 New Talent, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2006 Group Show, Gallery Henoch, New York, NY
2005 Group Show, The White Walls Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2004 Group Show, 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco, CA

Awards and Honors

2012 Seca Nomination
Guest Lecturer Masters Fine Art Department, Laguna College of Art and Design
Guest Lecturer Graduate Painting Department, Academy of Arts University
Guest Lecturer Ex’pression Center for New Media
Guest Lecturer/Demo Foundation Drawing Department, Academy of Arts College
In Memory of Harry Rosenbaum, New York Society of Illustrators
Silver Medal, San Francisco Society of Illustrators
American Society of Portrait Artist, Participant

Selected Press

Art Forum Critics’ Pick, September 2019.
American Artist, 25 Artist of Tomorrow, January 2013.
Elephant Magazine, Review by Katya Tylevich Spring 2012.
Art News Magazine, Reviewed By Greg Lindquist, November 2011.
San Francisco Chronicle, Bay Area Picks, Kenneth Baker, March 2010.
The Artist’s Magazine, City Lights, October 2010.
American Artist, Mood Over Minutia, Bob Bahr January 2010.
San Francisco Chronicle, Cogan’s City of Views, Kenneth Baker September 2009.
SF Weekly, Inside Out, By Michael Leaverton, September 2009.
American Art Collector, San Francisco Son, June 2009.
Art Scene, Group Cityscape, June 2009.
Koream Journal, Different Strokes, October 2008.
American Arts Quarterly, Spring 2008.
Artweek, Kim Cogan at White Walls, review by Christine Brenneman, July/August 2007.
San Francisco Bay Guardian, The San Francisco Bay Guardian Picks, October 2006.
American Art Collector, Unique character of San Francisco comes through in these painterly cityscapes, May 2006.
San Francisco Chronicle, Cogan’s work captures what the camera can’t quite see, review by Kenneth Baker May 2006.
Sf Weekly, The City Anew; Cogan captures the quiet, review by Michael Leaverton May 24, 2006.
TODO Magazine, review by Michael Moskowitz, March 2006.
San Francisco Chronicle, Portraits of the city, review by Katherine Sullivan, May 2005.
Korean Quarterly, interview by Martha Vickery,Spring 2004.

Fort Wayne Museum of Art, Fort Wayne, IN

New Salem Museum, New Salem, MA