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Kelly Haejung Paik is a Seattle-based visual artist whose work reinterprets Korean heritage forms through contemporary abstraction. Through line, color, form, and material, she explores the dialogue between human-made structure and natural rhythm, weaving cultural pattern into dimensional surface.
NOW ON VIEW - FEATURED EXHIBITION
1. Solo Installation
Contained Radiance
The Vault Gallery — Postmark Center for the Arts
Presented by the City of Auburn Public Arts Program
Jan 15 – Apr 10, 2026
A site-responsive installation centered on the Korean moon jar as a vessel of transformation. Integrating painting and sculptural structure, the work incorporates hanji (Korean mulberry paper) woven into the surface, exploring restraint, luminosity, and dimensional depth through saturated color.
2. Institutional Exhibition
Seattle Convention Center — Phyllis Lamphere Gallery
Florals – Light in the Winter (Juried Exhibition)
Feb 13 – Apr 21, 2026
Three paintings from the Floral Stillness series selected for the Rotating Art Program at the Seattle Convention Center.
3. Juried Group Exhibition
Celebrating Women Painters
Juried Group Exhibition — Women Painters of Washington (WPW), Matzke Fine Art Gallery & Sculpture Park, Camano Island, WA, February 28 – March 29, 2026
My work was selected for Celebrating Women Painters, a juried group exhibition presented by Women Painters of Washington at Matzke Fine Art Gallery. The exhibition highlights outstanding contemporary women artists working across a range of media and approaches
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"Between Planes" sold before the opening reception. "Contained Radiance" (Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 24 in., 2026) is now on view and available through March 29.
Between Planes, Acrylic on canvas, 36 × 24 in., 2026 — SOLD
Contained Radiance, Acrylic on canvas,
36 × 24 in., 2026
3. Juried Group Exhibition
Now Showing: Delusions at The Gallery at Graphite Arts Center
Two new paintings — Stepping Stone and Ephemeral Scales — are currently on view as part of Delusions, a juried group exhibition at The Gallery at Graphite Arts Center in Edmonds, WA. Both works are oil on canvas, 40×30×1.5", and explore the surreal territory where classical form meets dreamlike logic.
On view through April 25, 2026.
📍 202 Main St., Edmonds, WA | Fri & Sat 12–5PM
Selected Additional Current & Upcoming Exhibitions
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Florals – Light in the Winter, Seattle Convention Center Rotating Art Program (Juried Exhibition), Phyllis Lamphere Gallery, Seattle Convention Center, Seattle, WA (Feb 13 – Apr 21, 2026). Three paintings accepted (Floral Stillness submission series).
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Objects in the Mirror Are Smaller Than They Appear (WPW Columbia Center Gallery) — Jan–Apr 2026