Kim Booker (b. 1983, UK) completed her BFA at the City and Guilds of London Art School in 2019, after studying at the Art Academy London and Oxford. Her intuitive, process-driven practice explores the psychology of the female experience through semi-autobiographical works featuring emotionally evocative female figures. Using gestural layering, erasure, and reconstruction, her paintings evolve through multiple iterations shaped by her emotions. Integrating abstract color and drawn imagery, Booker’s work emphasizes the physicality of painting and the traces left behind in the creative process.
Solo shows include The Sadness of Beautiful Things, Wetterling Gallery, Stockholm, Sweden (2024); I Want to Live Twice, Bo Lee and Workman, Somerset, UK (2023); No-man’s-land, Jari Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany (2023); June is the Saddest Month, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK (2022).
Group shows include (Upcoming) Ethereal, Kristin Hjellegjerde Gallery, Berlin, Germany (2025), Sublime Spirit, Marianne Boesky Gallery, New York (2024); The Guts and The Glory, Bo Lee and Workman, Bruton, Somerset, UK (2024); Small is Beautiful, Flowers Gallery, London, UK (2023); Taking a Broom to the Wasps Nest, Pictorum Gallery, London, UK (2022); Road to Somewhere, The Room London Gallery, London, UK (2022); Kiaf Seoul, Jari Lager Gallery, South Korea (2022); Voices for Love, Prior Art Space, Barcelona, Spain(2022); Art Busan, Jari Lager Gallery, South Korea (2022);Weeds won’t Wither, Jari Lager Gallery, Cologne, Germany(2022); Art Paris, Galerie Dutko, Paris, France (2022); Cacotopoia 06, Annka Kultys Gallery, London, UK (2022); An Arcadian kind of Love, Soho Revue Gallery, London, UK (2022); New Paintings, Galerie Dutko, Paris, France (2021); A War with no Winner: Bodies and their Spaces, Grove Collective, London, UK (2021); Reframing, Rebuilding, Kaleidoscope Gallery, Sevenoaks, UK (2021); Pneuma, Purslane Gallery, London, UK [online] (2021); 50 x 50, The Auction Collective, London, UK (2021); Oxlade Soup, Terrace Gallery, London, UK (2021); The Top 100, London, UK (2021); After Hours, Bowes Paris Gallery, London, UK (2021); The Birds are Singing in the Distant Woods, The Violet Hour, London, UK [online] (2020); A Dream is not a Dream, Purslane Gallery, London, UK [online] (2020); On the Strangest Sea, The Violet Hour, London, UK [online] (2020); Galerie Tassilo Usner at Parallel Vienna, Vienna, Austria (2019); Exceptional, Collyer Bristow Gallery, London, UK (2019); Recent Graduates, The Affordable Art Fair, London, UK (2019); Plop End of Residency Show, London, UK (2019); Flock at the Buday, GX Gallery, London, UK (2019); City & Guilds Art School Degree Show, London, UK (2019); Dam at Mother, Shoreditch, London, UK (2018); Interim Show, Crypt Gallery, London, UK (2018).
Her work is also featured in Collections at The Roberts Institute of Art and Colección SOLO, Madrid.