'Self portrait' 2025 Giclee print 46.8 x 33.1in 118.9 x 84.1cm

Kim Wan

"The graphic artworks are where fine art meets graffiti."

Kim Wan

"The portraits are where fine art meets graphically sharp representation."

Kim Wan

Kim Wan (b.1970) is a British artist of East Asian Polynesian and Western European heritage. Wan’s artworks are all painterly – whether it is the obsessive exploration in his series of self-portraits, or the heavy impastoed, painted surfaces on found objects contributing to large-scale major installations. He made a lot of hip hop inspired graffiti during the 1980s, and the speed and power of spray-painting has remained a strong thread throughout his art career.