Botanical Art by Heeyoung Kim Wildflowers of Prairies and Woods
Rare Plant Painter featured in Chicago Tonight
Chicago Tonight, WTTW, 06-11-2014: Rare Plant Painter(click for watch)
WGN TV, 9 pm News Featured story: Orchids: A Winter Escape Blooming in Chicago
Featured at The Chicagolite: Heeyoung Kim at Joel Oppenheimer Gallery, 2015
Smithsonian Natural History Museum Website/Exhibitions
Wall graphic for Losing Paradise: Endangered Plants Here and Around the world, Smithsonian Natural History Museum, Quote from Heeyoung Kim, 2010
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History website featured Heeyoung's painting of an endangered prairie plant Royal Catchfly for several years since "Losing Paradise' exhibition in 2010
Image chosen for the invitation card, exhibition panel and lobby sign of "Losing Paradise? Endangered Species Here and Around the World", created by Smithsonian National Museum of Natural History, 2010
Smithsonian Natural History Museum lobby
Exhibition room at Smithsonian Natural History Museum with a wall graphic quoted from my website.
Image copyrighted by Pearson Publication
Image used in science textbook
Don Buckley, et al., Interactive Science, Pearson Education. 2010, distributed worldwide in multiple languages.
This book was printed and distributed globally in multiple languages. As a beginning botanical artists back then, I was still learning about locally endangered plants and ecosystem, and started to document them in the botanical art from. It was a great honor to introduce the genre of botanical art and how to become a botanical artist to young children.
Plant in Peril, an exhibition at Shirley Sherwood Gallery, KEW garden, London
Exhibition sign board featuring Royal Catchfly, Silene regia, watercolor by Heeyoung Kim.
Exhibition wall at KEW with the exhibition panel featuring Royal Catchfly by Heeyoung Kim
Introducing artists
Medill Reports (Northwestern University press), 02-06-2010
Paradise found: Art breathes new life into rare, endangered plants
The Colombia Chronicle, 01-25-2010,
Species of concern
Plant Talk- The New York Botanical Garden 27-04-2010
Endangered Plants Focus of Botanical Art Show
NorthbrookStar, 08-12-2010
Northbrook artist’s work at Smithsonian
Korea Daily
08-04-2010, 08-09-2010, 09-01-2010
Northbrookpatch.com, 10-18-2010
Artist Finds Her Paradise at the Botanic Garden
Pittsburgh Tribune, 11-24-2010
“ …Heeyoung injects the universe and its relationship to plants in her works…- quotation from Lugene Brono, curator of art & senior research scholar, Hunt Institute of Botanical Documentation.”
NorthbrookStar, 03-10-2011
ArtPlantae Today, 04-26-2010
Artists Document Endangered Species for Science
ArtPlantse Today, 07-01-2012
Making Connection and Inspiring Action to Preserve America's Prairies
Northbrook Tower, 05-23-2012
Exhibit brings May flowers to library
Ryerson Almanac, Spring 2012
Inspiring Success of Heeyoung Kim
Plant Conservation, Summer 2010, Volume 23, Number 1, Center for Plant Conservation
Articulate Visions: The Convergence of Art and Science Catalog, 2015
Images and/or articles published in the Botanical Artist, Journal of the American Society of Botanical Artists:
Article published in The Botanical Artist, Volume 20, Issue 1, March 2014: Unique Graphite Techniques: You’ve Gotta Sharpen Your Pencil? Not Always!
Featured in The Botanical Artist, Volume 20, Issue 3, September 2014: Member Happenings: Heeyoung Kim Profiled in June, Chicago Tonight
Article published in The Botanical Artist, Volume 18, Issue 3, Sept. 2012: Creating Botanical Art of a Plant’s Full Life Cycle
Article published in The Nature Artists’ Quarterly, Volume 25, Number 3, Fall 2012: Science of Watercolor Brushstrokes
Featured in The American Society of Botanical Artists Directory of Members 2013
Images featured in exhibition catalogs: Losing Paradise? Endangered Plants Here and Around the World, The American Society of Botanical Artists, 2009
A Natural Perspective: An International Juried Exhibition of the American Society of Botanical Artists, 2009
The 11th, 13th, 14th, 15th and 16th Annual International Juried Botanical Art Exhibition, The American Society of Botanical Artists and the Horticultural Society of New York (2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013).
13th International Botanical Art and Illustration, Hunt Institute ofBotanical Documentation, 2010
Images published in The Botanical Artist: Volume 14- Issue 3&4, December 2008, Volume 15-Issue 4, December 2009, Volume 16-Issue 1, March 2010, Volume 18-Issue 3, September 2012, Volume 18-Issue 4, December 2012