Minet Kim is an illustrator and graphic designer from South Korea.
She runs Orbit studio in 2021.

Open for commissions and collaborations:  
withminet@gmail.com




Selected Clients 

The New Yorker, The New York Times, Bloomberg Businessweek, Bloomberg - Agenda, Vice, Sight and Sound Magazine, PLANSPONSOR, Seasons Sparkling x Google, AIGA Eye on Design, Adobe, BBC Science Focus, Medium, Usbek & Rica, Rest of World, Hoheluft German Philosophy Magazine, Slowroll, Nura Sound, Crabily, Café Butter, Fool Of A Kind, Good is good, The Stranger Magazine and more



Honor and Award 

— American Illustration 43, Chosen Winner, 2024
— American Illustration 41, Chosen Winner, 2022
— American Illustration 40, Chosen Winner, 2021
— American Illustration 39, Chosen Winner, 2020
— Society of Illustrator Awards, 2019
— Communication Arts Illustration Competition, Shortlist, 2019
— 3x3 Illustration Annual No.15 Distinguished Merit, 2018
— 3x3 Illustration Annual No.15 Merit, 2018
— World Illustration Awards(AOI), Finalist, 2018
— Communication Arts Illustration Competition,Shortlist, 2018



Interviews  

Creative Boom, 2023

Notefolio, 2022

GIRLSCLUB ASIA, 2021

YCK Magazine, 2021

It’s Nice That, 2020

Osso Magazine, 2019

It’s Nice That, 2019

Uppercase Magazine No. 39, 2018

3x3 Illustration Annual No.15, 2018



Exhibition  

2023   Paju Illustration fair Noon with Orbit, Paju
            Posterdump with Orbit, Seoul 
            Global Illustration Show: Joys of Illustration, Seoul
            움직이는 사이에서: Notational Space, 17717 Gallery, Seoul 

2022   일러스트 페어 눈, 프리뷰 전시, Paju
             움직이는 책: Book As A Non-static Object with Orbit, wrm space, Seoul
             Grimdosi: The Last City Museum with Orbit, Subtitled.nyc, New York
             홍천미술페스티벌, 예술로놀러와동 with Orbit, Hongcheon

2021   Happy New Year, Daymark, Busan
            Analog and Digital, 조강훈 아트스튜디오, Suncheon
            가운데의 시간, 을지예술센터, Seoul
            순천 레지던스 통합전, 기억공장 1945, Suncheon
            We Are Collectors!, Soda Museum, Hwaseong
            우연한 물음, 기억공장 1945, Suncheon
            Circuit Seoul, 무신사 테라스(Musinsa Terrace), Seoul
            어떤 모양(Some Shapes), SVA Seocho Gallery, Seoul  
            Jeonju Intl. Film Festival “100 Films 100 Posters”, 전주 팔복예술공장, Jeonju

2020   Contactless exhibition, 문화역서울284 RTO, Seoul
             Degree Show College of Fine Arts, MoA museum, Seoul
             Expansion, Sejong Center Museum and Crita Gallery, Seoul

2019    Inspired to Innovate, Group exhibition at the Hoxton, London
            World of consciousness, Solo exhibition, Jeonju
            abC Art Book Fair, Beijing
            Society of Illustrators show, New York
            Verygoods2019, Seoul
            The next scene, Seoul

2018   Seoul Illustration Fair, Seoul
            Art + Fashion Exhibition, Seoul
            World Illustration Awards Show, London

2017    Beautiful Losers Thesis Show, New York
            I AM, Pi Exhibition, New York



Education  

2024   Seoul National University, Design, DD. Candidate
2021    Seoul National University, Visual Communication Design, MFA
2018    School of Visual Arts, Illustration, BFA



Teaching Experience

2024 - Present
Hongik University, Visiting Professor
Hanyang University, Adjunct Professor
Chungang University, Lecturer

2023 - Present 
Kyungpook National University, Lecturer

2023   
Gyeonggi University of Science and Technology, Lecturer



MISC

2024  Yonsei University, Guest Speaker
2023  Yonsei University, Guest Speaker
2022   Sungkyunkwan University, Guest Speaker