Based in Melbourne, Amy Kim was born in Seoul, South Korea, moving to Australia in 2000 to study fine art at the Victorian College of Arts, and majoring in painting. Since then, Amy has worked across a range of creative industries, including theatre design, art directing, interior decoration, graphic design and teaching.

Integrating the real with the surreal, Amy Kim's artworks include interlocking geometric shapes and bold colour usage. Figures, scenes and settings are characterised in a bold, abstract form which combines methods from constructivism, fauvism, expressionism and surrealism.