Kayoon Anderson

Kayoon Anderson was born in Seoul in 1997. She studied Architecture at the University of Cambridge (2015-2018), before completing a Diploma in Portrait Painting at the Heatherleys School of Fine Art, London (2022), and an MA in Fine Art at the City & Guilds of London Art School, London (2024). She is the recipient of multiple awards, including the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Emerging Artist Prize (2023), the Art Academy London Award (2023), and the Windsor & Newton Young Artist Award, Third Prize (2024). In 2024, she was Artist in Residence at Queen’s College, Oxford. Recent solo exhibitions include Echoes of Home at EDJI Gallery, Brussels (2024); Entangled Roots, a two-person exhibition at Scroll NYC, New York (2025); and First Days at Rhodes Contemporary Art Gallery, London (2026). Selected group exhibitions include the Florence Biennale, Florence (2021); the New English Art Club Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London (2021, 2024); Portrait Artist of the Year: The Exhibition at Compton Verney, Warwickshire (2022); the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition at Mall Galleries, London (2022-2025); and Les Choses de la Vie at Millenn’Art, Paris (2023). Anderson currently lives and works in London.