Byron Kim
(b. 1961)

Byron Kim is an American contemporary artist. He is Korean American, and lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. In the early 1990s he produced minimalist paintings exploring racial identity. He graduated from Yale University in 1983 where he was a member of Manuscript Society.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byron_Kim

Synecdoche
1991-present
Oil and wax on lauan plywood, birch plywood, and plywood
each panel (overall installed dimensions variable): 25.4 × 20.32 cm
National Gallery of Art, Washington
https://www.nga.gov/collection/art-object-page.142289.html

Synecdoche (1991–present), by Korean-American artist Byron Kim (b. 1961), is an ongoing project of portraiture that now comprises more than 400 panels, each a single hue ranging from light tan or pink to dark brown. Finding sitters among strangers, friends, family, neighbors, and fellow artists, Kim records each person's skin color in oil paint mixed with wax that he applies with a palette knife on a single 10 x 8-inch panel, a common size for portrait photography. When the work is installed, the accompanying subtitle consists of the full names of the sitters, arranged alphabetically by first name.