Kira Nam Greene is a painter, born in Seoul, Korea, who lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, her MFA from the School of Visual Arts in New York, and her BA in International Relations from Seoul National University. In 2023, Greene presented the solo exhibition A Room of Her Own at Contemporary Art Matters, Columbus, OH. Greene has shown her work widely at venues such as the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery; the Sheldon Museum of Art; the Muskegon Museum of Art; the Montgomery Museum of Fine Art; the Orlando Museum of Art; the Reading Public Museum; Brown University; Salisbury University; the City College of New York; Wave Hill; the Bronx Museum of the Arts; and the Noyes Museum. Her work has also been exhibited in galleries nationally and internationally, including Contemporary Art Matters, Lyons Wier Gallery, Accola Griefen Gallery, Gallery Korea, A.I.R. Gallery, and Jane Lombard Gallery. Her work has been covered in publications such as American Art Collector, Fine Arts Connoisseur, Smithsonian Magazine, Visual Arts Journal, Artnet News, Art F City, BmoreArt, Wallpaper, W Magazine, Lincoln Star Journal, Art21 Blog, Hyphen Magazine, The Korea Daily, and New York Art Beat. In 2019, Greene was a finalist for the inaugural Bennett Prize for female figurative painters. In 2022, she completed the BAU Summer Artist Residency in Cassis, France, where she lived and worked at the Camargo Foundation alongside other American artists and writers. She was a finalist for the Outwin Boochever Portrait Award, and her work was included in the group exhibition The Outwin 2022: American Portraiture Today at the National Portrait Gallery, Washington, DC. Greene served as the Stewart MacMillan Chair in Painting at the Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD, in 2017–18, and was a part-time faculty member in the Fine Arts MFA Program at Parsons School of Design.