I’m Pam Y. Rim, a Taiwanese American, Texas-raised, New York City-based painter with a background in industrial engineering. Inspired by the narrative scale and symbolism of the Old Masters, I approach painting with a systems-oriented mind, building each collection around a central question and developing interconnected imagery, materials, and symbols to explore it as a visual epic.

My most recent collection, Divine Maps, explores my return to faith, a feeling of worthiness, and an awareness of divine presence through symbolic imagery and imagined landscapes. Before that, Sake of Beauty explored my personal understanding of beauty and its relationship to identity and intimacy.

I am currently developing The Silk Rodeo Road, a body of work that takes the form of a childhood memoir, exploring the tension between cultural inheritance and self-determination. Through Chinese calligraphy and ink alongside Western oil painting, I bring Asian artistic traditions into conversation with the landscapes and visual language of the American West.

Across my practice, I turn lived experience into mythology, creating visual worlds that examine the forces that shape a life.