BangHan Kim
"I consider myself a Healing Artist —
I use my life to create what heals me
because the medicine is already within me
& I help activate this remembrance in you."
— BangHan Kim
Ancestral Portrait

Born in Seoul.
Rooted in Andong.

Many of my people come from a beautiful countryside region of Korea called Andong. My lineage people were of much social and political importance in the Joseon Dynasty — healers, scholars, diplomats, entrepreneurs, and farmers.

I was born in Seoul and lived in New York City most of my life. That lineage — its weight, its wisdom, its unspoken medicine — runs through everything I make and every person I sit with.

The ancestral field is alive. It speaks. My work is learning to listen — and to help others do the same.

"I have been blessed to study with pioneers —
a constant student of this life."

What people say

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What a blessing and a gift to share space and be witnessed by you, BangHan! I experience our time together to be fiercely loving and tender, warm and inviting to bring all of ourselves — the messy, raw, vulnerable, and uncomfortable parts that make us human. My relationship to art-weaving is forever changed in my time with you. I give thanks again and again to the transformative and powerful portals you create, inviting me to explore the depths of who I am and reminding us we are always held, guided, and loved in this journey of life. I hold deep reverence and gratitude for your soul medicine.

— RL
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BangHan doesn't just hold a container, she builds a beautiful vessel for you to share, learn and explore your inner artist. No matter your comfort level or skill as an artist, BangHan guides you carefully through your own mind and body with her magical and careful explorations. I have discovered how art moves through me, and that is due to BangHan's gentle and receptive nature. She listens, she guides and she illuminates dark spaces.

— KKM
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I can be rather stubborn and skeptical in group settings, but something in how BangHan facilitates her groups helped me to remain open and receptive. She is very real and authentic, has a wonderful sense of humor, and treats every participant with kindness, appreciation, and a deep intuitive understanding. Most of all, I trusted her integrity and appreciated her gifts of offering us her knowledge of powers of art and ancestral wisdom and healing.

— KB
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The "reveals" and glimpses of myself I experienced with BangHan's guidance drive my curiosity about myself, feeding my project of Soul inquiry and Soul retrieval. Her sessions opened previously unrecognized gates into myself, inviting me to walk through, look around and explore. Throughout the experience I felt held in Love and Power. In such comfort, my Soul could start to emerge, and I could begin to see and feel my vital signs. In seeing inward, BangHan lights the way.

— GV
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BangHan is a brilliant guide — one of the best I've experienced. Her artmaking is inspiring, her guidance is revolutionary, and her group facilitation is skillful and rare. The content of BangHan's workshop changed my life — I hadn't realized until we began that I was deeply cut off from my ancestors, judging them and making them wrong. Through the artmaking process, I forged new connections with my ancestors and healed parts of my life that no other work I've done has touched. I'm forever grateful.

— JJC
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BangHan's magic for me lays in how her presence, witnessing, and words help me to access my emotions with ease and safety in a way I have never experienced with anyone else. BangHan blends her expertise in art-making, somatics, ancestral work, Traditional Chinese Medicine, to name a few, to create unique offerings for both groups and individuals. As a woman in my mid-thirties looking to live a life in alignment with my desires that also honors my body, womanhood, and nature's rhythms, I have found the perfect guide in BangHan.

— TH
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Banghan is a gifted facilitator. She has a unique ability to create and hold a sacred space in which healing, transformation, and wisdom arise. She embodies her own truth, vulnerability, and strength paving the way for others to do the same in her presence. Banghan also has the ability to "see" others in a way that allows their greatest potential to emerge. I feel honored to know her and to have been led by her.

— DH
BangHan creating
BangHan Kim
Goddess scroll painting
Body Map painting

My art is a portal.
My art is my soul's expression.

Becoming a mother showed me the true value and power of creating art. I had studied it intensely — earning a BFA from The Cooper Union — but it was my postpartum journey that revealed what art truly is: a portal for the full expression and healing of my soul.

My original pieces, which have all been journeying pieces for me — reflecting the deep power of the Feminine, my ancestral lineage, the pain and beauty of being alive — are all for sale, and it would be an honor to have them have another life.

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BangHan Kim Adornments

Beauty is not only beautiful.
Beauty is protection
for your living field.

I've been making jewelry intuitively since I was tiny — picking wildflowers and linking them together, so excited to be wearing dandelion flowers on my wrist.

In my mid-20s in NYC, I formed my own jewelry design company, Nabi Design — sold nationally and internationally, featured in InStyle and Spanish Vogue, with a devoted little fan club.

I dissolved the company, but I never stopped creating. Each piece I make now is handcrafted and healing-supercharged — infused with intention, beauty, and love. These blessings travel with the wearer.

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The Cooper Union

BFA, School of Fine Arts, NYC · 1998
Painting, printmaking, sculpture, photography, site installation, European & Chinese Art History, Art Math

Nabi Design Inc

Founder · Est. 2002
Retailed nationally & internationally — Korea, Japan, France, Spain, Austria, Germany, Canada, USA
Featured in Lucky, In Style & Vogue Spain

Somatic & Movement Studies

500 hours · Embodyoga system
Patty Townshend (Embodyoga) · Bonnie Bainbridge Cohen (Body-Mind Centering) · Anna Halprin (Life Art Process) · Angela Farmer (Feminine Yoga & Pranayama) · Emilie Conrad (Continuum)

Dance & Movement

25 years
Contact Improvisation · 5 Rhythms · Ecstatic Dance

Five Element Chinese Medicine

MA, Acupuncture & Chinese Herbs · 2014
Academy for Five Element Acupuncture

Holistic Pelvic Care

Student of Tami Lynn Kent
Author of Wild Feminine & Wild Mothering
Womb & lineage repair work

"My art is truly my soul expression — each piece a pathway to step deeper into self-knowledge, and a celebration of the pain & beauty of being alive."
— BangHan Kim
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