User:Kimiltae

Kim Il Tae (b. 1956) was born and raised in South Korea. He was always influenced by his mother who was an art teacher. He was good at art since he was a child but did not pursue an artist career when he graduated from college. It was only in his late thirties that Kim Il Tae rekindled his passion for art when he enrolled into a university in San Francisco to study oil painting. At that time, he harbored a dream of becoming an international fine art artist, to represent an Asian name in the fine art world.

After more than two decades, his hard work and perseverance paid off when he was invited to hold a 2-week solo exhibition in Saatchi Gallery, London in 2016. Saatchi Gallery is highly regarded as one of the most renowned gallery in the world that exhibits only the finest contemporary artworks. Today, his paintings are in the hands of some of most prestigious art collectors in the world, most notably Prince Michael of Kent, British Royal Family; Eric Schmidt, Google CEO; Bill Gates, co-founder of Microsoft, PSY, international Korean artist and many more.