Kim Guiline (1936-2021), born in 1936 in Gowon, South Hamgyong Province, in what is now North Korea) graduated from Hankuk University in Seoul, studied at the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts in Paris, and graduated from the École Nationale Supérieure Arts-Décoratifs in Paris. He has lived and worked in Paris, France, since 1961.

Throughout his career, Kim Guiline has sought to explore the multiple dimensions of the painting surface to bring out its depth.