MINYOUNG KIM

August 10, 2021

MINYOUNG KIM

BIOGRAPHY

Born in 1989, in Seoul, South Korea, Minyoung Kim graduated from Sungshin’s Women’s University with both a BA in Painting and an MFA in Printmaking in 2014.

Kim’s work mirrors her inner-most feelings, ones that language fails to express. By using un-stretched raw canvas, she portrays, in a soft manner, ironic scenes that combine what she refers to as strange but cute elements. It’s in this ambivalence, both light and serious, that she explores and reveals her inner self.

Currently, Kim resides in London where she is completing her MFA at the Slade School of Fine Art.

« My canvas contains memories, anxiety, regret, desire, dreams, and everything inside me that I may not be able to express myself directly. I sincerely project myself onto the canvas. Sometimes I become a weak mermaid, a human-harming cat, and a woman with a threatening knife.» – (Minyoung Kim)

TIMELINE

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2021 Strange Fairy Tales, Artime Art Center- Kunming, China
2021 Nine Lives, Fortnight Institute- NY, USA
2020 Slade Runner, ASC Gallery- London, UK
2018 Seamless, Space Can- Seoul, South Korea
2016 New Drawing Project, Yanju City Chang UC Chin Museum of Art- Seoul, South Korea- Gyeonggi-do, South Korea
2015 Breathing House Project 2, Thinking Kimi Art Gallery- Seoul, South Korea
2014 50^th Anniversary of Sungshin Women’s University, Ara Art Center- Seoul, South Korea
2014 Origin of Reproduction Age, Fine Gallery- Seoul, South Korea
2014 Artshow Busan, Bexco- Busan, South Korea
2014 Cube–Independent, Artist Cube- Busan, South Korea
2014 Art Edition Hong Kong 2014, Harbour City & Marco Polo Hotel- Hong Kong, China
2014 YOU! WHO?, Jean Gallery- Seoul, South Korea

2013 The Ugly Duckling, Art Soop Gallery- Busan, South Korea
2013 Th e 31th Sungshin Print, Si:jac Gallery- Seoul, South Korea
2013 ASYAAF, Moonhwa Station, Seoul 284- Seoul, South Korea
2013 ASYAAF, 30 Artists Selection of Artshare Collaboration- Seoul, South Korea
2013 Korean Contemporary Prints Exhibition, Seoul Museum of Kyung-Hee-Geung Palace Annex- Seoul, South Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2021 Moon Garden, Août Gallery- Beirut, Lebanon
2018 The Night was Young, Place Mak-Laser- Seoul, South Korea
2016 The Wrecked Spaceship, Seogyo Art Space- Seoul, South Korea
2016 The Floating Utopia, Doll Gallery- Seoul, South Korea
2014 Belt 2014, Lee Hwaik Gallery- Seoul, South Korea

RESIDENCIES

2018 Residency 2018 Marymond House with Can Foundation- Seoul, South Korea

EDUCATION

2019 – 2021 MFA Painting, The Slade School of Fine Art (Disctinction) – London, UK
2012 – 2014 MFA Printmaking, Sungshin Women’s University – Seoul, South Korea
2008 – 2012 BA Western Painting, Sungshin Women’s University – Seoul, South Korea

PUBLICATIONS