Minjoo KIM
BORN 1982
ARTIST STATEMENT
Painting to me is a place where I can ask, answer myself and wander about within it. I don`t know what is it that I want to ask or what answer I have to give to my question, but I enjoy and imagine the efforts and thoughts in the process. I don`t have to come up with a great question nor seek an answer to that question. I simply repeat questioning and answering; if there is something that emerges, I imagine around it and make some scribbles. In some days it is satisfactory since the images resemble my thoughts, in some other days it is not so good. My paintings are also the things that remain after this process.
Sometimes I mix my everyday world and an imaginary world together and bring the ideal nature into the real space, other times I put a fishing net or a dipper into a pond that is deeper than abyss and wave them, or become a fisher who dose not catch fishes but merge with the fishes or a woodcutter who does not cut trees but merge with the trees. I attempt to find the amusement of deviation and imagination through points where different time, space and roles are mixed with their boundaries blurred and their distinctions obscure.
BIOGRAPHY
Education
2005 B.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Seoul National University
2010 M.F.A. in Oriental Painting, Seoul National University
2021 PH.D in Fine Arts, Seoul National University
Solo Exhibitions
2022 About the mind: the Forest. All that Curating, Seoul
2021 The Road to Tranquility. Space Sieon, Jeonju
2021 Fruit Picker. Oliviapark Gallery, Seoul
2017 A Dialectic Anthology. Hanmi Gallery, Seoul
2014 The Reason of Painting the Forest. Gallery Chosun, Seoul
2012 Dialogue between a Fisher and Woodcutter. Gong Art Space, Seoul
2011 Humming. KEPCO Art Center Gallery, Seoul
2009 Paradise of Fish. Artspace-hyun, Seoul
2007 Paintings of the Happy Fish. Gallery La Mer, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Winter Masterpieces. Sun Gallery, Seoul
2022 re;side. Suwon Art Space Gwanggyo, Suwon
Social Talkers. Chosun University Museum of Art, Gwangju
Consensual Sumuk. Haeum Museum, Suwon
Weekend in the Forest. Jeongseojin Art Cube, Incheon
2021 Winter Masterpieces. Sun Gallery, Seoul
There Were P in Pictures. d/p, Seoul
Porosity. 021Gallery, Daegu
Ecology of Mind. Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju
2020 Winter Masterpieces. Sun Gallery, Seoul
Zerobase. Seoul Auction, Seoul
Colorful World Project. Artspace Yongdu, Daejeon
Upclose01. M Contemporary, Seoul
Art Gyeonggi X Art Road77. Heyri Art Valley, Paju
On-tact Art Gyeonggi. Gyeonggi Sangsang Campus, Suwon
The Resting Place for all my life. Sanjichon Gallery, Jeju
Galleries Art Fair. COEX, Seoul
2019 KOREANISM. Bon Gallery, Seoul
AXIS2019. 021Gallery, Daegu
4+1point of view. Government Complex, Seoul
Gaya-Gimhae. Shinsegae Gallery, Daegu
Landscape in Mind. Hanwon Museum, Seoul
Art Busan. Bexco, Busan
CRE8TIVE REPORT. OCI Museum of Art, Seoul
2018 Complete My Space. All that Curating, Seoul
Borrowed Landscape. Woljeon Museum of Art, Icheon
Landscape of Seoul. Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul
Reinterpreted Landscape. Sun Gallery, Seoul
Black Inside. Dongtan Artspace, Hwaseong
2017 Beyond Korean Style Painting-Reality and Sense. Seung woo Oh Museum of Art, Muan
Waiting for Spring. Gyeongui Line Book Street, Seoul
Prologue. Hanmi Gallery, Seoul
Two Perspectives. Nanji Gallery, Seoul
Coexistence. Seoul Art Foundation, Seoul
2016 Journey to a Fluid Island. Kumho Museum, Seoul
Half-opened Door. Insa Art Space, Seoul
Mix & Match. Korean Cultural Center, Shanghai, China
Healing Garden. KSD Gallery, Seoul
2015 Enter My World. Nefs Art Gallery, Seoul
The First. Seoul Art Foundation, Seoul
Galleries Art Fair. COEX, Seoul
2014 Affinity 90. Gallery Chosun, Seoul
Muk Line. Sungkyunkwan University Gallery, Seoul
The Other Art Fair. Reissue Korea, London, United Kingdom
Art and Ideal. Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul
2013 5mm x7. Goyang Art Studio Gallery, Goyang
Ha Jung-woong Young Artists Invitation Exhibition. Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju
Reality, Between Representation and Autonomy. Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon
Korean Painting, Find Healing. Baiksong Gallery, Seoul
The Butterfly Dream. Guro Arts Valley , Seoul
The World Beyond Triviality. Atelier Aki, Seoul
Another Chain Bridge. Korean Cultural Center Hungary, Budapest, Hungary
Can Can Beijing, Beijing, China
Green Painting. Gallery H, Daegu
Fictional Landscape. Shinsegae Gallery, Gwangju
自有我在. Gyeonghuigung Annex Building of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2012 A Room With a View. Keumsan Gallery, Heyri
Nanji Art Show-Island of the Artist. Nanji Gallery, Seoul
So·But·And. Gallery Golmok, Seoul
2011 LEEHWAIK Gallery 10th Anniversary. LEEHWAIK Gallery, Seoul
Holic. Speedom Gallery, Gwang Myeong
Summer Fan. Gong Art Space, Seoul
Flower, Water, Tree. Jangheung Art Park, Jang Heung
Reinterpretation. Gallery Cha, Seoul
Korean Painting Society Annual Exhibition. Gallery Chosun, Seoul
2010 Art in Dialogue. Space599, Seoul
Korea-Russia International Art Exchange Exhibition. Central House of Artists, Moskva, Russia
Spring, into Drawing. Cafe FANCO, Seoul
2009 Zoom in-The trace of imagination. Gallery Miso, Seoul
Tri-Vista of Korea. Salon de H, Seoul
L_i_n_k_e_d. Keumsan Gallery, Blume Gallery, Paju
Art Road77. 93museum, Paju
Painting the Midland of Expression. KEPCO Plaza Gallery, Seoul, Sunshine International Museum, Beijing, China
In the Flower Garden. 63SkyArt Gallery, Seoul
Review the Old and Learn the New. Gana art Gallery, Seoul
2008 Many Colors Common Sense. Gallery Zandari, Seoul
Interalia Young Artists Promotion. Interalia, Seoul
2007 Seoul Art Fair. Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul
Hands-on Exhibition of Minhaw for Children. Gyeonggi Provincial Museum, Yongin
Funny Sculpture & Funny Painting. Gallery Sejul, Seoul
Korea Young Artists` Exhibition. Gallery GAIA, Seoul. Galerie Etienne de Causans, Paris, France
Hello Chelsea! 2007. PS35 gallery, New York, U.S.A.
Big Paintings Go To the World. LEEHWAIK Gallery, Seoul
Gallery NV Two Person Exhibition. Gallery NV, Seoul
Awards
2012, 2014, 2017 Seoul Foundation for Artist Support Program. Seoul Foundation for Arts & Culture
2013 Ha Jung-woong Young Artists Awards. Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju
2016 Arko Creative Academy. Arts Council Korea
2016 Story Funding with Kakao. Seoul Foundation for Arts & Culture
2020 Residency Support Program. Arts Council Korea
2020 RE:SEARCH. Seoul Foundation for Arts & Culture
2020 Art Gyeonggi Program. Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
2021 Archive Support Program. Suwon Cultural Foundation
2022 Artist Support Program. Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation
Residency Programme
2012 Nanji Residency. Seoul Museum of Art
2013 Goyang Art Studio. National Museum of Contemporary Art
2018 OCI Residency Studio, OCI Museum of Art
2020 Cite Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
2022 Suwon Art Studio, Suwon Cultural Foundation
Public Collections
Art Bank, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul
Seoul National University, Seoul
Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Gyeonggido
Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
Seoul Dragon City, Seoul
Incheon Foundation for Arts & Culture, Incheon
Seoul National University Museum of Art, Seoul
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