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Seoul Kim ( Sohee Kim)

 

sohee831007@gmail.com

http://kimsohee.jimdofree.com/

seoul_kim_art @instagram 

printground @instagram (printmaking workshop)

 

Biography

1983  Born in Daegu, korea

2013  Ph.D in Art, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2010  M.F.A in Print making, Tama Art University, Tokyo, Japan

2007  B.F.A in Print making, Art Collage of Hong-ik University, Seoul, Korea

 

Awards

2021 Residency program at Art Factory, Daegu, Korea

2020 Young artists of the Year, Daegu, Korea

2019 Duguay prize at the 11th Biennale Internationale d’estampe contemporaine de trois- rivières, Quebec, Canada

2018  CWAJ Prize at the 62th CWAJ print show, Tokyo, Japan

2017  Grand Prize at Art 236, Jeju, Korea

          Duguay Prize at the the 10th Biennale Internationale d’estampe contemporaine de trois- rivières, Quebec, Canada

2015  Honorary mention of the International Print Triennial Krakow 2015

2014  Residancy Program at Guanlan international printmaking base in Shenzhen, China

      (2014.2.21~2014.4.20)

2012  Purchase Prize of The 3rd Bangkok Triennale International Print And Drawing Exhibition,Bangkok, Tailand

2012  Grand Prize of The 89th SYUNYO-KAI ART Exhibition, Tokyo, Japan

2012  Honorable Mention of Yozo Hamaguchi 100th Anniversary International Print 

Competition Tokyo, Japan

2008  Third Prize of The 7th Kochi International Triennial Exhibition of Print, Kochi,  Japan

2007  Excellence Prize of The 27th Korea Contemporary Print Award, Seoul, Korea

 

Solo Exhibitions

 

2022 021 Gallery, Daegu,Korea

2022 Bongsan art center, Daegu, Korea

2021 Davidson Gallery, Seattle, America

2021 Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2021 Hyundai department store gallery, Daegu, Korea

2020 LP Gallery, Paju, Korea

2020 Daegu art & culture center, Daegu, Korea

2020 Gallery Q, Tokyo, Japan

2019 Sinmi Gallery, Daegu, Korea 

2018  Dong-sung Salon, Daegu, Korea

2017   Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2017 Museum SAN, Won-Ju, Korea

2016  Graficki Kolektiv Gallery, Belgrade, Serbia       

2016  City Gallery, Uzice, Serbia

2015  Davidson Gallery, Seattle, America

2014  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2013  NODA Contemporary, Nagoya, Japan

2013  Hugo’s Workshop & Alchemy, Tokyo, Japan

2010  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2011  Gallery kei, Tokyo, Japan

2011  Shirota Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

2009  Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul, Korea

2008  Dongsanbang Gallery, Seoul, Korea

 

Group Exhibitions

2022 Daily Briefing 14:00, 27days, Art Factory, Daegu, Korea

2022 Botongsaram vol.3 - Speaking tools, Seogu art center, Daegu, Korea

2022 Botongsaram vol.2-Daily record, KT&G sangsangmadang-Daechi, Seoul, Korea

2021-22 Tasty arts, Ami art museum, Dangjin, Korea

2021 Flexible Hysteria, Art factory, Daegu, Korea

2021 The great figure, Art factory, Daegu, Korea

2020 My nights are more beautiful than your days, Seoul museum, Seoul, korea

2020 Daily life, Sogeumnaru small art museum, Ulsan, Korea

2019 the 2nd Beomo art street project, Beomo art lab, Daegu, Korea

 

 

 

Commissions

Member of Korean Contemporary Printers association 

 

Collections

RISD Museum, Rhode island, US

Daegu art & culture center, Korea

Museum SAN, Won-ju, Korea

National Art bank, Korea

Seattle city hall, Seattle, Washington, US

Tokyo opera city, Tokyo, Japan

National art & cultural center, Bangkok, Thailand

Sakima Museum, Okinawa, Japan

 

 


 

 


Artist Note

 

When I ride a train packed with people, I feel we are being treated as objects. Propelled by invisible forces, we are sucked involuntarily into containers such as buses, trains and elevator, and swept off to the same places every day. People are transformed into passive automatons by the repetition of daily routines and the supremely efficient functioning of the megalopolis. Without realizing it, we lose our keen and vivid senses and grow accustomed to the role of inanimate objects.

  What I am attempting to do is not to denounce the conflicts and alienation that inevitably arise from this lifestyle of ours, but rather to depict them with a humorous sensibility. The scenes I portray are not the ones I see day to day, but rather dramatized images based on the ironies I perceive. Subjects that are familiar form everyday life are thrown into a confused state or aspect by their size or positioning. The images are imbued with humor that springs from a playful imagination. Play is one strategy for coping with the pitiless reality around us.

  All play begins with imagination. This is because it is through imagination that we can create playful spaces in the midst of humdrum reality.  Imaginative spaces are based on reality, and reality serves as an apparatus that establishes these imaginative spaces. This is like experiencing a different dimension that occupies the same place simultaneously. Because humorous images born of a playful imagination connect with our everyday lives in a manner different from that of reality, they may appear to be meaningless or illogical, but in fact they represent one facet of life. Perhaps they could even be said to reflect the facts of life. 

  For Example, we can view people losing their freedom and individuality, and being gradually reduced to shadows of themselves, not as a serious process but as a humorous one. The figure of the human lost and buried beneath a tidal wave of things is in fact the embodiment of our own slow death at the hands of day-to-day life.

  Laughing at something is a phenomenon that results from objective observation and criticism of that thing. With a healthy dose of humor, I hope to face the cruelties and absurdities of contemporary society head on, and send a message of encouragement and laughter to all the people surviving in the world today.

                                                     Seoul Kim (Sohee Kim)

 

 


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