KYUNG JIN KIM
Born in Seoul, South Korea
Living in Seattle
E-mail : duegol@gmail.com
Website: www.kyung-jin.com
Instagram: @kyung_jin_kim
Education
2016 - MFA Sculpture Program in School of Art Institute of Chicago,Chicago, IL, US
2013 - MFA Sculpture in Hong-ik University, Seoul, South Korea
2011 - BFA Sculpture in Hong-ik University, Seoul, South Korea
Exhibitions
2024 Oct 3rd to Nov 2nd - 'Survival Machine', Three person show, Eunsun Choi
Kyung-jin Kim, Althea Rao, Soil Gallery, Seattle, WA, US Link
2024 Sep 27th to 29th - Spam New Media Festival, Georgetown Steam Plant, Seattle, WA, US Link
2024 Mar 16th to Apr 13th - 'Spring, Time' Group Exhibition, the Vestibule Gallery, Seattle, WA, US Link
2023 Aug 8 to Dec 8 - Parallels and Rupture, Curated by Matthew Garrison,
Freedman Gallery at Albright College, PA, US
2023 Jan - Have You Eaten, Group Exhibition, Slip Gallery, Seattle, WA, US Link
2022 Apr 1 to 22 - ‘Wishful Thinking' Solo Exhibition curated by Nataša Prljević (Artist & co-founder of HEKLER), Thomas Hunter Project Space, CUNY Hunter College, NY, US
2021 Nov - Survival Tools for Artists for the Age of Ultra Anxiety, Jeju Island Artist Collective, Curatorial Project Sponsored by Flux Factory, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY Link
2021 Oct - Radical Self Care for the Age of Ultra Anxiety Part1, Bliss on Bliss Artist Project, (Jeju Island Artist Collective) Link
2019 Jul - POWER PLAY : Rubin Museum Annual Block Party, NY, US Link
2019 May - DYNAMIS, RU Exhibition, Equity Gallery, NY, US Link
2019 Mar - Sculpture Space Residency, Works in Progress/ Open Studio, Utica, NY, US
2018 Sep - Governors Island Art Fair, 4heads, NY, US Link
2018 Feb - 'Nothing Personal', Solo Exhibition, Flux Factory Gallery, NY, US Link
2017 Oct - ‘TRANSFORMATION 2017’ , RE:ARTISTE Juried Exhibition, Gallery MC, NY, US Link
2017 Sep - ‘Traversing Boundaries - Call for Artists 2017’ by the Korean Cultural Center,
Gallery Korea, New York, NY, US Link
2017 Jun - ‘MASS MoCA Residency Open Studios',’ ,MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, US
2017 Feb - ‘Transcendence’ , Carrie able Gallery Open Call for Artist 2017, Brooklyn, NY, US Link
2016 Nov - ‘Vermont Studio Center Open Studio’ , Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT, US
2016 Apr - ‘SAIC MFA Thesis Show’ , Sullivan Galleries, Chicago, IL, US
2012 Dec - ‘Looking through Ideas’ ,directed by Young baek Jeon (Editor of the Journal of Visual Culture), Hongik Museum of Art, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Sep - ‘Archive-on-going’ , Seoul National University, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Aug - ‘Lubrication’ , KOSA art space, Seoul, South Korea
2012 Apr - ‘Dongbang-yogoe, Best of Best’ , CHUNGMU Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2011 Oct - ‘SWICH’ , Red Brick Gallery, University of Seoul, Seoul, South Korea
Awards, Grants & Residencies
2021 Sep - New York Corp Artist Fund, 2021 (Jeju Island Artist Collective)
2021 July - Queens Council on the Arts : 2021 Art Access Grant (Jeju Island Artist Collective)
2019 Jul - NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, category of Architecture/Environmental Structures/ Design, Link
2019 Apr - RU Residency program, NewYork, NY, US (Apr - Jun 2019) Link
2019 Feb - Sculpture Space Residency program, Utica, NY, US (Feb - Mar 2019) Link
2018 Sep - Governors Island Art Fair, 4heads, NY, US, Link
2017 Oct - RE:ARTISTE Juried Exhibition Finalist, NY, US. Link
2017 Mar - Flux Factory Residency Program (Aug - 2018 Jan), Long Island City, NY, US. Link
2017 Feb - MASS MoCA Residency Program (May -June), North Adams, MA, US
2017 Feb - Korean Cultural Center NY Call for Artists 2017 Finalist, Gallery Korea, NY, US
2017 Jan - Carrie able Gallery Open Call for Artist 2017 Finalist, Brooklyn, NY,
2016 Oct - Vermont Studio Center Residency, VT, US
2016 Aug - ACRE Residency, WI, US
2016 Mar - Vermont Studio Center 2016 Full Fellowship, VT, US
2012 Feb - Dongbang-yogoe project Best21 selected Artists, art IN CULTURE (Korean art magazine), South Korea.Link
2010 Sep - Scholarship from Seosan City, Public sculpture in Seosan National Lake Park,
Seosan, South Korea
Curatorial Projects & Programs - Jeju Island Artist Collective
2021 Nov - Survival Tools for Artists for the Age of Ultra Anxiety, Curatorial Project Sponsored by Flux Factory, Plaxall Gallery, Queens, NY Link
2021 November 13th - “The spatial politics of control: social sculpture as a strategy of negotiation and resistance” Workshop by Claire Chambless
Artist Talk with Claire Chambless, Matthew Garrison, Nicki Cherry
2021 November 14th - Artist Talk (online) with Esteban Agosin, J. Triangular, Kimberly Lyle, Mark Rice, Noa Yekutieli
2021 November 19th - Artist Talk with Amy Fung-yi Lee, Keun-Young Park, Sana Musasama and Stacy Bogdonoff, SiSi Chen, and Pauline Galiana
2021 November 20th - Finding Poetry Workshop by Will Kaplan
Artist talk with Joseph Morris, Kim Sandra, Wieteke Heldens, Will Kaplan, and Daniel Mantilla
2021 November 21st (online) - “Breathed poems for the camera” Workshop / Pedagogical laboratory by J. Triangular
Collaborations
2021 Oct - Radical Self Care for the Age of Ultra Anxiety Part1, Bliss on Bliss Artist Project, (Jeju Island Artist Collective) Link
2018 Jun - ‘One Spa in a Time’, a collaboration work with Springboard Collective, Flux Factory
Gallery, NY, US. Link
2017 Dec - ‘One Word at a Time’, a collaboration work with Stephen Mcleod during the flux
Auction 2017, Voice recognition Google random image search green screen photo booth.
Plaxall Gallery, NY, US. Link
Media, Publication
2019 Jul - POWER PLAY : Rubin Museum Annual Block Party, NY, US, Link
2019 Jul - NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellowship, category of Architecture/Environmental Structures/ Design, Link
2018 Sep - the Gothamist, 'Old Governors Island Houses Now Filled With Strange Creations For 11th Annual Art Fair', by Scott Lynch, Link
2018 Aug - Governors Island Art Fair, 4heads, NY, US, Link
2018 Jun - 'One Spa on a Time'
The New York Times, ‘Coming up Today’, Link
NBC New York, ‘Free Pop-Up Spa Opens in Long Island City’, Link
Metro, Link
2018 Apr - Documentation of the show ‘Nothing Personal’ by a film artist Jamie Iglehart. Link
2018 Feb - 'Nothing Personal', Solo Exhibition, Flux Factory Gallery, NY, US. Link
2018 Feb - 'Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Ariel Yelen' Flux Factory Gallery, NY, US. Link
2017 Oct - RE:ARTISTE-Magazine review, ‘IMMERSIVE ART BY KYUNG-JIN KIM’. Link
2017 Sep - ‘Traversing Boundaries - KCCNY Call for Artists 2017’, Gallery Korea, NY, US. Link
2017 May - ‘TBI’ Project, (Sometimes we have to block out the sun to see better what is here)
iBooks, Publisher : Haechang Sun (Coordinator at GA Design and Sourcing, independent art book publisher). Link
2012 Dec - ‘Looking through Ideas’ review, Han-na Choi
2012 Mar - art IN CULTURE (Korean art magazine), article of interview by Hee-young Kim
2012 Mar - art IN CULTURE Magazine exhibition review, Won-seok Go (Curator of ARCO Museum), p188
2012 Feb - art IN CULTURE Magazine review, Seung-yean Jang (Chief editor of art IN CULTURE magazine), p84
Talk & Workshop
2021 Sep - Artist talk at CUNY Hunter College, hosted by Professor Jeffrey Mongrain,
Class : Sculptural Methods MFA Class Fall 2021
2020 Nov- Artist talk at Hong-ik University via Zoom, hosted by Kyoungho Ko, Professor at
Hong-ik University, South Korea
2019 Sep - JH Art Talks, hosted by Linda Ganjian, Espresso 77 café/gallery, NY, US, Link
2018 Feb - 'Ekphrastic Poetry Workshop with Ariel Yelen' Flux Factory Gallery, NY, US. Link
2017 Mar - Artist Talk, Kyungjin Kim and Rola Zyada, Carrie able Gallery, NY, US
2015 Fall - MFA Lecture Series, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
2015 Spring - MFA Lecture Series, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
Experience
2024 Sep ~ present - Cornish College of the Arts, Position: Adjunct Professor
2022 Sep ~ present - Cornish College of the Arts, Position: Technician
2021 Aug ~ 2022 Aug - CUNY Hunter College, Position : College Assistant
2019 Apr ~ present - Ashcan Studio of Art | Art Portfolio School in NYC,
Position :Online instructor
2015 Sep - Teaching Assistant : Fall 2015 Mold Making and Casting, Sculpture department
Instructor : Stephen Reber, School of Art Institute of Chicago, IL, US
2008~10 - Studio Assistant : Artist Osang Gwon, Seoul, South Korea