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Minjung Kim

Born in Gwangju, South Korea, in 1962, Minjung Kim began studying calligraphy and watercolor painting at an early age before majoring in oriental painting at both undergraduate and graduate levels at Hongik University in Seoul. She later continued her artistic education at the Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera in Milan, where exposure to European art deeply influenced her practice. During this period, she drew particular inspiration from artists such as Constantin Brâncusi, Carl Andre and Brice Marden, whose emphasis on materiality, form and minimal gesture resonated with her evolving visual language.

Over the past two decades, Kim has exhibited widely across Italy, Switzerland, China, the United Kingdom, the United States and Mexico, establishing herself internationally within the field of contemporary art. She has been featured in solo exhibitions at leading institutions including MACRO – Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma in Rome (2012), the Hermès Foundation in Singapore (2017), White Cube in London (2018), the Langen Foundation in Neuss (2019), and the Hill Art Foundation in New York (2020). In South Korea, she presented key exhibitions such as Traces (2015) at the OCI Museum of Art in Seoul, Paper, Ink and Fire: After the Process (2017) at Gallery Hyundai in Seoul, and the international invitational exhibition Making the Void, Filling the Void (2018) at the Gwangju Museum of Art.

Her project The Light, The Shade, The Depth, shown at Palazzo Caboto in Venice and curated by Jean-Christophe Ammann, received significant international acclaim for its refined exploration of light, shadow and layered paper surfaces. Kim also participated in the Gwangju Biennale in both 2004 and 2018, further reinforcing her presence within major global art dialogues.

Kim’s works are held in major museum collections worldwide, including the Leeum Samsung Museum in Seoul, the Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art at Cornell University in Ithaca, the Princeton University Art Museum in New Jersey, the British Museum in London, the RISD Museum, The Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York and Tate Modern in London, among others.

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