Minjung Kim

Biography


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Currently lives and works between New York and South France.

Education

1997    
MFA, The Accademia di Belle Arti di Brera, Milan, Italy

1987    
MFA, Oriental Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

1985    
BFA, Oriental Painting, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions

2021    
Timeless, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, Germany
Long Street of Timeless History of Phasing Greay Snow into Water, Volker Diehl Gallery, Berlin, Germany 
Timeless, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2020    
Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA

2019    
Langen Foundation, Neuss, Germany
Galerie Catherine Issert, St. Paul de Vence, France
Mahón, Menorca, Galeria Cayon, Menorca, Spain

2018    
Minjung Kim: Mountains, Robilant+Voena Fine Art Gallery, St. Moritz, Switzerland
The Memory of Process, White Cube, London, UK
Making the Void, Filling the Void, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea

2017    
Phasing, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Cendre & Lumière: Œuvres de Minjung Kim, Musée des Arts asiatiques, Conseil Départemental 06, Nice, France
Oneness, Hermès Foundation, Singapore
Paper, Ink and Fire: After the Process, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2016    
Phasing, Galerie Volker Diehl, Berlin, Germany
Leslie Sacks Gallery, Brentwood, Los Angeles, USA

2015    
Traces, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The Light, The Shade, The Depth, Luxembourg & Dayan, Palazzo Caboto, Venice, Italy

2014    
Oko, New York, USA
Minjung Kim: The Sound of Light, Galerie Commeter, Hamburg, Germany
Minjung Kim- Red Mountain, Studio d'Arte Raffaelli, Trento, Italy

2013    
Predestination, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK

2012    
The Sound of Light, Museo d’Arte Contemporanea Roma, Rome, Italy
Leslie Sacks Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Galleria Sahrai, Milan, Italy

2010    
Galleria Sant'Angelo, Biella, Italy

2009  
Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milan, Italy
Tension, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Galleria Ermanno Tedeschi, Rome, Italy

2008    
Galleria Ermanno Tedeschi, Turin, Italy
Minjung kim: Mutations, Robilant+Voena Fine Art Gallery, London, UK
Gallerie Mudimadrie, Antwerp, Belgium

2007    
Guanshanyue Art Museum, Shenzhen, China
Copenhagen Art Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Leslie Sacks Fine Art, Los Angeles, USA
Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK
Giudecca795 Galleria d’Arte, Venice, Italy

2006    
Montecarlo Art Gallery, Milan, Italy 
Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy 
Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milan, Italy

2004    
Soffi d’energia nel mistero del vuoto, Arte92, Milan, Italy 
Ikos, Modena, Italy

2003    
Museo Comunale di Ascona, Ascona, Switzerland 
Leslie Sacks Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Gallerie Patrick Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland

2002    
Galleria Recalcati, Turin, Italy
Copenhagen Gallery, Copenhagen, Denmark 
Galleria Cafiso, Milan, Italy

1999    
Walter Wickeiser Gallery, New York, USA
Galerie Patrick Cramer, Geneva, Switzerland 

1998    
Galleria Cafiso, Milan, Italy 

1997    
Cappella di Villa Ruffolo, Ravello, Italy

1996    
Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan, Italy
Galleria Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi, Italy

1991    
Baiksong Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Injae Art Museum, Gwangju, Korea

Group Exhibitions

2022
Being and Believing in the Natural World: Perspectives from the Ancient Mediterranean, Asia, and Indigenous North America, RISD Museum, Providence, USA     
Ninth Street and Beyond: 70 Years of Women in Abstraction - Part II: The Geometric, Hunter Dunbar Projects, New Yotk, USA

2021  
Still Masters, Patrick Heide Gallery, London UK

2020    
현대 HYUNDAI 50 - PART 2, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea

2019    
Pushing Paper: Contemporary Drawing from 1970 to Now, The British Museum, London, UK

2018    
Imagined Borders, Gwangju Biennale 2018, Gwangju, Korea
Clouds Stretching For A Thousand Miles: Ink in Asian Art, Asia Society, New York, USA
The Balance of Non-Sculpture, Changwon Sculpture Biennale 2018, Changwon, Korea

2017  
The Mulberry Forest Becoming Ocean, Esther Schipper, Berlin, Germany
Korean: Now and Then, Asia Week New York Contemporary, Kang Contemporary, New York, USA
Moi & Les Auters, Galerie Catherine Issert, St. Paul de Vence, France

2016    
Viewing The Past Thru Modern Eyes, Kang Collection, New York, USA

2015    
Happy Modern and Contemporary Korean Paintings, Kang Collection, New York, USA
The Gaze of... Selected Works of the Unicredit Art Collection, Uncredit Pavillon, Milan, Italy

2014    
Abstraction: 1911-2014, Leslie Sacks Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
Maestri antichi, moderni imprenditori, Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milan, Italy

2012    
World, Ermanno Tedeschi Gallery, Tel Aviv, Israel
New!, Galleria Valeria Bella Stampe, Milan, Italy
Settimana della Corea, Santa Maria della Vita, Bologna, Italy

2011    
Galleria E. Tedeschi, Tel Aviv, Israel
Landscape and Memory, Patrick Heide Contemporary Art, London, UK

2010    
Twilight Zone, Morgen Gallery, Berlin, Germany

2009    
Across the Cross, Chiesa degli artisti- Sant'alberto, Trapani, Italy
La Biennale di Venezia - Sant Elena, Venice, Italy
Pre-Fazione, Galleria La Giarina, Verona, Italy
Galleria E. Tedeschi, Rome, Italy

2008    
Prospects and Interiors: Sculptors’ Drawings of Inner Space, Henry Moore Institute, Leeds, UK

2004    
A Grain of Dust, A Drop of Water, Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangiu, Korea

2002    
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Cafiso, Milan, Italy

2001    
Paris, New York, Washington D.C. The Odyssey 2001, Korean Republic Embassy, Washington D.C., USA
Galleria Cophenhagen, Cophenhagen, Denmark
Simboli e simbolismi nell’arte contemporanea, Ticosa Spazio a Shed, Como, Italy

1998    
Mostra di incisioni, Sala Grassi, Milan, Italy
Territori di frontiera, Spazio Laboratorio Hajech, Milan, Italy
Ad Imaginem, Spazio Linati, Milan, Italy

1997    
Arti visive, Circolo Culturale Bertold Brecht, Milan, Italy
Pittura e scultura del terzo millennio, Casa del Rigoletto, Mantova, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Borgogna, Milan, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Cafiso, Milan, Italy
Incisione collettiva, Castello di Galliate, Galliate, Novara, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi, Italy

1996    
Mimesis, Galleria della Cassa di Risparmio di Caldaro, Bolzano, Italy
Nel segno della Luna, Rocca Malatestiana, Montefiore Conca, Italy

1995    
International Exhibition of Art Colleges Hiroshima ‘95, Hiroshima, Japan
Quali differenze, Galleria Arcadia Nuova, Milan, Italy
Mostra Collettiva, Galleria Cafiso, Milan, Italy
Salon I, Living Art Gallery, Milan, Italy
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Kontraste, Forte dei Marmi, Italy

1994    
Brera a Venezia, Liceo Artistico Statale, Venice, Italy
Dove sostano gli Dei, Centro Storico di Saronno, Italy
First Price International Competition, Fanum Fortunae, Fano, Italy
Sequenze d’Arte Contemporanea, Torre di Ligny - Museo della Preistoria, Trapani, Italy
Salon I ‘94, Galleria Arte Borgogna, Milan, Italy
Salon I ‘94, Villa Litta Carini, Milan, Italy
S.B.C. European competition ‘94, Swiss Bank House, London, UK
Mostra collettiva, Galleria Cafiso, Milan, Italy
La Stampa Originale, Civica Biblioteca d’Arte del Castello Sforzesco, Milan, Italy

1990    
Prospect of 90s Korean Art, Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1989    
Current Seoul, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea 
43 Artists, Chosun Ilbo Museum, Seoul, Korea 

1988    
The 5th Gwangju Contemporary Art Festival, Gwangju Namdo Art Center, Gwangju, Korea
Consciousness of transition in the Korean modern painting, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Choon Chu Fine Arts Association Japan Exhibition, Consulate General of Japan, Taiwan, Korea, Japan
Formative consciousness of 16 Artists for Today and Tomorrow, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Yeobaik - 16 Artists, Baegak Art Space, Seoul, Korea
88’ New Figurative Korean Art, Chunbuk Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1987    
The 13th Choon Chu Fine Arts Association Exhibition, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
The 3rd Yiyeonhoe Exhibition, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
New-Expressionism of Korean Painting, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Searching for Korean Painting - 10 Artists, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Print ‘87, The 3rd Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Aspect of Modern Korean Painting, Chunbuk Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1986    
The 12th Choon Chu Fine Arts Association Exhibition, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
86’ Works of Korean Paintings, Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd Yiyeonhoe Exhibition, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Hanmoim Incisione, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The variableness of Korean Painting, Art Center, Seoul, Korea

1985    
The 11th Seoul Modern Art Festival, Art Center, Seoul, Korea
The 11th Choon Chu Fine Arts Association Exhibition, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea
The 1st Yiyeonhoe Exhibition, Arab Cultural Center, Seoul, Korea

Public Collections

Asia Society, New York, USA
Fondazione Palazzo Bricherasio, Turin, Italy
Fundación Helga de Alvear, Cáceres, Spain
Herbert F. Johnson Museum of Art, Cornell University, Ithaca, USA
Hill Art Foundation, New York, USA
Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
Musée des Arts Asiatiques, Paris, France
OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
Princeton University Art Museum, New Jersey, USA
Swiss Re Art Collection, Zürich, Switzerland
The British Museum, London, UK
UniCredit, Milan, Italy