BIOGRAPHY

Myungwon Kim

Myungwon Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1983 and currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She received her BFA in Printmaking from Maryland Institute College of Art in 2007. Kim spent one year at Tamarind Institute, where she received her Professional Printer Certificate in 2008. She then went on to receive her MFA at Tyler School of Art, Temple University in 2010. Kim utilizes her training in Printmaking, using its processes, techniques, and materials to create her large-scale gestural works. Using Mylar as her preferred substrate she investigates medium and the color black by building layers of varied media. Her spontaneous execution exposes the use of her limbs as her mark making tools. In 2011, Kim’s work was purchased by the Cummins Station’s permanent collection in Tennessee and included in group-exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum, CA and The Danforth Museum of Art, MA. She has also exhibited work in group shows at the Palos Verdes Art Center, CA (2010); Hunterdon Art Museum, NJ (2009); LA Municipal Art Gallery (2009) and the Tamarind Institute Gallery, NM (2008). Her solo exhibitions include Mulpa Space, Seoul, Korea (2007) and Temple Gallery, PA (2010). Kim has been featured in the publications California Contemporary Art (2011), Kyung Hyang Art Wave Magazine (2011), American Contemporary Art (2011) and New American Paintings (2011). In addition, her work has been reviewed by The New York Times (2009) and The Segye Times (2009).

Exhibition

2014 Color Proofs, Ara Art Center, Seoul Korea (Solo)

2014 Million Year Picnic, Gallery Fu, Yokohama, Japan (Group)

2014 Aloe Vera, Gray Contemporary Gallery, Houston, TX (Group)

2014 Mass Attack, Creative ABQ, Albuquerque, NM (Group)

2014 Dialogues, Gray Contemporary Gallery, Houston, TX (Group)

2014 Square, Spacewomb Gallery, New York, NY (Group)

2014 Thin Space, Pasadena, David Allan Hubbard Library, CA (Group)

2014 Under Pressure: Contemporary Printmaking and Changing Landscapes, Meramec Gallery,St. Louis, MO (Group)

2013 The Story of The Creative, Angel Orensanz Foundation for Contemporary Art, New York, NY (Group)

2013 Women's Day Festival Virtual Display, Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (Group)

2011 South Bay Focus, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (Group)

2011 Abstracts, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (Group)

2011 Boston Printmakers 2011 North American Print Biennial, The Danforth Museum of Art, Boston, MA (Group)

2011 Southern California Printmaking, Palos Verdes Art Center, Los Angeles, CA (Group)

2010 MFA Thesis Show, Temple Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (Solo)

2009 LA Printmaking Society, LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (Group)

2009 Stories of Home, Thurgood Marshall/Bwi Airport, Baltimore, MD (Group)

2009 Hunterdon Art Museum, Up and Coming Printmakers, Clinton, NJ (Group)

2008 All Fresh and Organic, Tamarind Institute Gallery, Albuquerque, NM (Group)

2007 Action + Printmaking, Mulpa Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea (Solo)

2007 Senior Exhibition, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (Group)

2006 Printmaking Exhibition, Peabody, Baltimore, MD, (Group)

2006 Jamaica Study Aboard, Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, MD (Group)

2006 Jamaica Study Aboard, Emc, New Kingston, Jamaica (Group)

Press

2017 Studio Visit, No.35, The Open Studios Press

2014 Li Hyn, Park., "Follow The Experience." Misul Segye Art Magazine, December

2014 Tommaney, Jim J. "Gray Contempoary Hosts A Bright, Colorful Show With Aloe Vera." Houston Press, August 18

2014 Anspon, Catherine. "Art Notes." Paper City Magazine, August 4

2013 Studio Visit No.16, The Open Studios Press

2011 "Discovering Freedom In Artistic Expression." California Contemporary Art, May Issue

2011 Kyung Hyang Art Wave Magazine No.18, April 2011

2011 "In Her Own Words." American Contemporary Art, March Issue

2011 New American Paintings, No.92, Northeast Edition, The Open Studios Press

2009 "La Printmaking Society 20Th National Exhibition." Capital Press, September

2009 Hwang, Gue-Hwa. "Simple Yet Delicate." The Segye Times, August 26

2009 Genoddhio, Benjamin. "By Invitation Only." The New York Times, August 23

Awards

2009 Tuition Scholarship, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA

2009 Winne Gordon Scholarship, Baltimore, MD

2008 Mica Recognition Award, Baltimore, MD

Education

2010
Tyler School of Art, Temple University, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Master of Fine Art in Printmaking

2008
Tamarind Institute, University of New Mexico, Albuquerque, New Mexico
Professional Printer Certificate

2007
Maryland Institute College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland
Bachelor of Fine Art in Printmaking