Myungwon Kim
Lowland No. 9 2020 Oil and acrylic on paper 63 x 51 inches; 160 x 129.54 cm (unframed)
Untitled 2020 Oil and acrylic on paper 63 x 51 inches; 160 x 129.54 cm (unframed)
Untitled 2023 Oil and acrylic on paper 63 x 51 inches; 160 x 129.54 cm (unframed)
Untitled 2023 Oil and acrylic on paper 63 x 51 inches; 160 x 129.54 cm (unframed)
Lowland No. 7 2019 Oil and acrylic on paper 61 x 42 inches; 155 x 106.6 cm (unframed)
Lowland No. 1 2017 Oil and acrylic on paper 63 x 47 inches; 160 x 119.3 cm (unframed)
Lowland No. 6 2019 Oil and acrylic on paper 59 x 42 inches; 150 x 106.6 cm (unframed)
Lowland No. 2 2017 Oil and acrylic on paper 58 x 42.5 inches; 147.3 x 108 cm (unframed)
Lowland No. 4 & Lowland No. 5 2019 Oil and acrylic on mylar 58 x 49 inches; 147.3 x 124.5 cm (unframed each)
Lowland No. 8 2020 Oil and acrylic on paper 63 x 51 inches; 160 x 129.54 cm (unframed)
Biography
Myungwon Kim was born in Seoul, Korea in 1983 and currently lives and works in Brooklyn, NY. 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’s Printmaking background remains in her practice as she continues to explore it’s processes, techniques, and materials to create her gestural paintings. She uses everyday objects and her body as her mark-making tools and tries to capture the small emotional details of daily life in her works. Kim’s interest revolve around the complex emotions and she aims to document her personal and cultural experiences of distance, isolation, absences, and fear into her multiple layers of textures and marks.
In 2011, Kim’s work was purchased by the Cummins Station’s permanent collection in Tennessee and included in group-exhibitions at Kai Gallery, New York, NY (2018); Gray Contemporary, Houston, TX (2014); Gallery Fu, Yokohama, Japan (2014); SPACEWOMB, New York, NY (2014); Hubbard Library, Pasadena, CA (2014); Angel Orensanz Foundation For Contemporary Art, New York, NY (2013); Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach, CA (2013); Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2011); The Danforth Museum of Art, Boston, MA (2011); Palos Verdes Art Center, Los Angeles, CA (2010); Hunterdon Art Museum, Clinton, NJ (2009); LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2009) and the Tamarind Institute Gallery, NM (2008). Her solo exhibitions include Mulpa Space, Seoul, Korea (2007) and Temple Gallery, Tyler School of Art, Philadelphia, PA (2010). Kim has been featured in the publications Studio Visit (2017), California Contemporary Art (2011), Kyung Hyang Art Wave Magazine (2011), American Contemporary Art (2011), New American Paintings (2011) and Studio Visit (2013). In addition, her work has been reviewed byThe New York Times (2009) and The Segye Times (2009).