Kira Kim

• Born in 1947, Daechon, Korea
  Lives and works in Seoul, Korea

Education

• 2007     M.F.A. in Fine Art, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
  2002     M.A. in Environmental Sculpture, Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea
  2000     B.F.A., Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• 2019             
  X Love, Kim Kira x Kim Hyung Kyu, Artspace Boan1942, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016    
  Dream Tonight, Cubic Egloo, ACC, Gwangju, Korea
  Floating Village, Gallery Nomad, Yeosu, Korea        
  Wild drawing Kira Kim + Sangyong Lee dual Exhibition, LIG gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2015   
  Floating Village, KHVatec_Perigee Hall (hiphap concert), Seoul, Korea
  Artist of The year 2015, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul, Korea
  
  2014    
  Illusory Contour: Dual Exhibition of Hung-Chih Peng & Kira Kim, Taipei, Taiwan
  The Last leaf, KHVatec _Perigee gallery and Hall, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013    
  Artist Lunchbox, Seoul museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012    
  2 Doors, Kira KIM & Hakchul SHIN, Gallery 157, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011    
  Fashion in Art, Plateau, Seoul, Korea
  Root of Imagination, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Rhapsody: A Montage of History and Memory, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Common Good_Climb Every Mountain!, DOOSAN art centre, Seoul, Korea
  Great Deed Great Death, BOONTHESHOP, Seoul, Korea
  
  2009   
  WOW This wonderful world, BOONTHESHOP, Seoul, Korea
  Super Mega Factory, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  A republic of the propaganda, Figge von Rosen Galerie, Köln, Germany
  
  2008   
  A republic of the propaganda, Loop gallery, Seoul, Korea 
  Gold Crystal, National Art studio Chang-dong gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007   
  A palace of mirages, King’s Lynn Arts center Museum, UK
  
  2006   
  Gagami V – Je t’aime, Moi non plus, Paris Cite 8, Paris, France
  
  2003    
  I LOVE YOU, Art space FACTORY, Seoul, Korea
  Window Exhibition, Gallery FACTORY, Seoul, Korea
  Minority or Cosmopolitan, + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  
  2002    
  0.000km, alternative space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
  Standard, Gallery BODA Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

• 2020    
  Time to Say HELLO, Gallery ROYAL, Seoul, Korea
  Collecting for All, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2019    
  More less, Much more, Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu Expo, Yeosu, Korea
  Secret Storage, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art Cheongju, Cheongju, Korea
  The Senses; Breathe Between Excess and Deficiency, Total Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  The 10th Anniversary Commemorative Exhibition_‘Overdrive 2009-2019 'On the Agora', Inchon Art platform, Inchon, Korea
  Beyond the sun, Inchon Art Platform, Inchon, Korea
  Dear. Island Project, Gapado Musubi Project, Gapado Air_ Hyundai card Art Residency, Jeju, Korea
  POP/corn, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
  Poetic Diction, Pohang Museum of Steel Art, Pohang, Korea
  
  2018    
  Future_from agriculture, Insa art center, Seoul, Korea
  Uferopen, Uferhallen, Berlin, Germany 
  The 10th Anniversary Archive Exhibition of GMoMA Gyeongi Sangsang Campus, Ansan, Korea
  Whang Jong, Presidential Archives Republic of Korea, Sejong, Korea
  Yeosu International Art Festival 2018_Yeosu Expo Art hall, D1,2,3,4, Yeosu, Korea
  Station Paradox, MOMENTUM, Berlin, Germany
  The Dictionary of Evil, Kangwon International Biennale, Gangneung, Korea
  From Temple Jundungsa, Indipress gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2017    
  Media Ecstasy, KNM Museum of Art, Daegu, Korea
  Beautiful temple_Miwhangsa, Hakgojae gallery, Seoul, Korea
  The Portrait of youth, National Museum of Korean Contemporary History, Seoul, Korea
  Introspection, Jeondeungsa Temple gallery, Ganghwado, Korea
  Occurred Boundary, Government building Management Office Seoul gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul-RO Media Canvas 2017, Seoul Media façade, Seoul, Korea
  Art Festival Watou 2017, Watou Poperinge, Belgium
  Algorism of Label and Art, LABLE gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Cracks in the concrete from the MMCA collection, MMCA, Gwacheon, Korea
  ANIMAMIX BIENNALE JAKARTA “MYTH.SCIENCE”, ART:1 New Museum, Jakarta, Indonesia 
  Move on Asia 2017_Mobilized Representation, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
  Myth and Science: Alchemist, KRICT, Space C# Gallery, Daejeon, Korea
  Hunminjeongeum & A War Diary, Gansong Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Your Hand, My Heart, Gallery Simon, Seoul, Korea
  100 ALBUMS 100 ARTISTS, Avenuel Art Hall, Seoul, Korea
  Landscape and People, Cairns Regional Gallery, Australia
  Micro Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2016    
  Private Square, Wumin Art Center, Chungju, Korea
  AR Town, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea
  Eok-Jo-Chang-Saeng(億造創生) 2016, the 3rd Changwon Sculpture Biennale, Changwon, Korea
  Paul of Peace DMZ project, DMZ Camp Gerbils, Paju, Korea 
  OLD and New, Kansong Museum, Seoul, Korea
  ASIA Young 36, Jeonbuk Museum of Fine Art, Jeonju, Korea 
  Analog Welcome, Digital Archive, Kuandu Museum of Fine Arts, Taiwan
  Pungrunamdo Project _Temple Miwhangsa, Jaha museum, Heynam, Korea
  Pungrunamdo Project _Gongjea, Hyenam, Korea
  Place & Footnote, Seoul Art Space Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
  Ulsan art project, Gagi gallery, Ulsan, Korea
  Festival284_Crazy square, Culture station 284, RTO, Seoul, Korea
  Hyundai Brilliant Memory 2016, Buk Seoul Museum of ART(SEMA), Seoul, Korea
  Gyeonggi Zapga, Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
  The Third Zone, Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea        
  
  2015    
  Jirisan Project 2015: Universe·Art·Zip, Silsangsa Budist temple, Namwon, Korea
  Korea Tomorrow 2015, Sungkok Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Culture Seoul 284, Fastival 284-Mad square, Seoul, Korea
  Asian Contemporary Exhibition 2015, Jeonbuk Museum of Art, Jeonju, Korea
  CIGE, Beijing, China
  SeMA shot: ‘Shadowy Empire’, Nam Seoul museum of Art (South), Seoul, Korea
  SeMA Support Concert 2015, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  peace voice nice, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea
  
  2014
  The Brain, 2014 Project Daejeon Beinnale, Daejeon Museum of Art, Korea
  Moving Image Zone East, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
  Expanding Recognition, Seokdang Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  2014 DREAM SOCIETY: X brid 2nd The Brilliant Art Project, Seoul Museum, Korea
  Weaving Viewpoint, Space Cottonseed gallery, Singapore
  New Monsters, Goyang Aram Nuri Aram Museum Art gallery, Goyang, Korea
  Jirisan Project 2014: Universe·Art·Zip, Silsangsa Budist temple, Namwon, Korea
  The moment, We Awe: Korean contemporary Art, Sanshang Contemporary Museum of Art, Hangzhou, China
  Cultural Code, Springs center of Art, Beijing, China
  K Process, Otherness, Play, MOCATP, Taipei
  2014 Achive, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
  Warmth, Culture station 284, Seoul, Korea
  Re presentacines, Korean Art Centre Spain, Madrid, Spain
  TRANSFER KOREA-NRW 2011/12/13, Loop gallery, ARKO Museum, Seoul, Korea
  
  2013    
  TRANSFER KOREA-NRW 2011/12/13, Kunsthalle Dusseldorf, OSTHAUS museum Hagen, Germany
  Crystallize – New Media Art Lab UK & Korea, Old Billingsgate, London, UK
  #1_SCENES VS SCENES, Seoul museum of Art Bukseoul, Seoul, Korea
  Incheon Art Club 2013 PLATFORM FESTIVAL & OPEN STUDIO, INCHEON ART PLATFORM, Incheon, Korea
  The 3th IPAP Interview with Beangnyeong Island 525,600 time, INCHEON ART PLATFORM, Incheon, Korea & Bunker # 7 NLL Beangnyeong Island, Korea
  TRANSFORM Exhibition, Bangkok Art and Culture Centre & Korean Cultural Center, Bangkok, Thailand
  PLAY, Seoul Art centre, Seoul, Korea
  Corea Campanella in Venice 2013- what if_in venice, HOTEL Amadeus and Hotel Principe. Venice, Italy
  Archive, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Historical Parade: Images from elsewhere, Art Lab AIch Nagoya, Japan
  Move on Asia, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany
  New & Now_2012 New Collections, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  
  2012    
  Dream Walking in the Magical Reality, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  TOTAL SUPPORT 2012, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Move on Asia, CASA ASIA, LABORAL Art centre, Spain
  Historical Parade: Images from elsewhere, CASO SPACE GALLERY, Osaka, Japan
  Cynical resistance, Canvas International gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Cynical resistance, Nieuw Dakota project gallery, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  Historical Parade; Images from elsewhere, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  SHOW MUST GO ON _ presentation in Chelsea College, London, UK
  Thoughts on Body, Soma Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Move on Asia, Seogyo art center, Seoul, Korea
  12Rooms _ 12 Events, Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
  IN THE LOOP, Alternative Space LOOP, Seoul, Korea
  
  2011    
  The spectrum of Korean art, Kaohsiung museum of fine arts, Taiwan
  OTAL SUPPORT 2011, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
  Two gardens, Nanji studio gallery, Seoul, Korea
  5th Open studio_ Nanji Studio, Seoul, Korea
  Root of Imagination, Gallery Absinthe, Seoul, Korea
  Fashion into Art, Samsung Museum Plateau, Seoul, Korea
  Korean Rhapsody - Crossing the history, Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Moving Fast - Inspirational Pan-Asian Artists Screening, Loop gallery, Seoul, Korea
  
  2010    
  Enormous eyes, The Guild Mumbai, Mumbai, India
  City States – Media Landscape, Zone East, Liverpool Biennial 2010, Contemporary Urban Centre, Liverpool, UK; The Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
  Korean Contemporary Art, PLASTIC GARDEN, Minsheng Art Museum, Shanghai, China
  ‘A' Documenta, King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
  A Different Similarity – Aktuelle Kunst aus Korea, Kunstverein Bochum, Bochum, Germany
  
  2009   
  Variety, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Beginning of New Era, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  Peppermint Candy: Contemporary Art from Korea, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  A Different Similarity: Towards the Sea, SantralIstanbul, Istanbul, Turkey
  Trans-Dimensional Interesting Dynamics in New Korean Painting, Prague Biennale, Karlin Hall, Prague, Czech Republic
  After Gogo: New Era of Korean Art 2009, The Bienniel of Graphic Arts, Cankarjevdom Gallery, Ljubljana, Slovenia
  The Meaning of Meals – Eight Stories, Goyang Aram Nuri Aram Art Gallery, Goyang, Korea
  Doors Open – Don’t Panic, Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, US
  Doors Open – Open Doors, Gallery Korea of the Korean Culture Service NY, New York, US
  Saving by Design Plus+, Korea Design Foundation, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008   
  Modest Monuments: Contemporary Art from Korea, King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
  Correspondence, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Expenditure, Busan Biennale 2008, Busan, Korea
  The 3rd Nanjing Triennial 2008, Nanjing Museum, Nanjing, China
  Design Made 2008-Saving by Design, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul, Korea
  2008 Catlin Art Prize, LSO Space, London, UK
  Technique of Deviation, Interalia Art Company, Seoul, Korea
  Good Morning, Mr. Nam June PAIK, Korean Cultural Centre UK, London, UK
  Is the World Flat?, Arti et Amicitiae, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
  2007    
  hey jude, Gallery Royal, Seoul, Korea
  The art of consumption, White Cross Gallery, London, UK
  Black Powder + White Party, Kyung Hee University Museum of Arts, Seoul, Korea
  Jungle Juice, Gallery em, Seoul, Korea
  Encounter with Contemporary Asian Art, Pocheon Asia Biennale 2007, Pocheon Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea
  Contemporary Korean Art – Wonderland, National Art Museum of China, Beijing, China
  Multiple Intimacy, Osman Hamdi Exhibition Space, Mimar Sinan University, Istanbul, Turkey
  Contemporary Art from Korea – Peppermint Candy, Museo Nacional de Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina; Museum of Contemporary Art, Santiago, Chile
  Postgraduate Visual Arts Degree Show 2007, Goldsmiths College, London, UK
  Pilot :3 – Live Archive for Artists & Curators, Monastery of St. Damien and St. Cosimo, La Giudecca, Venice, Italy
  Free Particles: New Generation of Korean Artists in Europe, Cité Internationale des Arts, Paris, France
  The Drawing Show, Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea
  Matter of Urbanity, Among Other Things (Cuestiones, entre otras, de urbanidad), Canal de Isabel II, Madrid, Spain
  
  2006    
  Still Dynamics: The Korean Contemporary Art Show, The Jerwood Space, London, UK
  Alllooksame? / Tutttuguale? – Art from China, Japan and Korea, Fondazione Sandretto Re Rebaudengo Torino, Italy
  Circuit Diagram London: An exchange of curatorial ideas from Britain, Japan & Korea, Cell Project Space, London, UK
  Art in Life – Living Furniture, Busan Biennale 2006, Busan, Korea
  EXPOSED: black box & crystal ball, Harrods Department Store, London, UK; London County Hall, London, UK
  On Difference #2, Württembergischer Kunstverein Stuttgart, Stuttgart, Germany
  
  2005    
  ATTITUDE: video/ short & experimental film/ photography festival, Cultural Center Magaza, Bitola, Macedonia
  Pocheon Asia Biennale 2005, Pocheon Banweol Art Hall, Pocheon, Korea
  OK.VideoSUB/VERSION, Jakarta Video Festival, Galeri Nasional Indonesia, Jakarta, Indonesia
  Banana Surfer, Ieum Gallery, Beijing, China
  Post IMF, Art Ark Gallery, Shanghai, China
  
  2004    
  Digital Homo Ludens (Game and Play), Media City Seoul – International Biennale of Media Art, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  JACK!, Contemporary Art and Spirits, Osaka, Japan  
  Il gioco dell’assurdo – il corpo ludico (The Game of the Absurd – The Body Play), Video. IT 2004 – Il Gioco del Corpo, SPACE, Torino, Italy
  The Hall – The Cutting Edge East Asia, Tsinghua University Museum of Art, Beijing, China
  SeNef (Seoul Net Festival), Hollywood Cinema, Seoul, Korea
  Digispace 2004, Gallery THE SPACE, Seoul, Korea
  Move on Asia: Animation & Single Channel Video Art Festival, SBS Broadcasting Center Mokdong, Seoul, Korea; Remo, Osaka, Japan; + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  MAC (Media, Art, Culture) 2004: Crash and Flow, Sinchon Art Festival, Seodaemun Prison History Hall, Seoul, Korea
  Unusual Combination, + Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  SEFORMA (Seoul Forum for Media Art), Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
  Out the Window: Spaces of Distraction, Japan Foundation Asia Center, Tokyo, Japan; Project Space Zip, Seoul, Korea; DDM Warehouse, Shanghai, China
  Thai Film Festival, Bangkok, Thailand
  M Gallery, Art Center Nabi, Seoul, Korea
  AVICON (Asia Videoart Conference), VIDEOART CENTER Tokyo, Japan; Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia
  
  2003    
  Books in Resemblance of Persons, Persons in Resemblance of Books, Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Jiff MIND (Jeonju International Film Festival – Mobile INteractive Digital), [plug.in], Basel, Switzerland
  Where is my friend's home?, Rooseum Center for Contemporary Art, Malmö, Sweden
  Dumbo Art Festival, New York, US
  Video on Demand, Galerie PICI, Seoul, Korea
  Digital Salon, Art Space Hue(休), Seoul, Korea
  Wedding, Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
  Circle for Circle, Gallery FISH, Seoul, Korea
  S.O.S.: Junge Kunst aus Korea (Young Artists from Korea), Galerie Weisser Elefant, Berlin, Germany
  CITY ZOOM 2003, International Film & Art Festival, Bremen, Germany
  Mobile INteractive Digital, Jeonju International Film Festival (JIFF), Jeonju, Korea
  Charity, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
  International +System, Video Festival 2002-2003, BizArt Center, Shanghai, China
  A Name Card, alternative space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  
  2002    
  Variables in the Visual Experiment, The 2nd Indie Video Festival, i-Gong Alternative Visual Culture Factory, Seoul, Korea
  Crash, The 28th Seoul Independent Film Festival (SIFF 2002), Seoul Art Cinema, Seoul, Korea; Miro Space, Seoul, Korea
  Lucky Seoul, the Alternative Space Network Exhibition – City and Visual Images “My Own Private Seoul”, Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea
  Coming to Our House, Darling Art Foundation, Seoul, Korea
  The Color of Korea, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea; Iwate Prefectural Museum of Art, Iwate, Japan; Osaka Museum of Modern Art, Osaka, Japan; Aichi Prefectural Museum of Art, Nagoya, Japan
  Living Furniture, supplement space Stone & Water, Anyang, Korea
  Real_interface: swimming across your eyes, Space imA, Seoul, Korea
  Interproject – Symbiosis, Incheon Culture & Arts Center, Incheon, Korea
  Paradise Among Us, Korea Culture Art Foundation (KCAF) Art Center, Seoul, Korea

Selected Awards

• 2019    
  Contributors of Overseas Culture Promotion, Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul, Korea
  
  2019    
  GAPADO International Residency by Hyundaicard company, Jeju, Korea
  
  2016   
  Seoul Art Foundation, Geumcheon art factory regidency, Seoul, Korea
  
  2015    
  Artist of the year, MMCA + SBS culture foundation
  
  2013    
  Incheon Art Platform Residency, Inchon, Korea
  
  2012    
  Transfer Korea-Germany NRW 2013 artist, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf Germany
  
  2010-11
  Doosan Residency Artist, New York, US
  
  2009   
  Today's Young Artist Prize, Korean Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul, Korea
  
  2008   
  Nominated the Rolex Mentor and Protégé Arts Initiative, Geneva, Switzerland
  Nominated 2008 Catlin Art Prize, London, UK
  The National Art Studio – Changdong, Seoul, Korea
  
  2007    
  Solo exhibition, A Palace of Mirages, at King's Lynn Arts Centre supported by British Council, UK
  The National Art Studio – Changdong, Seoul, Korea

Selected Public and Private Collections

• +Gallery, Nagoya, Japan
  alternative space Loop, Seoul, Korea
  Art Sonje Center, Seoul, Korea
  Busan Contemporary Museum of Art, Busan, Korea
  Daejeon Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea
  Deagu Art Museum, Deagu, Korea
  Doosan art center, Seoul, Korea / New York, US 
  F2 Gallery, Beijing, China
  Gyeonggi Museum of Art, Ansan, Korea
  Hyundai Motors company, Korea
  Inchon Art Platform and Art bank Inchon, Inchon, Korea
  Kaywon High School of Arts, Seongnam, Korea
  King's Lynn Art Centre, Norfolk, UK
  Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
  Mongin Art Center, Seoul, Korea
  National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
  National Museum of Contemporary of Art, Art Bank Korea, Gwacheon, Korea
  SAMUSO: space for contemporary art, Seoul, Korea
  Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
  Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
  Tate Members Collection, UK