Jinhee Kim
2019 Solo Exhibition
October 1~8, 2019
Opening Reception: Saturday, 10/05 6-8 pm
Jinhee Kim fills and erases her canvas through her imagination. She visualizes her inspiration, which is her vent of illusion, and puts words and orders onto the canvas. She might have identified a dream through her unconscious mind. A dreamer simply accepts the situations of images without any objection. Kim, however, captures those images and combines them with her sense for visual composition. She collects those images to fulfill her aesthetic desire or allow them to change into new images with changed meaning. Her works are not merely facilitators of communication because they don’t directly reveal the stories to the viewer. For Kim, her art is more about provoking an enigma rather than appealing to her audiences by manufacturing a world within painting. She liberates representational functions of colors and forms, which were the original duty of art, and she describes and imitates the visible world, as well as revealing her repressed identities within her inner world. The style is very infantile, and her wits overcome it. Also, Kim reproduces the essentials of nature in non-representational ways; therefore, her paintings are like nature that does not want to be disturbed or decorated - nature includes the truth, but doesn’t reveal it. Her works are appreciated as nature-like repositories of imagination, enabling maximum polysemy thinking with minimal expression. Lastly, she paints as if she is enjoying the freedom of the moment.
CV:
Education:
Bachelor at Chosun Univ.
Master of art at Hongik Univ.
28+ Private Exhibitions (Seoul, Incheon, Beijing, Shanghai, Rotterdam)
Art Fairs including KIAF (2015, 2016, 2018, Seoul), SOAF (2010, 2014, 2016, Seoul), Hong Kong Art Fair (2014), Bexco (2014), ARTAMOY (2018 Fujian), Singapore Art Fair (2014), Kunstmesse Rotterdam (2010), Korea Galleries Art Fair (1999, 2015, Seoul)
Select Group Exhibitions:
100th Anniv. of Korean Immigration to the US Exhibition (LA)
Invitation Exhibition of Petersburg (Russia)
Korean-Turkish Contemporary Art Exchange Exhibition (Ankara, Istanbul)
Yeosu EXPO, 2012 Line & Color Invitation Exhibition
SeonKwang Culture Foundation Invitation Exhibition (Incheon)
Frankfurt Invitation Exhibition (Germany), Korea-Germany Artists Association Exhibition (Germany)
100 Artists of Korea and Japan Exhibition (Tokyo)
Hawaii- Incheon Exchange Exhibition (Hawaii)
Incheon- Shanghai Exchange Exhibition (Shanghai)
Incheon- Shandong Exchange Exhibition (Shandong)
Korean Contemporary Arts Exhibition (Austria)
Japan Chungchu Exhibition (Tokyo)
Beijing International Arts Expo Exhibition (Beijing)
PY Gallery Opening Exhibition (Incheon)
Incheon Women Artists’ Biennale (Incheon)
Glow Worm Exhibition (Incheon)
Island Travel Exhibition (Incheon)
Kwangju Art Vision (Kwangju)
Southern Contemporary Arts Exhibition (Ulsan)
People and people Exhibition (Incheon)
Incheon Festive International Exhibition (Incheon)
International Women’s Arts Exhibition (Kwangju)
Korea-India Exchange Exhibition Art (Art platform)
ZeroSum Exhibition (Incheon)
Incheon University Artspacein Opening Invitation Exhibition (Incheon),
other 300+ Group Exhibitions.
Member of Line and Color, AFI, Korean Women Artists, Mujin, and ZeroSum
