BIOGRAPHY
Kimi Kim has been working in various genres including textile, woodcraft, print, lacquer, graphic design and ceramics since 1994. After graduating in Ceramics Design from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, she has been focusing more on ceramics. Her works feature delicate forms inspired by nature, such as trees, leaves, and petals made from fragile materials, such as ceramic and “paper clay”. These forms represent the nature of love and care in Kim’s personal life and how these relationships and beacons of joy are impossibly fragile, yet indescribably precious.
People always live longing for what they can or can’t have dreaming of achieving something. In my first series, I wanted to talk about women’s desires and thirst through Chanel bags, but they expressed their desire to be jealous and disdain because they couldn’t have it in the closet, and they couldn’t have it in the form of a torn bag.
The second desire series LEGO is looking back at my childhood when I see the LEGO blocks my kids play with, and we always have a desire to achieve something, but we are a little bit concentric and built up some form of LEGO blocks as I want. Why don’t we all become artists.
EDUCATION
2015 UrbanGlass Class for Imagery
2007 BA University of the Arts of London Central Saint Martins, London, UK Specialization: Ceramics
2006 London College of Art – Camberwell Foundation
1998 BA Silla University, Busan, Korea
1992 - 1994 Industrial Design & Craft, Busan Women’s College, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2023 Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York
A Blooming Resilience
LA Art Show
Shatto Gallery, LA (Group Exhibition)
2022 Miami beach Art Show
Gallery Mare, Galleries Art Fair Setec, Seoul, South Korea
Gallery Mare, “I choose to be GRATEFUL“, Paradise Hotel, Busan, South Korea
2021 Artful living Project, Bergdorf Goodman X Waterfall Mansion Gallery, Bergdorf Goodman, NY
2020 Artful Living Campaign, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
(RESTORE) To Beloved Artists, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
2019 Consider the Butterflies, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
Re:collection, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
Sidexside, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
Sea Beyond, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
Transfiguration, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
Be still, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
2018 Infinite Grace2, Alpine, NJ
Infinite Grace, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
2017 Bergdorf Goodman, NY
Inside the Flower Matrix, Collaboration of Claudia Hart, Transfer Gallery, NY
Artful Living, West Village Printing House, NY
New Book: 2017, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
Moving Image Immersive Media, Art Fair, NY, in collaboration of Claudia Hart, NY
Da Vinci Creative 2017, Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, Korea
A Sustaining Life, Bergdorf Goodman, NY
Re:collection, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
Inside the Flower Matrix, Collaboration of Claudia Hart, James Thompson Gallery, NY
2016 SUMMER CELEBRATION, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
The Needs for My Care, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
2015 Alice’s Tea Set, Collaboration of Claudia Hart, Eye Beam Gallery, NY
Fermented Souls, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY
2014 Welcome to Alice’s Giftshop!, Collaboration of Claudia Hart, New Museum Store Project, NY
2013 MANMULSANG, Lotte Gallery Main Branch, Seoul, Korea
WAVE, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NY (Solo Exhibition)
T.R.E.E, Avery, NY
2007 Camberwell Graduation show
Graduation Show, University of the Arts of London Central Saint Martins, UK
1998 Graduation Show, Silla University, Korea
1996 Life and Soil, Hyundai Department Gallery, Seoul, Korea