KIM Jihee

Profile

Lives and works in Seoul. Graduated with MFA Fine Art, Goldsmiths, University of London in 2013.
Jihee Kim questions data regarding the “physical utopias” that are planted in our perceptions, seeking answers to the question of why we must always submit to beauty. Redefining the human body as a “deficient utopia,” she transforms this space of tragedy into a festival of distorted, deformed bodies, and a space of theatre. In this alternative utopia, Kim traces and digs down into memories of the body, translating them into the language of drawing and painting.


Recent Exhibitions
"Uncanny Skin" Solo exhibition, Gallery SoSo, Paju, 2019
”B.P [body proofs]" Solo exhibition, ThisWeekendRoom, Seoul, 2019
"Signs under Skin" Solo exhibition, out_sight, Seoul, 2018
"Unclosed Pages" Solo exhibition, The Pier-2 Art Centre+TOOLS to LIVEBY,2018
"From the most intense to the most secretive" Solo exhibition, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, 2018

Awards, etc.
Arts support, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, South Korea (2017)
National Endowment Fund for Culture and the Arts-International Exchange, Arts Council Korea, South Korea (2016)
Goldsmiths, University of London, Wardens Purchase Prize Winner (2013)

About works / performance