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Mermaid pudding
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 152 x 180 cm©the artist
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The willow tree
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 180 x 270 cm©the artist
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The moonlight
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 157 x 140 cm©the artist
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Who is your mum?
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 60 x 53 cm©the artist
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Whirlpool of the emotion
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 208 x 152 cm©the artist
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The moon in the ocean
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 176 x 180 cm©the artist
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The night gallery
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 180 x 221 cm©the artist
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Song of the fire
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 65 x 53 cm©the artist
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Reflection
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 180 x 149 cm©the artist
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The moment of silence
, Minyoung Kim, 2021, acrylic on unstretched canvas, 43.5 x 35.5 cm©the artist
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Minyoung Kim – MA/MFA
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2019 - 2021
The Slade School of Fine Art
MFA2012 - 2014
Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
MFA Printmaking2008 - 2012
Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
BA Western PaintingPublications
2021
ArtMaze Magazine Issue 22Awards
2020
Max Werner Drawing Prize (nomination)Terence Cuneo Award
Exhibitions
Solo Exhibitions
2018
The Night was Young (Selected Artist in Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture)
Place Mak, Laser, Seoul, South Korea2016
The Wrecked Spaceship (Selected Artist in Beginners Project 2016)
Seogyo art space, Seoul, South Korea2016
The floating utopia (Selected Artist in Doll gallery)
Doll Gallery, Seoul, South Korea2014
Belt 2014 (Selected Artist)
Lee Hwaik Gallery, Seoul, South KoreaGroup Exhibitions
2020 Slade Runner, ASC gallery, London, UK
2018 Seamless, Space Can, Seoul
2016 New Drawing Project, Yanju City Chang Uc Chin Museum of Art, Gyeonggi-Do
2015 Breathing House Project 2, Thinking, Kimi Art Gallery, SeoulExperience
Residency
2018 Marymod House with Can Foundation, Seoul
Minyoung Kim – MA/MFA
I paint on unstretched raw canvas without the priming process. Before these types of canvas works were created, I made numerous paper drawings and now I think the way I paint most naturally resembles my drawings. The texture of the finished work expresses a blurry or softer feeling, such as one drawn with oil pastels or conté.
As for the work image, my canvas contains memories, anxiety, regret, desire, dreams, and everything inside me that I may not be able to express myself directly. I sincerely project myself onto the canvas. Sometimes I become a weak mermaid, a human-harming cat, and a woman with a threatening knife. On the other hand, my work is not only creepy but also cute. This can be seen as a mixture of heterogeneity, which is a dissonance of grotesque characteristics. The ironic scenes that evoke laughter with bizarre, eerie, mysterious feelings reflect another inner state, and are two sides of psychological anxiety and conflict to resolve it. I postulate this ambivalence word in my painting as creepy-cute.