New York, NY
Born 1957, Taegu, Korea
Visual Artist
My work combines performance, video and installation addressing issues of the displaced self and others. I've been trying to bring together a conceptual, logical and structural investigation of performance through immobility that inverts the notion of the artist as the predominant actor. Refusing to draw a systematic play of contrasts into any sort of tension charged dialectical relationship, I instead try to achieve a delicate equilibrium that opposite poles are brought to the fore as a natural basis for harmony: inserting myself as both subject and object of the viewer's gaze, an individual and an abstraction, a specific woman and every woman, instrument and actress, motionless and purposeful, balancing between presence and absence, wishing that the fact of what the eye sees is a truism.
1980 B.F.A., Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
1984 M.A., Painting, Hong-Ik University, Seoul, Korea
2006 Visiting Artist, School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL
2007 A Wind Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, NY
2006 To Breathe - A mirror woman (Respirar - Una mujer espejo), a site-specific installation at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina SofÃÂÂa, Madrid
To Breathe / Respirare, a site-specific installation at La Fenice Theater, in conjunction with a joint solo exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy
Kimsooja, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweden
2005 Conditions of Anonymity, video and performance at The 59th Minute: Video Art on the Times Square Astrovision, Creative Time, New York, NY
2004-2003 Conditions of Humanity, traveling solo show, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany; Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, Milan, Italy; Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France
2003 Kim Sooja, Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
2001 A Needle Woman, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, Long Island City, NY
2000 A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 Anonymous Was a Woman Award, Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation, New York, NY
Artist of the American Art Award, Commissioned by Whitney Museum of American Art, sponsored by Cartier Co., New York, NY
1992-93 Artist in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York, NY
1984 Awarded French Government Scholarship for Lithography, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
