Kim BoMin produces works by connecting personal experiences with diverse signals through such forms as painting, drawing and wall painting. Kim depicts the cultural landscape where traditions, modernity, mountains and rivers, landscape and cities are mixed up within the context of landscape paintings. Kim tests the potential and boundaries of traditional media by experimenting with materials. Kim wanders in lost time, remembers the times that did not respond, and draws a landscape of possibilities. Kim has held a solo exhibition titled The Foreign Country (021 Gallery, Daegu, Korea, 2022), The Isle (Sansumunhwa, Seoul, Korea, 2021), I Was Far Away (PS SARUBIA, Seoul, Korea, 2019), Distant Voices (POSCO Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, 2016) while participating in many group exhibitions at home and abroad including When the Lemon Becomes Its Own Shadow (WESS, Seoul, Korea, 2021), One Shiny Day (National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India, 2019), Salt of Jungle (Vietnamese Women's Museum, Hanoi, VIetnam, 2018), Permeated Perspective (Doosan Gallery, New York, USA, 2013).
Kim is a winner of the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, Soorim Art Prize and Superior Prize of the Joongang Fine Arts Prize. Kim participated in a number of residency programs, including SeMA Nanji Residency (Seoul, Korea, 2023), IAP (Incheon, Korea, 2021), MMCA (Goyang, Korea, 2020) and ARNA (Lund, Sweden, 2018). Kim's works are housed at MMCA, SeMA, POSCO Art Museum, Microsoft Art Collection and UBS Art Collection.
Education
2005 M.F.A in Oriental Painting, Duksung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
2003 B.F.A in Oriental Painting, Duksung Women's University, Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022 The Foreign Country, 021 Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2021 The Isle, Sansumunhwa, Seoul, Korea
2019 I Was Far Away, PS SARUBIA, Seoul, Korea
2016 Distant Voices, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 Corner House, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Now-Here, CAIS Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong
2010 Diary of Drifting, CAIS Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2006 The Settlement, doART Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 Time States, SNU Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2021 Ahuh darongdiri, This Weekend Room, Seoul, Korea
2021 When the Lemon Becomes Its Own Shadow, WESS, Seoul, Korea
2020 Tongui 7-33, Art Space 3, Seoul, Korea
2020 As after sunset fadeth in the west, Wooran Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2019 One Shiny Day, National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, India
2019 The New Highway of Ink, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2019 Mindful Landscape, Daejeon Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea
2018 Salt of Jungle, Vietnamese Women's Museum, Hanoi, Vietnam
2018 The Mysterious Landscape of Steel, Posco Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
2017 Salt of Jungle, KF Gallery/Asean Culture House, Seoul/Busan, Korea
2017 Incheon Museum of Art, Space Imsi, Incheon, Korea
2016 From the Landscape, Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea
2016 How to Sit, Indipress, Seoul, Korea
2014 LINE-Drawing, Wumin Art Center, CheongJoo, Korea
2013 Permeated Perspective, Doosan Gallery, New York, USA
2013 The Real Mirror, OCI Museum, Seoul, Korea
2011 Exploring New Lands, JanKossen Contemporary, Basel, Swiss
2011 Korean Paintings, 16bungee/Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea
2010 Korean Painting Fantasy, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Double Fantasy, Genichiro-Inokuma Museum of Art, Kagawa, Japan
2007 Fast Break, PKM Gallery, Beijing, China
2007 Another Home, CAIS Gallery Hong Kong, Hong Kong
Residencies
2023 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2021 IAP Residency, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon, Korea
2020 MMCA Residency Goyang, MMCA, Goyang, Korea
2018 ARNA Residency, ARNA, Lund, Sweden
Awards
2023 Soorim Art Prize, Soorim Cultural Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2018 Grant of the PKF, The Pollock-Krasner Foundation, NY, USA
2005 Superior Prize of the Joongang Fine Arts Prize, Newspaper Joongang, Seoul, Korea
