Sajik Kim started her artistic career inspired by her own perpetually fluctuating physical/spiritual identity as “Korean Diaspora.” While working as a photographer, she also practices traditional Korean dance under the master Iruchi Kim, pursuing new possibilities that could be born out of the trauma resulting from history and ethnic spirit handed down through generations among the Korean Diaspora. Currently Kim continues her research in Sakhalin with support from Japan-Sakhalin Association and other organizations. Kim published an anthology of her photographic work with Akaaka Art Publishing Inc in Kyoto in 2022. Awards include the Grand Prix at Canon’s New Cosmos of Photography in 2016 and the Kyoto Prefecture’s Cultural Encouragement Prize in 2022.

Solo exhibition

2022 Vassel walking on mountain, PURPLE, Kyoto, Japan
2020 White rainbow, The Flames of ALU, THEATRE E9 KYOTO, Kyoto, Japan
2017 STORY, artspace NIJI, Kyoto, Japan
2017 The Night of a Full Moon, a Man Builds a Grave and a Woman Eats Pinecones, Tokyo Metropolitan Museum of Photography, Tokyo, Japan
2016 STORY, artspace NIJI, Tokyo, Japan
2015 STORY, artspace NIJI, Kyoto, Japan

Group show

2023 Waters in asian ART, Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan
2022 SAJIK KIM MAYUNKIKI MAKIKOYAMAMOTO, HANBEIFU GOJYO building, Kyoto, Japan
2022 Culture City of East Asia Ooita「I am here vo.2」, Takeda City Museum of History and Culture, Ooita, Japan
2020 culture city of East Asia KITAKYUSHU “Mojiko art wharf”, Sankiro-bilding, Fukuoka, Japan
2020 -The vision of contemporary art-VOCA2020, The Ueno Royal Museum, Tokyo, Japan
2018 ROKKO photographic garden, Rokko Alpine Botanical Garden, Hyogo, Japan
2018 Archive the archive, Mizunoki museum, Kyoto, Japan
2018 Kyoto Selected New Artists Exhibition - Kyoto Art for Tomorrow, The Museum of Kyoto, Kyoto, Japan
2017 Ascending Art Annual Vol.1「Shapes and Figures」, Spiral, Tokyo, Japan
2017 showcase#6 “storytelling”, eN arts, Kyoto, Japan
2016 Canon New Cosmos of Photography
2016 Art Court Frontier 2016 #14, Art cort gallery, Osaka, Japan

Biennale

Busan Biennale 2014 Special Exhibition - Asian Curatorial ※ curated by Seo Juno

Prize

2024 Kyoto City Art Newcomer Award, Japan
2022 9th Gokseong-gun National Arts Festival ministerial award (traditional dance award), Korea
2022 The 40th Kyoto Prefecture Culture Award Encouraging Prize, Japan
2016 39th Canon New Cosmos of Photography 2016 Grand Prix, Japan

Published

2022 Photo book STORY published by AKAAKA Art Publishing Inc.

Others

2019 Agency for Cultural Affairs, Government of Japan - Program of Overseas Study for Upcoming Artists 2019 -Stay in Yuzhno-Sakhalinsk Oblast, Russia

Collection

Fukuoka Asian Art Museum