Jaewon Kim explores the intersections of visibility, memory, and spatiotemporal experience through video, writing, and photography, capturing feelings of intimacy and loss by way of objects and landscapes. Situated within the contexts surrounding queerness and HIV, he gathers residues produced through infection and traces invisible relationships, approaching infection not as a temporal “after” but as a state in which experiences, memories, and relations remain layered and unresolved. Rather than reproducing specific narratives, he rearranges the ways in which events linger and, from the position of both experiencer and observer, formally examines the conditions of post-AIDS and biopolitics through open-ended processes.
His work has been shown internationally in Seoul, Berlin, Amsterdam, Taipei, Brisbane, Philadelphia and New York. His videos have been screened at institutions and festivals including the Whitney Museum (US), Philadelphia Museum of Art (US), Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival (KR), and Busan International Video Art Festival (KR). His exhibitions have been held at venues such as Humboldt Forum (DE), C-LAB (TW), Buk-Seoul Museum of Art (KR), and Asian Art Initiative (US). He has been commissioned by Busan Museum of Art (KR), Visual AIDS (US), and HIV Science as Art (AUS), and was selected as an artist-in-residence at the MMCA Residency Goyang (2024) and Nanji Residency SeMA (2026).
Education
MFA, Fine Arts, Sungkyunkwan University, Seoul, KR
BFA, Fine Arts, Dong-a University, Busan, KR
Solo Shows
2023 Hazy Scenes, Elephantspace, Seoul, KR
2021 Romantic Fantasy, SPACE Four One Three, Seoul, KR
2020 Back then, If Bell Doesn’t Ring, ROOM 806-2, Seoul, KR
Selected Group Shows / Screenings
2026 Spectrosynthesis Seoul, Art Sonje Center, Seoul, KR
2026 Porn Film Festival Amsterdam, Amsterdam, NL (screening)
2025 Nothing as Our Ground, Museum of Asian Art, Humboldt Forum, Berlin, DE
2025 Queer Visions 2025, Doshisha University Clover Hall, Kyoto, JP (screening)
2025 Ballet with the Devil, PODIUM, HK
2025 Incurable Alliance, Taiwan Contemporary Culture Lab (C-LAB), Taipei, TW
2025 Vision and Perspective 2025 (presented by Busan Museum of Art), Sungkok Art Museum, Seoul, KR
2024 Screen Specter: Echoes of Identity and Voice, K-cine, Seoul, KR (screening)
2024 As It Always Ends Up Like This, MMCA Residency Goyang, Goyang, KR
2024 we, alone, in the dark, YPC SPACE, Seoul, KR
2023 HIV Science as Art, Metro Arts, Brisbane, Queensland, AU
2023 Flare, WESS, Seoul, KR
2023 After that blue, Fragment Gallery, New York, US
2023 Center Shift, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
2023 FdS Festival-Sexuality Gender Affect Art Festival, Arsenic, Lausanne, CH (screening)
2023 Inventing Love 101, space imsi, Incheon, KR
2023 Now What?, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2023 The Body You Want, Asian Arts Initiative, Philadelphia, US
2022 Being & Belongings (presented by Visual AIDS), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY / New Museum, New York, NY / Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles, LA, CA / Philadelphia Museum of Art, Philadelphia, PA / Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Chicago, IL / Art Sonje Center Art Hall, Seoul, KR / Vtape, Toronto, CA / 148+ Screenings Worldwide (screening)
2022 Face_to_Face 2021, Ulsan Art Museum, Ulsan, KR
2021 Actually, the Dead Are Not Dead, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul & Anseong, KR
2021 Seoul International PRIDE Film Festival, CGV Cine Library, Seoul, KR (screening)
2020 Corners4 : We Move We, Keep in Touch, Seoul, KR
2019 PERFORM2019 Linkin-out, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul / Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR
2018 Soshoroom : The Video Showroom, Soshoroom, Seoul, KR
2017 October, The People Walking in Darkness, Space Heem, Busan, KR
2017 BlaBlaBlind, The Book Society, Seoul, KR (screening)
Curatorial
2024 Day With(out) Art: Asia Focus, MMCA Residency Goyang / K-Arts / SALT, KR (screening, Co-curated with Dayun Ryu)
Residencies
2026 SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2024 MMCA Residency Goyang, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Goyang, KR
Awards / Grants
2025 K-arts on the GO grant, Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange (KOFICE), KR
2025 Vision and Perspective Selected Artist, Busan Museum of Art, KR
2025 International Project Grant, Arts Council Korea, KR
2024 Project Grant, Pohang Cultural Foundation, KR
2024 Canada-Korea Co-creation Fund (Collaboration with artist Mikiki), Canada Council for the Arts, CA
2023 International Exchange Grant, Arts Council Korea, KR
2023 HIV Science as Art Selected Artist, HIV Science as Art / NAPWHA, AU
2023 Project Grant, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2022 International Exchange Grant for Young Artists, Arts Council Korea, KR
2021 Day With(out) Art 2022 Selected Artist, Visual AIDS, US
2021 Portfolio Selected Artist, Ulsan Art Museum, KR
2021 Visual Art Publication Translation Support, Korea Art Management Service, KR
2021 Geumcheon Artist Lab, Geumcheon Foundation for Arts and Culture, KR
2021 Project Grant, Gyeongju Foundation of Arts and Culture, KR
2020 Ivancity Queer Culture Fund, Beyond the Rainbow Foundation, KR
2018 SDU Art Prize Winner, SDU, KR
2017 Seoul Young Artist Group Support Program, Seoul Metropolitan Government, KR
Collection
Ulsan Art Museum, KR
