Born in 1985 ( Republic of Korea ) Lives and works in Seoul.

GIM Ikhyun (b.1985) delves deep into the parallax between what exists and being visible, and past and present, and further speculate it through the practice of photography and writing. He recalls, imagines and scrutinizes the connection and the rupture that have been made by a world drawn with Mercator’s projection, undersea fiber-optic cables, a world of nanometers and the Global Value Chain. GIM has participated in SeMA Biennale: Mediacity Seoul 2016, (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, 2016), PUSH, PULL, DRAG (Platform-L, Seoul, 2016), A SNOWFLAKE, (Kukje Gallery, Seoul, 2017) among other group exhibitions. He also curates and organizes photography exhibitions. Between 2014 and 2016, he was running an art space called Nowhere in Seoul supporting photographic practices.

Graduate
Photography and visual media, Sang-Myung University Seoul, BFA

Solo exhibition
2017 Looming Shade, sansumunhwa, Seoul
2016 LINK PATH LAYER, space nowhere, Seoul
2012 Archetype, Artist-run space 413, Seoul

Group exhibition
2019 Finity mirror, SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY, Seoul
2019 Morden Rose, Nam-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 Tarte: Still life Painting, Audio Visual Pavilion, Seoul
2019 2018 SeMA’s New Acquisitions MULTI_ACCESS 4913, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 2017-2018 NEW ACQUISITIONS, MMCA, Gwacheon
2018 state-point, sansumunhwa, seoul
2018 steel-being, The dark inside of us, F1963, Busan
2018 Kim Chung-up Dialogue, MMCA, Gwacheon
2018 Asia Art Book Library, The Reference, Seoul
2017 A Snowflake, Kukje Gallery, Seoul
2016 SeMA Gold, X : Korean Art in the Nineties, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2016 ID: Seoul Lunar photo festival, Artspace Boan1942 facade, Seoul
2016 SeMA BIENNALE MEDIACITY SEOUL 2016, NERIRI KIRURU HARARA, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2016 Push, Pull, Drag, Platform-L, Seoul
2016 SeMA Blue, Seoul Babel, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2015 URBAN SYNESTHESIA, KAOHSIUNG MUSEUM OF FINE ARTS, KAOHSIUNG, TAIWAN
2015 Single love you cucumber massage, Takeout drawing, Seoul
2015 Flat Repository, Takeout drawing, Seoul
2015 Birth of Scene, Gallery LUX, Seoul
2014 Why can’t we see the far side of the moon?, TexasProject space, Seoul
2014 Seongbuk Documenta, Seongbuk Art Space, Seoul
2014 Miryang Document Project, Gallery ryugaheon, Seoul
2013 MEDIACITY SEOUL 2014: PRE-BIENNALE hub, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2012 Decisiveness of National Salvation, SPACE99, Seoul
2010 Il-Hyun museum Travel Grant>Ilhyun Museum. Yang-yang

Project
2019 hOle, Taipei Contemporary Art Center, Taipei
2016 30th anniversary of MMCA Gwacheon: Elephant train, nitrile gloves, flame: 1986-2016, MMCA, Gwacheon

Curatorial projects
2018 Walking, Jumping, Speaking, Writing, Seoul Photo Festival, SeMA storage, Seoul, curating
2018 Scene and phase, Culture Station 284, Seoul, co-curating
2017 Le Rayon Vert, Taste house, Seoul, co-curating
2017 Chat: SeoulLunarPhoto, co-curating (seoullunarphoto.com)
2016-2020 The Scrap, co-organize, co-curating (the-scrap.com)
2014-2016 SPACE NOWHERE directing and curating new space. (space-nowhere.com)

Publication
2019 Speculative Photography
2019 Latency
2017 Looming Shade

Awards & Program
2017 SeMA, Seoul Museum of Art has organized Emerging Artists Supporting Program

Collection
2017 National Museum of Morden and Contemporary Art, Korea
2018 Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea