Soo Kim (born 1969) is a South Korean-born American visual artist, and educator.
Biography She was born in 1969, in South Korea; and moved to Los Angeles in 1980. She earned a B.A. degree from the University of California, Riverside, and a M.F.A. degree from California Institute of the Arts.
Kim lives in Los Angeles and is on the faculty at Otis College of Art and Design. Kim often employs techniques of cutting and layering in order to introduce areas of absence or disruption in what we tend to take for granted—the interpretation of photographic images."
Kim’s work is in the collection of the J. Paul Getty Museum. In 2013, Kim was awarded the prestigious John Gutmann Photography Fellowship by the San Francisco Foundation.
Solo exhibitions Midday Moon, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2012 Black Sun, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2011 The Corners of the Sea, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, 2010 Faraway, Seaver Gallery, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA, 2010 Superheavies, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA, 2008 They Stop Looking at the Sky, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, 2006 A Week Inside Two Days, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA, 2005 The Future’s Owned By You and Me, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA, 2005 Soo Kim: New Work, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA, 2002 Soo Kim: New Work, Montgomery Gallery, Claremont, CA (catalog), 1999 Stonewashing, Bandits-mages, Bourges, France, 1995 (Carry) A Big Stick, Tropical Installations, Los Angeles, CA, 1993
Selected public collections J. Paul Getty Museum Los Angeles County Museum of Art Albright-Knox Art Gallery The Broad Foundation Judith and Michael Ovitz Collection Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy Collection Joyce and Ted Strauss Collection Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego North Carolina Museum of Art The California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara University of California, Irvine References
Further reading “Exhibitionism”, Soo Kim: They Stop Looking at the Sky, Flaunt, Issue 72, p. 249 Yang, Andrew, “Packed House”, Surface, The Annual Avant Guardian Issue: American Intelligence #56, p. 79 Kovats, Tania, “Dreams and the Nets to Catch Them”, The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing: The Primary Means of Expression, Black Dog Press Hagen, Kathryn and Parme Guintini, editors. Garb, Prentice Hall, 2006 Hoon, Jung, “Trans, Transit, Transition”, Seoul Photo Triennale catalogue and website, Seoul, Korea, 2006 Wood, Eve. ArtUS, Issue #11, Dec. ’05 – Feb. ‘06. Review for the exhibition at SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2005. New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition, Volume # 61. “Continuing and Recommended,” Art Scene. Vol. 25, No. 2. October, 2005. p. 27. Kraus, Chris. "Icons and Puzzles." ReMake/ReModel. Catalogue essay for the exhibition at SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2005. Valentine, Christina. "Myopic Dreams: The Elusiveness of Sight." ReMake/ReModel. Catalogue essay for the exhibition at SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2005. Walsh, Daniella, “Orange Blossoms”, Riviera, p. 280-281, September 2004 Chang, Richard, “The Art of the New”, The Orange County Register, Arts and Entertainment section pages 1–5, Sunday, October 10, 2004 Simon, Jane, Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann, 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, pgs cover, 2, 72-75, 134 Scarborough, James. “Unlikely Icons,” New York Arts Magazine, online and September 2003 Paschal, Huston, Linda Johnson Dougherty, Robert Wohl, Anne Collins Goodyear, and Laura M. Andre, Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art / Prestel Verlag Press, exhibition catalogue. p. VII, 136-139, 209 Martinez, Lillian. “Scratch Visual,” El Diario de Hoy de El Salvador, pg. 1-4, February 6, 2003 Yi, Paul. There: Sites of Korean Diaspora, The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Geldard, Rebecca. “London is Balling,” Time Out London, p. 50 March 13–20, 2002 Pagel, David. “Art Review,” The Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section F32 Friday 15 February 2002 Myers, Holly “Five with Promise,” The Los Angeles Times, 30 March 2001 “Korean American Artists,” Wolgan Misool Art Magazine, June 2000 Lee, Choong Gul, “Exhibitions: KOREAMERICAKOREA,” Vogue Korea, June 2000 “Pick for the week of May 24–30, 2000,” City Pages, May 2000 Ross, David A. and Sunjung Kim, KOREAMERICAKOREA exhibition catalogue with essays by Miwon Kwon, Laura Kang, and David Ross Schwabsky, Barry “Summer Exhibition Previews,” ArtForum, May 2000 Ollman, Leah, “Darkness and Light,” The Los Angeles Times, 31 March 2000 McGrew, Rebecca, In-Between Places: Recent Work by Soo Jin Kim, catalogue essay, Pomona College 1999 Walsh, Daniella, The Orange County Register, “A Visit to ‘Other Related Areas’”, October 25, 1998 Schoenkopf, Rebecca, OC Weekly, “Cool World”, October 23–29, 1998 Curtis, Cathy, Los Angeles Times, “When Seeing Isn’t Believing”, October 12, 1998 Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”, September 18–25, 1998 Ise, Claudine, Los Angeles Times, Art Reviews, August 21, 1998 Green, Phyllis, KXLU 88.9FM, “Look/Hear”, May 31, 1998 Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”, December 29, 1995 Chung, Terry, KoreAm Journal, Winter, 1993 Chau, Monica, The Subject of Rape, “Tall Tales or True Stories: The Subject of Rape in Recent Video Art”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993 “Asian Film Scene: From Behind the Camera”, KoreAm Journal, May,1993 Snow, Shauna, Los Angeles Times, “Identity Trapped Between the Sheets”, July 31, 1992
External links Official website