Cindy Ji Hye Kim (Korean: 김지혜; born 1990) is a Korean-Canadian artist.[1] She is known for her figurative paintings rendered in a grisaille palette. Much of her work is executed on translucent silk and is hung from the ceiling to reveal intricately shaped stretcher bars.[2][3]
Early life and education
editKim was born in Incheon, South Korea and grew up in Anyang. She immigrated to Canada with her family in 2003. Kim obtained her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2013, and her MFA from Yale University in 2016. She currently lives and works in New York City.[4]
Work
editKim's work often depicts archetypal figures in charged domestic settings.[5][6] "Watercolor and pastel figures play across delicate stretched silk, and with the heavy use of graphite and charcoal, essential dualities are conjured: light and dark, spiritual and material, unconscious and conscious."[7] In Art in America, Julia Wolkoff notes that "Kim uses multiple mediums (acrylic, ink, pastel, and oil paint) to inject her works with darkly poetic painterly gestures."[8]
In Artforum, Barry Schwabsky describes Kim as "a draftsperson of implicit elegance and concision, with a style that falls somewhere between Max Fleischer and Christina Ramberg."[9] Of Kim's artistic approach, Casey Carsel writes: "In both medium and content [...] Kim has become expert at laying bare the tensions between the visible and the hidden, with artworks that often push the sculptural and performative limits of the traditional two-dimensional painting surface."[10] Her exhibitions have been reviewed in the New York Times,[11] the New Yorker,[12] the Brooklyn Rail,[3] and Hyperallergic,[6] among other publications.
Her work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at MIT List Visual Art Center in 2020,[13] Kunsthall Stavanger in 2022,[14] and SCAD Museum of Art in 2024.[15]
Collections
editKim's work is in the permanent collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art,[16] the Sifang Art Museum,[17] the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Art Collection,[18] and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.[1]
References
edit- ^ a b "Cindy Ji Hye Kim - Wandering Womb". Rhode Island School of Design Museum. Archived from the original on 21 February 2024. Retrieved 20 February 2024.
- ^ Charnley, Tess (2022). Morrill, Rebecca; Simon, Hunegs (eds.). Prime: Art's Next Generation. New York: Phaidon Press. p. 208. ISBN 9781838662448. OCLC 1280599532.
- ^ a b Farley, Amelia (1 October 2019). "Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Verses from the Apocalypse". The Brooklyn Rail. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 21 February 2024.
- ^ Wu, Danielle (15 November 2022). "Cindy Ji Hye Kim's Haunting Art Plunges into the Depths of the Human Psyche". Artsy. Archived from the original on 6 June 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ Gilman, Claire; Malbert, Roger (2023). Drawing in the Present Tense. London: Thames & Hudson. p. 126. ISBN 9780500294932. OCLC 1342249479.
- ^ a b Yang, Catherine (24 April 2022). "Cindy Ji Hye Kim Mines the Dark Recesses of Memory". Hyperallergic. Archived from the original on 11 March 2023. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ Whittick, Olivia (31 October 2023). "Cindy Ji Hye Kim". Editorial Magazine. Archived from the original on 28 November 2023. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Wolkoff, Julia (18 May 2017). "Cindy Ji Hye Kim". Art in America. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ Schwabsky, Barry (November 2019). "Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Foxy Production". Artforum. 58 (3): 219. ProQuest 2456847892. Archived from the original on 15 March 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ Carsel, Casey (8 May 2020). "Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Drawing the Unseen". Ocula Magazine. Archived from the original on 24 February 2022. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ Heinrich, Will (26 April 2018). "12 Galleries to Visit Now in Brooklyn and Queens". The New York Times. ISSN 0362-4331. ProQuest 2031071393. Archived from the original on 9 October 2024. Retrieved 29 April 2024.
- ^ "Embodiment". The New Yorker (published 4 December 2017). 23 November 2017. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.
- ^ "List Projects 22: Cindy Ji Hye Kim". List Visual Arts Center. 2020. Archived from the original on 21 June 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ "Exhibitions: Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Sand in the Hourglass". Kunsthall Stavanger. 2022. Archived from the original on 29 May 2024. Retrieved 12 February 2024.
- ^ "Exhibitions: Cindy Ji Hye Kim: Silhouettes in Lune". SCAD Museum of Art. 2024. Archived from the original on 16 February 2024. Retrieved 11 February 2024.
- ^ "Cindy Ji Hye Kim - CV" (PDF). François Ghebaly Gallery. Archived from the original (PDF) on 29 April 2024.
- ^ "Artists". Sifang Art Museum. Archived from the original on 16 June 2022.
- ^ "Artists: Cindy Ji Hye Kim". University of Chicago Booth School of Business Art Collection. Archived from the original on 29 April 2024. Retrieved 8 October 2024.