Kimi Kim Wittling
Kimi Kim Wittling
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Education
UrbanGlass Class for Imagery, Feb. 2015
BA, University of the Arts of London Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Specialization: Ceramics, 2007
London College of Art – Camberwell Foundation, 2006
BA, Silla University, Busan, Korea, 1998
Industrial Design & Craft, Busan Women's College, Korea, 1992 - 1994
Awards
International Competition KOREA, 2019
CERAMIC Foundation Gyeonggi International CERAMIC Biennale, 2019
Special Selection for Woodcraft, Korea Art & Craft Prize, Seoul, Korea, 1994
Experience
Waterfall Mansion Gallery in New York, 2023
A Blooming Resilience, 2023,
LA art show, April/1-June/30 2023
Shatto gallery in La group exhibition, 2/23-3/20 2022
Miami beach art show, 2022
Gallery Mare Galleries Art Fair Setec in Seoul. South Korea, 2022
Gallery Mare Paradise Hotel in Busan. South Korea, 2022,
“I choose to be GRATEFUL “Artful living Project, Bergdorf Goodman X Waterfall Mansion Gallery, Bergdorf Goodman in NY.US, 2021
Artful Living Campaign, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2020
(RESTORE) To Beloved ArtistsWaterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2020
Consider the Butterflies, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2019
Re:collection, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2019
Sidexside, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2019
Sea Beyond, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2019
Transfiguration, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2019
Be still, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2019
Infinite Grace2 Alpine, NJ, US, 2018
Infinite Grace, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2018
BERGDORF GOODMAN, NY, US, 2017
Inside the Flower Matrix in collaboration of Claudia Hart, TRANSFER GALLERY, NY, US, 2017
Artful Living at the West Village Printing House, NY, US, 2017
New Book, 2017
Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2017
Moving Image Immersive Media, Art Fair, NY, in collaboration of Claudia Hart, NY, US, 2017
Da Vinci Creative, 2017
Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, Korea
, A Sustaining Life at BERGDORF GOODMAN NY, US, 2017
Re:collection Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2017
Inside the Flower Matrix in collaboration of Claudia Hart, James Thompson Gallery, NY, US, 2017
SUMMER CELEBRATION, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2016
The Needs for My Care, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2016
Alice’s Tea Set in collaboration of Claudia Hart, Eye Beam Gallery, NY, US, 2015
Fermented Souls, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US, 2015
Welcome to Alice’s Giftshop! in collaboration of Claudia Hart, New Museum Store Project, NY, US, 2014
MANMULSANG, Lotte Gallery Main Branch, Seoul, Korea, 2013
The 2nd Solo Exhibition WAVE, Ethan Cohen
The 1st solo Exhibition T.R.E.E, Avery NY.US, 2013
Camberwell Graduation show, 2007
Graduation Show, University of the Arts of London Central Saint Martins, UK, 2007
Graduation Show, Silla University, Korea, 1998
Life and Soil, Hyundai Department Gallery, Seoul, Korea, 1996
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Kimi Kim has been working in various genres including textile, woodcraft, print, lacquer, graphic design and ceramics since 1994. After graduating in Ceramics Design from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, she has been focusing more on ceramics. Her works feature delicate forms inspired by nature, such as trees, leaves, and petals made from fragile materials, such as ceramic and “paper clay”. These forms represent the nature of love and care in Kim’s personal life and how these relationships and beacons of joy are impossibly fragile, yet indescribably precious.
People always live longing for what they can or can’t have dreaming of achieving something. In my first series, I wanted to talk about women’s desires and thirst through Chanel bags, but they expressed their desire to be jealous and disdain because they couldn’t have it in the closet, and they couldn’t have it in the form of a torn bag.
The second desire series LEGO is looking back at my childhood when I see the LEGO blocks my kids play with, and we always have a desire to achieve something, but we are a little bit concentric and built up some form of LEGO blocks as I want. Why don’t we all become artists.
김미김 (Kimi Kim)는 1994년부터 직물, 목공예, 판화, 옻칠, 그래픽 디자인, 도자 등 다양한 장르에서 활동해 왔습니다. 런던 센트럴 세인트 마틴 예술디자인대학에서 도자 디자인을 전공한 후, 도자 작업에 더욱 집중해오고 있습니다. 그녀의 작품은 나무, 잎, 꽃잎 등 자연에서 영감을 받은 섬세한 형태를 특징으로 하며, 도자기나 ‘페이퍼 클레이’처럼 깨지기 쉬운 재료로 제작됩니다. 이러한 형태들은 김미 작가의 개인적인 삶에서 사랑과 보살핌의 본질을 상징하며, 그 관계와 기쁨의 등불이 얼마나 깨지기 쉽지만 동시에 형언할 수 없이 소중한지를 표현합니다.
사람은 늘 자신이 가질 수 있는 것과 없는 것을 갈망하며, 무언가를 이루고자 꿈꾼다. 첫 번째 시리즈에서 나는 샤넬 가방을 통해 여성의 욕망과 갈증에 대해 이야기하고 싶었다. 그러나 그것은 옷장 속에 들이지 못하거나, 찢어진 가방의 형태로밖에 가질 수 없다는 이유로 시기와 경멸의 대상으로 표현되었다.
두 번째 ‘욕망’ 시리즈 LEGO는 아이들이 갖고 노는 레고 블록을 보며 나의 어린 시절을 돌아보는 작업이다. 우리는 늘 무언가를 성취하고자 하는 욕망을 품지만, 동시에 약간은 자기중심적이며, 내가 원하는 형태로 레고 블록을 쌓아 올린다. 그렇다면 우리 모두 예술가가 되어보는 건 어떨까.