KIM Jiwon

Painting of the Everyday

Kim Jiwon, who has stubbornly carried on the painting genre for more than 30 years, is known as an artist who endlessly questions the subject and the image, investigating the essence of painting. His painting journey began in the late 1990s with The Beginning of Painting—In the Corner (1994-2004), composed of paintings about painting.  It has moved on to series such as 34×24 (1995-2001), consisting of daily landscapes painted in identical size; Similar Wall, Same Wall (1998-2007, 2013- ), which satirized society through similar-looking walls easily found throughout the country; Daily Life (1995- ), representing landscapes of the everyday in a peculiar way; Still Life, Painting (1999-2004), presenting new still life paintings of objects magnified; Vinyl Painting (2000-2002), which revealed light and shadow by painting on transparent plastic, thus creating another space within the canvas; Mendrami (2002- ), the artist’s most famous work; Take off (2002- ), and Landscape (2002- ).
Contemplation on “Painting”

 

 

 

KIM Jiwon
Born in 1961, Gwacheon, Korea

EDUCATION
1994     Staatliche Hochschule fűr Bildende Kűnste Stűdelschul Frankfurt am Main(bai Jőrg Immendorff), Germany
1988   B.F.A, Fine arts education, Inha University, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2016    Cheerful Landscape, White Block art center, paju, Korea
2016    Mendrami, pkm gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015    Wall of Painting, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
2014    Becoming the Horizon, Johyun gallery, Busan, Korea
2011    Like the wind, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
2011    Take off, Kumho Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2010    Jiwon Kim, PKM TRINITY GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
2003    Still Life, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
1999    The Beginning of Painting -In the Corner-, Seonam art Center, Seoul, Korea
1999    Similar Wall, Same Wall, Art Sonje Museum, Annex, Kyungju, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2016    Realist Art of the Korea Peninsula, American University Museum, Washigton, USA
2016    Being in Nature, Museum SAN, Wonju, Korea
2015    rowdy, hot, overflow, National Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015    Space Life, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013    Allomorphism, nook gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012    Re Booting, Yan Hwang Art Museum, Beijing, China
2012     Crossings, the Single Dome Hall of MSFAU Tophane-iAmire Culture and Arts Center, Istanbul, Turkey
2012    SeMA Gold 2012: Hidden Track, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2012    Korean Painting Now, National Taiwan Museum of Fine Arts, Taichung, Taiwan
2011    Abstract It! (National Museum of Art, Deoksugung, Seoul, Korea