KIM EunHyung

My most recent project is Opera Box. Since 2008, I have attended close to 50 opera performances at the Metropolitan Opera house. While I was staying in New York City from 2008 to 2014, I started to interpret these performances in the form of graphite pattern drawings and sculpture. Because operas are often related to other genres of art such as literature, theater, dance, art history, and architecture, the process of dismantling operas into visual elements is natural. For this project, I create sculptural drawings and wall drawings about opera storylines, characters, costumes, and stage sets through my own interpretations. The series of “Mossorgsky’s Pictures at an exhibition” also came from researching Moussorgsky’s operas and music. This classical music piece is inspired by 10 art works by Hartman, and I tried reinterpreting them into my sculptural drawings and wall drawings.

 

 

 

KIM EunHyung
Born in 1977, Seoul, Korea

EDUCATION
2008 School of the Art Institute of Chicago, MFA, Chicago, IL, USA
2007 Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Skowhegan, ME, USA
2004 Seoul National University, MFA Oriental Painting, Seoul, Korea
2002 Seoul National University, BFA Oriental Painting, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITION
2012 Narratives of Ink Art, SNU Hoam Faculty Center, Seoul, Korea
2011 Drawing Symphony Orchestra, Coohaus Gallery, New York, USA
Moussorgsky, Pictures at an Exhibition, OCI Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2009 Hyped Reality (two person show), IM Gallery, New York, USA
Designing Egos, Gallery 400, Chicago, USA
2008 Storyteller, Gallery X, Chicago, USA
Fabric Talking, Gallery Gaia, Seoul, Korea

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2015 Weaving Time, Gallery Korea, New York, USA
2014 Artists – The Praise of Mimesis, Hanwon Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 Joongang Fine Arts Prize, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
Im Zickzack durch die Welt, Kunstraum Neuruppin, Germany
Zigzag, Stuttgart State Academy of Art and Design, Stuttgarat, Germany
From i to I, Young Artists Project 2013, Daegu Art Square, Daegu, Korea
2012 Micro-Control “Passage to the secrets of art”, Chunchi Gallery, Beijing, China
2011 Raising Hope Transforming Lives, Lehmann Maupin Gallery, New York, USA
2010 Art on paper: The 41st Exhibition, Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina, USA
Art Loop Open, interactive public art exhibits in downtown Chicago, Chicago, USA