Kim jongku 1963 Born in Dangjin, Korea Currently living and working in Seoul Professor of Fine Arts sculpture Depart. Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea Email : jkukim1028@gmail.com Homepage : http://www.kimjongku.com/ ● Education 1996 MFA, Chelsea College of Art & Design London, UK 1993 MFA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea 1998 BFA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea ● Solo Exhibitions 2015 ‘Iron Powder Painting’ Ami Museum, Dang Jin, Korea 2014 'I have lost the form'-Iron Powder Painting, Kimchongyung museum, Korea 2014 Traversing landscape, BMOCA, Boulder, USA 2013 Vision Horizontal, EN MEDIO DE, Colombia 2013 Floating, soohoh Gallery, Korea 2013 'Confessing' Casas Museum Taipa, Macao 2011 'The Ball-Though I am confessing' , ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2010 Mobile Landscape: Kim Jongku, Spencer Museum of Art, Kansas, USA 2009 Sculpture & Poongkyung, Curiosity Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2007 Poongkyoung, ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea 2004 I Am Holding the White Flag National Arts Studio Gallery Seoul, Korea 2002 Mobile Landscape Art Resources Transfer New York, USA 2002 When Artist Sympathize with the Jung-Won Culture Chung-ju National Museum Chung ju, Korea 2000 How Can I Measure the Biggest and the Smallest in the World?, Ssamzie Space, Seoul, Korea 1999 Sweep It Up, Clapham Art Centre, London, UK 1997 Bedford Hill Gallery, London, UK 1994 Pyo Gallery, Seoul, Korea 1994 ‘Floating’ Gallery de Seoul, Seoul, Korea 1993 ‘Standing’ Arts Council Korea ● Selected Group Exhibitions 2015 Interweaving, Artspace url, Daegu, Korea 2015 MOMENTUM: ART/OMI 1997~2014, Total Museum, Seoul 2015 Brilliant Memories, DDP, Seoul 2014 Unexpected Scenes, Asian Museum of Art_Culture Factory, Osan, Korea 2014 Royal Jelly,. Gallery Royal
2014 Playing in Do Won, Zaha Museum, Seoul 2014 Korean Beauty: Two Kinds of Nature, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary art, Seoul
2013 Ask the Dust, Orto Botanico garden-Lucca contemporary art center, Lucca, Italy Dust, Blue, Brick, Kunst Doc, Korea Homage to whanki_Honor Kim wonky, Whanki Museum, Korea At the nexus of painting and writing, Seoul Arts center, Korea Artists Portfolio, Savina Museum Science & Art, Yeulmaru (Yeosu Culture & Art Park), Yeosu, Korea The Korean alphabet : the art of inspiration and interaction, Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Korea 2012 Korea-Tommorrow2012, Seoul Arts Center, Korea Encounter Royal Academy in Asia, Institute of Contemporary Arts, Singapore Look up the Sky, Kaist ki F1, Korea Art Garden, Kepco Artcenter Gallery, Korea Here and There, Ami museum, Korea Pohang Steel Art Festival, Pohang museum of Steel Art, Korea Yeosu International Art Festival, Yeosu Expo, Korea the Three Artist’s room, Kwanhoon Gallery, Korea Buam-dong Art project, whanki museum, Seoul, Korea CheongShim World Center Inaugural Art Project, CheongShim World Center, Korea 2011 Hong Kong International Art Fair, Hong Kong Convention Centre, Hong Kong La Art Show, LosAngels Convention Centre, USA Lost in Gwanghwamun, Emuspace, Korea The Bible and Culture, KimOkGill Memorial Hall, Korea Villa d' Art, Kimchongyung Museum, Korea Falling into Abstractionism, Soohoh Gallery.Korea three man show, Boda Gallery, Korea 2010 Man Ray's Photography & His Heritage, Seoul Museum of Art Seoul, Korea Linguistic Morphology: Art in Context, Sungkok Museum of Art Seoul, Korea Here & There. The World In Motion, Shenyang/Pekin/Busan/Seoul The art of writing, ING, Seoul 2009 City-net Asia 2009, Seoul Museum of Art Seoul, Korea Seoul Rainbow, Munhwailbo Gallery Seoul, Korea A Fortuitous Meeting of the Day, Gallery the K, Seoul, Korea Made in Korea - Magic Moment: Korea Express, Hannover Messe 2009 Hannover, Germany Re-lmaging Asia, The New Art Gallery, Walsall, UK Mutiscape, 3.15 ART CENTER Masan, Korea 2008 Re-view, Gyeongnam Art Museum, Gyeongnam, Korea Collection Reconstructed, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Gyeonggi, Korea Expenditure Busan Biennale 2008, Busan, Korea
Between the Beauty and the Grotesque, Gallery ARTSIDE, Seoul, Korea Trace, ONE AND J. Gallery, Seoul, Korea Re-lmaging Asia, Haus Der Kultren Der Welt Berlin, Germany 2007 Writing Paintings, Painting Words Seoul Museum of Art Seoul, Korea Peach Flower, Apricot Flower Changwon Asia Festival, Changwon, Korea Con-terminal-The 5th Anniversary Art Studio Changdong & Goyang, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea Trace Root: Unfolding Korean Stories, Alcala 31(Special Exhibit to ARCO 2007), Madrid, Spain Nature et Paysage -SOSSA, Chateau de Grand Jardin, Joinville, France 2006 Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Oriental Metaphor, Gallery LOOP, Seoul, Korea Stade Und Sterne LVG, Munich, Germany Simply Beautiful, Pasquart, Biel, Switzerland/ Grand Jardin, France Softness, SOMA Museum, Seoul, Korea 100 Years of Korean Art, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea 2005 Remake Korea, Space C, Seoul, Korea Echo Beyond Time: The Traditional and The Modern, Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea 2004 Artists on Journey, Seoul National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea The 100 Artists for Peace, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea Officina Asia, Pallazzo dell' Arengo, Bologna, Italy Stranger than Paradise, Total Museum, Seoul, Korea Nirvana, at The Boundary Between Life and Death The Moran Museum Arts, Seoul, Korea 2003 Goyang Arts National Studio, Goyang Arts National Gallery, Gyeonggi, Korea The Scent of Characters, Kim Chong Young Museum, Seoul, Korea Hawaii-Korea Cross, University of Hawaii Gallery, Hawaii, USA Breaking Away, PS 1. Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA 2002 Open Studio, P.S.- 1. International Studio, New York, USA The 8th International Shoebox Sculpture Exihibition, Kaoshung Museum of Art, Taipei, Taiwan East of the Yellow Sea, ddm Warehouse, Shanghai, China 2001 Oriental Extreme, Le Lien Unique, Nantes, France Project-3, Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Art Spectrum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea 2000 The Strength of Art, Young Artists, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea The Old News, Ps 122 Gallery, New York, USA Art Omi Residency open Studio, Omo, U.S.A Time Traval to BackJe, Gonju National Museum, Gonju 1999 Diana's Song, Art Center, Seoul, Korea Art for Design, Clapham North Art Centre, London Neighbors (Jongku Kim and Dieter Kunz), 26K Gallery, Leipzing, Germany
1998 Internation Young Art, Art Link-Sotheby, Telabibu/ Chicago 'Snow Show' Gallery Focus, London 1997 '97 Lewes Sculpture Trail, Lewes Korean Youn artists in Londo, Sackvill, London 1996 OGOGAGO (Three Person Exhibition), Sacvill Gallery, London, UK 1995 '95 Seoul Art Fair, Seoul Art Centre, Seoul 1994 Exhibition of Artists exchanged between Korea&Japan, Silk Gallery, Seoul 'U-SA' Tho Gallery, Seoul Pu-San International Sculpture Symposium, Olimpic park, Pusan 'Now-Made in Korea' , Dada Gallery, Pusan 1993 Cross Section of Contemporary Korea Art ' Pyo Gallery, Seoul The Show of Six Sculptors' . The Korean Culture and Art Foundation Art Centre, Seoul Dae-jeon Expo'93 'Beyond of the Future', Dae jeon 1992 The Year of the Drama Commendation Show, National Theatre, Seoul 'Seoul-Sapporo', Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul 'Sculpture and Color', Sea Gallery, Seoul 1991 'DMZ Art & Culture Movement', Seoul Art Centre, Seoul 1990 'Massage-90', Jahamoon Gallery, Seoul Now-Seven man Tho Gallery, Seoul 1989 'Logos & pathos', kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul 'July', Han Gallery, Seoul 'Future Sculpture', Cosmos Gallery, Seoul 1988 '88, Rising Artists, Young Gallery, Seoul Balance and Gradual Progress', The third Gallery,Seoul 'Formation-Process', Total Gallery, Seoul 'Space as experience & Consciousness', Tho Gallery, Seoul â—? Awards & Scholarship 2002 Kim Se-Jung Memorial Prize for Yong Artists 1990 Korea National Grand Art Competition, Grand Prize Joong-Ang Grand Art Exhibition, Special Selection Seoul Contemporary Sculpture Competition, Special Selection 1989 Joong-Ang Grand Art Exhibition, Special Selection 1987 National Competition of Art School, Grand Prize 2008 Scholarship Art Council Korea 2007 ministry of culture, France 2006 Scholarship Art Council Korea 2002-2005 Scholarship Art Council Korea 2005 Scholarship The National Academy of Arts
● Residencies 2007 Chateau de Grand Jardin, France 2004 Goyang Art Studio Program 2002-03 P.S.- 1 International Studio Program(MoMA), New York 2000 Art Omi Residence Program, USA ● Collection & Commission National Museum Contemporary of Arts, Korea Art Council Korea Busan Olympic Sculpture Park, Korea Dang Jin Fire Power Station, Korea Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art Busan Gwanri Beach, Busan Mapletree Business Centre, Singapore Seoul Museum of Art Spencer Museum, USA Daelim 'Fiesta', Korea Gimhea 'Gumok Bridge', Korea Songdo International City, Korea Jang Heung Art Park, Korea NongHyup Hanaro Building, Korea Written Art Foundation, Germany