Lives and works in New York.
Education
2001
Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Maine, USA
2001
MFA, School of Visual Arts, New York, USA
1999
BFA, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2008
Smack Mellon, Decoded Love, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, video lounge show, curator Yukie Kamiya, Hiroshima, Japan
2007
Galeria do Lago / Museu da Republica, Imagem Nao-Imagem, curator Daniella Geo, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Pei Ling Chan Gallery at Savannah College of Art and Design, Invisible Masterpiece, curator Erin Dziedzic,
Savannah, Georgia, USA
Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Milan, Italy
2006
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien, Berlin, Germany
ARKO Art Center-Arts Council Korea, Seoul, Korea
2005
Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Ilju ArtHouse, Seoul, Korea
2004
Insa Art Space-the Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Seoul, Korea
2002
Saltworks Gallery, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
Selected Group Exhibition
2009
Media Media, Queens Museum of Art; Triple Light – Triple Luz, Museo Nazional de Artes Visuales;
Hermes Foundation Misulsang, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, Korea.
Layered Expressions:Korean Contemporary Photography And Active Anesthesia-The Black Echo, Gana Art Gallery,
project room, New York, USA
5³: Multiplicity of Contemporary Art from South Korea, Jungju An, Sangbin Im, Shin il Kim, Jiha Moon, Heeseop
Yoon
Affirmation Arts, Surveillance, curated by Rachel Vancelette, New York, USA
Coreana Museum of Art, Space C, Seoul, Korea
2008
Daejeon Museum of Art, Drawing, Daejeon, Korea
The 5th Seoul International Media Art Biennale, Seoul, Korea
Hermes prize show, Seoul, Korea
The Smith College Museum of Art, curator Linda Muehlig, Massachusetts, USA
Seoul Art Center, curator Min Seok Seo, Seoul, Korea
Hiroshima City Museum of Contemporary Art, Video Art Showcase: A Window to the World, curator Yukie Kamiya,
Hiroshima, Japan
Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Vis, vis, vis, curated by Machiko Harada, Yamaguchi, Japan
The 3rd Seville International Biennale, Seville, Spain
2007
Seoul Art Center, contemporary art in the world-New York, Seoul, Korea
The Rotunda Gallery, Exposure, curator Patrick Grenier, New York, USA
The Prague Contemporary Art Festival “tina b.2007”, Old Waterworks, City Fables, Prague, Czech Republic
Museum of Art Seoul National University, MoA Picks, curator Shinyoung Chung, Seoul, Korea
The University of Arizona Museum of Art, Lost in the Woods, curator Lisa Fischman, Arizona, USA
Today Art Museum, curator Dan Cameron, Beijing, China
Saltworks Gallery, This Many, curator Brain Holcombe, Atlanta, USA
2006
Riccardo Crespi Gallery, Seeing the Invisible, curator Valeria Schulte-Fischedick and Shin il Kim, Milan, Italy
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Special Exhibition-Young Korean Artists, Seoul, Korea
Singapore Biennale 2006, Singapore
Magazine4 Vorarlberger Kunstverein, Steiler Konter - Die Ausstellung, curator Peter Lang, Bregenz, Austria
Basis, Shin il Kim and Dirk Krecker, curator Felix Ruher, Frankfurt, Germany
Palau de la Virreina-La Capella, berlintendenzen, Curator Dennys Matos and Lorena Perez, Barcelona, Spain
Kim Chong Young Sculpture Museum, TranSpace-there is no sculpture, Seoul, Korea
The Drawing Center, Analog Animation, New York, USA
Macy Gallery-Columbia University, Cultural Identity in Korean Computer-Mediated Art, Curator,
Graeme Sullivan and Borim Song, New York, USA
2005
Queens Museum of Art, The Gift: Building a Collection for the Queens Museum, New York, USA
New Museum of Contemporary Art, 7th The Altoids Curiously Strong Collection, New York, USA
Marronnier Art Center-The Korean Culture and Arts Foundation, Power Station, Seoul, Korea
Portland Museum of Art, Portland Biennial 2005, Portland, Maine, USA
ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery, Breaking the 4th Wall:Hors Cadrage, Curator Alexandra Chang,
New York, USA
2004
Queens Museum of Art, Queens International 2004, Queens, NY, USA
Asian American Art Centre, The Topography of Absence, Curator Katarina Wong, New York, USA
Schmidt Gallery at Florida Atlantic University, Me, Myself & I, Curator Renee Riccardo and Paul Laster,
Boca Raton, Florida, USA
Smack Mellon Gallery, 9x, Brooklyn, New York, USA
Gwangju Biennale 2004, Gwangju, Korea
Bronx Museum of the Arts, AIM 24, Bronx, New York, USA
2003
Jersey City Museum, Panasonic zone, curator Rocio Aranda-Alvarado, Jersey City, New Jersey, U.S.A Portland
Museum of Art, Portland Biennial, Portland, Maine, USA
Art in General, Art in General's 5th Annual Video Marathon, New York, USA
2002
Korean Cultural Center, Parallel Connections, LA, California, USA
2001
Visual Art Museum, Ninth New York Digital Salon, New York, USA
Selected Awards and Honors
2009
President Award from Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York, USA
2008
Akiyoshidai International Art Village, Yamaguchi, Japan
2007
New York State Council on the Arts, Individual artists grant, New York, USA
AHL Foundation Visual Arts winner-forth place, New York, USA
CUE Foundation artist in residency program, New York, USA
2006
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s Swing Space award, New York, USA
2005-6
Kunstlerhaus Bethanien International Studio Program, Sponsored by Korean Culture and Arts Foundation,
Berlin, Germany
2004
The Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant, New York, USA
Jerome Foundation New York City Media Arts Program Grant, USA
Seventh Annual ALTOIDS Curiously Strong Collection, USA
Artist Studio Residency and Emerging Artist Fellowship at Smack Mellon, New York, USA
2003
New York State Council on the Arts, State Media Artist Distribution Grant, New York, USA
Artist in the Marketplace (AIM 24), Bronx Museum of the Arts, New York, USA
Lower Manhattan Cultural Council’s residency at The Woolworth Building, New York, USA
2001
Skowhegan Geraldine R. Dodge Foundation Fellowship, New York, USA
Selected Reviews
2008
Artforum, review written by Paola Noè, February
2007
Flash Art International, Italian Landscape-“Seeing the Invisible”, written by Samuele Menin, March and April
Flash Art Italy, Vedere L’invisible, written by Samuele Menin, February and March 2007, Italy
2006
Art Asia Pacific Magazine, Artists on Spirituality, winter 2006, no. 51, New York
The Substation Magazine, posted October 12, ‘The Ministry of the Mob in Shin il Kim’s The Transubstantiation’,
written by Eliza Tan, Singapore
JoongAng Newspaper, September 8, culture article written by Jae-Suk Chung reporter, Seoul, Korea
The Jakarta Post, Singapore hit by first-ever Biennale, September 10, Contributor Carla Bianpoen, Indonesia
Frankurter Allgemeine Zeitung, review written by Christoph Schuette, June 23, Frankfurt, Germany
Art in Culture Magazine, review written by art historian and critic Tae-Mahn Choi, April, Seoul, Korea
Radio Interview with Barbara Wiegand, broadcasted on February 01 at Channel 93.1, Galerie
Rundgang, Berlin, Germany
2005
Art Asia Pacific, Breaking the 4th Wall: Hors Cadrage, review written by Shinyoung Chung, No, 45
Summer, New York, USA
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ‘An Original, witty take on perception, reality’, review written by
Catherine Fox, May 01, Atlanta, Georgia
Creative Loafing, ‘I see, therefore I am’, review written by Felicia Feaster, May
Art in Culture Magazine, review written by Curator Suhjung Hur, March, Seoul, Korea
WHO Magazine, review written by Sena Park, March, Seoul, Korea
2004
Art Nexus, No.5 Volume 3, AIM 24-review written by Julia P. Herzberg, New York
Art in Culture Magazine, review written by Curator Sun Hee Jang, May, Seoul, Korea
The New York Times, ‘A Chance to fill up on visual treats’ review written by Benjamin Genocchio,
April 25, New York
Auditorium Magazine, art article written by Young Wan Park, April, Seoul Korea
Newsday, ‘Profile-Shin il Kim’ written by Sheila McKenna, March 02, New York, New York
2003
Interview, NY1, ‘Artist-In-Residency Program, Formerly Housed In WTC, Finds New Home’,
broadcasted on June 24 & 25, 2003, New York, New York
Art Paper, reviews written by Diana McClintock, March/April
2002
Creative Loafing, ‘Self-Examination’, review written by Felicia Feaster, October
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution, ‘Images speak to personal, world views’, review written by
Jerry Cullum, October, Atlanta, Georgia
Collections
Arte Y Naturaleza, Spain
e-flux, EVR (e-flux video rental)
Queens Museum of Art, New York
New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York, ALTOIDS Curiously Strong Collection
Arts Council Korea
Private Collections
Membership
Berlin-Artist Pension Trust , Berlin Germany
