Soo Kim

Soo Kim is a Korean-American artist. She was born in South Korea in 1969 and moved to Los Angeles in 1980. She earned a B.A. from the University of California, Riverside, and a MFA from California Institute of the Arts. Kim lives in Los Angeles and is on the faculty at Otis College of Art and Design.^[1] Kim often employs techniques of cutting and layering in order to introduce areas of absence or disruption in what we tend to take for granted--the interpretation of photographic images."^[2]

Kim’s work is in the collection of the The J. Paul Getty Museum.^[3] In 2013, Kim was awarded the prestigious John Gutmann Photography Fellowship by the San Francisco Foundation.^[4]

Selected Solo Exhibitions

• Midday Moon, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2012
• Black Sun, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, 2011
• The Corners of the Sea, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY, 2010
• Faraway, Seaver Gallery, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA, 2010
• Superheavies, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA, 2008
• They Stop Looking at the Sky, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, 2006
• A Week Inside Two Days, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
• The Future’s Owned By You and Me, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Authority, Los Angeles, CA, 2005
• Soo Kim: New Work, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA, 2002
• Soo Kim: New Work, Montomery Gallery, Claremont, CA (catalog), 1999
• Stonewashing, Bandits-mages, Bourges, France, 1995
• (Carry) A Big Stick, Tropical Installations, Los Angeles, CA, 1993

Selected Public Collections

• J. Paul Getty Museum
• Los Angeles County Museum of Art
• Albright-Knox Art Gallery
• The Broad Foundation
• Judith and Michael Ovitz Collection
• Susan Bay and Leonard Nimoy Collection
• Joyce and Ted Strauss Collection
• Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
• North Carolina Museum of Art
• The California Museum of Photography, University of California, Riverside
• University Art Museum, University of California, Santa Barbara
• University of California, Irvine

Further reading

• Miles, Christopher “Soo Kim: Pasadena Museum of California Art” Artforum International, March, 2006
• “Exhibitionism”, Soo Kim: They Stop Looking at the Sky, Flaunt, Issue 72, p. 249
• Yang, Andrew, “Packed House”, Surface, The Annual Avant Guardian Issue: American Intelligence #56, p. 79
• Kovats, Tania, “Dreams and the Nets to Catch Them”, The Drawing Book: A Survey of Drawing: The Primary Means of Expression, Black Dog Press
• Hagen, Kathryn and Parme Guintini, editors. Garb, Prentice Hall, 2006
• Hoon, Jung, “Trans, Transit, Transition”, Seoul Photo Triennale catalogue and website, Seoul, Korea, 2006
• Wood, Eve. ArtUS, Issue #11, Dec. ’05 – Feb. ‘06. Review for the exhibition at SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2005.
• New American Paintings, Pacific Coast Edition, Volume # 61.
• “Continuing and Recommended,” Art Scene. Vol. 25, No. 2. October, 2005. p. 27.
• Kraus, Chris. "Icons and Puzzles." ReMake/ReModel. Catalogue essay for the exhibition at SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2005.
• Valentine, Christina. "Myopic Dreams: The Elusiveness of Sight." ReMake/ReModel. Catalogue essay for the exhibition at SolwayJones Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, Sept. 10-Oct. 15, 2005.
• Walsh, Daniella, “Orange Blossoms”, Riviera, p. 280-281, September 2004
• Chang, Richard, “The Art of the New”, The Orange County Register, Arts and Entertainment section pages 1–5, Sunday, October 10, 2004
• Simon, Jane, Elizabeth Armstrong and Irene Hofmann, 2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, exhibition catalogue, pgs cover, 2, 72-75, 134
• Scarborough, James. “Unlikely Icons,” New York Arts Magazine, online and September 2003
• Paschal, Huston, Linda Johnson Dougherty, Robert Wohl, Anne Collins Goodyear, and Laura M. Andre, Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight, North Carolina Museum of Art / Prestel Verlag Press, exhibition catalogue. p. VII, 136-139, 209
• Martinez, Lillian. “Scratch Visual,” El Diario de Hoy de El Salvador, pg. 1-4, February 6, 2003
• Yi, Paul. THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora, The Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
• Geldard, Rebecca. “London is Balling,” Time Out London, p. 50 March 13–20, 2002
• Pagel, David. “Art Review,” The Los Angeles Times, Calendar Section F32 Friday 15 February 2002
• Myers, Holly “Five with Promise,” The Los Angeles Times, 30 March 2001
• “Korean American Artists,” Wolgan Misool Art Magazine, June 2000
• Lee, Choong Gul, “Exhibitions: KOREAMERICAKOREA,” Vogue Korea, June 2000
• “Pick for the week of May 24–30, 2000,” City Pages, May 2000
• Ross, David A. and Sunjung Kim, KOREAMERICAKOREA exhibition catalogue with essays by Miwon Kwon, Laura Kang, and David Ross
• Schwabsky, Barry “Summer Exhibition Previews,” ArtForum, May 2000
• Ollman, Leah, “Darkness and Light,” The Los Angeles Times, 31 March 2000
• McGrew, Rebecca, In-Between Places: Recent Work by Soo Jin Kim, catalogue essay, Pomona College 1999
• Walsh, Daniella, The Orange County Register, “A Visit to ‘Other Related Areas’”, October 25, 1998
• Schoenkopf, Rebecca, OC Weekly, “Cool World”, October 23–29, 1998
• Curtis, Cathy, Los Angeles Times, “When Seeing Isn’t Believing”, October 12, 1998
• Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”, September 18–25, 1998
• Ise, Claudine, Los Angeles Times, Art Reviews, August 21, 1998
• Green, Phyllis, KXLU 88.9FM, “Look/Hear”, May 31, 1998
• Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”, December 29, 1995
• Chung, Terry, KoreAm Journal, Winter, 1993
• Chau, Monica, The Subject of Rape, “Tall Tales or True Stories: The Subject of Rape in Recent Video Art”, The Whitney Museum of American Art, 1993
• “Asian Film Scene: From Behind the Camera”, KoreAm Journal, May,1993
• Snow, Shauna, Los Angeles Times, “Identity Trapped Between the Sheets”, July 31, 1992

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