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Soo Kim

Soo Kim

1969
Born in Seoul, Korea
Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA

Education

1991
BA, Art, Minor in Dance, University of California at Riverside, Riverside, California
1995
MFA, Interschool degree in the Schools of Art, Critical Writing, and Film and Video California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, California

Solo and Two-Person Exhibitions

2023
Soo Kim: Aria, Anat Ebgi, Los Angeles, CA
2018
Homesick for a Better World, Denk Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2015
Soo Kim: (Returning), Archer School, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Midday Moon, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2011
Black Sun, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2010
The Corners of the Sea, Julie Saul Gallery, New York, NY
Faraway, Seaver Gallery, Marlborough School, Los Angeles, CA
2008
Superheavies, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2006
They Stop Looking at the Sky), Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
2005
The Future’s Owned by You and Me, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency, Photo Light Box Project, Los Angeles, CA
A Week Inside Two Days, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2002
Soo Kim, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA
1999
Soo Kim, Pomona College Museum of Art, Montgomery Gallery, Pomona, CA
1995
Stonewashing, Bandits-mages, Bourges, France
1993
(Carry) A Big Stick, selected by Daniel J. Martinez, Tropical Installations, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Group Exhibitions

2021
Contemporary Voices in Asian American Photography, curated by the Getty Center for Google Arts and Culture, Los Angeles, CA (Link)
2019
Urban Ecologies: Flow, Phoenix Athens gallery, Athens, Greece
2018
Asia/LA – LA/Asia, Ara Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Cut! Paper Play in Contemporary Photography, The Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
Covers, The Bloke, Pasadena, CA
Mecca, The Lodge, Los Angeles, CA
2016
Seeing is Believing, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
Pale Harvest, SCAPE, Newport Beach, CA
2015
Paperworks, curated by Howard Fox, the Craft and Folk Art Museum, Los Angeles, CA
Paths and Edges, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University, Orange, CA
Second Sight: New Representations in Photography, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
2014
Material Object, curated by Justin Cole, Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Soft Target, curated by Phil Chang and Matt Porter, M + B Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Lay of the Land, curated by Farrah Karapetian, Von Lintel Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2013
Decisive Moments: Photographs from the Collection of Cherye R. and James F. Pierce, Honolulu Museum of Art, Honolulu, HI
Not in Arcadia Ego, Angles Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2012
Weatherspoon Biennial: Art on Paper 2012, curated by Xandra Eden, Weatherspoon Art Museum, Greensboro, NC
After Image: The Photographic Process(ed), Cerritos College Art Gallery, Cerritos, CA
2011
Taking Time, Nou Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Rethink LA, Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles, CA
25 Years/25 Artists, Julie Saul Gallery
2010
Cut Ups, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
Little Tremors, Galerie Im Regierungsviertel and Atelierhof Kreuzberg, Berlin, Germany
Altered Appropriations: Making Strange, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Orange, CA
Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
State of Mind: A California Invitational, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
2009
New Beginnings, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada
Signs of the Apocalypse/Rapture, Hyde Park Art Center, Chicago, IL
2008
The World is All That is the Case, curated by Arthur Ou, Hudson Franklin Gallery, New York, NY
Hotbed: Video Cultivation, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
2007
Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY
Soo Kim and Mary Temple, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Image: Photography in Contemporary Art, The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
2006
Pieces of Angels: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, University Art Museum, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA
2005
Seoul Triennale II, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
CorteFusión: Fotografía Manipulada de Tijuana y Los Ángeles, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Crossfade, Villa Nova Gallery, San Salvador, El Salvador
Shadow-Line, Flutter & Radiance, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
2004
2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA
Experimenter Remix, El Teatro Presidente, San Salvador, El Salvador, traveling to Teoretica Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica, and The National Center for the Arts, San Salvador, El Salvador
2003
Defying Gravity: Contemporary Art and Flight*, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Re: LAX, curated by Megan Riley, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY
2002
Majestic Sprawl: Los Angeles Photography, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA
THERE: Sites of Korean Diaspora, Gwangju Biennale, Biennale Hall Galleries, Gwangju, Korea
Double Vision: Photographs from The Strauss Collection, University Art Museum, California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA, traveling to The Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
London is Balling, Bart Wells Institute, London, UK
2000
KoreAmericaKorea*, Art Sonje, Seoul, Korea, traveling to Art Sonje Museum, Kyongju, Korea
Shutter: The New Photography, No Name Exhibitions/Soap Factory, Minneapolis, MN
1999
Parallax: New Photographs, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice, CA
1998
Other Related Areas, UC Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
Annuale, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA
Beyond the Image, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
I to Eye 3, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
1997
Hotel California, Arlington Museum of Art, Arlington, TX, traveling to The Bridge Center for Contemporary Art at El Paso, El Paso, TX
1996
1996 Annuale, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
Things That Quicken The Heart, Royal Academy of Fine Arts, Copenhagen, Denmark, traveling to The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA
The Mackeney Center for Contemporary Art, Arlington, Texas, University of North Texas gallery, Denton, TX
1994
Korean Visions: The New Cinema, American Cinemateque, San Francisco, CA
1993
Korean American Arts, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
International Audio Visual Experimental Festival, Arnhem, Netherlands
TranscEND AIDS, William Grant Still Arts Center, Los Angeles, California Back Talk, Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California
The Ink Spills the Thickest Before it Runs Dry, Los Angeles Festival, The Visions Complex, Los Angeles, CA
September, curated by Peter Frank, Alexandria Museum of Art, Alexandria, LA
The Subject of Rape, The Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, NY
The Revolution will be Televised: How Television Transforms Politics, curated by Richard Bolton, The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, California
Countdown to the Next Millennium, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, California
1992
Caught Between the Sheets*, Los Angeles Photography Center, Los Angeles, California
1991
Video Explorations, The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Los Angeles Freewaves, University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA

Public Projects

Westside Purple (D Line) Extension Project, Artwork for the Wilshire and La Cienega station, 2018-2024 Commissioned by LA Metro, Arts and Design
Department of Consumer and Business Affairs Headquarters, Hall of Records building, 2020
Commissioned by Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture

Selected Press

2018
Wheless, Avery, “An Authentic Reflection of Life”, Artillery magazine, October 11, 2018
Clover, Joshua, Charlotte Cotton, Fred Moten, Mohamed Sharif, Soo Kim: A Week Inside Two Days, MW Books, Los Angeles, 2018
Ollman, Leah, “Cut, Folded, Pasted: Photography takes a twist and turn in the Getty’s ‘Paper Play’”, The Los Angeles Times, 24 April 2018
2015
Nafziger, Christina, "Soo Kim Cuts Apart And Reconstructs Photographs Of Cityscapes Until They Become A Whole New Concrete Jungle", Beautiful Decay, August 2015
2014
Lee, Chul S., “Soo Kim”, Photo Dot, Seoul, Korea, March 2014
2012
Myers, Holly, “Cityscapes Buzz with Potential”, Los Angeles Times, November 14, 2012
2011
Mohseni, Yasmine, “Beyond the White Cube: The Best of the New at Art Basel Miami Beach”, The Huffington Post, December 7, 2011
Mizota, Sharon, “Art review: Soo Kim at Angles Gallery, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Times, January 27, 2011
2010
Barnes, Steve, “Soo Kim”, Art News, March 2010
Cheng, Scarlet, “Reviews: Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim”, Artillery, March/April 2010
2009
Ise, Claudine, “Artforum Critics’ Picks”, Artforum online, July – September 2009
McLaughlin, Bryne, “New Beginnings: Good Vibrations”, Canadian Art online, published 5 February 2009
2008
Buckley, Annie, “Critic’s Picks”, Artforum online, April – June 2008
Myers, Holly, “Negative Space Gets Explored”, Arts and Culture, Los Angeles Times, May 23, 2008
2006
Miles, Christopher, “Soo Kim at Pasadena Museum of California Art”, Artforum, April 2006
2005
Finkel, Jori, “Soo Kim at Sandroni Rey”, Art in America, December 2005
Hwang, Dongwhee, “Straying from Traditional Modes of Art through Experimentation”, The Korea Times, Saturday, April 16, 2005; p. A18
2003
Scarborough, James, “Unlikely Icons”, New York Arts magazine, September 2003
2002
Pagel, David, “Art Review”, The Los Angeles Times, Calendar section F32, Friday 15 February 2002
2000
“Korea America Korea”, Marie Claire Maison, May 2000
Schwabsky, Barry, “Summer Exhibition Previews”, Artforum, May 2000
1998
Curtis, Cathy, “When Seeing Isn’t Believing”, The Los Angeles Times, 12 October 1998
Ise, Claudine, Art reviews, Los Angeles Times, August 21, 1998

Awards/Fellowships

2018
Los Angeles MTA commission for Wilshire/La Cienega station artwork
2014
Gutmann Photography Fellowship Award
2011
City of Los Angeles, Individual Artist Fellowship
2007
California Community Foundation, Fellowship for Visual Artists

Public Collections

North Carolina Museum of Art
The Albright-Knox Art Gallery
J. Paul Getty Museum
Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego
Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Escalette Collection of Art, Chapman University
The Broad Foundation