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© Sookang Kim
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| 1970 | Born in Seoul, Korea |
| Education | |
| 1998 | MFA in Photography, Pratt Institute, NY |
| 1993 | BFA in Painting, Department of Fine Art, Seoul National University, Seoul |
| Exhibition | |
| Solo Exhibition | |
| 2024 | Wildflowers (Gallery Planet, Seoul) |
| 2023 | Layer, layer (Fujifilm Particle, Seoul) |
| 2021 | Everyday Breath (Space 22, Seoul) |
| Sookang Kim (Ryukyung Gallery, Pyeong Chang) | |
| 2020 | Odes to Things (Seoul National University Hospital Gallery, Seoul) |
| Trivial Things (291 Photographs, Seoul) | |
| 2019 | Fruits & Grains (Gallery Lux, Seoul) |
| 2018 | Sookang Kim-Complete Order (Seoi Gallery, Seoul) |
| 2016 | Sookang Kim (Soul Art Space, Busan) |
| 2014 | Towels | Shelf (Gallery Kong, Seoul) |
| 2008 | Stones (Gallery Kong, Seoul) |
| Stones & Vessels (Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA) | |
| 2007 | Sookang Kim (Gallery Kong, Seoul) |
| 2006 | White Vessel (Gallery Kong, Seoul) |
| 2005 | Bojagi (Gallery Red Forest, Seoul) |
| Sookang Kim (Paik Haeyoung Gallery, Seoul) | |
| 2003 | In My Hand (Sunggok Art Museum, Seoul) |
| 2000 | Being (Gallery Lux, Seoul) |
| 1998 | Trivial Stories (Gallery 2000, Seoul) |
| 1997 | Odes to Things (Steuben West Gallery, New York) |
| 1993 | Rust (Gallery Indeco, Seoul) |
| Group Exhibition | |
| 2024 | The Humanizing Image_ Gum Bichromate Print (Gallery The C, Seoul) |
| 2023 | The Images from Poems (The Museum of Korean Modern Literature, Incheon) |
| The Joy of Photography (Chung Art Gallery, Seoul) | |
| 2022 | Hello, Photography (Gallery MAF, Seoul) |
| 2020 | Pencil Passion (Curator’s Atelier, Seoul) |
| The color of our time; Sookang Kim x Montana Bath (Gallery Gyeol, Seoul) | |
| Six Perspectives(Gwangju National museum, Gwangju) | |
| Jeonju Photo Festival Special Exhibition _The meaning of time (Seohak Art Space, Jeonju) | |
| 2019 | More Less, Much More_ Yeosu International Art Festival (Yeosu Expo Exhibition Hall, Yeosu) |
| Summer tangerine will turn into marmalade (Gallery Gyeol, Seoul) | |
| Artists’ Books (Gallery We, Seoul) | |
| 2018 | Frames after Frames: Modern Photography Movement of Korea 1988-1999(Daegu Art museum, Gaegu) |
| Photography Jinju 2018_ Awake (Gallery Lucida, Jinju) | |
| 2017 | Connecting Link Between Label and Art (Label Gallery, Seoul) |
| Mixed Lights (Shinsegae Gallery , Seoul) | |
| Long Life (The Museum of Kyungpook National University , Daegu) | |
| 2016 | Public to Private:Photography in Korean Art since 1989(National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea) |
| Things and Places (Gallery PIU, Jeonjul) | |
| Selected edition: Art & Design (Shinsegae Gallery, Busan) | |
| 2015 | 10th Anniversary Exhibition for Soul Art Space (Soul Art Space, Busan) |
| Kitchen In Fantasy (Horim Museum, Seoul) | |
| Gaze: Contemplative Mind to Objet (Gallery Huue, Singapore) | |
| Korean Contemporary Photography in Moscow (Gallery of Classic Photography, Moscow, Russia) | |
| Sookang Kim & Hyoungsun Ha “Parallel Encounter” (Gallery Joohae, Seoul) | |
| The Technology of Photography (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon) | |
| 2014 | Trace-Sookang Kim & Sanggil Lee (Gallery Planet, Seoul) |
| 2013 | Paris Photo, LA (Paramount Pictures Studios, LA, CA) |
| 2012 | More Photos about Buildings and Food (Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA) |
| 2011 | The Gaze of the Observer (Gallery Chosun, Seoul) |
| Slow Tempo (JH Gallery, Seoul) | |
| Edition: Pop-Up (Interalia, Seoul) | |
| 2010 | Seven Senses-Flux (Gallery Lux) |
| 2009 | Light/Dark (Sepia International, New York, NY) |
| Chaotic Harmony (Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX/ Santa Barbara Museum of Art, Ca) | |
| Non-Table line (Zaha Museum, Seoul) | |
| 2008 | Beyond Definition (Interalia, Seoul) |
| On Photography (Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul) | |
| Contemporary Korean Photographs 1948-2008 (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea) | |
| Seoul Photo Fair (COEX, Seoul) | |
| Up to the Minute (Korea Art Gallery, Busan) | |
| 2007 | Asian Contemporary Art Fair ( Pier 92, New York, NY) |
| Korean Contemporary Photographers 10 (The Museum of Photography, Seoul) | |
| New Acquisition (Museum of Fine Arts Houston, TX) | |
| In & Out (2x13 Gallery, New York, NY) | |
| 2006 | Korean Contemporary Artists 5 (Gallery Kong, Seoul) |
| Sepia at Seven (Sepia International, New York, NY) | |
| Summer Idylls (Gallery 339, Philadelphia, PA) | |
| Soft Landing (CAIS Gallery, Seoul) | |
| 2005 | Authenticity of Memory (Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX) |
| Scent of Daily life (Sun Gallery, Seoul) | |
| Tokyo Art Fair (Tokyo, Japan) | |
| Art Cologne (Koln, Germany) | |
| Shanghai Art Fair (Shanghai, Chaina) | |
| Between Man and Place (Ssamzie Space, Seoul) | |
| 2004 | Image Utopia (KEPCO Art Gallery, Seoul) |
| Object / Place / Process (Sepia International, New York, NY) | |
| Chicago Art Fair (Chicago) | |
| A Praise for Still Life (Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul) | |
| Umbra (Sunggok Art Museum, Yoo Art Space, Seoul) | |
| 2003 | Seoul International Art Fair (COEX, Seoul) |
| Bora (Art Center, Seoul) | |
| 2002 | Look into…(Gallery Sagan, Seoul) |
| Stream (Gallery La Mer, Seoul) | |
| 2001 | Seoul Print Art Fair “Multi 21” (Seoul Art Center Gallery, Seoul) |
| Old & New Camera works (Gallery Lux, Seoul) | |
| 2000 | Still Life (Dam Gallery, Seoul) |
| Our Photography, Today's Spirit-The New Generation (Art Center, Seoul) | |
| 1999 | Through Their Own Eyes (Gallery Lux, Seoul) (Gallery 051, Busan) |
| Our Photography, Today's Spirit (Art Center, Seoul) | |
| Seoul Print Art Fair (Seoul Art Center Gallery, Seoul) | |
| 1998 | July Seven (Dam Gallery, Seoul) |
| Saekdong-jogoli (Dong-A Gallery, Seoul) | |
| 1996 | Print Workshop (Engineering Hall, Brooklyn) |
| 1993 | Logos & Pathos-New Generation (Chung Nam Art Center, Seoul) |
| New Generation (Paik Sang Gallery, Seoul) | |
| Chung. Mi. Yon Recommended Artists (Paik Sang Gallery, Seoul) | |
| 1992 | Korea Contemporary Print Art Fair (Art Center, Seoul) |
| Moo Deung Art Festival (Kwangju City Art Museum, Kwangju) | |
| Collection | |
| Museum of Fine Arts, Houston, USA | |
| Museet for Fotokunst, Denmark | |
| Daelim Contemporary Art Museum, Seoul, Korea | |
| National Museum of Contemporary Art Korea, Art Bank, Gwacheon, Korea | |
| Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju, Korea | |
| Shinsegae Department Store, Seoul, Korea | |
| Shilla Hotel, Seoul, Korea | |
| Publications | |
| 2018 | Odes to Things, Noonbit Publications | 2024 | The Things Themselves, Nanda Publications |