Kim Soonim

Education

BFA and MFA in Sculpture, Ewha Womans University Seoul, Korea

Solo Exhibitions 

2024 11.8-30 Moon Polisher, Project Space Cosmos, Incheon, South Korea 

2024. 6.5-8.7 Byeonsan_ Plastic-scape (Small Museum Project by Buan-gun Cultural Center), Buan History and Culture Museum, Buan South Korea

2023.03.23-06.18 Streamy Space, Samgaksan Geumam Art Museum, Eunpyeong-gu, Seoul, South Korea

2022. 11.3-2023.1.10 Nature in Food, Gallery Sowon, Incheon South Korea
2023. 8.25-9.28 The Unknown Edible Beauty, OCI Museum, Seoul, South Korea

2020 6.25-7.7 Sea-scape, Hongti Art Center, Busan, South Korea

2020 3.18-27 Sea Rainbow, Kyushu Geibunkan, Chikugo-si Japan

2018 8.24-10.28 The Forest of Flowing Lives, SangGwang9 Gallery, THAV_Treasure Hill Art Village, Taipei Taiwan.

2018 7.20-8.15 Leaves Leave, KdMofa_Kwandu Museum of Fine Art  ½Gallery, Taipei Taiwan

2018 4.7-26 Home+Farm/ 2017-2018, Alternative Art Space Sonamoo , Ansung South Korea

2018 3.23-7.31 On the Road 2018, Valencia Gallery, Incheon South Korea

2017 10.20 Moon on Lavoir_ Kim Soonim Screening Night, Incheon Art Platform G2, Incheon South Korea

2017 6.17-7.13 Nomad Nature, Gallery Nomad, Yeosu South Korea

2017 1.6-1.22 The Memory of Dream, Alternative Space Dum, Incheon South Korea

2016 8.26-10.30 Landed Ocean, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon South Korea

2014 Kim Soonim-Drawings, Kawagoe Sanbachou Gallery, Tokyo Japan

2014 ‘Residency to Move’, Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art, Goangju South Korea

2012 ‘On the Road’, SOMA Museum Drawing Center, Seoul South Korea

2012 ‘Nanun Dol-I meet with stone.’ KAIST Research&Art, Seoul South Korea

2012 ‘The Wild Seeds’, Space Noon, Suwon South Korea(Invite)

2011  ‘Mind Space’, OX Warehouse, Macau China

2010 ‘The Forest of Strayer’, Open Space Bae, Busan South Korea

2009 ‘The Threads The Memory’, ISCP gallery, New York USA.

2008 ‘Etherial’, Gallery Grimson, Seoul South Korea(SeMA 2’)

2008 ‘I meet with stone’, Alternative Space Beam, Incheon South Korea(IFAC Grant)

2008 ‘I meet with stone’, Alternative Space Noon, Suwon South Korea(Selection)

2007 ‘The Face of unknown god’, Gallery Dam, Seoul South Korea(Selection)

Selected Group Exhibitions (about 360 times since 2002)

2025. 6. 24~ Outdoor Installation Project, YATOO Collective (South Korea) × Broken Forests Group (Canada), Temagami Caribou Mountain, Ontario, Canada

2025 4.18~11.16 1st Environmental Art Biennale: TERRESTRIAL: PLANETARY, A.S Pushkin State Museum of Fine Arts Vyatka Branch (Arsenal), Nizhny Novgorod, Russia 

2025 5.30~10.1 2025International Biennale of Ecological Art_ Skin of Earth, Bolshaya Pokrovskaya, Ermolaevs Hotel, Nizhniy Novgorod Rusia

2024. 11. 26~ 2025. 2.16 The 4th Jeju Biennale: Apagi Drift – Paths of Water, Wind, and Stars, Jeju Museum of Art, Jeju, Korea

2024.12.12 – 2025. 3.30 One Sea, Six Perspectives, National Incheon Maritime Museum, Incheon, Korea

2024. 10.15-12.15 The Virtue of Diversity, Seosomun Shrine History Museum, Seoul, Korea
2025. 10.8 – 11.3 Territory of Nature: Artistic Questions for World-Making Together, National Institute of Ecology Ecorium, Seocheon, Korea

2023 9.23~2024. 2.18. Singing Mother Earth, Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan South Korea 

2023. 07.12-23 International Gabrovtsi ART-NATURE Symposium 2023_The Nature of the Forest, Duppini Art Center, Gabrovtsi, Bulgaria

Selected Awards / Grants

2022–2023 Selected Artist, Artist–Research–Criticism Program, Arts Council Korea, Korea

2017 Selected Artist, Korea Artist Project (KAP), Korean Art Museum Association, Korea

2010 ‘7TH ANNUAL ARTEBA- PETROBRAS VISUAL ARTS PRIZE,’ ArteBA’10, Buenos Aires, Argentina

Residencies

2024 Palbok Art Factory Creative Studio Residency, Jeonju, Korea and other 20 times of short- and long-term domestic and international Artist in Residency Program

Publish

2024<Streamy Space-Junju cheon>, 2023 <Streamy Stone>, 2022 <On the Road>, 2020 <Weave on Nature>, 2014 <KIM SOONIM I> <KIM SOONIM II>

Selected Collections 

2025 Uri Museum  of Dong-gu District Incheon Metropolitan City  / Moon on Lavoir

2023 Busan Museum of Contemporary Art, Dancing Microorganisms

2017 Seoul Museum of Art

2017 Incheon Foundation for Art&Culture

2015 Seoul Museum of Art,

2015 Yongeun Museum of Art South Korea

2014 AIR Vallauris Collection France, 

2011 Jeju Museum of Art Korea,

2009 IFAC_Incheon Foundation for Art & Culture, Art Bank of Incheon Korea,

2008 Jeju Contemporary Art Museum Korea,

2007 AAAC-Asian American Art Center, New York U.S.A.