MINJU KIM
Drawing on personal experience and inspired by human anatomy and psychoanalytic theory, I explore desire as a main subject matter alongside of the concept of life and death.
In my theory, all things stem from desire and it varies depending on how the person’s desire appears. The human figure is a recurring theme and my obsession of human body started since I was young, as I experienced a rare body condition and medical examination was part of my daily life.
Human desire and body is related to birth till death and it is in a continuous loop. The physicality and fragility of human body are the inevitable element of the life and I’m experimenting to embody the sublimation of the desire into perpetuity.
EDUCATION
2015-2017 MA Visual Arts: Illustration (Distinction), Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2013-2015 BA (Hons) Creative Direction for Fashion, London College of Fashion, London, UK
2007-2013 BFA in Printmaking, College of Fine Art, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
EXHIBITIONS
2021 The Void of Desire: Minju Kim x Eugene Wood, The Truman Brewery, London, UK
2021 Roy’s Art Fair, The Truman Brewery, London, UK
2020 Cluster Photography & Print, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2020 B Collect Award showcase, B collect Notting hill, London, UK
2020 BAE group show, Bloomsbury Gallery, London, UK
2019 Artrooms Awards, Melia White House Hotel, London, UK
2019 Drawing a Line under Torture, Charity Art Auction 2019, The Vinyl Factory, London, UK
2019 Side Sleepers, 4482 Award Show, Itta space, Incheon, South Korea
2019 Cluster Illustration Fair October, Truman Brewery, London, UK
2019 Unison, Cluster Illustration, Unit 5 gallery, London, UK
2019 Cluster Art Fair May, Ugly Duck, London, UK
2019 4482: Sasapri, Oxo Tower Wharf, London, UK
2019 Nova Prize show, Fresco Collective, New York, USA
2018 Anatomy of Desire, Minju Kim Solo Exhibition, Gallery Different, London, UK
2018 Get It Arts, 5th Base Gallery, London, UK
2017 CCW MA Visual Arts Degree Show, Camberwell College of Arts, London, UK
2017 Show Me The Way, Raum Gallery, London, UK
2017 T'ART, Sweet Art Show, Bones and Pearl Gallery, London, UK
2017 The Pancakes& Booze Art Show, Studio Spaces, London, UK
2016 The Dark Arts, Candid Arts Trust, London, UK
2016 Summer Salon 2016, Islington Art Factory, London, UK
2016 Hand Maid, Sweet Art Show, Hoxton Arches, London, UK
2016 Brighton Illustration Fair, The One Church, Brighton, UK
2015 The Pancakes& Booze Art Show, Studio Spaces, London, UK
2015 Present, Raw Artists Show, 93 Feet East, London, UK
2015 Forbidden, Guerilla Galleries at The Daniel Libeskind Space, London, UK
2012 Pan, Graduation Show, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
2011 The 5th Korea-China Printmaking Exchange Show, An Annual Project by Hongik University and Luxun Academy of Fine Arts, Seoul, South Korea
2010 Third Year Show, Hongik University, Seoul, South Korea
AWARDS
2019 B Collect Award, Artrooms Awards, London, UK
2019 Finalist by Artrooms Awards, London, UK
2019 Shortlisted, Visual Art Open, London, UK
2019 4482 Award, Itta Space, Incheon, South Korea
2019 Nova Prize, Fresco Collective, New York, USA
2019 Nominated for the Soohoh Award, Seoul, South Korea
FEATURES