Soo Kim  bio + work

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

Education

1995
M.F.A. California Institute of the Arts - School of Art, Critical Writing, Film and Video, Valencia, CA
1996 B.A., Studio Art, University of Riverside, Riverside CA

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2008 Superheavies, Sandroni Rey, Los Angeles, CA

2006

They Stop Looking at the Sky, Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA

2005

A Week Inside Two Days, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA
Photo Light Box Project, Los Angeles County Metropolitan Transportation Agency, Los Angeles, CA

2002

Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA

1999

New Work, Montgomery Gallery, Claremont, CA (catalogue)

1995

Stonewashing, Bandits-mages, Bourges, France
7, 6, 16, D300 Gallery, Cal Arts, Valencia, CA

1993 (Carry) A Big Stick, The Tropical Window Installation Series, curated by Daniel J. Martinez, Los Angeles, CA

1991

I Should be Hoping but I Can’t Stop Thinking, UC Riverside Campus Gallery, Riverside, CA
Distance, UC Riverside Campus Gallery, Riverside, CA
10,000…, UC Riverside Campus Gallery, Riverside, CA


Selected Group Exhibitions

2009 Upcoming Group Exhibition, Getty Center, Los Angeles, CA
New Beginnings, organized by Pamela Meredith, Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto, Canada

2007

Soo Kim/Mary Temple, Sandroni.Rey, Los Angeles, CA
Beyond Image: Photography in Contemporary Art, Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA
Utopian Mirage: Social Metaphors in Contemporary Photography and Film, Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, Poughkeepsie, NY

2006

Pieces of Angels: Contemporary Art from Los Angeles, Sonoma State University, Rohnert Park, CA

2005

20scene05, Korean American Museum, Los Angeles, CA
CorteFusion: Fotografia Manipulada de Tijuana y Los Angeles, Centro Cultural Tijuana, Tijuana, Mexico
Shadow-Line, Flutter and Radiance, Andrew Shire Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Experimenter Remix, Teoretica Gallery, San Jose, Costa Rica
Ab Ovo, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA (catalogue)

2004

2004 California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach, CA (catalogue)
Experimenter Remix, El Teatro Presidente, San Salvador , El Salvador
Pasadena Museum of Art, Pasadena, CA
Experimenter Remix, F.U.S.I.O.N.: Festival Universal de Sonido, Imagen y Ondas Nuevas, San Jose, Costa Rica
Inaugural Exhibition, Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
100 Artists See Satan, Grand Central Art Center Gallery at California State University Fullerton, project with Ginny Cook and Bia Gayotto
The It House, collaboration with Michael Worthington and TK Architecture
Speculative Terrain, Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, CA; traveling to Laband Gallery

2003

Speculative Terrain, Carnegie Art Museum, Oxnard, CA
Unlikely Icons: Persistence of Memory, Laband Gallery, Los Angeles, CA, catalogue
Looking Ahead, LMAN Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Experimenter Remiz, The National Center for the Arts (CENAR), San Salvador, El Salvador
Defying Gravity, North Carolina Museum of Art, Raleigh, NC
Regarding LAX, DCKT Contemporary, New York, NY

2002

THERE:  Sites of Korean Diaspora , Gwangiu Biennale, Biennale Hall Galleries, Gwangju, Korea
Song Poems, Light Project and The Palace, Los Angeles, CA (catalogue)
Exchange, London Practice Space, London, England
Eat It All, SAC Arts Gallery at the Santora Building, Santa Ana, CA

2001

Experimenter Remix, Pierce Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Song Poems, Cohan Leslie and Browne, New York, NY (catalogue)
For Example, Acuna Hansen Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
New Work: Lynn Aldrich, castaneda/reiman, Soo Kim, John Pearson, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
Art Frankfurt;  Sandroni Rey Gallery
Double Vision:  Photographs from the Strauss Collection,  University Art Museum, Cal State, Long Beach and Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego (catalogue)

2000

KOREAMERICKOREA, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
parallax, Sandroni Rey, Venice, CA
Celebration of George, Actionspace gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Song Poems, publication and CD recording, Los Angeles, CA

1999

Studio Facility, Laband Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
What’s So Funny about Peace, Love and Undermining Your Institution, Bolsky Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
Antiworld, Gallery: untitled, Dallas, TX
The Real Deal, Chapman College Art Gallery, Orange, CA

1998

Other Related Areas, UC Irvine Art Gallery, Irvine, CA
Contact, Los Angeles Brewery, Los Angeles, CA
Annual, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Hollywood, CA
Notions of the Home Invasion, Gallery 25, Fresno, CA
Come and Get It, Hollywood Department of Motor Vehicles, Hollywood, CA
Beyond the Image, Thomas Barry Fine Arts, Minneapolis, MN
I’m Still in Love With You, Women’s 20th Century Club, Los Angeles, CA
I to Eyey 3, Cirrus Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1997

My Night Sky, The Hollywood Premier, Los Angeles, CA
S(l)ideshow, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
Hotel California, Arlington Museum, Arlington, TX; The Bridge Center for Contemporary Art at El Paso, El Paso, TX
Passing the Tradition, Jose Drudis-Biada Gallery, Los Angeles, CA

1996

Things That Quicken the Heart, Royal Academy of Fine Art, Copenhagen, Denmark; The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA; Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Los Angeles, CA; The Mackeney Center for Contemporary Art, Arlington, TX; University of North Texas Gallery, Denton, TX

1994

Korean American Artists, Oakland Museum of Art, Oakland, CA
Underexposed, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles, CA
London Video Access, National Film Theater, London, England; Media Arts Center, Seattle, WA
Temporary, MOCA, Los Angeles, CA

1993

The Subject of Rape, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
The Revolution will be Televised: How Television Transforms Politics, curated Richard Bolton, The California Museum of Photography, Riverside, CA
Countdown to the Next Millennium, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles, CA


Selected Awards

Olson’s Materials Grant 1996-1997
The Viola Hegyi Swisher Award for Critical Writing
The Lulu May and Richard Von Hagen Scholarship
James Irvine Foundation Scholarship
Cal Arts Merit Scholarship
University of California President’s Distinguished Undergraduate Award
Chancellor’s Performance Award, University of California, Riverside
Studio Art Award, University of California, Riverside
Mosaic Award for Fine Arts, University of California, Riverside


Collections

Los Angeles County Museum of Art
The Broad Foundation
The Strauss Collection
The Ovitz Collection
The California Museum of Photography
University of California, Irvine
University of California, Santa Barbara


Lectures and Readings

2006

Art Center College of Design, Art as Ideas, Summer 2006
California State University, Long Beach, Visiting Artist lecture, Summer 2006
Art Center College of Design, Faculty Grant Panel, April 2006
Pasadena Museum of California Art, Artist talk, March 11
University of Southern California, Handtmann Photography Lecture Series: Soo Kim, Los Angeles, California, March 8
Sonoma State University, Artist Talk, Rohnert Park, California, March 2

2005

Chung-Ang University, Seoul Triennale Panel with Paul Seawright, Kim Ok Sun, Hans Pieler, Kim Jung Min, Michael Wesely, moderated by Matias Harder, Chief Curator of the Helmut Newton Museum, Berlin and Lim Young Kyun, Professor, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, Korea, Nov 9
Seoul Museum of Art, Artist Talk, Seoul, Korea, November 10
Fellows of Contemporary Art, Salon, Newport Beach, California, January 23

2004

UC Irvine, Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Irvine, California, November 17
Pasadena Museum of California Art (PMCA), and Pacific Asia Museum, Dialogue with Wesley Jessup, PMCA Director, May 22

2003

The National Center for the Arts (CENAR), Artist lecture in conjunction with the exhibition Experimenter Remix, San Salvador, El Salvador, January 17
Loyola Marymount University, Artist lecture: Experimenting and Collaborating, LMU Art Society,                   April 8

2002

Gwangju Biennale Hall Galleries, Panel on the Fourth Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
Hammer Museum, Love Stories, Los Angeles, California, April 7

2001

Art Center College of Design, Graduate Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Pasadena, California
University of Southern California, Visiting Artist Lecture Series, Los Angeles, California
Artforum, Artist Talk, Santa Ana, California

2000

California Institute of the Arts, Visiting Artist Talk, Valencia, California
University of California, Irvine, The Fourth Annual History and Theory Conference, Production                   and Distribution of Identities Through Music and Popular Ritual, Irvine, California

1999 Montgomery Gallery, Artist Talk, Claremont, California

1998

Mid-Atlantic Arts Foundation, PA Council on the Arts panel, “Art Criticism”, Baltimore, Maryland
The Brewery, Contact reading, Los Angeles, California

1997

The MAC Center for Contemporary Art, Artist Talk, Dallas, Texas
Midnight Special Cultural Center, Things That Quicken The Heart, reading, Santa Monica,                   California

1996

Lannan Foundation, Conversations on Video Art, “Views on Video Installation” panel with Chon                   Noriega, Jean Rasenberger, Joe Santarromana, moderated by Erika Suderburg, Los Angeles,                   California
Beyond Baroque Literary Center, The Seven Cardinal Virtues, reading, Venice, California
Beyond Baroque Literary Center, The Seven Deadly Sins, reading, Venice, California
Beyond Baroque Literary Center, Valentine’s Night reading, Venice, California

1995

Beyond Baroque Literary Center, CalArts Critical Writing Program reading, Venice, California

1994

Hollywood Moguls, Errant Bodies and LACE reading, Los Angeles, California

1991

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Interrupting the Echo, performance with choreographer                   Stephanie Gilliland for Twisted Spring show, Los Angeles, California
U.C. Riverside Theatre, Ereondes and Come Again?, performance with choreographers Stephanie Gilliland and Audrey Bliss, Riverside, California


Bibliography

2006

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, page 249
Yang, Andrew, “Packed House”, Surface, The Annual Avant Guardian Issue: American Intelligence #56, page 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, London, UK, November
Hagen, Kathryn and Parme Guintini, editors, Garb, Prentice Hall, 2006
Hoon, Jung, “Trans, Transit, Transition”, Seoul Photo Triennale catalogue and website,                   Seoul, Korea


2005

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, Juried by Connie Butler
“Continuing and Recommended,” Art Scene. Vol. 25, No. 2. October, 2005. Pg. 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.

2004

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

2003

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. Pgs 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

2002

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

2001

Myers, Holly “Five with Promise,” The Los Angeles Times, 30 March 2001
Kim, Soo Jin. “Landscape #2,” Song Lyrics for Song Poems

2000

Van Dyke, Aaron. “Review of Shutter,” Artzine  website, http://www.artindustry.org/artzine/, Fall 2000
“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

1999

C.D.M., The Dallas Morning News, “Antiworld at Gallery: untitled”, March 26, 1999
McGrew, Rebecca, In-Between Places: Recent Work by Soo Jin Kim, catalogue essay, Pomona College 1999

1998

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

1995 Frank, Peter, LA Weekly, “Pick of the Week”, December 29, 1995

1993

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

1992

Snow, Shauna, Los Angeles Times, “Identity Trapped Between the Sheets”, July 31, 1992