Myong Hi Kim’s oil pastel on chalkboard landscapes may depict children or empty sky-bound vistas or sunlit water and leaves, but nothing in Kim’s work is as it seems; she explains, “... the vision that I present is that of apparition rather than appearance."
Myong Hi Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. She lives and works in New York and an abandoned schoolhouse in Naep’yong-ni, a tiny mountain village in Kangwon Province, Korea. She graduated from Seoul National University and studied at Pratt Institute, New York. Her solo exhibitions include: Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2012); Art Projects International, New York (2012); Tong-In Gallery, Seoul (2007); Gallery Hyundai, Seoul (2003); AD&A Gallery, Osaka (2001); Won Gallery, Seoul (1995). Her work has been exhibited at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon, Korea; Ho-Am Art Museum, Seoul; Whanki Museum, Seoul; National Assembly, Seoul; and Ewha Women’s University Museum, Seoul. Her work is represented in major public collections such as the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwachon, Korea; National Assembly, Seoul; Whanki Museum, Seoul; and Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Korea.
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