Education

2011
M.A. Chelsea Colleage of Design and Arts, London, UK

2010
B.A. Korean National University of Art, Seoul, KR

Solo Exhibitions

2020
Troubleshooting Mind I, II, III, KADIST, San Francisco, US

2018
Love Bomb, Samyook Bldg., Seoul, KR

2015
Day for Night, Sindoh Gallery, Seoul, KR
hysterics, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, US

2014
hysterics, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, kR

Selected Group Exhibitions & Screenings

2023
MMCA Performing Arts 2023: Meditation on Youtube, MMCA, Seoul, KR
Universal / Remote, Contemporary Art Museum, Kumamoto, JP
The 61st New York Film Festival - CURRENTS, New York, US (Screening)
More-than-human gaze, Public Screening Programs, Museum of Modern Art in Warsaw, PL (Screening)
25th Seoul International Women’s Film Festival - Polemics: Images, Describing Resistance, Seoul, KR (Screening)
White Noise, Nguyen Art Foundation, Ho Chi Minh, VN
After hope: video of resistance, Peabody Essex Museum collaboration with Asian Art Museum, Salem, Massachusetts, US

2022
Shadow, Detective, Machine - Artist Jeamin Cha’s Screening, Monthly Screening - Indie Forum, Indie Space, Seoul, KR (Screening)
Natasha, Singapore Biennale 2022, Singapore Art Museum, SG
14th DMZ International ary Film Festival - Shorts Competition, Ilsan, KR (Screening)
Frieze Film at Frieze Seoul, Magjib, Seoul, KR
Art Spectrum 2022, LEEUM Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

2021
The Ottawa Korean Film Festival, Korean Cultural Center in Canada, Ottawa, CA (Online Screening)
Korea research fellow 10x10, Seoul, Korea (Online & Onsite Screening)
Watch and Chil: Streaming Art to Your Homes, MMCA, Seoul, KR (exhibition & Online Screening)
Vision Creep, Pleasure Dome, Toronto, CA (Online Screening)
Catastrophe and Recovery, MMCA, Seoul, KR
After Hope: Videos of Resistance, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, US
ANTHROPOCENE Korea X Brazil 2019-2021 (with Ilmin Museum of Art), Associação Cultural Videobrasil, São Paulo, BR (Online Screening)

2020
Image Anthropology, Mnemosyne Atlas, BOAN 1942, Seoul, KR
Art of the Real - Shorts Program, Film at Lincoln Center, New York, US (Online Screening)
Art Plant Asia 2020 - HARE WAY OBJECT, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, KR
Panorama Object, d/p, Seoul, KR
Solidarity Spores, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju, KR

Awards

2023
69th International Short Film Festival Oberhausen - Special Mention of the International Competition Jury, Oberhausen, DE

2022
14th DMZ International ary Film Festival - Special Jury Award, Seoul, KR
3rd Art Spectrum 2022 Artist Award, LEEUM Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, KR

2019
10 Shortlisted for Loop Barcelona Discover Awards, Loop Barcelona, Barcelona, ES
Shortlisted for Buk SeMA Korean Video Art Production Award, Han Nefkens Foundation, Seoul, KR

2014
4th Sindoh Artist Support Program, Gahun Sindoh Foundation, Seoul, KR

2013
The 4th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards Visual Art, DOOSAN Yonkang Foundation, Seoul, KR
10th Green Film Festival - Excellent Prize, Seoul Green Foundation, Seoul, KR

Jury's Statement

This comprehensive change to the DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards review system is intended to allow the DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards to more aggressively discover the next generation of promising artists; to become a more competitive artist award; and create a more intensive synergy for DOOSAN’s activities in support of the arts. In line with the preceding goals, the DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards review criteria will now put further emphasis on discovering the next generation of promising artists; shed traditional genre classifications; inclusively embrace the full range of art genres; and, above all, give due regard to the experimentation and creativity that will lead the future direction of contemporary art.

The three artist finalists selected for the 4th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards are Na Kim, Jeamin Cha, and Minae Kim. At the outset, in comparison with prior years, the age group of the finalists has become younger. Although Minae Kim (b. 1981), Na Kim (b. 1979), and Jeamin Cha (b. 1986) are all young artists in their late 20s or early 30s, their works and exhibition activities reflect a depth of quantity, high level of realization, and active progression that match, or even surpass, those of more established artists. Another shift in this year’s award involves the individual scopes of the three artists’ art practices. Na Kim is a graphic designer with excellent taste, an artist who has already established a solid reputation with regard to her ability; and her creative ideas shatter the traditional boundary between graphic design and art. Although Jeamin Cha also majored in fine art, she has attempted to create an exquisite connection between performance and video, and has produced artworks that are experimental and innovative with regard to their contents and technical execution. Minae Kim is a sculptor. Recently, “sculptors” have become a rarity; nevertheless, she has established herself as a young sculptor who, while extending the traditional concept of sculpture, strives to interpret reality and provoke its transformation, rather than simply representing it. The deconstructive attitude towards rigid genres, experimental concepts, and defiant spirits of these three artists parallel the issues and the diversity of subjects that they deal with, and collectively propose an alternative direction for contemporary art.

Beginning with this 4th edition, the DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards, together with the artists Na Kim, Minae Kim, and Jeamin Cha, hopes to experiment with new energies, challenges, and progressiveness, and to become the most influential art award in the Korean art scene. Additionally, for these three artists, we are eagerly awaiting excellent artworks that will surpass our expectations in their upcoming solo shows in Seoul and New York.

Jury  Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Yunah Jung