- Heecheon Kim focuses on the life of people living in this day and age. His video works extend his real world to the virtual screen through the use of 3-D mapping and modelling programs.
Heecheon Kim, b.1989
Education
2015
B.A. Korea National University of Art, Seoul, KR
Solo Exhibitions
2024
Studies, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, KR
2023
Double Poser, Hayward Gallery, London, UK
2018
Lifting Barbells, Asian Art Museum, San Francisco, CA, US
Kim Heecheon, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, NY, US
2017
HOME, DOOSAN Gallery Seoul, Seoul, KR
2015
Wall Rally Drill, COMMON CENTER, Seoul, KR
Group Exhibitions
2024
Art Spectrum 2024: Dream Screen, Samsung Leeum Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2023
WORLD BUILDING, Centre Pompidou-Mets, Paris, FR
Game Society, MMCA, Seoul, KR
2021
SF 2021: Fantasy Odyssey, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2020
Art Plant Asia 2020: Hare Way Object, Deoksugung Palace, Seoul, KR
2018
Imagined Border, The 12th Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, KR
Edge of Now, Nam June Paik Art Center, Yong-in, KR
Exhibition Of Exhibition Of Exhibition, Cecil Theater, Seoul, KR
Collection Highlights: Synchronic Moments, MMCA, Gwacheon, KR
2017
2017 Seoul Focus [25.7], The Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
15th Istanbul Biennial: a good neighbour, Istanbul Modern, Istanbul, TK
O Philoi, Oudeis Philos, Atelier Hermès, Seoul, KR
New Acquisitions 2013 - 2016 Samramansang, MMCA, Seoul, KR
2016
iwillmedievalfutureyou5, Kunsthal Aarhus, Aarhus, Denmark
Void, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, KR
SeMA Biennale Media City Seoul 2016, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
Wellknown Unknown, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, KR
2015
New Skin: Modeling and Attaching, Ilmin Museum of Art, Seoul, KR
2013
Mirae Awards, Canon Plex Gallery, Seoul, KR
Award
2023
The 20th Hermès Foundation Missulsang, Seoul, KR
2018
Three Rooms Project, Nam June Paik Art Center, ZKM, CAC
2016
The 7th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards Visual Art, DOOSAN Yonkang Foundation, Seoul, KR
2013
Mirae Awards, Canon Korea, Park Geonhi Foundation, Seoul, KR
Collection
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, KR
Jury's Statement
DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards has established itself as a competitive sponsor of the next generation of artists and their creative leaps. The award system focuses on the art practices and annual exhibitions of artists in their thirties who have active careers in both Korea and abroad, and strives to explore innovative and experimental approaches in discovering up-and-coming artists. In keeping up with such commitments, the jury of the 2016 DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards Fine Arts Category (Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Seonryeong Cho) went through a thorough and in-depth discussion and has selected Heecheon Kim(1989), Gwangsoo Park(1984) and Hoin Lee(1980) as the finalists of the 7th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards this year out of the 9 candidates. There were difficulties in selecting the finalists due to the high level of competency and expectations for the 9 artists recommended by the jury. At last, the jury chose the three artists based on their potential for growth, current art practice, and capability to construct a concrete body of oeuvre.
The penetrative video trilogy presented by Heecheon Kim, only in his late 20s, in the last year successfully won over the jury despite his short exhibition experience compared to other candidates. Drawing analogy between life in his generation to segmented life like an mp3 file, Kim says that when he wants to escape from such life, he backs up the real world in the screen in order to disappear. An Architecture-major, Kim proposes a 'parallel reality' by constructing the life of Seoulites, including himself, backed up in the screen, and by building up another city for them.
Known for black marker drawings and animation, the unique traits of Gwangsoo Park(1984)'s work lies in the "originality of expression and the diversity of its variations". Making animations, murals and objects based on drawing, Park is praised for constructing a "style emancipated from rules, which is not constricted to geometric frames worn out from excessive consumption, and also free from particular trends or tendencies".
Having emerged in the art world in spotlight in 2006, Hoin Lee's solo exhibition at Cake Gallery in 2015 was raved for "promising certain changes, and well calculated brushstrokes of matte paint layers which invite the anticipations of a new world." Also, Lee's exhibition at Art Spectrum in 2016 won praises for "successfully portraying constructive artifacts in a convincing matter, despite the fact that - given the characteristics of his work which thinly piles up layers of dry and matte paint - it's very difficult to portray something beyond the human figure and natural landscape."
The jury of DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Awards sends applause to the recent remarkable activities and accomplishments of Heecheon Kim, Gwangsoo Park and Hoin Lee, and looks forward to even bigger growth and leaps.
Jury Sungwon Kim, Geun-jun Lim, Seonryeong Cho