AWARDS/FELLOWSHIP/RESIDENCIES
2019 Fall Artist and Writers Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, MI, US
2018~2020 The Queens Museum Studio Program, Queens, NY, US
2018 Polly Thayer Starr Artist Series, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, US
2018 Artist Residency, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, US
2018 Second Prize, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA, US
(juried by Michelle Grabner, Jessica Hong ICA Boston, Jamillah James ICA Los Angeles)
2017 Artist Residency, The Wassaic Project , Wassaic, NY, US
2017 Artist Residency, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Nebraska City, NE
2017 The Studio at MASS MoCA, North Adams, MA, US
2016 Best of Show, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, US
2016 Artist Residency (Full Fellowship), Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2015-2016 HATCH Projects Artist’ Residency (Chicago Artists Coalition), Chicago, IL, US
2015 Emerging Artist Grant Finalist Awards, Joan Mitchell Foundation, New York, NY, US
2015 Artist Residency, ACRE Residency, Chicago, IL, US
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2021 Looking and Seeing, Boston Children's Museum, Boston, MA, US (forthcoming)
2019 Mulgeon, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, US
2017 Urban Nest, Chandler Gallery (Maud Morgan Arts Center), Cambridge, MA, US (Juried by Annett Lemieux)
2017 Woomin Kim, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, US
2014 Remnants, Gallery Lamer, Seoul, Korea
2013 Steady Stream, Gallery Lamer, Seoul, Korea
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2021 Plastic Heart, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada (forthcoming)
2021 TBA, Korea Society, New York, NY, US (forthcoming)
2021 Dream Boston, Northeastern University Gallery360, Boston, MA, US
2020 Interpreting the Natural, Korean Cultural Center, New York, NY, US
2019 The Extra Ordinary, Hunter East Harlem Gallery, New York, NY, US
2019 Certain Dark Things, Bunker Hill Community College Art Gallery, Boston, MA, US
2019 Collective Punishment, MUSA Collective, Boston, MA, US
2019 Material Play, Salisbury University Art Gallery, Salisbury, MD, US
2018 I'd Prefer It If your Answer Was Maybe, The Cost Annex, Boston, MA, US
2018 Artists in Residence, Gallery 263, Cambridge, MA, US
2018 National Prize Show, University Place Gallery, Cambridge, MA, US
2017 Body Politic, Bromfield Gallery, Boston, MA, US
2017 Stand Up!, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, US
2017 The Feminist Opposition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI, US
2016 Amor Fati, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL, US
2016 Fay Chandler Emerging Art Exhibition, Scollay Square Gallery City Hall, Boston, MA, US
2016 The Annual: Showroom, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL, US
2016 The 22nd Korean Cultural Center Annual Juried Art Exhibition, KCCLA, Los Angeles, CA, US
2016 Modes of Access, ACRE Projects, Chicago, IL, US*
2016 Analogues, Chicago Artists’ Coalition, Chicago, IL, US*
2015 Unknown Condition: Question of Maleness, The Leroy Neiman Center Gallery, Chicago, US*
2013 New Thinking New Art, Leeseoul Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 The Art Factory Project, Vacant Factories in Seochun-gun, Korea
2012 Black Out Project, Vacant Swimming Pool in Gwanaksan Mountain, Seoul, Korea
2010 Five Senses of Eros, Museum of Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Emerging Artists of the Year, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul, Korea
2010 Young Sculptors of the Year, KOSA Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea
(*= two/three person show)
TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2021 Women's History Month Artist Talk: Hidden Stories in the Material World, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA, US
2021 2018-2020 Queens Museum Studio Program Artist Presentations and Q+A, Queens Museum, NY, US
2020 Online Conversation Series: Strange Bedfellow: How Found objects...Deliver a Relevant Massage, Korean Cultural Center, NY, US
2020 Fiber Workshop (Collaborated with BordeAndo), Queens Museum, Queens, NY, US
2019 Fiber Workshop, deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA, US
2018 Fall Residency Workshops/Final Presentation, Boston Center for the Arts, Boston, MA, US
2017 Artist Talk, Maud Morgan Arts Center, MA, US
2017 Panel Discussion: The Feminist Opposition, Hera Gallery, Wakefield, RI, US
2017 Closing Talk, Roy G Biv Gallery, Columbus, OH, US
2014 Fall: Grad Student Lecture Series, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
2014 Spring: Grad Student Lecture Series, School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, Chicago, IL, US
PRESS (selected)
2020 Louis Bury, "Studio Visit Series: Woomin Kim", The BOMB Magazine, 11 November
https://bombmagazine.org/articles/studio-visit-woomin-kim/
2020 Hakim Bishara, “Spotlight Immigrant Artists Enduring the Arduous Process of Applying for an O-1 Visa”, Hyperallergic, 20 February
https://hyperallergic.com/539799/spotlighting-immigrant-artists-enduring-the-arduous-process-of-applying-for-an-o-1-visa/
2020 Will Heinrich, "What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries", The New York Times, 19 January
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/01/29/arts/design/art-galleries-new-york-city.html
2018 Edward Clark, “Art & Life with Woomin Kim”, Boston Voyager, 18 June
http://bostonvoyager.com/interview/art-life-woomin-kim/
2017 Helena Touhey, “Hera Gallery to host artist talk on 'Feminist Opposition’”, The Independent Newspaper Rhode Island, 31 March
http://www.independentri.com/independents/arts_and_living/article_1e973533-fd64-57f5-805d-c83082b29d06.html
2016 Bohee Kim, “22nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition Contemporary Art”, Youtube KCCLA, 23 May
https://youtu.be/4gSz3Bng2v4
2015 Eva Maria Lourdes Martinez, Review: “Of Myth and Men”, F News Magazine, 12 June 2015
http://fnewsmagazine.com/2015/06/of-myth-and-men/
2012 Yeongjae Joo, “버려진 수영장, 예술로 채우다 (Review: Black Out Project)”, The Kyunghyang Shinmun, 28 May
http://news.khan.co.kr/kh_news/khan_art_view.html?artid=201205282110035&code=960202
COLLECTION
2020 Bunker Hill Community College
EDUCATION
2013~2015 M.F.A., School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2006~2012 B.F.A./M.F.A., Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea