AWARDS/FELLOWSHIP/RESIDENCIES (selected)
2022 AIM Fellowship, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, US
2021 Artist Banners Runners Up, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY, US
2021 ARTery25, WBUR, Boston, MA, US
2021 Artists Residency, Art Omi, Ghent, NY, US
2018~2020 The Queens Museum Studio Program, Queens, NY, US
2019 Fall Artist and Writers Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, MI, US
2018 Polly Thayer Starr Artist Series, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 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 (selected)
2022 TBA, Five Myles Gallery Plus Space, Brooklyn, NY, US (forthcoming)
2022 The Shijang Project, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, US
2022 Doo Jip Salim, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2021 Looking and Seeing, Boston Children's Museum, Boston, MA, US
2019 Mulgeon, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, US
2017 Urban Nest, Chandler Gallery (Maud Morgan Arts Center), Cambridge, MA, US
2017 Woomin Kim, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2022 TBA, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, US, (forthcoming)
2022 At The Table, Christie's, New York, NY, US
2021 What Comes After, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, US
2021 InterLacement, The Korea Society, New York, NY, US
2021 Plastic Heart, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
2017 Stand Up!, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, US
2016 Amor Fati, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL, US
2016 The Annual: Showroom, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL, 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*
2010 Five Senses of Eros, Museum of Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Emerging Artists of the Year, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul, Korea
(*= two/three person show)
TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2022 Braiding Strings and Story Workshop, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, US
2022 AAPI Community Day Workshop, Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY, US
2021 Artist Talk: Woomin Kim, The Korea Society, New York, NY, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6919msvX-Q
2021 Women's History Month Artist Talk: Hidden Stories in the Material World, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA, US
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZKMyBXZ88LgTclEcX59eobnwxY5xVQxnWrk
2021 2018-2020 Queens Museum Studio Program Artist Presentations and Q+A, Queens Museum, NY, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBpIdRYvG2o
2020 Online Conversation Series: Strange Bedfellow: How Found objects...Deliver a Relevant Massage, Korean Cultural Center, NY, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqEiyoDXidg
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)
2022 John Yau, "Woomin Kim Quilts the Nomadic side of Global Capitalism", Hyperallergic, 30 June
https://hyperallergic.com/743823/woomin-kim-quilts-the-nomadic-side-of-global-capitalism/
2022 Jesse Winter, Lindy Chiu, Katie Korns, Justin Baez, "Artist Banners: Woomin Kim", Noguchi Museum, 2 Apr
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwwqLHwClA
2021 Sasha Bogojev, "What Comes After: A Group Show @ The Wassaic Project", Juxtapoz, 30 December
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/what-comes-after-a-group-show-the-wassaic-project-wassaic-new-york/
2021 Valentina di Liscia, "At Queens's Noguchi Museum, Banners by Asian Artists Address Racism", Hyperallergic, 18 November
https://hyperallergic.com/693458/at-noguchi-museum-banners-by-asian-american-artists-address-racism/
2021 Tania Ralli, Dianna Bell, Arielle Gray, Amelia Mason, Andrea Shea, Cristela Guerra, Magdiela and Jenn Stanley
"Meet The ARTery25: Artists Of Color Transforming The Cultural Landscape", WBUR, 2 September
https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/09/20/meet-2021-artery-25
2021 Gina Lidner, “Looking Back: A Case for Co-dreaming”, Boston Art Review, 2 July
https://bostonartreview.com/reviews/dream-boston-gallery-360-northeastern-gina-lindner/
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/
2016 Bohee Kim, “22nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition Contemporary Art”, Youtube KCCLA, 23 May
https://youtu.be/4gSz3Bng2v4
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
EDUCATION
2015 M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2010 B.F.A. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2022 AIM Fellowship, Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY, US
2021 Artist Banners Runners Up, The Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY, US
2021 ARTery25, WBUR, Boston, MA, US
2021 Artists Residency, Art Omi, Ghent, NY, US
2018~2020 The Queens Museum Studio Program, Queens, NY, US
2019 Fall Artist and Writers Residency, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists' Residency, Saugatuck, MI, US
2018 Polly Thayer Starr Artist Series, Isabella Stewart Gardner Museum, Boston, MA, 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 (selected)
2022 TBA, Five Myles Gallery Plus Space, Brooklyn, NY, US (forthcoming)
2022 The Shijang Project, Susan Inglett Gallery, New York, NY, US
2022 Doo Jip Salim, Goldfinch Gallery, Chicago, IL, US
2021 Looking and Seeing, Boston Children's Museum, Boston, MA, US
2019 Mulgeon, Boston Sculptors Gallery, Boston, MA, US
2017 Urban Nest, Chandler Gallery (Maud Morgan Arts Center), Cambridge, MA, US
2017 Woomin Kim, ROY G BIV Gallery, Columbus, OH, US
GROUP EXHIBITIONS (selected)
2022 TBA, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, US, (forthcoming)
2022 At The Table, Christie's, New York, NY, US
2021 What Comes After, Wassaic Project, Wassaic, NY, US
2021 InterLacement, The Korea Society, New York, NY, US
2021 Plastic Heart, Art Museum at University of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
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
2017 Stand Up!, Gallery Kayafas, Boston, MA, US
2016 Amor Fati, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL, US
2016 The Annual: Showroom, Chicago Artists' Coalition, Chicago, IL, 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*
2010 Five Senses of Eros, Museum of Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Emerging Artists of the Year, Kim Chong Yung Museum, Seoul, Korea
(*= two/three person show)
TALKS/WORKSHOPS
2022 Braiding Strings and Story Workshop, American Folk Art Museum, New York, NY, US
2022 AAPI Community Day Workshop, Noguchi Museum, Queens, NY, US
2021 Artist Talk: Woomin Kim, The Korea Society, New York, NY, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g6919msvX-Q
2021 Women's History Month Artist Talk: Hidden Stories in the Material World, Bunker Hill Community College, Boston, MA, US
https://u.pcloud.link/publink/show?code=XZKMyBXZ88LgTclEcX59eobnwxY5xVQxnWrk
2021 2018-2020 Queens Museum Studio Program Artist Presentations and Q+A, Queens Museum, NY, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VBpIdRYvG2o
2020 Online Conversation Series: Strange Bedfellow: How Found objects...Deliver a Relevant Massage, Korean Cultural Center, NY, US
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jqEiyoDXidg
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)
2022 John Yau, "Woomin Kim Quilts the Nomadic side of Global Capitalism", Hyperallergic, 30 June
https://hyperallergic.com/743823/woomin-kim-quilts-the-nomadic-side-of-global-capitalism/
2022 Jesse Winter, Lindy Chiu, Katie Korns, Justin Baez, "Artist Banners: Woomin Kim", Noguchi Museum, 2 Apr
www.youtube.com/watch?v=WYwwqLHwClA
2021 Sasha Bogojev, "What Comes After: A Group Show @ The Wassaic Project", Juxtapoz, 30 December
https://www.juxtapoz.com/news/installation/what-comes-after-a-group-show-the-wassaic-project-wassaic-new-york/
2021 Valentina di Liscia, "At Queens's Noguchi Museum, Banners by Asian Artists Address Racism", Hyperallergic, 18 November
https://hyperallergic.com/693458/at-noguchi-museum-banners-by-asian-american-artists-address-racism/
2021 Tania Ralli, Dianna Bell, Arielle Gray, Amelia Mason, Andrea Shea, Cristela Guerra, Magdiela and Jenn Stanley
"Meet The ARTery25: Artists Of Color Transforming The Cultural Landscape", WBUR, 2 September
https://www.wbur.org/news/2021/09/20/meet-2021-artery-25
2021 Gina Lidner, “Looking Back: A Case for Co-dreaming”, Boston Art Review, 2 July
https://bostonartreview.com/reviews/dream-boston-gallery-360-northeastern-gina-lindner/
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/
2016 Bohee Kim, “22nd Annual Juried Art Exhibition Contemporary Art”, Youtube KCCLA, 23 May
https://youtu.be/4gSz3Bng2v4
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
EDUCATION
2015 M.F.A. School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Chicago, US
2010 B.F.A. Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea