김 수 자
Born 1957, Daegu, Korea
Lives and works in New York, Paris and Seoul
Education and Residencies
2014Artist in residence at Cornell University, Ithaca, New York, USA
2008Artist in residence at Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Vitry-sur-Seine, France
1998 - 1999Artist in residence for the World Views Program at the World Trade Center, New York, USA
1992 - 1993Artist in Residence, MoMA P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, USA
1984Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France
(French Government Scholarship)
1984MFA, Painting Dept., Hong-IK University, Seoul, South Korea
1980BFA, Painting Dept., Hong-IK University, Seoul, South Korea
Solo Exhibitions & Site Specific Projects
2015 Kimsooja - To Breathe, Centre Pompidou Metz, Metz, France
Kimsooja, A Beggar Woman - Cairo, Smith College Museum of Art, Massachusetts, USA
Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Chapter III, Axel Vervoordt Gallery, Antwerp, Belgium
Kimsooja: Thread Routes, Guggenheim Bilbao Museoa, Bilbao, Spain
2014 Kimsooja, A Needle Woman: Galaxy was a Memory, Earth is a Souvenir, A Site-Specific Instillation for Intimate Cosmologies: The Aesthetics of Scale in an Age of Nanotechnology, 1st Cornell University Biennale Ithaca, New York, USA
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Mandala, Kewenig Galerie, Palma, Majorca
Kimsooja, Bottaris, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
Kimsooja, To Breathe, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Obengsaek, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
2013 Kimsooja, To Breathe: Bottari, The Korean Pavilion, 55th Biennale di Venezia, Venice, Italy
Kimsooja / Unfolding, Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada
Kimsooja, An Album: Sewing into Borderlines, Mariposa Land Port of Entry, Arizona USA, commissioned by GSA Art in Architecture Program
2012 Kimsooja: A Needle Woman, Miami Art Museum, Miami, USA
Kimsooja, Musée D'Art Moderne de Saint Etienne, St. Etienne, France
Calm Chaos: Kimsooja's Earth - Water - Fire - Air, Perm Museum of Contemporary Art, Perm, Russia
Kimsooja, To Breathe, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Kimsooja, Kunsthal 44 Moen, Askeby, Denmark
2011 Kimsooja, Daegu Art Museum, Daegu, Korea
Kimsooja, University Museum of Contemporary Art, Massachusetts, USA
Kimsooja, Mumbai - A Laundry Field, Sullivan Gallery, School of the Institute of Chicago, Chicago, USA
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, Lucidity. Inward Views, Le Mois de la Photo, Maison de la Culture Frontenac, Montreal, Canada
Kimsooja, An Album: Hudson Guild, A Site-Specific Screening at SVA Theater, Barney Auditorium, NYU, United States Custom House, New York, USA Commissioned by More Art
2010 Kimsooja, Earth - Water - Fire - Air, NPPAP - Yong Gwang Nuclear Power Plant Art Project, Organized by The National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea,
Kimsooja, Being in the World / Être au Monde, Musée d'art de Joliette, Joliette, Quebec, Canada
Kimsooja, Earth - Water - Fire – Air, Atelier Hermes, Seoul, Korea
Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Feldkirch Church, Co-organized by Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein
Kimsooja, Gallery Tschudi, Zuoz, Switzerland
2009 Kimsooja: A Needle Woman, Baltic Center for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Continua Gallery, Le Moulin, France
Kimsooja: 5th Lanzarote Biennale, International Museum of Contemporary Art, Lanzarote, Canary Islands
A Needle Woman - Paris, Hôtel De Ville Paris, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2009, Paris, France
2008 Kimsooja, A Mirror Woman: The Sun & The Moon, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
Kimsooja, A Video Album, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milan, Italy
Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Continua Gallery, Beijing, China
Black Box: Kimsooja, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C., USA
Kimsooja, Lotus: Zone of Zero, Rotonde Ravenstein, on the occasion of the Korean Art Festival, BOZAR, Brussels
To Breathe: Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle, screenings at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, USA
2007 Kimsooja, Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne, Germany
A Wind Woman, La Fabrica, Madrid, Spain
2006 Kimsooja, To Breathe - A Mirror Woman, a site-specific installation at the Crystal Palace, commissioned by Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid, Spain
Kimsooja, To Breathe / Respirare, A Site-Specific Installation at La Fenice Theater, in conjunction with a joint Solo Exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venice, Italy,
Kimsooja, To Breathe: Invisible Mirror / Invisible Needle, Teatre Chatelet, Commissioned by Nuit Blanche 2006, Paris, France
Kimsooja, Magasin 3, Stockholm, Sweeden
Kimsooja, A Wind Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York, USA
Kimsooja, A Wind Woman, The Project, New York, USA
2005 Kimsooja, Journey into the World, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens, Greece
Kimsooja, Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Gallery, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA
Kimsooja, Conditions of Anonymity, The 59th Minute & performance at Times Square, Creative Time, New York, USA
Kimsooja, Bottari, Cologne 2005, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne, Germany
2004 Kimsooja, Conditions of Humanity, traveling solo show, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Germany
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, Outdoor Video - 7 outdoor video screen projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Kimsooja, Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island, USA
Kimsooja, Galerie Raffaella Cortese, Milan, Italy
2003 Kimsooja, Conditions of Humanity, traveling solo show, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon, France; Padiglione d'Arte Contemporanea, PAC, Milan, Italy
Kim Sooja, Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, Poland
Kimsooja, Mandala: Zone of Zero, The Project, New York, USA
Kimsooja, A Mirror Woman - The Ground of Nowhere, Crossings 2003: Hawaii/Korea, Honolulu City Hall, Hawaii
2002 Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, Kunsthalle, Wien, Austria
Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, Image Passage, Musee-Chateau, Annecy, France
Kimsooja, A Mirror Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, New York, USA
2001 Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center / MOMA, New York, USA
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern, Switzerland
Kimsooja, Bottari 2001, Sprengel Museum, Hanover, Germany
Kim Soo Ja, INOVA, Milwaukee, USA
Kimsooja, A Laundry Woman, Palazzo Delle Poste, Trieste, Italy
2000 Kimsooja, A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery (Plateau Samsung Museum of Art), Seoul, Korea
Kimsooja, A Needle Woman, ICC, Tokyo, Japan
