Kimi Kim
Kimi Kim has been working in various genres including textile, woodcraft, print, lacquer, graphic design and ceramics since 1994. After graduating in Ceramics Design from Central Saint Martin’s College of Art and Design in London, she has been focusing more on ceramics. Her works feature delicate forms inspired by nature, such as trees, leaves, and petals made from fragile materials, such as ceramic and “paper clay”. These forms represent the nature of love and care in Kim’s personal life and how these relationships and beacons of joy are impossibly fragile, yet indescribably precious.
People always live longing for what they can or can’t have dreaming of achieving something. In my first series, I wanted to talk about women’s desires and thirst through Chanel bags, but they expressed their desire to be jealous and disdain because they couldn’t have it in the closet, and they couldn’t have it in the form of a torn bag.
The second desire series LEGO is looking back at my childhood when I see the LEGO blocks my kids play with, and we always have a desire to achieve something, but we are a little bit concentric and built up some form of LEGO blocks as I want. Why don’t we all become artists.
Education
2015 Urban Glass Class for Imagery
2007-BA University of the Arts of London Central Saint Martins, London, UK (Specialization: Ceramics)
2006 London College of Art – Camberwell Foundation
1998-BA Silla University, Busan, Korea
1992-1994 Industrial Design & Craft, Busan Women's College, Korea
Seleted Solo Exhibitions
2026
Solo Exhibition, Living Gallery, Busan, Korea, March 7-29
2025
Solo Exhibition, Gallery 1, Seoul, Korea, 2025 (Permanent Exhibition, Ongoing)
2024
Unbond (Solo Exhibition), Atelier Kyma, Seoul, Korea, 2024
2023
Solo Exhibition, Livein Gallery, Busan, Korea, September
Selected Group Exhibitions
2026
Paradise hotel art fair, Busan, Korea, March 12-15
2025
BAMA Busan Art Fair, Busan, Korea, April 2025
Beautiful Rupture, Gallery Chang, New York, USA, June 20 – July 22, 2025
Shining Bright, Livein Gallery, Busan, Korea, 2025
Shanghai MGM Hotel Art Fair, Shanghai, China, November 2025
Seoul Art Show, Seoul, Korea, December 2025
Group Exhibition, Gallery Chang, New York, USA, December 2025
Permanent Exhibition, Waterfall Mansion Gallery, New York, USA (Ongoing)
2024
Permanent Exhibition, Atelier Kyma, Seoul, Korea (Ongoing)
Shilla Art Fair, Seoul, Korea, 2024
2023
Waterfall Mansion gallery in New York. US
A Blooming Resilience
LA art show
Shatto gallery in La group exhibition 2/23-3/3
2022
Miami beach art show
Galleries Art Fair Setec in Seoul. South Korea
Paradise Hotel in Busan. South Korea
2021
Artful living Projet, Bergdorf Goodman X Waterfall Mansion Gallery
2020
Artful Living Campaign, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
(RESTORE) To Beloved ArtistsWaterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
2019
Consider the Butterflies, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
Re:collection, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
Sidexside, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
Sea Beyond, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
Transfiguration, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
Be still, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
2018
Infinite Grace2, Alpine, NJ, US
Infinite Grace, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
2017
BERGDORF GOODMAN, NY, US
Inside the Flower Matrix, in collaboration of Claudia Hart, TRANSFER GALLERY, NY, US
Artful Living, at the West Village Printing House,NY, US
New Book: 2017, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery,NY, US
Moving Image Immersive Media, Art Fair, NY, in collaboration of Claudia Hart, NY, US
Da Vinci Creative 2017, Geumcheon Art Space, Seoul, Korea
A Sustaining Life at BERGDORF GOODMAN, NY, US
Re:collection, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
Inside the Flower Matrix, in collaboration of Claudia Hart, James Thompson Gallery, NY, US
2016
SUMMER CELEBRATION, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
The Needs for My Care, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
2015
Alice’s Tea Set, in collaboration of Claudia Hart, Eye Beam Gallery, NY, US
Fermented Souls, Waterfall Mansion & Gallery, NY, US
2014
Welcome to Alice’s Giftshop!, in collaboration of Claudia Hart, New Museum Store Project, NY, US
2013
MANMULSANG, Lotte Gallery Main Branch, Seoul, Korea
The 2nd Solo Exhibition WAVE, Ethan Cohen Fine Arts, NY, US
The 1st solo Exhibition T.R.E.E, Avery NY.US
2007
Camberwell Graduation show
Graduation Show, University of the Arts of London Central Saint Martins, UK
1998
Graduation Show, Silla University, Korea
1996
Life and Soil, Hyundai Department Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Awards
2019 International Competition KOREA
1994 Special Selection for Woodcraft, Korea Art & Craft Prize, Seoul