Kimsooja
CURRICULUM
Born 1957, Taegu, Korea
Education and Residencies
1999 Lives and works in New York
1998 - 1999 World Views - Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center, New York
1992 - 1993 Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1984 - 1985 Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (French Government Scholarship)
1980 /1984 Graduated Painting Dept. of Hong-IK University ('80) and Graduate School('84), Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2009
A Needle Woman - A Laundry Woman-Yamuna River, India, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin
2008
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Galleria Continua, Beijing
A Mirror Woman: The Sun & The Moon, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
A Video Album, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milano
Black Box: Kimsooja, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
Lotus: Zone of Zero, Rotonde Ravenstein, on the occasion of the Korean Art Festival, BOZAR, Brussels
To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/ Invisible Needle, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2007
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne
A Wind Woman, La Fabrica, Madrid
2006
To Breathe A mirror woman (Respirar Una mujer espejo), a site-specific installation at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
To Breathe / Respirare, a site-specific installation at La Fenice Theater, in
conjunction with a joint solo exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venezia
To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/ Invisible Needle, Teatre Chatelet, Nuit Blanche,
Paris
Kimsooja, Magasin 3, Stockholm
A Wind Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York
A Wind Woman, The Project, New York
2005
Journey into the World, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Gallery, Cambridge
Conditions of Anonymity, The 59th Minute & performance at Time Square, Creative Time, New York
Bottari, Cologne 2005, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne
2004
A Needle Woman, Out Video - 7 outdoor video screen projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island
Kimsooja, Galerie Raffaella Cortese, Milano
2004-2003
Conditions of Humanity, traveling solo show, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, PAC, Milano, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2003
Kim Sooja, Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Mandala: Zone of Zero, The Project, New York
A Mirror Woman -The Ground of Nowhere, Crossings 2003: Hawaii/Korea, Honolulu City Hall, Hawaii
2002
A Laundry Woman, Kunsthalle, Wien
A Laundry Woman, Image Passage, Musee-Chateau, Annecy
A Mirror Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
2001
A Needle Woman, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/ MOMA, New York
A Needle Woman, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Bottari 2001, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Kim Soo Ja, INOVA, Milwaukee
A Laundry Woman, Palazzo Delle Poste, Trieste
2000
A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery, Seoul
A Needle Woman, ICC, Tokyo
1999
A Needle Woman, CCA Kitakyushu
1997
Sewing into Walking, MAGASIN, Centre d’Art Contemporian National de Grenoble
A Laundry Field/Sewing into Walking Looking into Sewing, Oakville (Centennial Gallery) Ontario
Deductive Object, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
Bottari, Choreographed by Christopher House, Performed by Toronto Dance
Theater, Conceptual Scenic design by Kim Sooja, Harbourfront Premiere Dance Theater, Toronto
1994
Sewing into Walking, Gallery Seomi, Seoul
1992
Kim Soo-Ja, Hankook Gallery, Seoul (The 11th Suknam Fine Art Awards show)
1991
Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
1989
Kim Soo-Ja, On Gallery, Osaka
1988
KimSoo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions & Two Person Shows
2010
Isole mai trovate/ Islands never found, Palazzo Ducale Appartamento del Doge, Genova, Italy
Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2009
A house is not a home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Négron, France.
Un certain état du monde: Sélection de la collection de la Fondation François Pinault, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
It's Your Bright Future: 12 Korean Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Fragile. Terres d’emphatie, Musee d’art moderne, saint Ethienne Metropole, Francia
2008
Conspire, Transmediale 08, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin
Street Art Street Life, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
Academia, Chapel of L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Ethos, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvaer, Norway
Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Je reviendrai, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris
Knock Knock Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Liechtenstein
Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin traveling to New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Wandering in Contemporary Video Art, Magazzini del Sale, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
Micro-Narratives, Musee D'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Person of the Crowd, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Global Eur Asia Special Exhibition, Art Cologne, Cologne
Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville
The Missing Peace, Hillside Terrance, Tokyo
A Space In Time, La Fabrica Gallery, Madrid
Aspiration, Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas
2007
ArTempo: where time becomes art, Palazzo Fortuny, The 52nd Venice Biennale, Venezia
Passage du Temps - A selection of works from the François Pinault Foundation, Tri Postal, Lille
GOING STAYING. Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Á l’horizon de Shangri la, FRAC Lorraine, Lorraine
Equatorial Rhythms, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul
Timeout! Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Listening Awry, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Scenes and Sequences - Peter Blum Editions, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau
Critical Mass, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Speed 3: Contrarreloj (Against the clock), IVAM Institute Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto
Video Atlas Americas, Automatica, Rio de Janerio
An Interpersonal Journey, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
Gestures of Infinity, Minoriten Kultur Graz, Graz
Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relations, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden
Manifesting Emptiness, Rymer Gallery at The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago
Micro-Narratives, 48th October Salon, Cultural Centre, Belgrade
Pawnshop, e-flux, New York
Witnessing the Moment, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, The Vinohrady Theater, Prague
Momentos Estelares-Photography in the 20th Century, The Circulo de Bellas Artes and the Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León
2006
Art, Life & Confusion, October Art Salon, Belgrade
The 2nd Architectural Biennial Beijing, The Great Hall of The National Museum of China, Beijing
Five Days Until the End of Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Casper David Friedrich Die Erfindung Der Romantik, Museum Folkwang, Essen, traveled to Hamburger Kunstahalle, Hamburg
With Body and Soul, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Germany
New Mystics, Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands
The Missing Peace, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles traveled to Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago
Group Show, Art Center Beursschouwburg, Brussels
NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
Cut and Paste - New Identities, New Territories, Makor Steinhardt Center, New York
Allegories of Displacement, Westport Art Center, Westport (Connecticut)
2005
Always a Little Further, The 51st Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
Art Circus-Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama Triennial 2005, Yokohama
Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
Irreducible, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, traveled to Miami Art Central, Miami, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
Introspections, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Domicile - Private/Public, Musee D'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
The Giving Person, Palazzo della Arti, Napoli
Art_Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO, Paris
Femme, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Cool & Warm, Sung-Kok Museum of Art, Seoul
The Fifth Gospel, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia
The Missing Peace, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford
Perception of the Horizontal, MUSEION, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
WATER, AIR, EARTH, FIRE - At the Origins of Life between Art and Science, Villa Croce, Geneva
INGENIO 400, a commissioned web video project, La Fabrica, Madrid
Video Spirit: Mysteries, Myths, Meditation and the Moving Image, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
2004
Don’t call it performance, The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, El Museo del Barrio, New York, Traveled from Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
The 18th Rencontre Paralleles, Centre d’art Contemporain, Bass-Normandie
The Ten Commandments, Hygiene Museum, Dresden
Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
PREMAculTURE, Hydra, Greece
La Caja Negra - Utopias en Movimiento, Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Canary Islands
Still Mapping the Moon - Perspective of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Five Artists, Five Faiths: Spirituality and Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The 1st Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland
WOW/ The Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery & Western Bridge, Seattle
Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos from the collection of Helga De Alvear, Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Oulu City Art Museum, Turku, Finland, MEIAC Art Museum, Badajoz, Spain
Settlement, Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne
In Movement - Salutes Women Video Artists of the World, UNESCO, Paris
HOMExtension, University Art Museum, Albany
Playgrounds & Toys, La Manufacture des Oeillets, Paris
Kunst Stoff, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien
Out Video Festival, NCCA Yekaterinburg, Russia
Raison et Sentiments - CRAC ALSACE, Altkirch
Enlightment, Video Program, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Artists on Journey, Seoul National University Museum, Seoul
2003
Ideal City - Solares, The 2nd Valencia Biennale, Valencia
Lille 2004, Flower Power, Beaux-Art Museum, Lille
Don’t call it performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
As Heavy as the Heavens, Transformations of Gravity, County Museum Joanneum, Graz, traveled to Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
Migration, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein
Mind Space, Samsung Art Museum, Seoul
Identity and Otherness, PHotoespaña, Circulo de Bella Artes, Madrid
Multitudes – Solitudes, Museum and Ar/ge Kunst Galleria Museo, Bolzano
Archives and Simulation, LisboaPhoto, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Social Strategy, traveling show from University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara to Austin Museum of Art, Austin
The 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva
Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Walking in the Street, Apex Art, New York, Traveled to Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Serene Beauty, Jamaica Art Center, New York
Spotlight Reading, The Kitchen, New York
Motion Studies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
Traces of Friday - art, tourism, displacement, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2002
Whitney Biennial, Central Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tempo, Inauguration exhibition of MOMA Queens, New York
Memory of Water, Spoleto Festival USA 2002, Charleston
The 1st Busan Biennale, Metropolitan Museum, Busan
The 2nd Photo Festival, Ganna Art, Total Museum, Seoul
Refugee, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
Expo 2002 - Money & Value/ The Last Taboo, Biel, Switzerland
Demeter, Tokachi International Contemporary Exhibition, Obihiro, Japan
Aubes, Rêveries au bord de Victor Hugo, Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris
Watching Ocean and Sky Together, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Global Priority, Jamaica Art Center, New York
Instruction for Actions, Kunsthalle Wien
Crossing Cultures - Elementary Particle Art, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Styria, Austria
2001
Markers, The 49th Venice Biennale, Venice
ARS 01, KIASMA, Helsinki
Art through the Eye of Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikedden, Norway
Subject Plural, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Asian Contemporary Art, Duke University Modern Art Museum, Durham
On the way to the Screen, International Artists House, Moscow
Antro-a-Polosias, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia
IMAGO MUNDI, CAPC Bordeaux
Lost And Found, Apex Art, New York
Unrealtime Video, Fine Arts Center, Seoul
Going Places, Smart Art Space, Amsterdam
Girls in the Image, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2000
Sharing Exotism, The 5th Biennale de Lyon 2000, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon
Human-being and Gender, The 3rd Kwangju Biennale. Kwangju
The Sky is the Limit, The 2nd Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Echigo - Tsumari, Tsumari Art Triennale 2000, Echigo – Tsmari, Japan
Hypermental - Entre realite et chimieres 1950-2000, de Salvadore Dali a Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zurich
Mutation, Arc en Reve d'Architecture, APC Bordeaux
Art and Social Reality, High Commission for Refugee, Geneva
From Here to There, Academie Scholoss Solitude, Stuttgart
Playground & Toys for Refugee Children, Red Cross Museum, Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Traveled to UN, New York
Today’s Korea Contemporary Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
Drive, Govette-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Kim Sooja + Yang Pei Ming, Selfscape, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrick, Odense
2000 - 1997
Cities on the Move, Cesession, Vienna, traveled to Louisiana Museum of Art Copenhagen, Hayward Gallery, London, CAPC Bordeaux, KIASMA, Helsinki, P.S.1, New York
1999
d'APERTutto, The 48th Venice Biennale, Venice
ArtWorlds in Dialogue - Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The 3rd Asia - Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Kim Sooja + Jeannett Christensen, Inaugural Exhibition at Kunsthalle Feldbach, Feldbach
1998
The 24th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo
Everyday, The 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London
Warming, The Project, New York
Medialization, Edsvik Art Center, Stockholm, traveled to Eesti Kunst Museum, Tallinn
Slowness of Speed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Frame, Kumho Art Museum, Seoul
1998-1996
Traditions/Tensions, Asia Society, Gray Art Gallery, Queens Museum of Art, New York, traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, to Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1997
On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, The 5th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
De-Genderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
1996
Manifesta 1, Museum Boymans Van-Beuningen, Rotterdam
Inclusion/Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz
The Scream - Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
Roles of the Couple, Soo Ja Kim / Toshihiro Kuno, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura
Do It / Home Version, Museum in Progress, Vienna
Home/Salon, The Clock Tower Gallery, New York
Ceremonial, Apex Art, New York
An Aspect of Korea Contemporary Art in the 90's, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, traveled to the International Museum of Osaka
1995
Division of Labor - Women's Work in Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, traveled to MOCA, L.A.
The 1st KwangJu Biennale, KwangJu
Tiger’s Tail - 12 Korean Contemporary Artists, Palazzo Vendramin, Venezia, traveled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon
Circulating Currents - Korean & Japanese Contemporary Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Nagoya
6.Triennale Kleinplastik 1995, Sud-West L.B, Stuttgart
16th International Bronze & Small Sculpture Biennale, Padova
Light Box Project, Museum City Project, Fukuoka
Stage work for Drawing the Sound, Whanki Museum, Seoul
Information and Reality, FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1994
Women - The Difference and the Power, Hankook Gallery, Seoul
1993
Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
In Their Own Images, P.S.1 Museum, New York
Semblances, Ise Art Foundation, New York
1992
Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1991
Ten Korean Women Artists, The National Museum Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., traveled to Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
Inaugural Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, SunJae Museum, Kyungju
1990
Impact 3 90, Gallery Humanite, Tokyo
1989
Berlin International Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Berlin
Young Artist Festival, Trade Center Hyundai Gallery, Seoul
1988
88 Korea Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
1987
The 8th International Impact Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Kyoto
1985
1984-85 French Government Scholars Exhibition, Galerie Bernanos, Paris
1984
Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Taipei
1983
83 Seoul International Drawing Exhibition, Fine Art Center, Seoul
1979
Breath, Kim Soo-ja/ Lee Yun-Dong, Growrich Gallery, Seoul
Grants, Awards and Commissioned Work
2007
Visual Art Award, Foundation for Contemporary, New York
Work commissioned by Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
2006
A site-specific installation commissioned by Museo de National Reina Sofia, Madrid for the solo exhibition, To Breathe – A Mirror Woman (Respirar - Una mujer espejo), at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2005
Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Seoul
Commissioned web video project by La Fabrica, Madrid for the exhibition INGENIO 400
2004 - 2003
CEC Arts Link Grant, New York, New York, For the Lecture Series in Russia in conjunction with the Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, CCA, Moscow Lecture Program, and A Needle Woman 7 Outdoor Video Projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2003 - Present
Commissioned site specific installation by Consortium, Dijion, Sponsored by Fondation de France, Paris, and Olivietti Foundation, Rome for Nouveaux Commanditaires - Landscape Lighting Project & St. Bernard, Hospice Permanent Lighting Installation, St. Bernard, France
2002
Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation Award, New York
Artist of the American Art Award Recipient, Whitney Museum of America, Sponsored by Cartier Co., New York
2001
Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Seoul, Award for the Best Show of the Year 2000, for the solo exhibition A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World at Rodin Gallery, Samsung Art Museum, Seoul
2000
Award Recipient, Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul
Commissioned work by ICC, Tokyo in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman at ICC, Tokyo
1999
Work commissioned by CCA Kitakyushu in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman at CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
1998
Residency Award, World Views - at World Trade Center, New York awarded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
Grant Recipient, The Korean Culture & Art Foundation, Seoul
1997
Experimental Art Grant Recipient, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul
1996
Award Recipient, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1992-3
Artist in Residence, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, supported by The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1992
The 11th Suk-Nam Fine Art Award, Seoul
1991
Song-Un Culture Fondation Award, Seoul
1984
Lithography studio Scholarship Award Recipient, Ecole National des Beaux-Art, Paris, awarded by the French Government
Lectures and Teachings
2008
Visiting Artist, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Lecture at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Key Note Speaker, The International Symposium of The Fabric Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii
2006
Visiting Artist, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2005
Lecturer, MIT University, in conjunction with the solo exhibition
Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Gallery, Cambridge
2004
Lecture at Rhode Island School of Design in conjunction with the Videos in Progress Project at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Lecture at St. Petersburg as part of the Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, CCA, Mosco Lecture Program, Moscow, and at
NCCA, in conjunction with A Needle Woman 7 Outdoor Video Projection, Yekaterinburg
Lecture at Asian Art Museum, Seattle
2003
Lecture at University of Hawaii, in conjunction with the installation A Mirror Woman: The Ground of Nowhere, Honolulu City Hall for the Crossings: 2003 Korea/Hawaii Exhibition, Hawaii
Lecture at Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, in conjunction with the solo exhibition Kim Sooja
2000
Lecture at ICC, Tokyo in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman
1996
Lecture at Hong-Ik University Art Dept. Seoul
Lecturer, Seoul Institute of Art, Seoul
1993
Lecture at School of Visual Art, New York
1992
Lecture at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
Education and Residencies
1999 Lives and works in New York
1998 - 1999 World Views - Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center, New York
1992 - 1993 Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1984 - 1985 Lithography studio at Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris, France (French Government Scholarship)
1980 /1984 Graduated Painting Dept. of Hong-IK University ('80) and Graduate School('84), Seoul
Solo Exhibitions
2009
A Needle Woman - A Laundry Woman-Yamuna River, India, BALTIC Centre for Contemporary Art, Gateshead, UK
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Galleria Continua, Le Moulin
2008
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Galleria Continua, Beijing
A Mirror Woman: The Sun & The Moon, Shiseido Gallery, Tokyo
A Video Album, Raffaella Cortese Gallery, Milano
Black Box: Kimsooja, Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington D.C
Lotus: Zone of Zero, Rotonde Ravenstein, on the occasion of the Korean Art Festival, BOZAR, Brussels
To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/ Invisible Needle, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
2007
Mumbai: A Laundry Field, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne
A Wind Woman, La Fabrica, Madrid
2006
To Breathe A mirror woman (Respirar Una mujer espejo), a site-specific installation at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
To Breathe / Respirare, a site-specific installation at La Fenice Theater, in
conjunction with a joint solo exhibition at Fondazione Bevilacqua la Masa, Venezia
To Breathe: Invisible Mirror/ Invisible Needle, Teatre Chatelet, Nuit Blanche,
Paris
Kimsooja, Magasin 3, Stockholm
A Wind Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, Chelsea, New York
A Wind Woman, The Project, New York
2005
Journey into the World, The National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Gallery, Cambridge
Conditions of Anonymity, The 59th Minute & performance at Time Square, Creative Time, New York
Bottari, Cologne 2005, Kewenig Gallery, Cologne
2004
A Needle Woman, Out Video - 7 outdoor video screen projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia
Videos in Progress, The RISD Museum, Rhode Island
Kimsooja, Galerie Raffaella Cortese, Milano
2004-2003
Conditions of Humanity, traveling solo show, Museum Kunst Palast, Düsseldorf, Padiglione d’Arte Contemporanea, PAC, Milano, from the Museum of Contemporary Art, Lyon
2003
Kim Sooja, Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw
Mandala: Zone of Zero, The Project, New York
A Mirror Woman -The Ground of Nowhere, Crossings 2003: Hawaii/Korea, Honolulu City Hall, Hawaii
2002
A Laundry Woman, Kunsthalle, Wien
A Laundry Woman, Image Passage, Musee-Chateau, Annecy
A Mirror Woman, Peter Blum Gallery, New York
2001
A Needle Woman, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center/ MOMA, New York
A Needle Woman, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Bottari 2001, Sprengel Museum, Hanover
Kim Soo Ja, INOVA, Milwaukee
A Laundry Woman, Palazzo Delle Poste, Trieste
2000
A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World, Rodin Gallery, Seoul
A Needle Woman, ICC, Tokyo
1999
A Needle Woman, CCA Kitakyushu
1997
Sewing into Walking, MAGASIN, Centre d’Art Contemporian National de Grenoble
A Laundry Field/Sewing into Walking Looking into Sewing, Oakville (Centennial Gallery) Ontario
Deductive Object, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya
Bottari, Choreographed by Christopher House, Performed by Toronto Dance
Theater, Conceptual Scenic design by Kim Sooja, Harbourfront Premiere Dance Theater, Toronto
1994
Sewing into Walking, Gallery Seomi, Seoul
1992
Kim Soo-Ja, Hankook Gallery, Seoul (The 11th Suknam Fine Art Awards show)
1991
Kim Soo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
1989
Kim Soo-Ja, On Gallery, Osaka
1988
KimSoo-Ja, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Selected Group Exhibitions & Two Person Shows
2010
Isole mai trovate/ Islands never found, Palazzo Ducale Appartamento del Doge, Genova, Italy
Rem(a)inders, Galleria Continua, Beijing, China
2009
A house is not a home, La Calmeleterie, Nazelles Négron, France.
Un certain état du monde: Sélection de la collection de la Fondation François Pinault, The Garage Center for Contemporary Culture, Moscow, Russia
It's Your Bright Future: 12 Korean Artists, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles traveling to Museum of Fine Arts, Houston
Fragile. Terres d’emphatie, Musee d’art moderne, saint Ethienne Metropole, Francia
2008
Conspire, Transmediale 08, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin
Street Art Street Life, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
Academia, Chapel of L’Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Ethos, Lofoten International Art Festival, Svolvaer, Norway
Self / Other, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Je reviendrai, Musée d’art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, Paris
Knock Knock Knockin' on Heaven's Door, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Liechtenstein
Re-Imagining Asia, Haus der Kulturen, Berlin traveling to New Art Gallery, Walsall, England
Wandering in Contemporary Video Art, Magazzini del Sale, Palazzo Pubblico, Siena
Micro-Narratives, Musee D'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne, France
Person of the Crowd, The Neuberger Museum of Art, Purchase, NY
Global Eur Asia Special Exhibition, Art Cologne, Cologne
Time is of the Essence: Contemporary Landscape Art, Asheville Art Museum, Asheville
The Missing Peace, Hillside Terrance, Tokyo
A Space In Time, La Fabrica Gallery, Madrid
Aspiration, Light & Sie Gallery, Dallas
2007
ArTempo: where time becomes art, Palazzo Fortuny, The 52nd Venice Biennale, Venezia
Passage du Temps - A selection of works from the François Pinault Foundation, Tri Postal, Lille
GOING STAYING. Movement, Body, Place in Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
From the Earth to the Moon, Castello di Rivoli, Torino
Á l’horizon de Shangri la, FRAC Lorraine, Lorraine
Equatorial Rhythms, The Stenersen Museum, Oslo
Void in Korean Art, Leeum Samsung Museum, Seoul
Timeout! Art and Sustainability, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein
Listening Awry, McMaster Museum of Art, Hamilton, Ontario
Scenes and Sequences - Peter Blum Editions, Kunsthaus Aarau, Aarau
Critical Mass, Kunsthalle Bern, Bern
Speed 3: Contrarreloj (Against the clock), IVAM Institute Valencià d'Art Modern, Valencia
Cosmologies, James Cohan Gallery, New York
Post Object, Doris McCarthy Gallery, University of Toronto Scarborough, Toronto
Video Atlas Americas, Automatica, Rio de Janerio
An Interpersonal Journey, New Museum of Contemporary Art, Istanbul
Gestures of Infinity, Minoriten Kultur Graz, Graz
Six Feet Under: Autopsy of Our Relations, Deutsches Hygiene Museum, Dresden
Manifesting Emptiness, Rymer Gallery at The School of the Art Institute
of Chicago, Chicago
Micro-Narratives, 48th October Salon, Cultural Centre, Belgrade
Pawnshop, e-flux, New York
Witnessing the Moment, Prague Contemporary Art Festival, The Vinohrady Theater, Prague
Momentos Estelares-Photography in the 20th Century, The Circulo de Bellas Artes and the Consejería de Cultura de la Comunidad de Madrid, Madrid
Existencias, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y León
2006
Art, Life & Confusion, October Art Salon, Belgrade
The 2nd Architectural Biennial Beijing, The Great Hall of The National Museum of China, Beijing
Five Days Until the End of Art, Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Casper David Friedrich Die Erfindung Der Romantik, Museum Folkwang, Essen, traveled to Hamburger Kunstahalle, Hamburg
With Body and Soul, Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein, Liechtenstein, Germany
New Mystics, Instituto Cabrera Pinto, La Laguna, Tenerife, Canary Islands
The Missing Peace, UCLA Fowler Museum, Los Angeles traveled to Loyola University Museum of Art, Chicago
Group Show, Art Center Beursschouwburg, Brussels
NowHere Europe - Trans:it. Moving Culture Through Europe, National Museum of Contemporary Art (MNAC), Bucharest
Cut and Paste - New Identities, New Territories, Makor Steinhardt Center, New York
Allegories of Displacement, Westport Art Center, Westport (Connecticut)
2005
Always a Little Further, The 51st Venice Biennale, Arsenale, Venice
Art Circus-Jumping from the Ordinary, Yokohama Triennial 2005, Yokohama
Marking Time, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, The Getty Center, Los Angeles
Irreducible, CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, traveled to Miami Art Central, Miami, Bronx Museum of Art, New York
Introspections, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo
Domicile - Private/Public, Musee D'Art Moderne, Saint-Etienne
The Giving Person, Palazzo della Arti, Napoli
Art_Robe: Women Artists at the Nexus of Art and Fashion, UNESCO, Paris
Femme, Palazzo Strozzi, Florence
Cool & Warm, Sung-Kok Museum of Art, Seoul
The Fifth Gospel, Gallery of Contemporary Art Celje, Slovenia
The Missing Peace, Cantor Arts Center, Stanford University, Stanford
Perception of the Horizontal, MUSEION, Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Bolzano
WATER, AIR, EARTH, FIRE - At the Origins of Life between Art and Science, Villa Croce, Geneva
INGENIO 400, a commissioned web video project, La Fabrica, Madrid
Video Spirit: Mysteries, Myths, Meditation and the Moving Image, Cheekwood Museum of Art, Nashville
2004
Don’t call it performance, The Centro Andaluz de Arte Contemporáneo, Sevilla, El Museo del Barrio, New York, Traveled from Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
The 18th Rencontre Paralleles, Centre d’art Contemporain, Bass-Normandie
The Ten Commandments, Hygiene Museum, Dresden
Transcultures, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Athens
PREMAculTURE, Hydra, Greece
La Caja Negra - Utopias en Movimiento, Centro Atlantico Arte Moderno, Canary Islands
Still Mapping the Moon - Perspective of Contemporary Art, Kunstmuseum Bonn, Bonn
Five Artists, Five Faiths: Spirituality and Contemporary Art, Ackland Art Museum, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill
The 1st Lodz Biennale, Lodz, Poland
WOW/ The Work of the Work, Henry Art Gallery & Western Bridge, Seattle
Contemporary Visions, Photographs and videos from the collection of Helga De Alvear, Waino Aaltonen Museum of Art, Oulu City Art Museum, Turku, Finland, MEIAC Art Museum, Badajoz, Spain
Settlement, Museum of Modern Art, Saint-Etienne
In Movement - Salutes Women Video Artists of the World, UNESCO, Paris
HOMExtension, University Art Museum, Albany
Playgrounds & Toys, La Manufacture des Oeillets, Paris
Kunst Stoff, Galerie nächst St. Stephan Rosemarie Schwarzwälder, Wien
Out Video Festival, NCCA Yekaterinburg, Russia
Raison et Sentiments - CRAC ALSACE, Altkirch
Enlightment, Video Program, Jeu de Paume, Paris
Artists on Journey, Seoul National University Museum, Seoul
2003
Ideal City - Solares, The 2nd Valencia Biennale, Valencia
Lille 2004, Flower Power, Beaux-Art Museum, Lille
Don’t call it performance, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofia, Madrid
As Heavy as the Heavens, Transformations of Gravity, County Museum Joanneum, Graz, traveled to Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrik, Odense
Migration, Kunstmuseum Lichtenstein, Lichtenstein
Mind Space, Samsung Art Museum, Seoul
Identity and Otherness, PHotoespaña, Circulo de Bella Artes, Madrid
Multitudes – Solitudes, Museum and Ar/ge Kunst Galleria Museo, Bolzano
Archives and Simulation, LisboaPhoto, Centro Cultural de Belem, Lisbon
Social Strategy, traveling show from University of California Art Museum, Santa Barbara to Austin Museum of Art, Austin
The 10th Biennial of Moving Images, Geneva
Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, St. Petersburg
Walking in the Street, Apex Art, New York, Traveled to Kunsthalle Fridericianum, Kassel
Serene Beauty, Jamaica Art Center, New York
Spotlight Reading, The Kitchen, New York
Motion Studies, Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
Traces of Friday - art, tourism, displacement, Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
2002
Whitney Biennial, Central Park, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York
Tempo, Inauguration exhibition of MOMA Queens, New York
Memory of Water, Spoleto Festival USA 2002, Charleston
The 1st Busan Biennale, Metropolitan Museum, Busan
The 2nd Photo Festival, Ganna Art, Total Museum, Seoul
Refugee, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Oslo
Expo 2002 - Money & Value/ The Last Taboo, Biel, Switzerland
Demeter, Tokachi International Contemporary Exhibition, Obihiro, Japan
Aubes, Rêveries au bord de Victor Hugo, Maison de Victor Hugo, Paris
Watching Ocean and Sky Together, Liverpool Biennial, Liverpool
Global Priority, Jamaica Art Center, New York
Instruction for Actions, Kunsthalle Wien
Crossing Cultures - Elementary Particle Art, Kunsthaus Muerzzuschlag, Styria, Austria
2001
Markers, The 49th Venice Biennale, Venice
ARS 01, KIASMA, Helsinki
Art through the Eye of Needle, Henie Onstad Kunstsenter, Hovikedden, Norway
Subject Plural, Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston
Asian Contemporary Art, Duke University Modern Art Museum, Durham
On the way to the Screen, International Artists House, Moscow
Antro-a-Polosias, Luis Adelantado Gallery, Valencia
IMAGO MUNDI, CAPC Bordeaux
Lost And Found, Apex Art, New York
Unrealtime Video, Fine Arts Center, Seoul
Going Places, Smart Art Space, Amsterdam
Girls in the Image, Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
2000
Sharing Exotism, The 5th Biennale de Lyon 2000, Halle Tony Garnier, Lyon
Human-being and Gender, The 3rd Kwangju Biennale. Kwangju
The Sky is the Limit, The 2nd Taipei Biennial, Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Echigo - Tsumari, Tsumari Art Triennale 2000, Echigo – Tsmari, Japan
Hypermental - Entre realite et chimieres 1950-2000, de Salvadore Dali a Jeff Koons, Kunsthaus Zurich
Mutation, Arc en Reve d'Architecture, APC Bordeaux
Art and Social Reality, High Commission for Refugee, Geneva
From Here to There, Academie Scholoss Solitude, Stuttgart
Playground & Toys for Refugee Children, Red Cross Museum, Red Crescent Museum, Geneva, Traveled to UN, New York
Today’s Korea Contemporary Sculpture, Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju, Korea
Drive, Govette-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Likeness of Being, DC Moore Gallery, New York
Kim Sooja + Yang Pei Ming, Selfscape, Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrick, Odense
2000 - 1997
Cities on the Move, Cesession, Vienna, traveled to Louisiana Museum of Art Copenhagen, Hayward Gallery, London, CAPC Bordeaux, KIASMA, Helsinki, P.S.1, New York
1999
d'APERTutto, The 48th Venice Biennale, Venice
ArtWorlds in Dialogue - Global Art Rhineland 2000, Museum Ludwig, Cologne
The 3rd Asia - Pacific Triennial of Contemporary Art, Brisbane
Kim Sooja + Jeannett Christensen, Inaugural Exhibition at Kunsthalle Feldbach, Feldbach
1998
The 24th Sao Paulo Biennale, Sao Paulo
Everyday, The 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney
Echolot, Museum Fridericianum, Kassel
Loose Threads, Serpentine Gallery, London
Warming, The Project, New York
Medialization, Edsvik Art Center, Stockholm, traveled to Eesti Kunst Museum, Tallinn
Slowness of Speed, National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne
Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taipei
Frame, Kumho Art Museum, Seoul
1998-1996
Traditions/Tensions, Asia Society, Gray Art Gallery, Queens Museum of Art, New York, traveled to Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver, Canada, to Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth
1997
On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties, The 5th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul
De-Genderism, Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo
1996
Manifesta 1, Museum Boymans Van-Beuningen, Rotterdam
Inclusion/Exclusion, Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz
The Scream - Borealis 8, Arken Museum of Modern Art, Copenhagen
Roles of the Couple, Soo Ja Kim / Toshihiro Kuno, Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura
Do It / Home Version, Museum in Progress, Vienna
Home/Salon, The Clock Tower Gallery, New York
Ceremonial, Apex Art, New York
An Aspect of Korea Contemporary Art in the 90's, The National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo, traveled to the International Museum of Osaka
1995
Division of Labor - Women's Work in Contemporary Art, The Bronx Museum of Art, traveled to MOCA, L.A.
The 1st KwangJu Biennale, KwangJu
Tiger’s Tail - 12 Korean Contemporary Artists, Palazzo Vendramin, Venezia, traveled to the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Kwacheon
Circulating Currents - Korean & Japanese Contemporary Artists, Nagoya City Museum, Aichi Prefecture Museum of Art, Nagoya
6.Triennale Kleinplastik 1995, Sud-West L.B, Stuttgart
16th International Bronze & Small Sculpture Biennale, Padova
Light Box Project, Museum City Project, Fukuoka
Stage work for Drawing the Sound, Whanki Museum, Seoul
Information and Reality, FruitMarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1994
Women - The Difference and the Power, Hankook Gallery, Seoul
1993
Trade Routes, The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York
In Their Own Images, P.S.1 Museum, New York
Semblances, Ise Art Foundation, New York
1992
Triangle Workshop, Pine Plains, New York
1991
Ten Korean Women Artists, The National Museum Women in the Arts, Washington D.C., traveled to Seoul Arts Center, Seoul
Inaugural Exhibition of Korean Contemporary Art, SunJae Museum, Kyungju
1990
Impact 3 90, Gallery Humanite, Tokyo
1989
Berlin International Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Berlin
Young Artist Festival, Trade Center Hyundai Gallery, Seoul
1988
88 Korea Contemporary Art Festival, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
1987
The 8th International Impact Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Kyoto
1985
1984-85 French Government Scholars Exhibition, Galerie Bernanos, Paris
1984
Korean Contemporary Art Festival, Municipal Museum, Taipei
1983
83 Seoul International Drawing Exhibition, Fine Art Center, Seoul
1979
Breath, Kim Soo-ja/ Lee Yun-Dong, Growrich Gallery, Seoul
Grants, Awards and Commissioned Work
2007
Visual Art Award, Foundation for Contemporary, New York
Work commissioned by Musée d'art contemporain du Val-de-Marne, France
2006
A site-specific installation commissioned by Museo de National Reina Sofia, Madrid for the solo exhibition, To Breathe – A Mirror Woman (Respirar - Una mujer espejo), at the Crystal Palace, Museo Nacional Centro de Arte Reina Sofía, Madrid
2005
Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Seoul
Commissioned web video project by La Fabrica, Madrid for the exhibition INGENIO 400
2004 - 2003
CEC Arts Link Grant, New York, New York, For the Lecture Series in Russia in conjunction with the Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, St. Petersburg, CCA, Moscow Lecture Program, and A Needle Woman 7 Outdoor Video Projection, Yekaterinburg, Russia
2003 - Present
Commissioned site specific installation by Consortium, Dijion, Sponsored by Fondation de France, Paris, and Olivietti Foundation, Rome for Nouveaux Commanditaires - Landscape Lighting Project & St. Bernard, Hospice Permanent Lighting Installation, St. Bernard, France
2002
Anonymous Was A Woman Foundation Award, New York
Artist of the American Art Award Recipient, Whitney Museum of America, Sponsored by Cartier Co., New York
2001
Korea Culture & Arts Foundation Award, Seoul, Award for the Best Show of the Year 2000, for the solo exhibition A Needle Woman - A Woman Who Weaves the World at Rodin Gallery, Samsung Art Museum, Seoul
2000
Award Recipient, Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul
Commissioned work by ICC, Tokyo in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman at ICC, Tokyo
1999
Work commissioned by CCA Kitakyushu in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman at CCA Kitakyushu, Japan
1998
Residency Award, World Views - at World Trade Center, New York awarded by the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council, New York
Grant Recipient, The Korean Culture & Art Foundation, Seoul
1997
Experimental Art Grant Recipient, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation Paradise Culture Foundation, Seoul
1996
Award Recipient, The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1992-3
Artist in Residence, P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center, New York, supported by The Korean Culture & Arts Foundation, Seoul
1992
The 11th Suk-Nam Fine Art Award, Seoul
1991
Song-Un Culture Fondation Award, Seoul
1984
Lithography studio Scholarship Award Recipient, Ecole National des Beaux-Art, Paris, awarded by the French Government
Lectures and Teachings
2008
Visiting Artist, Ecole Nationale Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris
Lecture at San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco
Key Note Speaker, The International Symposium of The Fabric Society of America, Honolulu, Hawaii
2006
Visiting Artist, School of The Art Institute of Chicago
2005
Lecturer, MIT University, in conjunction with the solo exhibition
Seven Wishes and Secrets, MIT List Gallery, Cambridge
2004
Lecture at Rhode Island School of Design in conjunction with the Videos in Progress Project at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence, Rhode Island
Lecture at St. Petersburg as part of the Pro Arte Video Festival, Hermitage Museum & Russian Museum, CCA, Mosco Lecture Program, Moscow, and at
NCCA, in conjunction with A Needle Woman 7 Outdoor Video Projection, Yekaterinburg
Lecture at Asian Art Museum, Seattle
2003
Lecture at University of Hawaii, in conjunction with the installation A Mirror Woman: The Ground of Nowhere, Honolulu City Hall for the Crossings: 2003 Korea/Hawaii Exhibition, Hawaii
Lecture at Zacheta National Gallery of Contemporary Art, Warsaw, in conjunction with the solo exhibition Kim Sooja
2000
Lecture at ICC, Tokyo in conjunction with the solo exhibition A Needle Woman
1996
Lecture at Hong-Ik University Art Dept. Seoul
Lecturer, Seoul Institute of Art, Seoul
1993
Lecture at School of Visual Art, New York
1992
Lecture at Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York
