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Yool Kim

Yool Kim

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  • Yool Kim tries to capture and convey everything she feels in life: from her thoughts and emotions to people she encounters and relationships she forms with them.

    Yool Kim is a contemporary Korean artist, based in Seoul. In her mixed-media artworks, she navigates and explores the ideas of identity and subconsciousness.

    Kim’s maximalist approach expresses a series of fast-paced thoughts and emotions. Flowing and overlapping, her work comes together in a chaotic mix that represent personal yet almost universal human experience.

    Among diverse bright colours, patterns of dots, stripes and diamond-shaped grids appear playful cartoonish faces with distinct set of three eyes, two button-like noses and a pair of two small mouths. They, as the artist explains, highlight self-expression and inner thoughts that, unlike her physical body, have not matured yet and are stunted in growth. Two mouths are the only indicators of emotions and often represented them differently – reminiscing about ambiguity.

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    This theme of dual perception of the world and oneself placed within it lies at the very core of Kim’s works. Often, she directly engages in a visual discourse about the relationship with other people. Specifically, how they see her and the way it contrasts with or informs how she looks at herself; the way she is and the way she wants to be – ‘small but confident’.

     

    Yool Kim was born in 1982 and graduated from Hongik University Graduate School of Industry in 2015 with a degree in Color Studies, including the science of colour and nature of personal colour. This raised awareness in the artist of the way colour interacts with a person based on both their context and their current emotional state – not merely their complexion.

     

    Some of Kim’s recent shows include: 'Summer Lounge' and 'Autodidact' at Court Tree Collective, 'The Hero She Needs' at ARUSHI Gallery and 'HERO' at Rhodes Contemporary Art.

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    Open a larger version of the following image in a popup: Yool Kim, In Your Arms, 2023

    Yool Kim

    In Your Arms, 2023
    Acrylic on Linen Canvas
    116.7 x 90.9 cm
    46 x 35 3/4 in
    Signed on Reverse
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  • Exhibitions
    • UNTITLED ART

      UNTITLED ART

      Miami, Booth B20 3 - 8 Dec 2024
      Presenting these artists and more on our stand offers the gallery a prime opportunity to engage with the key US art market and its collectors as well as afford our...
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    • Project Room: Kinship

      Project Room: Kinship

      Yool Kim 2 Feb - 2 Mar 2024
      Focusing on themes of human relationships and the connections that are made between us, Kim's new series of works have a self-reflective element to them with the artist drawing on...
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    • HERO

      HERO

      Group Exhibition 24 Feb - 18 Mar 2023
      RHODES Contemporary Art is delighted to announce a new group exhibition HERO, featuring four East Asian artists whose works depict repeating characters – heroes . While all the represented artists...
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  • News
    • Introducing: Yool Kim

      Introducing: Yool Kim

      New and Upcoming Korean Artist Yool Kim and What Influences Her Practice. January 23, 2024
      Yool Kim is a contemporary Korean artist based in Seoul. After graduating from Hongkik University Graduate School of Industry with a degree in Colour Studies...
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  • Press
    • Colossal: Order and Chaos Converge in Yool Kim’s Emotionally Charged Works

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