Young-Sung Kim

Artist.
Born in Seoul Korea 1973.
Representative Gallery- Plus One Gallery, London.
In an economically driven world where we are conditioned to subconsciously place value on the genuinely invaluable, Young Sung Kim has visually critiqued the level at which we place "value" on objects both commercially and ethically. Kim uses contrasting subject matter to illustrate the distinction between the living and the material, it seems that as a society our ideas of how something is valued are intrinsically rooted in commerce.
This series expresses the modern society where lives are threatened and many things have disappeared due to the advanced development of material civilizations. The coexistence of objects representing Life and Object are shown as a piece of advertisement or a theatrical piece to analyze and depict the phenomenon cold-heartedly to express the desolation of modern society and nihilism of modern people and to reveal humans' negligence of life.

1997 Graduated from Department of Painting, College of Fine Art, Hongik University.

∎Solo Exhibitions
2016 Redsea Gallery Invitational, Brisbane
2014 COOHAUS ART, New York
2013 Gana Insa Art Center, Seoul
2008 Gallery K Invitational, Seoul
1998 Korea Youth Biennale Invitational / Daegu Cultural Center, Daegu
1997 Do-ol Art Town, Seoul, etc 20 times.

∎Group Exhibitions
2022 I AM SORRY! I AM NOT REAL, MOM/ Jeju Museum Of Art, Jeju
2021 Best Of/ Galerie Felix Hoeller, Vienna
2020 Clear Vision/ MOCA LI, New York
2020 ARTLIFE FEST/ Moscow Manege, Moscow
2019 Abstraction vs. Realism/ VW Contemporary, GreenwichCT
2019 Mixed Media/ Menier Gallery, LONDON
2018 Splendid Moments/ Clayarch Museum, Gimhae
2018 HYPERREALISM/ Museu Del Tabac, Andorra
2018 Asia Contemporary Art/ Long Museum, Shanghai
2017 SEE: New Hyperrealism/ Hongik Museum Of Art, Seoul
2017 A Sustaining Life/ Waterfall Gallery, New York
2016 Winter Show 2016/ Plus One Gallery, LONDON
2016 Hyperrealism : Breathe Alive/ Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan
2016 Summer Show/ Gallery Valentine, New York
2016 Alive Paintings : Hyperrealism/ GS Caltex Yeulmaru, Yeosu
2015 KULIM KIM, YOUNGSUNG KIM Two Artists Show / OCI Museum, Seoul
2015 Ferme...