Mika Kim

Art is closely correlated to our lives. There can be neither good art nor bad art. There is nothing but art. When I produce a work, I try not to have any feelings or expectations, and I try to listen to what the work itself is purely about, not what I ask for like a mother who wants to listen to her child carefully. I also enjoy the interventional, sequential process in which matter's spontaneity influences the work's direction. The stories of my paintings, such as figure skating, which slides on the ice on its own, or automatic technology drawn on its own without realizing it, are not intended. Rather than a big dream of changing the world with art, I love the tight concentration of working time and the happiness of being now enjoying the process. This simple statement is the beginning and the end of my philosophy that the outcome is not the artist's responsibility.
It's like saying Laozi is useless. We use bowls, but we actually use the interior space divided by bowls. We build walls, but where we live is the space inside. It is our mind's consciousness that divides acts into useful and useless.
So my work begins with clarity of what lies beyond that dark band, and we are amazed at the greatness of the vast universe that extends ...

Born in Seoul , Korea
B.F.A. Duck-Sung Women`s University, Seoul, Korea
Attend Art Students League, New York, USA
M.F.A. New York University, New York, USA

ONE-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
2021 Alternative Space IPO, Art Space Say
Seoul, Korea
2019 Context Art Miami Miami, USA
2018 Scope Art Miami Beach Miami, USA
2013 Artspace Say Seoul, Korea
2012 Hearing you a2 gallery Penang, Malaysia
2010 Gallery Min Seoul, Korea
2009 Mystical Phenomenon Mutiara Gallery, Penang, Malaysia
2008 Painting & Drawing E&O property gallery I, Penang, Malaysia
2006 “The Visible and The Invisible” Factory Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2004 “Freely Access The World of Fantasy”(Wall Drawing) Fish Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2002 “Metaphoric Life”(Wall Drawing, Collaged FrameWorks) Artinus Gallery, Seoul
2002 “Collective of Memory” Eve Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2000 “In the forest of organisms” Cho-Hung Korea Bank Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1999 “The human body, organic forms” Kwan Hoon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2010 “Three Men & a Lady” NN Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia
2009 Now Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2009 Wei-Ling Gallery, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia

2009 Foot Bridge; Building Bridges thru ART 09 Bali, Gaya Art Space, Bali, Indonesia

2008 International Contemporary Art Fair 2008, MVEC, Kuala Lumpur, ...