Hye-Jin Stella Kim

Hye-Jin Stella Kim is a young emerging artist, specialised in abstract painting and mixed media, who currently lives and works in Daegu, South Korea. She moved to New York in 2008 to study fine arts and received her B.F.A. in painting at Pratt Institute. She has held group and solo exhibitions since 2012, including “Abstract Mind”, “Memorial” and “Meditation” in Korea, and “Letters from Sapporo” in Japan.


My artistic goal is creating visual art everyone can enjoy including the people with visual impairment. I take pictures whenever I find beautiful scenes, and write letters/poems describing my feelings at the moments using lots of visual imageries, so that blind people can draw the scenes in their minds. Then I make reliefs using braille system and photos, in the purpose of being seen differently by the people who can see and who can not. At first sight, they will seem to be abstract reliefs, and when people become blind and touch the works, they might be able to see the real pictures.

B.F.A. in Painting from Pratt Institute, Brooklyn, New York

Awards:

The 12th Seoul Art Exhibition - Selected
Artist Portfolio Magazine "Abstract" - Editor’s Choice

Solo Exhibitions:
2019 - "The Tree: my secret monologue to you", Insadong Maru Gallery, Seoul
2018 - "Sky, Sea and Time", Studio Kura, Japan
2017 - "Letters from Sapporo", Sapporo Tenjinyama Art Studio, Japan
2016 - "Meditation", Samtho Gallery, Seoul
2014 - "Memorial", Space Inno, Seoul

Group Exhibitions:
2016 - "Abstract Mind: the International Exhibition on Abstract Art", CICA Museum, Gimpo, South Korea
2015 - "NY 11205. 10010", Samtho Gallery, Seoul
2014 - "The 12th Seoul Art Exhibition", Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul 
2012 - "Painting Club", East Hall Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, USA
2012 - "Addicted to Sorrow", East Hall Gallery, Pratt Institute, New York, USA