Daniel Kim

I was born on a small island in the south of Korea.I have an art studio near Seoul, and I mainly work and present in Seoul.It has been 35 years since I painted, I have done 15 solo exhibitions, and I work on Korean paper with a mixture of collage, painting and drawing.,The theme of the work is about love and uneasy feelings derived from my relationship with humans.Kim creates images by collaging pieces of rice paper with rubbings on hanji, traditional handmade Korean paper, adhered to the canvas and then again applies pictorial images to this. The dark ground from which enigmatic images emerge looks like an abyss or a chaotic space where all is concealed and buried. This may be either an enormous genesis laden with images or the bottom of the unconscious. It is also either a primal chaotic space before things came into being, a land where plants grow, or a place for the heart from which all are derived. He scoops up images one by one from this black ground and maintains a specific form. This is like a peasant growing things.

2001. Graduated from the Department of Fine Arts, Graduate School of Arts, Sejong University(Major in Oriental Painting)

[Solo exhibition]
2025 Wearing the Sun and Putting the Moon Under Your Feet (Gallery Mim, Seoul)
2024 Under the Skin (Gallery Hoho, Seoul)
2023 Collage (Sangwon Museum of Art, Chuncheon)
Rejoice in 2021 (Gallery Dam, Seoul)
2020 Festival (Gallery Dam, Seoul)
2018 In Other Countries (Indiepress Seoul)
2017 Blind Gardens (Gallery 3, Seoul)
2016 The Memory of Trees (Bcut Gallery, Seoul)
2015 Boy Meets Girl (Gallery 3, Seoul)
2011 Transplant (Jinsun Gallery, Seoul)
2010 Moving Scenery II (Gahoe-dong 60, Seoul)
2009 Moving Scenery (TJH Gallery, Seoul)
2005 Mongyu (Goyang Art Studio, Goyang)
2002 Spawning (Gallery Chang, Seoul)
2000 Implantation (Deukwon Gallery, Seoul)
[Two Persons]
2016 Relaxed Landscape, Kim Myung Jin, Chun Hee Lim (Gideon Museum, Jeju Island)
2014 Kim Myung Jin, Shin Hyun Kyung, ⁇ - Donghada (Gallery 3, Seoul)
2010 Kim Myung-jin Im Chun-hee, "Man and Nature" (Gallery Dr. Messner, Trossingen, Germany)