
MEEYOUNG KIM | 김미영
As a young emerging Korean artist, her work is full of positive energy, one can easily find a restful or vibrant image surrounded by her works. Meeyoung’s abstract paintings that adapt “wet-on-wet” painting technique that covers the surface with fresh new paints before the previously administered layers are fully dried off. She intuitively captures a moment of sensations and trivial emotions in daily life, feelings of promenade, passing landscapes seen through the window of a train carriage, scent and taste of food, fresh breeze, which awake viewers’ memories and senses.
Meeyoung has been developing her work into “Pictorial Sculpture,” or “Sculptural Painting.” The way she applies thick paint and scrapes it off reveals “sculptural contemplation.” The thick matière sticks out from the edge and surface of canvas brings the space into the painting. Her painting invites three-dimensional space into the two-dimensional flat canvas; viewers can experience the coexistence between the flatness of painting and expanded rhythmical gestures in all directions as they walk along the artwork.
The artist recalls a moment in London, when she was in a graduate program. "At that time, I was struggling with uncertainty of the future and difficult circumstances. I burst into tears and closed eyes for a while. When I opened my eyes, I deliberately started to imagine what scenery I would have liked to see - fruit trees planted in the prosperous soil, fresh water, and people who just harvested those fruits smiling... I suddenly felt happy again, started to paint again right away.”
According to Meeyoung, she thinks that an artwork must deliver a certain impression, intense message, and echo. A painting gets meaningful when it is arresting, that makes viewers to take a moment in front of it.
She applies multiple layers of gesso on the canvas; this allows paints to be settled smoothly and draw grid with pencil and ruler. It is a psychological process for her as a passage, that leads her to enter into a different dimension. As a symbolic act, Meeyoung consider the space where she exists and the world in the painting as a door or window. During this process, she imagines ambiance, brushstroke, and colors which will fill out the canvas and decide brush and color she will use. Finally, she applies oil paint on the canvas following her abstract thoughts and plans.
Meeyoung Kim holds BFA and MFA in Korean Painting in Ewha Womans University, in Seoul. After that, she studied Painting, at the Royal College of Art, in London. Her academic background can explain why Asian philosophy, technique, and colors are revealed in the process while she works with oil paints. Her works are a part of the collection of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Art Bank, Gwacheon, Korea and The Work Project Global, Singapore.
INQUIREbiography
EDUCATION
2014 MA in Painting, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2011 MFA in Korean Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Korea
2008 BFA in Korean Painting, Ewha Womans University, Seoul Korea
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019 Summer Hill, Noblesse Collection, Seoul, Korea
2018 Painted Painting, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea
2017 Wet on Wet, Leehwaik Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Sunlight House, l’espace 71, Seoul, Korea
2015 Both Sides Now, Space Chapter Ⅱ, Seoul, Korea
2015 Green Paintings, Sophie’s Tree, New York, U.S.A
2012 Disconnected Connection, Gallery Dos, Seoul, Korea
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2020 Accidental Impromptu, Dohing Art, Seoul, Korea
2020 Nunc Fluens, Foundwill Art Society, Seoul, Korea
2019 Dear Plant, Soda Museum, Hwaseong, Korea
2019 Solo Show (COOP) with Artside Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2018 All Over, Hite Collection, Seoul, Korea
2018 Layered/Overlapped, AMC Lab, Seoul, Korea
2017 Intuition, Hakgojae Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 Nuance, Gallery Kiche, Seoul, Korea
2017 Cocoon 2017, Space K, Gwachoen, Korea
2016 Rules, ONE AND J. GALLERY, Seoul, Korea
2017 Unexpected Salon, HnART, Seoul, Korea
2014 Art Graduate Prize, Herbert Smith Free Hills, London, UK
2014 Mok Space Award, London, UK
2014 SHOW RCA, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2014 Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2013 RCA Secret, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2013 PNTG NOVEMBER, Henry Moore Gallery, London, UK
2013 Portes Ouvertes, Cité des Arts, Paris, France
2013 Nomadologies, Open Plan, London, UK
2013 Notes to Self, Dyson Gallery, London, UK
2013 Ears of Time, Shinhan Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2012 Memory Politics, Zaha Museum, Seoul, Korea
2011 Kunstdoc Artist Cluster, Kuntdoc, Seoul, Korea
2010 Wonderful Pictures, Ilmin Museum, Seoul, Korea
AWARDS
2016 Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France
2014 Herbert Smith Free Hills Art Graduate Prize Short Listed, London, UK
2014 Mok Space Award Finalist Listed, London, UK
2013 Paris Studio Award Winner, Royal College of Art, London, UK
2013 Cité Internationale Des Arts, Paris, France
COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) Art Bank, Gwacheon, Korea
The Work Project Global, Singapore
Restautant Evett, Seoul, Korea
Hana Bank HQ, Seoul, Korea
Sewoong Global, Seoul, Korea
ODE Maison, Seoul, Korea
Daemyung Hotel & Resort, Korea
Roland Cowan Architects, London, UK
Korea Rural Community Corporation, Naju, Korea
Kwangjuyo HQ, Seoul, Korea
Yongwon C,C, Changwon, Korea
Najin Hospital, Daejeon, Korea
selected works
The Painter's Farm(Lemon and Emerald Green)
2021, Oil on Canvas, 91x117cm

Taste of Rose
2021, Oil on Canvas, 72.7 x 60.6 cm

Detail Image

The Painter's Garden
2021, Oil on Canvas, 91x72cm

Installation View

Installation View
THèSE, 2021

Installation View

The Painter's Jungle
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D16 H42cm

The Painter's Garden (Lemon Yellow)
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D27 H40cm

The Painter's Garden (Cerulean Blue and Yellow)
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D16 H42cm

The Painter's Farm (Persian Rose)
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D22 H39cm

The Painter's Farm (Emerald's Green and Sky Blue)
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D25 H40cm

Installation View
Synthetic Moment, 2021

Summer Hill
2019, Oil on Canvas, 190x170cm(EA)

Installation View
Synthetic Moment, 2021

The Painter's Farm
2021, Oil on Canvas, 72.7x60.6cm

Installation View
Synthetic Moment, 2021

The Painter's Farm(Lime and Cobalt Blue)
2021, Oil on Canvas, 91x117cm

Installation View
Synthetic Moment, 2021

Silver Breeze
2021, Oil on Canvas, 91x72cm

Installation View

The Painter's Farm (Persian Rose and Emerald Green)
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D25 H40cm

The Painter's Farm (Vermilion and Emerald Green)
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D22 H38cm

Lemon and Blue Custard
2021, Paintings on Ceramics, D15 H42cm
