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Bumin Kim, Black Night Morning Glory, 2018
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Originally from Korea, Bumin Kim received her MFA in drawing and painting in 2015 from the University of North Texas and remains in North Texas as an active member of the contemporary art community. In addition to numerous solo and group exhibitions throughout Texas, she has been featured at the Dallas Art Fair and Art Aspen. Her work is included in both public and private collections in Texas and throughout the United States and Europe. Bumin Kim is represented by Ro2 Art in Dallas.

ARTIST STATEMENT

This body of work is a showcase of questions; an approach towards the idea of painting and drawing in the expanded field. Kim explores the nature of line, and the potential held therein, to push the boundaries between the two-dimensional surface and three-dimensional space. Thread and string are synonymous with the actions of weaving and stitching, both for utilitarian purposes, and to serve as metaphor, for the joining of two separate entities with efforts to repair what once was, or with the intent of becoming something other, whole and new.

The transformative power of materiality is at play in these works, and Kim has repurposed the context of thread and string, to emphasize the energy, delicacy, and grace of painting and drawing. Both the weight of line as thin and singular, and the collection of lines en masse as solid form, are sensitive tools found in Kim's repertoire; these are tools which have been exercised with skillful intent to build interesting forms, reminiscent of exacerbated versions of value studies, gesture drawings, or economical sketches one might find in the foundations of drawing. But that would be too reductive to let them exist still tethered to such a basic, albeit important set of concepts. 

These works shift, undulate, and pulse into our space, promulgating themselves as entities emancipated from the confines of flatland, and now poised, vibrating, just above the surface.  Drawing has been personified, and is no longer limited to the index of the hand, or the illusion of the flat surface. It is an echo of a once sorrowful song, who’s voice is present, tender, and alive.

Curriculum Vitae

  Education
2015     MFA, Drawing and Painting, College of Visual Arts and Design,
              University of North Texas, Denton, Texas

Solo Exhibitions
2019     Walk the Sky, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2018     Landscape, Ro2art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017     Semblance, Magnolias Sous Le Pont, Dallas, Texas
2016     Accumulation, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas
             Accumulation, Ro2art, Dallas, Texas
2015     Night Hatching, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2019     Juried Exhibition-In-Print, New American Paintings, www.newamericanpaintings.com
2018     5th Regional Juried Exhibition, Juried by Christian Rees, Artspace111, Fort Worth,
2017     Expo 2017, Juried by Sara-Jayne Parsons, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
             4th Regional Juried Exhibition, Juried by Shirley Reece-Hughes, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas
             Materials: Hard+Soft International Juried competition and Exhibition, Juried by JoAnn Edwards,
             Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, Texas
2016     Expo 2016, Juried by Rachel Rogerson, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015     Rising Star, 11 artists selected by 11 galleries, Turner House; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
             Art Kudos International Juried Competition and Exhibition, Juried by Charles Long, Artkudos.com
             In the Making, Juried by Rachel MacKenna, Michelle Thomas, and Kai Peter Martin, UNT on the Square,              Denton, Texas
             Expo2015, Juried by Susan Roth and Jordan Roth, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas
             Graduate Spring Invitational, UNT Lightwell Gallery, Denton, Texas
2014     5 to watch, Juried by Susan and Jordan Roth, Gallery at Visit at Addison, Addison, Texas
2013     Graduate Fall invitational, Lightwell Gallery at UNT, Denton, Texas
             Graduate Spring Invitational, Lightwell Gallery at UNT, Denton, Texas
             Toulouse Graduate School Exhibition Encore, UNT on the Square, Denton, Texas

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019     Chaos, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
             Assembly: 22nd Annual Members Show, The MAC, Dallas, Texas
             Friend of the Artist Exhibition, Ma Fille Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
             Shifting Parameters, Five Point Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut
2018    Red Dot Spree, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
            OC3: Identified, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
             Asian American heritage exhibition, Capital One, Dallas, Texas
             Sideshow, Ro2art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
             The Women of Ro2, Ro2art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017     Aspen Art Fair, Aspen, Colorado
             Chaos, Ro2art, Dallas, Texas
             Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas
2016     The Love of Birds+Art, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas
             Trilogy: Origin, Stands and Alchemy by Bumin Kim, Yuni Lee, and Jieun Lim, Union Art Gallery at UNT, Denton, Texas
              Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas
2015      Belonging, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
              Small work exhibition, Limner Gallery, Hudson, New York
              UNT Faculty Exhibition, UNT on the square, Denton, Texas
              Chaos, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
              Hybrid Forms: Of Circumstance, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, Texas
2014     The Turn by Bumin Kim, Kai Martin, Rachel Fischer, and Michelle Thomas, Cora Stafford Gallery at UNT, Denton, Texas
             Agent Form, Panhandle House
, Denton, Texas
2013     Intersections, UNT on the Square, Denton, Texas
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Professional Experience
2019     Artist Member, The Mac, Dallas, Texas
2019     Public Art Project Selection Panel, invited by Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas
2019     Artist Workshop: Painting with textile, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2019     Artist Talk, Walk the Sky, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2018     Juror, The Art On-Site Drawing Contest, PSIA:  Private Schools Interscholastic Association, ICCS, Denton,     Texas
2018     Capital One Art Program, Asian American heritage exhibition, Capital One, Dallas, Texas
2017     Visiting Artist, Fibers, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2017     Artist Workshop: Korean Traditional Craft Art, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas
2016     Visiting Artist, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas
2016     Guest Speaker, Painting, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas
2016     Artist member, Greater Denton Art Council
2015      Artist Talk: Night Hatching, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2015      Artist Workshop: Thread Painting, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2015      Graduate Open Studio, University of North Texas,, Denton, Texas
2015      Guest Speaker, Drawing II, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas


Awards
2018     Awards to Artists, Business Council for the Arts
2017     30th Materials: Hard+Soft International Competition and Exhibition, Award Winner, Juried by JoAnn Edwards,
             Patterson-Appleton Arts Center
2016     Art Kudos International Juried Competition, Finalist, Artkudos.com
2015     Art Kudos International Juried Competition, Finalist, Artkudos.com
2015     Expo2015, Top5, Juried by Susan and Jordan Roth, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 – 2015     Texas Public Education Grant
2014 – 2015     Paul Voertman Scholarship
2013     Toulouse Graduate School Exhibition, Third Place for Visual Arts
2012 - 2014     UNT Academic Achievement Scholarship


Publications and Press
Featured Artist Bumin Kim, New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition- In- Print, New American Painting, Issue 138, May 21, 2019, 86-89p
 New American Paintings, “Artist Bumin Kim”, https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/bumin-kim, New American Paintings, 2019
“Top Five Exhibition in Texas”, https://glasstire.com/2019/04/11/top-five-april-11-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2B2E8fXRUj4AmYwkXCL910jiHkHveMzzD9MTI1xfIM_qmQjvjD-tFPL-4, Glasstire, April 11, 2019
Featured Artist Bumin Kim, Friend of the artists, Volume 7, October 2, 2018, 60-63p
Scott Gleeson, “Landscapes”, https://www.peripheralvisionarts.org/profiles/bumin-kim, Peripheral Vision Arts, January 28, 2018
Alaena Hostetter, “In the Old Dallas Power & Light Building, Three Art Shows Find Space This Month”, https://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2018/04/in-the-old-dallas-power-light-building-three-art-shows-find-space-this-month/, D magazine, April 2, 2018
Sarah Odum, “Materials: Hard+Soft 2017”, http://wedentondoit.com/blog/2017/2/12/materials-hard-soft-2017, We Denton Do It, February 13, 2017
Fresh Paint Magazine, Featured Artists Bumin Kim, Fresh Paint Magazine International Issue.15, October 1, 2016, P.59
Kendall Morgan, “4 Must-see Dallas art gallery shows to check off your list this December”,  http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-03-15-art-gallery-picks-barry-whistler-erin-cluley/, Culture Map Dallas, December 3, 2015


Teaching Experience
2015     Adjunct Professor, ART1500: Drawing I, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015    Teaching Fellow, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015     Area Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014     Teaching Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014     Area Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013     Teaching Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013      Area Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX


Selected Available Works
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