Bumin Kim
Bumin Kim, Black Night Morning Glory, 2018
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About the Artist
Originally from South Korea, Bumin Kim received her MFA in Drawing and Painting in 2015 from the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. In 2017 she was awarded at the 30th annual international competition and exhibition, Materials: Hard+Soft. Her work has been shown by various institutions, including: Pulse Art Fair in Miami, FL; Dallas Art Fair in Dallas, TX; Art Aspen in Aspen, CO; and Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, TX. Furthermore, Kim’s work has been featured in publications, such as: New American Paintings, Fresh Paint Magazine, and Glasstire, and can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. In 2020, Bumin Kim completed an artist residency at Facebook’s headquarters in Austin, Texas.
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.
About the Artist
Originally from South Korea, Bumin Kim received her MFA in Drawing and Painting in 2015 from the University of North Texas, Denton, Texas. In 2017 she was awarded at the 30th annual international competition and exhibition, Materials: Hard+Soft. Her work has been shown by various institutions, including: Pulse Art Fair in Miami, FL; Dallas Art Fair in Dallas, TX; Art Aspen in Aspen, CO; and Texas Contemporary Art Fair in Houston, TX. Furthermore, Kim’s work has been featured in publications, such as: New American Paintings, Fresh Paint Magazine, and Glasstire, and can be found in public and private collections throughout the United States and Europe. In 2020, Bumin Kim completed an artist residency at Facebook’s headquarters in Austin, Texas.
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
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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