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Biography
"I grew up immersed in structure and variation--observed both in deep rooted Confucian values of Korean culture, as well as in my actual physical surroundings. Take, for instance, the ceiling tiles in my grandmother's room. They were embellished with recurring graphic motifs and because they were handmade, each tile was slightly different. I spent many hours studying those ceiling tiles--my eyes going from one to the next, comparing and contrasting subtle variations on each introduced by the human element," Kim says. "Another particularly vivid memory is that of my grandmother, who raised me in my early years. Grandmother was a devout Buddhist and at bedtime, she would say her prayers, reciting chants in transliteration of words from Chinese, Korean, and Sanskrit. What I was hearing was all quite abstract to me, and in essence, simply a series of lyrical rhythms and repetitions. Nearly every night for the first ten years of my life, I fell asleep to my grandmother's whispered chants and found the nightly ritual to be extremely comforting. And now, in my work, I find myself engaging in similar ritualistic repetition, both in forming and shaping individual dot marks on my collagraph plate, and in the printmaking process itself, which reinforces the repetitive act." Kim received her BA from California State University, Long Beach and has completed post-baccalaureate graduate course work at San Francisco State University. She has exhibited her work extensively throughout the US and abroad, including Bulgaria, China, Egypt, England, France, Korea, and Spain. Most recently, Kim was awarded Artist Residency at the Frans Masereel Center, an auspices of Flemish Ministry of Culture, in Kasterlee, Belgium. The artist is represented by galleries in Los Angeles, Portland, and Seattle. Her work is found in public, corporate, and private collections worldwide.
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