KIM BYUNG JOO
Byung Joo Kim’s works started from his visual curiosity about the boundaries of space. His famous relief works, Ambiguous Wall, breaks down buildings by eliminating ‘surfaces’ and leaving only lines and dots. Resulting spaces, which has been made unclear of what’s ‘inside’ and what’s ‘outside’ by these ‘ambiguous walls’, now clash and overlap each other opening up a new space more subjective to new interpretations and possibilities. Ambiguous Wall induces the audiences to activate a high level of spatial perception awareness. It is a visualization of invisible space, a multilayered and multidimensional structure of endless intersections of horizontal and vertical lines which gradually come closer and eventually overlap each other by perspective system. The work is created of delicate steel, with finely carved exterior catching the eye first, while giving way to the complicated interior such as staircases that connects each floor inside the building. When light Is shoned on the work, shadows from different parts of the building gets all tangled up, again creating a whole new space behind it. Kim is one of the most remarkable and active young sculpture artist in Korea today, participating in multiple solo and group exhibitions as well as overseas art fair in 2013 alone.
EDUCATION
M.F.A Department of Sculpture, Hong-Ik University, Korea
B.F.A Department of Sculpture, Hong-Ik University, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Ambiguous Wall (Choi Jung Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2016 The Paradox of Space (Gallery Bundo, Daegu, Korea)
2015 Ambiguous Wall- The Marriage of In and Out (Gallery Huue, Singapore)
2014 Familiar Scene (Pyo Gallery South, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Byungjoo Kim (Coohaus Art, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2013 From The Spot (TV12 Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Twofold Line (Salon de H, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Enumerated Void (Noam gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Ambiguous Wall (Kunstraum, Seoul, Korea)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 The Anti-Art Museum Show (K Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
2016 Harmony of Materials (Sophis Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2016 Arithmetic (Seum Art space, Seoul, Korea)
2015 2Gil (2Gil29 Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2015 The Trace of line (Choi Jung Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2015 Touching Moments in Macau Through Artists’ Perspective (Insa Art center, Seoul, Korea)
2015 The Good Life (Seum Art space, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Solipsismos (Ethra Gallery, Maxico city, Maxico)
2014 Dual Exhibition (S+ Gallery, Busan, Korea)
2014 Occupy Jungmiso (Gallery Jung Miso, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Intro (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Line-Drawing (Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea)
2014 2014 Young Revolution (ION Art Gallery, Singapore)
2014 Double Logic (Space K Gwangju,Gwangju, Korea)
2013 Variations on Canon (Coohaus art, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2013 Four Multiplicities (Emoa space, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2013 BIRTH (Yangpyeong Art Museum, Yangpyeong, Korea)
2013 Pyo Project (Pyo Gallery South, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Space-Scape (Lotte Gallery, Ilsan, Korea)
2012 Artistic Period (Gallery Iteralia, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Counterattack of Mimesis (Adamas 253 Gallery, Paju, Korea)
2012 Un lieu de la memoire (BJN Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Untitled 2 (Choi Jung Ah Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 The Blue Wind (Gallery Jinsun, Seoul, Korea)
2012 The Art of Display (Eugean Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2011 ART EDITION – (SETEC, Seoul, Korea)
2011 Become We (Next door Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2011 On, Plan, Make (TV12 Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2011 多重感覺 (SAVINA Museum of Contemporary art, Seoul, Korea)
2011 Charade (Leeahn Gallery, Deagu, Korea)
and More than 10 Group Exhibition