KIM CHAN-IL
The recent works of Chan Il Kim emphasize much more on objects and post painterly abstraction. He adhered objects and oil paints doggedly and then minced them thinly. The skin-like canvas dramatically stimulate the viewer’s senses of touch and sight. Kim’s works are flitting on the boundary of sculpture and painting to obscure it. Eventually, they have a new physical property. These bas-relief paintings are not only optical but also kinetic. Interestingly, Kim is riding the crest of art history and at the same time. getting his own way. – Excerpt from critic by Park,Young Taek (Art Critic,Kyonggi Univ)
EDUCATION
1995 M.A. Print Making, State University of New York, USA
1994 M.F.A. Painting, State University of New York, USA
1990 M.F.A. Department of Painting, Hong-Ik University, Korea
1986 B.F.A. Department of Painting, Hong-Ik University, Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Emptiness and Fullment (Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea)
2016 Line (The MUSE, Hong Kong)
2016 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Fm, Tokyo, Japan)
2016 Drawing (Gallery Mano, Seoul, Korea)
2015 Line-Variation (Gallery Migo, Busan, Korea)
2014 The Impression of Line (Gallery Huue, Singapore)
2013 Lines (Gallery Shin Hwa, Hong Kong)
2012 Solo Exhibition (White Block Art Center, Paju, Korea)
2012 Drawing (Gallery Mano, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Mano, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Line (Gallery Rho, Seoul, Korea)
2007 Solo Exhibition (Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea)
2006 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Pfo, Busan, Korea)
2005 Solo Exhibition (Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea)
2002 Solo Exhibition (Galerie Bhak, Seoul, Korea)
2001 Solo Exhibition (Gallery S.P, Seoul, Korea)
2000 Solo Exhibition (Garam Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1999 Solo Exhibition (Fusion Gallery, Seoul, Korea
1998 Solo Exhibition (Dong-a Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1997 Solo Exhibition (Moran Museum of Art Gallery, Namyangju, Korea)
1996 Solo Exhibition (Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
1994 Solo Exhibition (New York College Art Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1991 Solo Exhibition (Tae Baek Gallery, Daegu, Korea)
1991 Solo Exhibition (Gallery Icon, Seoul, Korea)
1990 Solo Exhibition (Hilton Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1989 Solo Exhibition (Batangol Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
1989 Solo Exhibition (Indeco Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2016 Emptiness and Fullment (Kyobo Art Space, Seoul, Korea)
2015 Now Us Suwon (Suwon I Park Museum of Art, Suwon, Korea)
2014 Hong-Ik University Faculty Exhibition (Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Landscape+Nostalgia (Gallery Harbour, Hong Kong)
2013 Re.Now (Gallery Choi, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Generation (Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2012 City Garden (Posco Gallery, Incheon, Korea)
2012 Mentor, Mentee (Hanwon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2011 Existence and Change (Donghai University Art Gallery, Taiwan)
2011 Seoul Art Association Exhibition (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2010 HongIk Univ Professor Works (Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Gyeonggi Art Project (Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art, Danwon, Korea)
2010 Financial News Art Exhibition (Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Korean Contemporary Art (Hanwon Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Korean Contemporary Art by 100 artists (WooLim Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Sees a poem from picture inside (Aka Gallery, Jeonju, Korea)
2009 Origin Painting Association Exhibition (KEPCO Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2008 N Gallery Opening Celebration Preview (N Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Direction of Contemporary Art (Suwon Art Gallery, Suwon, Korea)
2008 Practice of Love (Gallery WA, Yangpyung, Korea)
2008 Sympathy (Zero Field Gallery, Beijing, China)
2008 Mano’s Friends (Gallery Mano, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Hello (Noam Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Love Flowing (Chung Jark Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Beauty of Korea (Egypt Cairo Opera House, Egypt)
2007 Sees a Poem from Picture Inside (Insa Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
2005 Seoul Art Festival (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2004 Traveling Art Museum (National Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2004 Origin Painting Association Exhibition (Danwon Art Museum, Ansan, Korea)
2003 Origin Painting Association Exhibition (Jebiwool Art Museum, Gwacheon, Korea)
and More Than 40 Group Exhibition
AWARDS
1996 The 3rd Kongsan Art Festival: A Public Competitive Exhibition in Two-dimension Division, Grand Prix
1996 Moran Grand Prix, Moran Prize
1989 The 8th Korean Art Grand Exhibition, Special Prize
1988 The 7th Korean Art Grand Exhibition, Special Prize
1987 The 6th Korean Art Grand Exhibition, Special Prize
1985 The 8th Joongang Art Grand Exhibition, Special Prize
COLLECTIONS
National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
Seoul Museum of Art, Korea
Swiss Embassy at the United Nations, Switzerland
Turkey Embassy, Turkey
Argentina Embassy
Walker Hill Hotel, Korea
Samsung, Korea
Hyundai I-Park, Korea
Hyundai I Office, Korea
ASEM Tower, Korea
Scott Squre, Singapore
Mandarin Oriental Hotel, Taipei
Le Meridian Hotel, China