KIM DAE SOO
Kim is a photographer and a professor in Hongik University in Korea, considered finest art school in Korea. He focuses on taking photography of bamboo, with an aim to capture the most Korea formative beauty. Upon a calm look at his work, one can feel and hear the oriental beauty in his beautiful photography of bamboos.
EDUCATION
1979 B.F.A. Department of Applied Art, College of Fine Arts, Hong-Ik University, Korea
1981 Studied at Dept. of Photo-Design, Graduate School of Industrial Art, Hongik Univ
1983 B.F.A. Photography, Parsons School of Design, U.S.A.
1987 M.F.A. Photography, Pratt Institute, U.S.A.
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Sky Wind Stars and Me (Gallery BK, Seoul, Korea)
2015 DaeSoo Kim Photography (Francoise Livinec Gallery, Paris, France)
2015 DaeSoo Kim Photography (Gallery Achim, Seoul, Korea)
2015 New Wave in Korean Photography1988-1998 (GoEun Meseum of Photography, Busan, Korea)
2014 DaeSoo Kim Photographies (IBU Gallery, Paris, France)
2013 Trees from the People (Artpark Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Listen to the Bamboos (Gallery Eulenspiegel; Gallery Heuberg 24, Basel, Switzerland)
2012 Sensibility of Bamboo (Ewho Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 People du Bamboo (Gallery Philippe Gelot, Paris, France)
2011 Voice of the Bamboo (HanMi Gallery, Jeju, Korea)
2011 Voice of the Bamboo (ShinSeGae Gallery, Incheon, Korea)
2010 Colors of the Bamboo (Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea)
2007 DaeSoo Kim Photo Work (Mac Gallery, Busan, Korea)
2006 Sky Meditation (White Wall Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2004 Sky, Winds, Stars, and Me (Kim Young Sub Photo Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2003 Trees from the People (Keumsan Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2000 The Tale of Three Trees (Sajinmadang, Seoul, Korea)
1999 A Road to the Sky (Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea)
1998 The Great Korean (Olive Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1996 The Land of Wisdom (Gallery Boda, Seoul, Korea)
1990 New Wave Photographer from Korea (Sunygate Gallery, Taiwan)
1988 Creation and Then… (Gallery Han, Seoul, Korea)
1987 Thesis Show (Higgins Hall, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1984 Quest of Light (Space Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
1983 Graduate One Man Show (Parsons Hall, New York, NY, Korea)
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2017 HI Light (Sai Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2016 Hand (Gallery Eulenspiegel, Basel, Switzerland)
2016 Talk about Dream, Happiness and Love (SooHoh Gallery, Seongnam, Korea)
2016 Public to Private-Photography in Korean Contemporary Art since 1989
(National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
2016 DaeSoo Kim: Fotografien (Gallery Eulenspiegel, Basel, Switzerland)
2016 Sharing the Spotlight (Art Space J, Seongnam, Korea)
2016 Current of Korean Journey of Photography (GASC Yunseul Art Gallery, Kimhae, Korea)
2015 The Condensed Moment (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea)
2015 Re:Kontemporary-Fermented Souls (Kate Shin Gallery, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
2015 Mind Scape (Shinsegae Art Wall, Seoul, Korea)
2015 The 21st Century Handmade Print (Gallery 270, Westwood, NJ, U.S.A.)
2014 Korean Beauty: Two Kind of Nature (National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
2014 Hue: Rest (The American Club, Singapore)
2014 Space: Life and Routine (Choijungah Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2014 The Wind that Wakes the Bamboo (Gwangju National Museum, Gwangju, Korea)
2013 G-Seoul (Grand Hillton Hotel, Seoul, Korea)
2013 Art Space J Gallery Opening Exhibition (Art Space J Gallery, Seongnam, Korea)
2013 Port-Breath of Incheon (Shinsegae Gallery, Incheon, Korea)
2013 Photo Scape: Eye for the Ordinary Miracle (Interalia Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2012 Monochrome in Korea (Galelie Dorothea, Mainz, Germany)
2011 Sharing through Photos (SeMa Gyeonghuigung of Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2011 View Reviewer Preview (Hanbyukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea)
2011 Korean Sprit: Six Photographers (Aramnuri Art Center, Goyang, Korea)
2011 Remember You (Hyundai Arts Center, Ulsan, Korea)
2011 The Mystic Tree (Ilwoo Space, Seoul, Korea)
2011 2010 Collections from the HoMa (Hong-Ik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Exhibition of Hong-Ik Univ. Professor (Hong-Ik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2010 The Scent of Forest, Sound of Forest (Ewha Womans University Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2010 Cross+: The Celebration of 60th Anniversary of Korea-Spain (Gallery Palais de Seoul, Seoul, Korea)
2009 Contemporary Korean Photography 1948-2008 (Gyeongnam Art Museum, Changwon, Korea)
2008 Contemporary Korean Photography 1948-2008 (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea)
2008 Garden of Mind (Shinsegye Culture Center, Seoul, Korea)
2008 Good Morning Mr. Nam June Paik (Korean Cultural Centre U.K., London, U.K.)
2007 Contemporary Art Today and Tomorrow (Sejong Culture Center, Seoul, Korea)
2007 The Taken Accidents (Gallery Wa, Seoul, Korea)
2007 5028 – People and Scape (Gallery Illum, Seoul, Korea)
2006 Camera Work (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
2005 A Variety of Korean Art (Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea)
2001 19 Photographers with Calm Land 4 (Fukuoka Asian Art Museum, Fukuoka, Japan)
1999 Seoul Lumia of Century in Media 1999 (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
1999 Beyond the Threshold (Hillwood Art Museum, New York, NY, U.S.A.)
1998 Visual Extension of Photography (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1998 History of Korean Photography (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea)
1998 Seoul Photography Exhibition ‘98 (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
1998 Crossing Drawing Exhibition (Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea)
1997 Seoul Photography Exhibition ‘97 (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
1996 The Present and Future of Contemporary Korean Art (Hong-Ik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
1996 Photography – New Vision (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1995 The Horizon of Korean Photography (Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea)
1995 Photography Today (Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea)
1994 New Ventures Korean Young Artists Exhibition (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
1994 The Horizon of Korean Contemporary Photography (Gongpyong Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
1994 50 years of Korean Photography, 1945-1994 (Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea)
1993 Photography and Image (Art Sonje Museum, Gyeongju, Korea)
1992 The Horizon of Korean Contemporary Photography (Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea)
1991 The Horizon of Contemporary Korean Photography (Total Open Air Museum, Jangheung, Korea)
1991 Front D.M.Z. (Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea)
1990 Mixed Media (Kumho Museum, Seoul, Korea)
1990 The 24th Korean Fine Arts Association Exhibition (National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea)
and More Than 65 Group Exhibition