MYEONGSOO KIM

Myeongsoo Kim (installation view), Rivalry x Future Fair, New York, NY 2022

Photo credit: Keenon P. Photography, 2022


Myeongsoo Kim (born 1980, Korea) creates process-based works which explore the ineffable, expressive and material limits of images and objects as personal, reflective conduits.

He holds a BFA in Sculpture and Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University and a MFA in Sculpture from Yale University. His work has been exhibited across the United States, including the BRIC Biennial at BRIC in Brooklyn, NY, in 2019, a solo show at CUE Foundation in 2020, a two person show at Below Grand in 2021, and a solo show at YEH art gallery at St. John's University in 2022. His most recent exhibition Land Marks, opened in November 2022 at Island Gallery in New York. Kim lives and works in New York, NY.

SELECT Exhibitions

  • Land Marks, Island Gallery, New York, NY, 2022

  • Myeongsoo Kim: Desert Ocean (curated by Owen Duffy), Yeh Art Gallery, St. John’s University, Jamaica, Queens, New York, 2022

  • Classical Mechanics with Cy Morgan, (curated by Wangui Maina and Mo Kong), Below Grand,New York, New York, 2021

  • On Colored Shadows: with work by Suzanna Zak, Myeongsoo Kim and Rachelle Bussières, Rubber Factory, New York, NY 2021

  • Mother-Land (curated by Michelle Yun), CUE Art Foundation, New York, New York, 2020

  • BRIC Biennial, Brooklyn, New York, 2019

  • Brave New World Photo Festival, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, South Korea, 2019

  • Still Big, Tiger Strikes Asteroid, New York, Brooklyn, New York, 2018

  • Imagined Communities, Nationalism & Violence, Rubber Factory, Lower East Side, New York, 2017

  • Dusk to Dust, Present Company, Brooklyn, New York, 2017