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Soonnam Kim Paintings

Korean, b. 1969
Soonnam Kim is a Korean artist born in 1969 who lives and works in Seoul, South Korea. Kim studied painting at Changwon National University in Korea (BFA) and moved to US to continue her study art in 1995. Kim earned her master's degree (MFA) in fine art majoring in painting and drawing from New Jersey City University in New Jersey in 1998. She taught various art classes at the Fine Art Department of the School of Fine and Performing Arts of Kean University in New Jersey from 2004 to 2013 as an adjunct professor. After 20 years life in US, she moved to Germany in 2014, and lived and worked as an artist in Wuppertal, Germany until the spring of 2019. She visited many art museums and galleries, met artists, and traveled many cities and countries of Europe and also in the India Dharamsala where she stayed one month and attended Dalai Lama’s teaching. She moved back to Korea in 2019 and is currently living and working as a fulltime artist in Seoul. Kim was selected as one of five Asian women artists in New Jersey by Dr. Midori Yoshimoto, and the exhibition was reviewed by the New York Times on April 03, 2005. She was also selected as an artist of the 2nd Part (1989 – 2001) of the Archive for Korean-American living artists. Only 46 artists were selected from over 200 applicants. The exhibition was held at Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY and Korean Cultural Service of New York in 2014. Kim had 16 solo exhibitions and many group invitation exhibitions and art fairs in Korea, United States, Germany, Japan, Hong Kong and Taiwan. Kim’s art works have transformed from semi geometric lyrical abstract to more curvilinear abstract composition during last 30 years. Her most recent artworks are the New Symphony Series in which she focuses only on the harmony of lines, colors, and dots. She makes constant actions of adding lines and dots onto canvas with oil paint by using a palette knife. Making painting is for her making musical symphony-like composition onto two dimensional pictorial plane, and at the same time it is her own meditation. She wants to be liberated from all her lifelong attachments of mind which cause anguish and suffering by simply repeating the actions of paint stroke, and eventually to create harmonious visual status like paradise in her mind. She tries to create classical beauty in her painting that is like classical music in which all beings can rest in the peaceful energy vibration and wave.
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Artist: Soonnam Kim
Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - Serenade 2

Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - Serenade 2

By Soonnam Kim

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil & acrylic on linen Soonnam Kim is a Korean artist born in 1969. Kim studied painting at Changwon National University (BFA) in Korea and New Jersey Cit...

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2010s Contemporary Soonnam Kim Paintings

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Linen, Oil, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - Serenade 3

Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - Serenade 3

By Soonnam Kim

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil & acrylic on linen Soonnam Kim is a Korean artist born in 1969. Kim studied painting at Changwon National University (BFA) in Korea and New Jersey Cit...

Category

2010s Contemporary Soonnam Kim Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil, Acrylic

Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - New Symphony No. 32: Four Noble Truth 1

Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - New Symphony No. 32: Four Noble Truth 1

By Soonnam Kim

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on linen Soonnam Kim is a Korean artist born in 1969. Kim studied painting at Changwon National University (BFA) in Korea and New Jersey City University (MFA) in the US. She tau...

Category

2010s Contemporary Soonnam Kim Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - New Symphony No. 22: Four Noble Truth 1

Korean Contemporary Art by Soonnam Kim - New Symphony No. 22: Four Noble Truth 1

By Soonnam Kim

Located in Paris, IDF

Oil on linen Soonnam Kim is a Korean artist born in 1969. Kim studied painting at Changwon National University (BFA) in Korea and New Jersey City University (MFA) in the US. She tau...

Category

2010s Contemporary Soonnam Kim Paintings

Materials

Linen, Oil

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Soonnam Kim paintings for sale on 1stDibs.

Find a wide variety of authentic Soonnam Kim paintings available for sale on 1stDibs. If you’re browsing the collection of paintings to introduce a pop of color in a neutral corner of your living room or bedroom, you can find work that includes elements of green and other colors. You can also browse by medium to find art by Soonnam Kim in fabric, linen, oil paint and more. Much of the original work by this artist or collective was created during the 21st century and contemporary and is mostly associated with the contemporary style. Not every interior allows for large Soonnam Kim paintings, so small editions measuring 18 inches across are available. Soonnam Kim paintings prices can differ depending upon medium, time period and other attributes. On 1stDibs, the price for these items starts at $2,000 and tops out at $13,000, while the average work can sell for $11,000.