Kim Myonghi (B. 1949)
Kim Myonghi (B. 1949)

Dongja (Attendant), 2005

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Kim Myonghi (B. 1949)
Dongja (Attendant), 2005
Signed with artist's device (sun and moon)
Oil pastel on chalkboard
22 15/16 x 16 5/8in. (58.3 x 42.3cm.)

拍品專文

The subjects of Kim's oil pastel painting range from small experiences of everyday life to dark memories of Korean history. Through her work, Kim offers commentary not only on the issues of representation but also their social and cultural connections.
Kim Myonghi was born in Seoul in 1949, graduated from the College of Art, Seoul National University in 1972 and received her MA at Seoul National University. She attended Pratt Institute, New York in 1976. Since her first one-person exhibition at Goethe Institute, Seoul in 1972, she had five one-person exhibitions and participated in numerous group exhibitions. In 2003 she had a one-person exhibition at the Hyundai Gallery, Seoul. Kim works in an abandoned schoolhouse in Naepyungli, a tiny village near the DMZ and the city of Chunchun in Kangwon Province, South Korea.