Vicky Kim

Incorporating sculpture, installation, drawing, and printmaking, the work of Vicky Kim explores our being in space, and the space of representation, as a matter of both physical and psychical affect. Having spent her formative years studying dance, Kim’s artistic practice has inclined towards corporeal, spatial, and transitory forms, often defined by their utility, and increasingly social function. Much of her work takes the photographic image as a prompt, one that initiates a spatial action or gesture, be it on paper, or through a variety of sculptural procedures, leading to works in which traces remain but the body is absent.

Originally from Seoul, Kim is a graduate of Goldsmiths College, London (BFA, 2002), Columbia University, New York (MFA, 2006), and most recently the Royal College of Art, completing a PhD in February 2022, with a thesis entitled ‘The Production of Subjectivity through Space, Architecture and Image’. Solo exhibitions include ‘Kaput’, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, 2024; ‘Kapot Van’, Transformation Gallery, London, 2024; ‘2.7/4.8/7.4/9.4/12.1/15.2/18.5/22’, Chosun Gallery, Seoul, 2019; ‘Under the Coral-like Blue Concrete’, Gallery Factory, Seoul, 2010; and ‘A Room in House X’, Gallery Hinterberg, Zurich, Switzerland, 2008. In 2009, Kim was awarded a residency fellowship as part of the International Artist’s Studio Program at the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, and in 2018, a production residency for the 4th Kunming Biennale at the Yunnan Art Museum, Kunming, China. Kim is represented by Chosun Gallery, Seoul, and based in London.