VICKY KIM

Incorporating sculpture, installation, drawing, and printmaking, the work of Vicky Kim (*1978) explores ideologies that influence notions of self and subjectivity, through a critical consideration of gesture, the representation and consumption of the (female) body, and the function of the image within the corporeal and sensual realm. Having spent her formative years studying dance, Kim’s works are characterised by a struggle between form and action, resolution and transitoriness, intimacy and separation, challenging viewers to confront their own impermanence, in the face of encounters on the verge of dissolution.

A graduate of Goldsmiths College, London, and Columbia University, New York, Kim completed a PhD at the Royal College of Art in February 2022, with a thesis entitled ‘The Production of Subjectivity through Space, Architecture and Image’. Solo exhibitions include ‘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. In 2020, Kim produced a permanent lighting installation for the Prastgarden Hotel, S.derhamn, Sweden, and in 2022 installation design for a three-part exhibition of contemporary Korean ceramics in Zurich, titled ‘Past Tense’, sponsored by the Swiss Korean Embassy and the Korean Craft Council. Recent projects include a two-person exhibition with ceramicist Andreas Steinemann at the Galerie Milchhütte, Zumikon, Switzerland, at which Kim first exhibited her silkscreen wallpaper, and ‘Gesticulator’, a self-organised and curated group exhibition at ASC Gallery, South London, 2023, examining the role of gesture in contemporary art. Kim is currently working on a second iteration of the ‘Gesticulator’ project, as an artist book.