Since opening its doors in 2001, Tina Kim Gallery has gained a reputation for its curated exhibitions of emerging and established international artists. The gallery has two addresses in New York: at 525 West 21st Street and 545 West 25th Street.
Read MoreAmong the artists represented by Tina Kim Gallery are Kwon Young-Woo, Park Seo-Bo, and Ha Chong-Hyun, all of whom are associated with Dansaekhwa—a Korean art movement that emerged in the 1960s with artists often adopting inexpensive materials and a monochromatic colour palette. In 2019, Tina Kim Gallery began representing painters Suh Seung-Won and Kim Tschang-Yeul, artists who were painting in the same period as the Dansaekhwa artists, broadening the gallery’s exploration of the art world in post-war Korea.
Others artist represented by Tina Kim Gallery include Davide Balliano—an Italian-born and New York-based artist who creates geometric abstractions in painting and sculpture—and contemporary Korean artists including Minouk Lim, who works with music, writing, performance, video, and installation to focus on marginalised historical and contemporary narratives; Gimhongsok, whose wide-ranging practice includes cast bronze sculptures depicting balloons; and Suki Seokyeong Kang, a Seoul-based installation artist who was awarded the Baloise Art Prize at Art Basel in 2018 and included in the 2019 Venice Biennale. The gallery also offers works by a selection of international artists, among them Chung Sang-Hwa, Chung Chang-Sup, Kibong Rhee, Candida Höfer, and Louise Bourgeois.
In addition to solo presentations of gallery artists, Tina Kim Gallery is noted for its thoughtful curated group presentations. Two Hours (2016) featured works created by Yiso Bahc, Seoyoung Chung, and Beom Kim in the late 1990s and 2000s—a period during which the idea of contemporary art was developing in Korea.
In 2015, the gallery was the site of Crow’s Eye View: The Korean Peninsula, which was originally conceived for the Korean Pavilion at the 14th International Architecture Exhibition of the Venice Biennale. The show examined the range of architecture in post-World War II Korea. The same year, Tina Kim Gallery participated in the Venice Biennale with Dansaekhwa in Venice, a Collateral Event of the 56th International Art Exhibition, a joint effort alongside Boghossian Foundation, Brussels, and Kukje Gallery, Seoul.
Tina Kim Gallery participates regularly in international art fairs. Between 2016 and 2019, it featured in Art Basel, Art Basel in Miami Beach, EXPO CHICAGO, Frieze New York, Frieze London, Frieze Masters, and TEFAF in Maastricht, TEFAF New York Spring, and others.
Ocula News Fake Furries Feature in Art Basel Hong Kong's Encounters Section Hong Kong, 28 January 2020 The fair's most Instagrammable section will feature 12 works, including Gimhongsok's fictitious furries and textile off-cuts by Marion Baruch.
Ocula Photolog Art Basel Miami Beach 2019 'In Art Basel's American show, leading galleries from North America, Latin America, Europe, and Asia show significant work from the masters of Modern and contemporary art, as well as the new generation of emerging stars. Paintings, sculptures, installations, photographs, films, and editioned works of the highest quality are on display in the main...
Ocula Conversation Kim Tschang-Yeul: Art Without Ego By Vivian Chui, New York Kim Tschang-Yeul turns 90 this December, following an illustrious career that played a crucial role in bringing post-war Korean painting into the modern and contemporary art canon. Long celebrated for pensive depictions of water drops, the esteemed artist uses dual languages of abstraction and hyperrealism to articulate the psychological traumas...
Ocula Photolog Frieze Masters 2019 'Coinciding with Frieze London, Frieze Masters features more than 130 of the world's leading galleries specialising in antiquities, Asian art, ethnographic art, illuminated manuscripts, medieval, modern and post-war art, Old Masters and 19th century, as well as photography and sculpture.' –Frieze Masters (3–6 October 2019).
Related Press A Major Korean Painter Begins to Get His Due 7 March 2020, Hyperallergic This is a statement that the Korean abstract artist, Lee Seung Jio (1941-1990), made in 1971, a few years after he gained attention in Korea for his cooly geometric abstract paintings of cylindrical forms: Some call me 'Pipe Painter.' I neither welcome nor dislike the distinction.
Related Press A Modern Trompe L’Oeil Painter 9 November 2019, Hyperallergic Kim Tschang-Yeul (b. 1929), a towering figure of Korean modern art, is best known for his trompe l'oeil depictions of pristine water drops beaded on either a monochromatic surface or raw linen. As Kim Tschang-Yeul: New York to Paris, at Tina Kim, underscores, it was while living he was living in New York that his work began to change, leading...
Related Press Suki Seokyeong Kang continues experimenting with space at Venice Biennale 14 May 2019, The Korea Herald Suki Seokyung Kang’s multipart installations are neatly organised so as not to interfere with one another. The space invites people to walk, sit and stand among minimalist installations in soft colours. The Korean contemporary artist is introducing two works at the 58 th Venice Biennale’s main exhibition May You Live in Interesting Times...
Related Press Venice Biennale empowers women, diversity 12 May 2019, Korea Times This year, all Koreans at the Venice Biennale are women. The Korean Pavilion is curated by Kim Hyun-jin and three participating artists Jung Eun-young, also known as siren eun young jung, Jane Jin Kaisen and Nam Hwa-yeon. At the main exhibition, the works of three Korean women artists Lee Bul, Suki Seokyeong Kang and Anicka Yi are on view.
Related Video & Audio Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus | Online Exhibition Tour 25 March 2020, Tina Kim Gallery We are excited to be able to present a digital tour through our Lee Seung Jio exhibition.Thank you so much for joining us on this digital tour for this exhibition that we’re so excited about, and for this artist who is now starting to be more well known internationally! Audio by Katherine Lauricella, Soyoung Kim Video by Hyunjung Rhee
Related Video & Audio Tina Kim Gallery | TEFAF Maastricht 2020 5 March 2020, Tina Kim Gallery Tina Kim Gallery is delighted to announce its participation at TEFAF Maastricht 2020. BOOTH 512 Presenting works by: ALEXANDER CALDER | BILL VIOLA | CHUNG CHANG-SUP | CHUNG SANG-HWA | GHADA AMER | HA CHONG-HYUN | JENNY HOLZER | KIBONG RHEE | KIM TSCHANG-YEUL | KWON YOUNG-WOO | LEE SEUNG JIO | LEE UFAN | LOUISE BOURGEOIS | LUCIO FONTANA | LUC...
Related Video & Audio Kim Yong-Ik | Speaking of Latter Genesis 18 July 2019, Tina Kim Gallery Associate Director Katherine Lauricella looks back on Kim Jong-Ik’s solo exhibition at the gallery, Speaking of Latter Genesis, and his repeated motif of the polka dot.
Related Video & Audio For Mario 18 July 2019, Tina Kim Gallery Curator Adam Charlap Hyman (of Charlap Hyman & Herrero) discusses the overarching theme of For Mario.
