Minyoung Kim
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Minyoung Kim – MA/MFA
Curriculum Vitae
Education
2019 - 2021
The Slade School of Fine Art
MFA2012 - 2014
Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
MFA Printmaking2008 - 2012
Sungshin Women’s University, Seoul, South Korea
BA Western PaintingPublications
2021
ArtMaze Magazine Issue 22Awards
2020
Max Werner Drawing Prize (nomination)Terence Cuneo Award
Experience
Residency
2018 Marymod House with Can Foundation, Seoul
Minyoung Kim – MA/MFA
I paint on unstretched raw canvas without the priming process. Before these types of canvas works were created, I made numerous paper drawings and now I think the way I paint most naturally resembles my drawings. The texture of the finished work expresses a blurry or softer feeling, such as one drawn with oil pastels or conté.
As for the work image, my canvas contains memories, anxiety, regret, desire, dreams, and everything inside me that I may not be able to express myself directly. I sincerely project myself onto the canvas. Sometimes I become a weak mermaid, a human-harming cat, and a woman with a threatening knife. On the other hand, my work is not only creepy but also cute. This can be seen as a mixture of heterogeneity, which is a dissonance of grotesque characteristics. The ironic scenes that evoke laughter with bizarre, eerie, mysterious feelings reflect another inner state, and are two sides of psychological anxiety and conflict to resolve it. I postulate this ambivalence word in my painting as creepy-cute.