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Kigin Yang

Kigin Yang was born in South Korea and now lives and works in New York. She is particularly intrigued by microscopic images that imply the growth of nature. Her work is tenacious and meticulous, representing an ongoing investigation of the moment of "growing." Yang's artistic expressions vary from 2-dimensional drawings to 3-dimensional site-specific installations. She received funding from the GyeongGi Cultural Foundation as a rising artist and presented her work at Aram Art Museum in 2018. Additionally, she held her representative solo exhibition, "The Layers of Water," at Emu Art Space in South Korea in 2017. Her work has been featured and exhibited at various prestigious locations in New York, including the show “Making is Thinking” at the Painting Center at Chelsea (2022), as well as the show “I am belong here” at the Korean Cultural Center (2021).

Statement

" ‘What I can draw’ can be far richer and more specific than ‘What I know’ " is the primary premise for my creation. This attitude has affected not only interest in certain images, but also the way they are drawn. On the one hand, I am fascinated by the visual form of objects which imply irregular organic growth, in part due to my resistance to the rationalistic thinking that relies upon the elimination of ambiguity and subtlety. On the other hand, for me, drawing is not just a means to end but the end itself. My drawings are carried out in an unformatted and unpredictable manner through chance, openness and variability, which makes the relationship between individual features ambiguous. By watching this process of an object being assimilated into another, I have come to regard drawing as an accident that continues to grow and change, rather than having a single fixed message. I work under the assumption that this kind of unstructured drawing can reveal or extend new meanings: the process of drawing becomes a continual path of discovery. The drawn images are combined with other drawings in accordance with the flow of the image, and gradually become a single image. In the newly formed relationship, I find another world at the beginning, which leads to the next piece, and the aforementioned process is repeated continuously.

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EDUCATION

2022-Present EDDCT Teachers College Columbia University

2022 EDM Teachers College Columbia University

2015 MFA in painting, Seoul National University, Korea

2012 BFA in painting, Seoul National University, Korea

SOLO EXHIBITION

2018 Growing Shadow, Rund Gallery, Seoul

2017 Layers of a Profound Abyss, Emu Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2016 Melting Land, Form297, Suwon, Korea

2013 Drawing Instinct, Woosuk Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2011 Pleasant Energy, Woosuk Gallery, Seoul, Korea

GROUP EXHIBITION

2023 September Primer, Macy Art Gallery, TC Columbia University, New York, US 2022 Making is thinking, the painting center, New York, US

2021 Unfamiliar Landscape (two-person exhibition), Space776, New York, US

2021 I belong here, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Center New York, New York, US

2020 Homecoming, online exhibition, ChaShaMa, New York, US

2019 Near, Far, Confused, Project Space IGLOO, New York, US

2018 Aesthetics of fold and crisper, Emu Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2018 GyeongGi Cultural Foundation Rising Artist–Beyond

thinking, Aram Nuri Aram Art Museum, Goyang

2018 The yearners, Kimi Art Gallery, Seoul

2018 The Flow, Gallery YeonWoo, Seoul, Korea

2018 Beyond Black, Sueno339, Seoul, Korea

2017 City Drive in the Winter, JAC Gallery, Seoul, Korea

TongYeong ArtFair, TongYeong cultural council,

TongYeong, Korea

2016 OPEN STUDIO, Studi5, Seoul, Korea

2012 Sunset JangHang festival- factory art festival,

ChungNam, Korea

2012 ASYAAF, Seoul Train Station, Seoul, Korea

2011 UU, Woosuk Gallery, Seoul, Korea

CONTEST AND AWARD

2023 Painting Studio Fellow, Teachers College Columbia University, New York

2019 Selected Artist of open call, Gallery Korea, Korean Cultural Center NY

2018 Selected Rising Artist of GyeongGi Cultural Foundation

2018 Selected Artist of Public Contest, Kimi Art Gallery

2018 Selected Artist of Public Contest, Gallery YeonWoo

2018 Seoul Digital University Award

2018 Selected Artist of Public Contest, RundGallery

2017 Selected Artist of Soma Art Museum Drawing Center Archive

2017 Selected Artist of Public Contest, Emu Art Space

2016 Selected Artist of Public Contest, Form297

COLLECTION

Private Collection, US

Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Algeria

Vatech Networks, Korea

PRESS

2021 I belong here

The World Korean

https://www.worldkorean.net/ne...

2020 Homecoming

The Korea Times

http://www.koreatimes.com/arti...

Newsroom

by Ji-young Min

http://www.newsroh.com/bbs/boa...

The Korea Daily

https://news.koreadaily.com/20...

2019 Aesthetics of Fold and Crisper

Dangjin News

http://www.idjnews.kr/news/art...

The Art1 News

https://www.art1.com/bbs/?at=r...

2018 The Yearners

Deco Journal

by Chan-woo, Lee

https://www.decojournal.co.kr/...

2018 Growing Shadow

Sports Seoul

by Hyo-won, Kim

http://www.sportsseoul.com/new...

2018 Beyond thinking

Gyeonggi News

by Si-yeon, Song

http://www.kyeonggi.com/news/a...

Webzine nuri

http://webzine.artgy.or.kr/?p=...

Suwon HwaSung News

by Mi-young Cho

http://www.esuwon.net/33427

Incheon Ilbo

by Hye-rim, Park

http://www.incheonilbo.com/new...

2012 Art in Cross

NewsPower

by Ha-ra, Jeong

http://www.newspower.co.kr/209...

PUBLISHED CRITIQUE

Crossing the History of Properties and Horizon of Time, Pil-ju, Jung(Art Sociology)

A critique of Ki Gin Yang for Gyeonggi Cultural Foundation Critic Matching Project, 2018

PRESENTATION

2019 Artist Talk of Aesthetics of fold and Crisper, Emu Art Space, Seoul, Korea

2018 Presentation of the exhibition Beyond Thinking, Aram Nuri Aram Art Museum, Goyang, Korea

State

NJ

Country

United States

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