김미루

퍼포먼스 아트 | 파인아트

뉴욕, 미국

Miru Kim is a New York-based artist who has explored various urban ruins such as abandoned subway stations, tunnels, sewers, catacombs, factories, hospitals, and shipyards. For her new series that examines the relationship between pigs and humans, she has visited various industrial hog farms. She was featured as one of America's Best and Brightest 2007 in Esquire magazine. Her work has been spotlighted in countless other international media such as The New York Times, TED.com, The Financial Times, ARTE France, Ovation TV, Time Out New York, NY Arts Magazine, The Korea Daily, La Stampa, Berlingske Tidende, VanityFair.de, Korea Herald, Vogue Girl. Public collections of her work include Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art and Hana Bank. Her work has been shown in various galleries, museums, and art fairs (Gallery HYUNDAI in Seoul, Queens Museum of Art in New York, National Museum of Visual Art in Montevideo, Coreana Museum in Seoul, SCOPE Basel, Miami International, Lodz Biennale in Poland, etc), and she was invited to present her work at the Entertainment Gathering in Monterey, CA (2008), and the World Culture Forum in Dresden, Germany (2009).

Miru was born in Stoneham, Massachusetts in 1981 and was raised in Seoul, Korea. She moved back to Massachusetts in 1995 to attend Phillips Academy in Andover, and moved to New York City in 1999 to attend Columbia University. In 2006, she received an MFA in painting from Pratt Institute. She is an avid cook and a rat lover.

Education

2006	M.F.A, Painting, Pratt Institute, New York, NY.
2003	B.A, French and Romance Philology, Columbia University, New York, NY.

Solo Exhibitions

2011	The Pig That Therefore I Am, DOOSAN Gallery New York, New York, NY.
2010	Naked City Spleen: Istanbul, SODA Gallery, Istanbul, Turkey.
2009	Miru Kim: Naked City Spleen, Gallery HYUNDAI Gangnam, Seoul, Korea (catalogue essay by Richard Vine, Art In America).
	Naked City Spleen and Blind Door, The Cell Theatre, New York, NY.
2008	Naked City Spleen, Gestarc Gallery, Brooklyn, NY.

Selected Group Exhibitions

2011	Winter Salon, curated by Björn Ressle and Hee Yuen Chun, Elga Wimmer
	PCC, New York, NY.
2010	Sueño, Amor y Paz, National Museum of Visual Art, Montevideo, Uruguay.
	Fokus Łódź Biennale 2010, Łódź, Poland.
	The Moment, 63 Sky Art, 63 Building, Seoul, Korea.
	Artistʼs Body, Coreana Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea.
	SCOPE Basel, Waterhouse & Dodd Contemporary, Basel, Switzerland.
	Miami International Art Fair, Waterhouse & Dodd Contemporary, Miami, FL.
2009	Faces & Facts: Korean Contemporary Art in New York, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY.
	SCOPE Miami Art Fair, Waterhouse & Dodd Contemporary, Miami, FL.
2008	Reflected Light IV Benefit for Riverkeeper, IAC Building, New York, NY.
	Secret Spaces: Cecily Kahn, Rachel Burgess, Miru Kim, Jonathan Frost Gallery, Rockland, ME.
2007	Drawing the Line Benefit for the Center Against Domestic Violence, Metropolitan Pavilion Gallery, New York, NY.
2005	Post Production Dialogue, Arttransponder e.V., Berlin, Germany.
	Objects of Comfort, Werketage Saarbrücker Strasse e.V., Berlin, Germany.
	Spontaneous Generation, Ars Subterranea, New York, NY.

Selected Press

2009	Paul Laster, “Miru Kim: Exploring Urban Environment, Nude,” Artkrush, Flavorwire, Sept [http://flavorwire.com/37050/miru-kim-exploring-urban- environments-nude].
	Anna Carnick, “Body of Evidence,” Clear Magazine, Issue 33.
	Limb Jae-un, “Naked to the hidden and ruined urban world,” JoongAng Daily, August 29.
	Park Min-young, “Naked photographer dissects city,” The Korea Herald, August 27.
	Ioana Calen, “Goală printre marile ruine ale lumii,” Cotidianul, Romania, May 14.
	"Art infiltré," dir. Rafaelle Uriewicz, ARTE France, March 14.
	"Miru Kim's underground art," The EG Conference, TED.com, February
2008	David Schonauer, “Interview: Miru Kim,” PopPhoto.com, December View
	"Close Up: Portraits," Dir. Albert Maysles, Ovation TV, November.
	Miru Kim, “Naked City Spleen,” NY Arts Magazine, Sept/Oct, 122-123. Jens Rebensdorff, “Byens hammelige turister,” Berlingske Tidende, Livsstil, Denmark, May 31.
2007	Colby Buzzell, “Miru Kim Takes Pictures,” Esquire, December, 178-182.
	John OʼConnor, “Weʼll climb that bridge when we come to it,” Financial Times Magazine, 1/2 December, 16-20.
	Morizio Molinari, “Urban Explorers, La tribu della notte,” La Stampa, Italy, August 1.
	Ben Gibberd “Children of Darkness,” The New York Times, 29 July, CY-1, 8.

Lectures

2010	Conflux Festival 2010, New York, NY, October 10th.
2009	The 2nd World Culture Forum, Dresden, Germany, October 10th.
2008	The Entertainment Gathering 2008, Monterey, CA, Dec 11th.
2006	Dorkbot, Location One, New York, NY, October 4th.

Public Collections

● Leeum, Samsung Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
● Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
● Embassy of the Republic of Korea, Montevideo, Uruguay
● The Museum of the City of Łódź
● Fountainhead Residency, Miami, FL