Dawoon Kim is a South Korean artist based in London, working across photography, installation, performance and video. Kim’s work primarily addresses themes of cultural identities, representation, spectacle and desire with frequent references to pop culture, technology and the internet-era. By blurring the limits between authenticity and commodification, fiction and reality in a humourously dark manner, she attempts to reveal the underlying absurdities of contemporary society.
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b. 1994, Seoul, KR
Lives and works in London, UK
Education
2019 M.A. Photography, Royal College of Art, London
2016 B.F.A. Media arts, Seoul Institute of the Arts, Korea
Selected Exhibitions
2021 Playful Futures, Valletta Contemporary, Malta (Upcoming)
2021 Performing Dawns, Hoxton gallery, London
2019 Why do it together when you can do it alone?, Lewisham Arthouse, London
2019 RCA Show, Royal College of Art, London
2019 RAW: Research As Work, Hockney Gallery, London
2018 Voices of Korean Contemporary Artists, Bargehouse in Oxo Tower Wharf, London
2018 Showpiece, Galleri Nicolai Wallner, Copenhagen, Denmark
2018 WIP Show, Royal College of Art, London
2016 KIMDAEMON, Hello Museum, Seoul
2015 Self, 4tk004 in Sewoon Arcade, Seoul
Art Projects
2019 Offprint London, Tate Modern, London
2018 Offprint London, Tate Modern, London
2016 Run Into Exhibition, Seongsu dong, Seoul
2015 ‘Mu-Ui-Mi project’ Round Table, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul
Publications
2019 Source, Issue 99
2019 Vogue Italia, July (online)
2018 Is This It?, Issue 5