Kim Changyoung
Works by the artist Kim Changyoung are softly colored monochrome series. He expresses the first simple and clear image that he first comes up with through an ambiguous but huge color plane by applying repeated brush strokes. The artist paradoxically encounters reality through monochrome, which dissolves concrete everyday reality, events, and clear themes in a fog of color. The work is a process of enduring a world and daily life in which peace and war, conflict and reconciliation, violence and dialogue are mixed, while metaphorizing the relationship between reality and art through monochrome colors. The clear and flat color is a metaphor for the unique moment of balance in which the history of numerous realities, reality, imagination, and ideas are mingled. We think of our history, the brutal facts that our modern history tells us, a pitiful and deep melancholy, and the courage and the struggle to embrace everything in. The greater and more serious the violence and conflict, the more desperately we need peace and serenity, dialogue and inclusion. The message of Kim Changyoung's paintings reminds us of these things. The real face of the world can be seen at a glance through such meticulous, smooth and calm monochrome colors.
Kim Changyoung (b.1974)
2007 Pratt Institute, MFA, Painting, Brooklyn, New York
2001 Chugye University for the Arts, BFA, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2018 Where are you from, ArterTain, Seoul, Korea
2015 Changyoung Kim solo Exhibition, Topohaus, Seoul, Korea
2015 Between the Light and Shadow which Bear no similarity with Each Other, ArtSpace Hue, Paju, Korea
2014 Between the Light and Shadow which Bear no similarity with Each Other, Gallery Shingyo, Seoul, Korea
2011 Now in Color: Changyoung Kim, Gallery COOHAUS, Mahattan, New York
2008 Into the Illusion-Dumbo Art Festival, 111 Front Street Galleries #265, Brooklyn, New York
2007 Phenomenon-Thesis Show, Pratt Institute South Gallery, Brooklyn, New York
Selected Group Exhibitions
2017 Painting: World in the frame, Oulim Art Gallery, Goyang, Korea
2013 Invitational Art Exhibition, Jersey City Hall, Jersey City, New Jersey
2013 Silent Auction of Art, Waterfall Gallery & Mansion, Mahattan, New York
2012 Art & Lifestyle, waterfall Gallery & Mansion, Mahattan, New York
2012 Dumbo Art Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2012 Go Brooklyn Art, Open studio, Brooklyn, New York
2012 The Land of Rising Sun, LMMHC, Bronx, NY
2011 NY+Korean Art=Get to be Friends, NYKulurist Collection, Mahattan, New York
2011 Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2011 Narratives of Line and Space, Maum Gallery, Mahattan, New York
2011 Beautiful Art Exhibition: Roots, Glenpointe Hotel Marriott, Teaneck, New Jersey
2010 Dumbo Arts Festival 2010, Open Studio, Brooklyn, New York
2010 Plus One, Perry Rubenstein Gallery, Mahattan, New York
2009 Dumbo Arts Festival, Brooklyn, New York
2009 Spring Fever, Closter Art Studio, Closter, New Jersey
2008 DREAM, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, New Jersey
2008 Illusion of shadows, World Culture Open Center, Mahattan, New York
2008 Election 2008: The Square Foot Show, Art Gotham, Mahattan, New York
2008 Open Studio Party by Chang Young Kim, Brooklyn, New York
2008 Barack Obama Art Show: Hope, Rogue Space Chelsea, Mahattan, New York
2008 Hope is Nowhere, Hope is Now Here, World Culture Open Center, Mahattan, New York
2008 99 Art Fair, hpgrp Gallery, Mahattan, New York
2008 Ten Artists, Gallery Xpose’, Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
2007 Summer Festival Art, ISE Cultural Foundation Gallery, Mahattan, New York
2006 Annex Show, Annex Gallery, Mahattan, New York
Residency Programs
2015- HUE+NETWORK ART STUDIO, Paju, Korea