Jeeun Kim
Honolulu, Hawai‘i

Woman
linen, gel medium, cotton thread, ink
28.2 x 21.8 x 7.6 cm
2005

____Selected exhibitions

  • In Search of Dreams Across the Pacific, Howard County Center for the Arts, Ellicott City, Maryland, 2005
  • Artists of Hawai‘i, Baciu Visual Arts Award, Honolulu Academy of Arts, 2005
  • Inside/out: The Body, The Contemporary Café, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu, 2005
  • Spirits of the Dead Watching, Japanese Cultural Center of Hawai‘i, Honolulu, 2004
  • Textiles & Fiber 2004: Contemporary Work in Hawai‘i, Bishop Street Gallery, Honolulu
  • Contemporary Korean-American Artists of Hawai‘i, The Contemporary Museum at First Hawaiian Center, 2003
  • Contemporary Paper Works, Academy Art Center, Honolulu, 2003

Born in Seoul, Korea in 1965, Jeeun Kim has a BFA, 1988, from Ewha Womans University, Seoul, and a MFA, 1999, from the University of Hawai‘i. She has work in the collections of the Hawai‘i State Foundation on Culture and the Arts and the Honolulu Academy of Arts.

My work is about women--and about myself as a woman. I contemplate and question the nature of women. To what degree is woman’s nature tied to the geography of her body? To what degree is her nature a social construct built of the reflections, expectations, and demands of women and men around her?