Eemyun Kang
b. 1981, Busan, Korea
live and work in Milan, Italy
Translating organic forms into lush abstraction, Eemyun Kang creates complex natural worlds marked by vivid colours. While she avoids the use of defined figurative elements to create her narratives, Kang’s seductive colours are often punctuated by quasi-anthropomorphised forms. The viewer is invited to drift between the paintings’ stories where tone, gesture and technique are revisited and re-deployed culminating in an immersive and every shifting experience.
Education
2009-2012
Doctor of Fine Art (DFA), The School of Arts and Digital Industries, UEL, London
2006-2009
Postgraduate Diploma (MA) in Fine Art, The Royal Academy of Arts, London
2002-2006
BA Honors in Fine Art The Slade School of Fine Art, UCL, London
2000-2002
Fine Art Painting and Sculpture, Ewha Woman’s University Seoul, Korea
Selected Solo Exhibitions
2022
La Mia Italia, Gallery Simon, Seoul 2022
2019
This Way is Made by Walking, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand....
2019
Luna e corda, Consolato Generale della Repubblica di Corea, Milan, Italy
2014
Project Space: Eemyun Kang, Timothy Taylor Gallery, London, UK
2013
Fungalland and the Stranded Mother Whale, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, US
2012
Fungalland and the Stranded Mother Whale, Trondheim Kunstmuseum, Norway
2010
Dozing River, Tina Kim Gallery, New York, USA
Selected Group Exhibitions
2020
Chang-E4 , Eemyun Kang /Alessandro Roma, Casa Testori, Novate Milanese, Italy
2018
Saluta i tuoi amici Verde, Studio Porpora, Milan, Italy
2015
Sleepers in Venice, Pallazzo Storico, Venice, Italy
2014
RE:VISION, Trish Clark Gallery, Auckland, NZ
2012
Eemyun Kang / Kyung Jeon, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Art On Your Wall, artclub 1563, Seoul, Korea
The Sounds of the Muse, Artsonje Center, Seoul, Korea
Map the Korea 4482, Barge House, South Bank, London, UK
As Small as a World and Large as Alone, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul, Korea
Muse London, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2011
Done Paint Done, The Drawers, London, UK
Karmic Abstraction, Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia, USA
Advent of Abstraction, Art Space Loo, Seoul, Korea
2010
The Mountain Where Whales Once Lived, Union, London, UK
Bibliothèque: A Library of Folding and Unfolding, @ KT&G, Seoul, Korea
Present from past, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
Appropriate Modernism, Centrifugal Projects, Brussels, Belgium
The Imaginary Archive-The gaze of 120 展, Gallery Sangsangmadang, Seoul, Korea
GIVEITANAME, Vegas Gallery, London, UK
2009
Cold Cell, Union at the Old Police Station, London, UK
U•S•B, Hangaram Art Museum, Seoul Art Centre, Korea
Code of Being, Gallery WITHSPACE, Beijing, China
Crossfields: Young Korean Artists in London, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
Summer Exhibition, Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Traveling Light, Venice Biennale 2009, London, UK; Venice, Italy
Eemyun Kang & Ben Pritchard, Cafe Gallery at Royal Academy of Art, London, UK
Mindscape of the 21st Century, Andrew James Art, Shanghai, China
The M.A.& Other Postgraduate Art Show, Atkinson Gallery, Somerset, UK
2008
4482, Korean Contemporary, OXO, Barge House, London, UK
The 38th Parallel, G-spot Showroom, London, UK
Consume Create, Henley Exhibition Centre, Henly-on- Thames, UK
Lock on, Splitter, Reinickendorfer Str.97, Berlin, Germany
Premiums 2008, The Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
Good Morning, Mr. Nam Jun PAIK, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK
2007
What Can a Desert Island Do?, Seventeen Gallery, London UK
Influx, Nolia’s Gallery, London, UK
2006
Landscapades: The war on terra?, Undermilkwood Gallery, London, UK
Gussing Exhibition, Gussing, Finsbury Square, London, UK
Painting Music, Sweet ECA, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, UK
2004
Art@work, Aylesbury House, London, UK
Anywhere Out of the World, Platform Saab Showroom, London, UK
Artskool Paris London Project, Galerie Gauche (Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Art), Paris, France
2003
Collaborate Drawings, Pearson Gallery (UCL), London, UK
Hibernation, UCL Main Quadrangle, London, UK
Bibliography
2013
Korean Art, The Power of Now, Page 128-129, Thames & Hudson, London
2012
Eemyun Kang (cat.), Trondheim Kustmuseum, Norway
Eemyun Kang (cat.), Kukje Gallery, Seoul
The Art of Your Wall (cat.), Page1-6, Suum, Seoul As small as the world and large as alone (cat.) Page 24-27, Gallery Hyundai, Seoul
Map The Korea (cat.) Page 84-85, Sasapari 4482, London
2011
Karmic Abstraction (cat.) Bridgette Mayer Gallery, Philadelphia
2010
Eemyun Kang: Dozing River (cat.), Tina Kim Gallery, New York
Frieze Year Book 2010-2011
Ruth Salomon, a-n magazine, UK
Paul Carey Kent, magazine Saatchi online
2009
USB (cat.) Seoul Arts Center, Seoul. , Page 46-51 Art Scene Insight magazine Issue 6,
Page 14-15, Visual Art, Atkinson Gallery The West Muse Magazine Issue 43, March 2009, Page 12,
Paul Smith. Royal Academy of Arts from London High Fashion Magazine 4, April 2009, No. 326, Page 85- 86,
12 Young Artists and Painters. ELLE Korea, January 2009, No. 195, Page 100-101,
2008
Rose, Rebecca. New Talent: Eemyun Kang. The Silver Library
Eemyun Kang, Eastern Art Report Online
Good Morning Mr. Nam Jun PAIK (cat.) Page 54-55, Korean Cultural Centre, UK
Selected Public Collections
Hana Bank, Seoul, Korea
Trondheim Kunst Museum, Norway
Mizuho International plc London, UK
The Korean Embassy in London, UK
Award, Honours, Scholarships, Commissions & Appointments
2009
Gold Medal, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK Dunoyer de Segonzac Award
Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2008
Sir Frank and Lady Short Award, Royal Academy of Arts, London, UK
2006-9
Celia Walker Foundation award, Royal Academy Schools, London, UK
2005
Project Award, Slade School of Art, London, UK
2004
Icarus Bursary, Slade School of Art, London, UK