Young Kim
EDUCATION
1992 - New York University, New York, New York American Photography Institute, National Graduate Seminar
- California College of Arts and Crafts, Oakland, California, M.F.A.
1986 - San Francisco State University, San Francisco, California, B.A. Art
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2002 - Edge, Mills College Art Museum, Oakland, CA
2001 - Timepiece, Ellen Kim Murphy Gallery, Santa Monica, CA
2000 - Untitled (Map), Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA
1998 - Dispersion, The Friends of Photography at Ansel Adams Center, San Francisco, CA
1997 - Uncommon Traits, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY
1996 - Interval, San Francisco Art Commission Gallery, San Francisco, CA
1992 - M.F.A. Exhibition, Downtown Gallery, Oakland, CA
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2008 – Double Vision, Chandra Cerrito Contemporary, Oakland, CA
2007 - Home Sweet Home, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2004 - Process, Dorsky Gallery, Long Island City, NY
- Topographies, Walter McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA, (catalogue)
traveled to Pasadena Museum of California Art, Pasadena, CA, 2004
2003 - California College of Art Alumni Exhibition, Andrea Schwartz Gallery, San Francisco, CA
2002 - Bridges, National Japanese American Historical Society, San Francisco, CA
2001 - Eureka: New Art from the Bay Area, Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA
- Eureka, Too! Institute of Contemporary Art, San Jose, CA
2000 - The Eureka Fellowship Awards, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, (catalogue)
- Light Fantastic, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1999 - Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, (catalogue)
1998 - pFORMative Acts, Walter/McBean Gallery, San Francisco Art Institute, San Francisco, CA
1997 - On The Rim, Transamerica Pyramid, San Francisco, CA
1996 - When Two or More: New Typologies, Houston Center for Photography, Houston, TX
- CCAC: Past, Present, Future, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
- Who's Afraid of Freedom, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, (catalogue)
1995 - Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography at Ansel
Adams Center, San Francisco, CA, (catalogue); toured through 1997
- Center for Creative Photography, Tucson, Arizona, 1995
- Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, CA, 1995
- International Museum of Photography at George Eastman House, Rochester, NY, 1996
- Smithsonian Institution, Washington, DC, 1996
- Nexus Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, Georgia, 1997
- Center for the Fine Arts, Miami, Florida, 1997
1994 - Cultural Identities and Immigration: Changing Images of America in the 90's, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
Seven Contemporary Korean-American Artists from California, Wiegand Art Gallery,
College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, (catalogue)
1993 - Across The Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art,
Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, (catalogue)
- traveled to Kumho Art Museum, Seoul, Korea, 1994
- Interior Dialogues, Montage '93: International Festival of the Image, Rochester, NY
1992 - Fellowship Award Exhibition, New York University Art Gallery, New York, NY
- M.F.A. Exhibition, Oliver Art Center, Oakland, CA
- A Woman's Vision, Somar Gallery, San Francisco, CA
AWARDS AND GRANTS
2002 - Pollock Krasner Foundation Grant
2000 - Fleishhacker Foundation, Eureka Fellowship for Visual Artists
1997 - The Wallace Alexander Gerbode Foundation Grant
1995 - Lace/New Langton Arts Artists' Projects Grant
1994 - National Endowment for the Arts/ Arts International Travel Grant for Artists
1993 - WESTAF/National Endowment for the Arts Regional Fellowship
1992 - American Photography Institute Fellowship
1989 - Ford Foundation Fellowship - California College of Arts and Crafts Fellowship
1986 - The San Francisco Bay Guardian Photography Award
REVIEWS
- Wood, Sura, “Inaugural Exhibition Explores the Meaning of ‘Home’,” San FranciscoArts Monthly, June 2007
- Frank, Peter. “Art Picks of the Week,” LA Weekly, March 15, 2001
- Jana, Reena. “The Displaced Self,” Asian Art News, January/February 2000, pp. 54, 55
- Joo, Eungie. “A profile of three ‘Bay Area Now 2’ artists,” Artweek, January 2000, volume 31, issue 1, pp. 19, 20
- Solnit, Rebecca. “Young Kim/Dispersion,” Creative Camera, London, Oct/Nov 1998, issue 354, p. 38
- Bonetti, David. San Francisco Examiner, August 21, 1998,
- Ehmke, Ronald. “Neither This Nor That,” afterimage review, July/August 1998
- Ehmke, Ronald. “Images of the link between two worlds,” The Buffalo News, Sept. 25, 1997
- Licata, Elizabeth. “Is Anybody Home?” Artvoice, October 15-21, 1997, p. 16
- Gerard, Alice E. “Uncommon Traits: Re/locating Asia,” Buffalo Alternative Press, October 9-23, 1997, p. 10
-O’Sullivan, Shawn. “Coming into the Country,” Critics’ Choice, Daily News, New York, May 17, 1997
- Jana, Reena. “Young Kim at Art Commission Gallery,” Asian Art News, May 1996,p. 85
- Portwood, Pamela. “Photo exhibit crosses cultures,” The Arizona Daily Star, February 2, 1996
- Strickland, Carol. “The Boon and Burden of Uprooting Oneself,” The Christian Science Monitor, January 8, 1996
- Cohn, Terri. “An American Dilemma,”afterimage review, Nov/Dec 1995
- Pincus, Robert L. “Artists turn their focus to concepts of self-identity,” The San Diego Union Tribune, November 26, 1995
- Kahn, Robert. “Tracing Cultures,” Californian Life, San Diego, November 23, 1995
- Patricia Holt. “Immigration's Hardships Made Bearable by Freedom,” San FranciscoChronicle, September 29, 1995
- Bonetti, David. “Photos focus on cultural viewpoints of ‘displacement,’” San Francisco Examiner, September 15, 1995
- Appleford, Steve “Images of Immigration,” Los Angeles Times, September 10, 1995
- Soe, Valerie. “Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures,” Godzilla West, September 1995
- Corn, Alfred. “Across the Pacific,” The Artnews, January 94, p. 168
- Cotter, Holland. “Korean Works Coming to Terms With the West,” The New York Times, December, 10, 1993
- Levin, Kim. “Seoul Searching,” The Village Voice, vol. 38, November 1993, p. 1
WORK PUBLISHED IN BOOKS, CATALOGUES AND PERIODICALS
- Topographies, San Francisco Art Institute and Fellows of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA, 2004,
pp. 2B, 2C, 2I, 3F, 4B, 5K, 5L, (exhibition catalogue)
- Photography: A Cultural History, Mary Warner Marien, Laurence King Publishing LTD, London, 2002, pp. 395, 396, 452
- As Eve Said To The Serpent: On Landscape, Gender, and Art, Rebecca Solnit,
University of Georgia Press, Athens, 2001, p. 13
- The Eureka Fellowship Awards, San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA, 2000, pp. 3, 22, 23, 32, 37 (exhibition catalogue)
- Bay Area Now 2, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, CA, 1999, pp. 7, 36, 37 (exhibition catalogue)
- CEPA Journal, CEPA Gallery, Buffalo, NY, Fall 1997, p. 7 (periodical)
- Invasioon, Center for Contemporary Photography, Tallinn, Estonia, 1997, p. 7 (catalogue)
- Camerawork, Camerawork, San Francisco, CA, Spring/Summer, 1997,
pp. 12, 13, (periodical), “Personal Effects,” by Michael Read
- Who's Afraid of Freedom, Newport Harbor Art Museum, Newport Beach, CA, 1996, pp. 10, 28, 29 (exhibition catalogue)
- See, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, 1995, pp. 16, 70 (periodical)
- Art Monthly, Seoul, Korea, April 1994, p. 105, (periodical), “Searching for Identity in Korean American Art,” by Alice Yang
- Points of Entry: Tracing Cultures, The Friends of Photography, San Francisco, CA, 1995,
pp. 11, 40, 41, 42, 43 (exhibition catalogue)
- Seven Contemporary Korean-American Visual Artists, College of Notre Dame, Belmont, CA, 1994, pp. 2, 5 (exhibition catalogue)
- WESTAF/NEA Regional Fellowships for Visual Arts, Western States Arts Federation, Santa Fe, NM, 1993, pp. 10, 20, 21 (catalogue)
- Across the Pacific: Contemporary Korean and Korean American Art, Queens Museum of Art,
Queens, NY, 1993, pp. 20, 21, 45, 71 (exhibition catalogue)
- American Photography Institute Journal, New York University, New York, NY, 1993, p. 209
- Gana Art, Seoul, Korea, Jan. 1993, pp. 75, 76, 77 (periodical), essay by Mo Bahc
- The San Francisco Bay Guardian,vol. 20, no. 17, 1986, pp. 16, 17 (periodical)