Halo Nevus
Sooun Kim 김수언 (b. 1989 South Korea) is a multidisciplinary visual artist based in Glasgow working with music, video, and painting.
In the exhibition Echoes, Kim’s visual language is seen in his paintings and beautifully crafted films. Drawn from an image bank relating to popular culture and personal narratives, Kim offers a reflection on his past and present relationship to his home town of Jeju, and Scotland, the country where he now lives and works.
Kim is a recent MFA graduate from The Glasgow School of Art, and a recipient of the Nottingham Trent University Exchange Programme, School of Art & Design. He received a BFA in Painting, Chung-Ang University, Seoul, KR
Solo exhibitions: WASPS Award, The Briggait, Glasgow, UK (Upcoming); Bank Commissions, Outer Spaces, Glasgow, UK (2025); Glasgow International Festival, Glasgow, UK (2024); Echoes, Patricia Fleming Gallery, Glasgow, UK (2024); Ramifying Frost (Supported by Creative Scotland), Goethe-Institut, Glasgow, UK (2023). Two-person and group exhibitions include: 198th RSA Annual Exhibition, The Royal Scottish Academy, Edinburgh, UK (2024); Begin Again, the Korean Embassy Cultural Centre in London, and Berlin, UK and Germany (2022); Rencontres Internationales Paris/Berlin 2022, Berlin, Germany (2022); Happy Tide Will Flood Again, 5 Florence St, Glasgow, UK (2022); NOWNESS Experiments: Yellow Fever, NOWNESS ASIA, Hong Kong (2022); Art Lovers Movie Club: Born Beneath, ArtReview (2022); CCA Annex: Unmuted Cave, Online, Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Glasgow, UK (2022); Fringe Arts Bath Festival, 44AD Artspace, Bath, UK (2021); The Auto-Buzz of Hybrid Kim and Rabbit, Intermedia Gallery of Centre for Contemporary Art, CCA, Glasgow, UK (2021); NOTION-MOTION, The Factory, London, UK (2021); Carapelli for Art 2021, Online, Florence, Italy (2021); Ingram Prize 2020 Finalist Show, Online, Smartify app, London, UK (2020); CIRCA Class of 2020, Piccadilly Lights in Piccadilly Circus, London, UK (2020); Aesthetica Short Film Festival, King's Manor, Friargate Theater, York, UK (2020); Bless Your Heart (Performance Featuring), Embassy Gallery, Edinburgh, UK (2019).
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