Yongjae Kim
Works
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Nocturne, 2024
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Awakening , 2023
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Classon Ave, 2023
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Outdoor Lunch, 2024
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Shining , 2020
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Visitor I, 2023
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Visitor II, 2023
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Visitor III, 2023
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Visitor IV, 2023
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Waiting III, 2023
Overview
Sunday, 2024
A little about the artist — Yongjae Kim is a Brooklyn-based artist, originally from South Korea. He works in representational painting that depicts ordinary spaces and urban places, evoking a sense of solitude, desolation and melancholy.
Kim earned his B.F.A. from Seoul National University in 2011 and his M.F.A. from Pratt Institute in Brooklyn in 2014. He is a recipient of NYSCA/NYFA Fellowship (2021), the Best Color Work Award from Korea Society of Color Studies at the 2014 International Invitation Exhibition of Color Works in Korea, and the First Place Award at international art exhibition "city" of Art Room gallery in 2018. He also received a Certificate of Appreciation from the Manhattan Borough President for his exhibition Flâneur in New York in 2019, and He attended Joshua Tree Highland Artists Residency Program in 2013. Kim is Currently a member artist of the Elizabeth Foundation for the Arts Studio Program in New York.
His works have been exhibited at various venues such as Volta NY 2017, New York City; Sotheby's Institute of Art, New York City; George Billis Gallery, New York City; Muriel Guépin Gallery, New York City; Porter Contemporary, Brooklyn, NY; BRIC, Brooklyn, NY; Galerie Mokum, Amsterdam, Netherland; Dubner Moderne, Lausanne, Switzerland and Attleboro Arts Museum, Attleboro, RI.
Artist Statement:
“Inspired by ordinary surroundings and psychological flow, my paintings represent mundane places intertwined with the subtle workings of the unseen world. The intimate places in my paintings reflect the environments and situations around me. Using resin-based oil colors and multiple photographic references, I transfer memory fragments onto wood panel or canvas with elaborate detail, as if documenting the sites.
I compose each image through study drawings to conceive a story that is not overtly revealed on the surface, yet imagined through the settings — an illuminated, exaggerated sky; an overall muted tone and mood; the contrast between broad backgrounds and subjects; flat façades like theatrical sets; traces of someone; and the relationships among subject matter, portraying their state and the situation they are in.
The subject matter is shown in an unstable, incomplete condition. Their inner and outer deficiencies, paired with an inherent sense of solitude and emptiness, evoke existential melancholy. Yet, in the implied context, what they long for is imagined and awaited — just beyond the surface.”
Exhibitions
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CAN Ibiza Art Fair (Contemporary Art Now)
Booth #: C3 25 - 29 Jun 2025The 4th edition of Contemporary Art Now already has a date: from June 25 to 29, 2025 , the FECOEV fairgrounds in Ibiza will once again become the epicenter of...Read more -
In Bloom
17 Jun - 31 Aug 2025532 Gallery Jaeckel presents In Bloom , a group exhibition featuring Ian Hughes, Sinéad Ní Mhaonaigh, Yongjae Kim, Paco Marcial, Christine Nguyen, John Alexander Parks, Jean-Guerly Pétion, Lily Prince, Danielle...Read more -
Voices and Visions
9 Nov 2023 - 20 Jan 2024532 Gallery Thomas Jaeckel presents "Voices and Visions: Four Contemporary Artists," a new exhibit of previously unseen work by four vibrant new artists.Read more
"Voices and Visions" features paintings and sculptures from Jackson Hill, Yongjae Kim, Stuart Lantry, and Jonathan MacGregor. What unites their disparate visual styles and media is a keen sense of how personal identity intersects with the act of expression. In each of these works the perceptional qualities of "vision" merge with the inner narrative of "voice" in a graceful pas de deux of creativity and form, line and plane, essence and act.
"Voices and Visions" runs from November 9, 2023, to January 20, 2024.
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