Joon Kim
Seoul, 1966

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Kim Joon: 'I am interested in tattoo as a metaphor for hidden desire or a kind of compulsion engraved into human consciousness... I see the skin, or in some cases the monitor, as an extension of a canvas. Tattoos can reflect individual and collective reality or displaced desire.'

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Education
Hongik University, College of Fine Arts, Seoul (MFA, BFA)

Solo exhibitions (selection)
2008 Bird Land, Sabina Lee Gallery, LA
2008 Kim Joon, Box Art Gallery, Verona
2008 Duet et Party, Galeriebertin, Paris/ Miami
2007 Stay, Space 355, Tokyo
2007 Party, Gallery Touchart, Heiri Art Valley, Paju
2006 Duets, Canvas International Art, Amstelveen
2005 Tattoo you, Walsh Gallery, Chicago, Savina Museum,Seoul
2003 Sauna Bell, Ilju Art house. Seoul
2000 Make me smile, Gallery Wooduck, Seoul
1999 Fire, Total Museum of Art, Seoul

Group exhibitions (selection)
2010 Canvas International Art at PAN Amsterdam 2010
2010 Summer Now, Canvas International Art, Amsterdam
2010 Canvas International Art, Art Amsterdam 2010
2009 Moon Generation, Saatchi Gallery, London
2009 Peperoni Syndrome, Gallery Mac, Boesan, Korea
2009 Language of Body, Gallery Touchart, Heiri Art Valley, Paju
2009 From Yeonhui-dong, YHD Projects, Seoul
2009 Canvas International Art, Pan Amsterdam 2009
2009 Reading Photograph, Feeling Photograph, Seoul Museum of Art, South Annex, Seoul
2008 First Step: New Art from Korea, Art Seasons Gallery, Singapore
2008 Pop & Pop, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, Korea
2008 Border of Virtuality, Han Jiyeon Contemporary Space, Beijing
2008 Photo...photo?, Sun Contemporary, Seoul
2008 Canvas International Art, Pan Amsterdam 2008
2008 Being Now, Gallery Soheon, Daegu, Korea
2008 World-Beaters, Gallery Soheon, Daegu
2007 Asian Art Biennial, National Taiwan Museum, Taiwan
2007 OCULTOS, Fundacion Canal, Madrid
2007 Field of Life, California State University, Sacramento
2007 New Asian Waves, ZKM/Museum of Contemporary art, Karlsruhe
2007 Text in Body Space, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2007 Giant in Illusion, Sejong Arts Center, Seoul
2006 Now Korea, Canvas International Art, Amstelveen
2005 Asia, the place to be, Alexander Ochs Galleries, Berlijn
2005 Artforum Berlin, Toronto International Art Fair
2004 INKED, Walsh Gallery, Chicago
2003 Exhibition of Korean Artists of Seoul in France, Galeries Artitude, Paris
2000 Scar, Kwangyu Biennale