mihyun maria kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, researching (un)translatable affects shaped by languages entangled with unresolved historical grief and transmissions of longing. Exhaustion of the body, repetition of movement, fragments of hi/stories, and suspended feelings are explored between memory and imagination across space and time. Through relational methodology, her multivocal outcomes take in/visible form in poetry, painting, performance/activations, audio/video, site-specific installation, community-based round tables and public art.
CURRICULUM VITAE
EDUCATION
MFA Integrated Art Media and Design, Program Medal & President's Award Recipient, OCAD University, Toronto
BFA Drawing and Painting, OCAD University, Toronto
RESIDENCIES & FELLOWSHIPS
2025 Fonderie Darling, Open Access International Residency, Montréal, Quebec
2024 GlogauAIR, Berlin, Germany
2024 Villa Villekulla, Faucogney-et-la-Mer, France
2022-23 RBC Emerging Artist Network, The Power Plant Contemporary Art Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2022 La Napoule Art Foundation, Canadian Artists in Residence, Mandelieu-la-Napoule, France
2022 Gladstone House, Toronto, Ontario
2022 OCADU X Artscape Launchpad on Waterfront, Toronto, Ontario
2020. MODS Manual Writing Lab, co-creator and participant, ZOOM
2020 AKIN X Collision Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2020 MODS Virtual Lab, co-creator and participant, ZOOM
2020 Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas X guion bajo, invited observer for REMOTE pilot project, ZOOM
2019-20 Mississauga Living Arts Centre, Mississauga, Ontario
2018-19 PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program, Leipzig, Germany
2018 AIRGentum, Seville, Spain
2017 Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (CAMAC), Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2015, 2017-18 Can Serrat Centro de Actividades Artisticas, El Bruc, Barcelona, Spain
EXHIBITIONS ALONE
2025 [TBA], Chester Art Centre, Nova Scotia
2024 Translations of Han, Gallery@501, Sherwood Park, Alberta
2024 Residual Han, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2023 한숨 Brea[d]th of Han, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2023 Measure of Han, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2022 Tea Cups for a Cuppa Tea, Gibson House Museum, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Single Out, Collision Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2019 im Schatten (in the Shadow), S1 Vinyl & Kaffee, Leipzig, Germany
2019 Sin Rostro (Faceless), La Figurativa espacio para el arte Art Gallery, Seville, Spain
EXHIBITIONS AMONGST OTHERS
2025 [TBA], Workers Arts & Heritage Centre, Hamilton, Ontario
2025 Illud Tempus, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2024 A Felling of A Feeling, Curated by Avalon Mott, The Plumb, Toronto, Ontario
2024 PATINAPATINA, Curated by Dan Cui and Maham Momin, CAFETERIA, Toronto, Ontario
2024 Lâcher les Mouches, Villa Villekulla, Faucogney-et-la-Mer, France
2023 Finalists of The Kingston Prize Competition for Contemporary Canadian Portraiture, Firehall Theatre, Gananoque, Ontario
2022 Process, Curated by Avalon Mott, OCAD University Graduate Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2022 Circularity of (un)knowing, Mayten's Project Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2020 AKIN COLLECTIVE, Collision Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2020 42nd Annual Juried Show, VAM (Visual Arts Mississauga), Art Gallery of Mississauga, Ontario
2019 34th Scarborough Arts' Juried Exhibition: INTROSPECTION, Cedar Ridge Creative Centre, Scarborough, Ontario
2019 A und V, Din A [>], Leipzig, Germany
2019 V O C A B, Annual Lindenow Festival, Westapotheke Künstlerkollectiv, Leipzig, Germany
2019 The Body Language, Palazzo Ca'Zanardi, Venice, Italy
2018 Spoor, Pilotenkueche, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Speech Bubble, Alte Handelsschule, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Rutschbahn, Projektwohnung Krudebude, Leipzig, Germany
2018 I accept the cookies, Curated by Viviane Tabach, Kustraum Ping Pong, Leipzig, Germany
2018 Drummer Boy, Angram Gallery, Barcelona, Spain
2017 La Terre vue de la Terre, Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (CAMAC), Marnay-sur-Seine, France
2015 Distinguished Artists of Queen West Art Crawl Group Show, Artscape Youngplace, Toronto, Ontario
2009 48th Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition (TOAE), Nathan Philips Square, Toronto, Ontario
2009 RETROspective, Great Hall, OCAD University, Toronto, Ontario
2007 Insure, Ben Navaee Gallery, Toronto, Ontario
2004 Imprints, Transit Space, Ontario College of Art & Design, Toronto, Ontario
2003, Identity, Consulate of South Korea, Toronto, Ontario
2002 One Voice, Christie Korean Cultural Centre, Toronto, Ontario
2002 Image, KOSTA, Curated by Genesis, Trent University Gallery, Peterborough, Ontario
PUBLIC ART
2022 Multisensory Moments: Los Carpinteros La Montaña Rusa, video, Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Ontario
2020 Maps of Mississauga, video commissioned by City of Mississauga, Mississauga, Ontario
2020 Remembering Four Sisters, mural commissioned by Lakeview Village X Artscape Atelier Sunflower Project, Mississauga, Ontario
2005 Rise Up, Educandario São Vicente de Paulo, mural for orphanage, São Paulo, Brazil
2005 Swim, mural for health centre, Itarare, São Paulo, Brazil
2004 Map, mural for Massai gathering place, Maisikiria, Rift Valley, Kenya
2002 Wave, mural for orphanage, Ulaanbaatar, Mongolia
GRANTS, BURSARIES, AWARDS
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Abroad, Residencies Grant
2024 Canada Council for the Arts, Arts Across Canada, Travel Grant
2023-24 Long List, OCADU Teaching Awards, Faculty of Art
2023 Finalist, The Kingston Prize Competition for Contemporary Canadian Portraiture
2023 Ontario Arts Council, Exhibition Assistance Grant
2023 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create--Research and Creation Grant
2023 Charles Pachter Bursary
2022 Fondation David R. Graham X Fondation de France, Canada-France Cultural Exchange Grant, for La Napoule Residency
2022 Canada Council for the Arts, Explore and Create--Concept to Realization Grant
2022 Ralph M. Barford Foundation, Barford Family Bursary
2021-22 Toronto Art Council, Animating Historic Sites Grant, for Gibson House Museum
2021-22 Partial Gallery X OCADU Career Launcher Award
2015 Award of Distinction, Queen West Art Crawl
PRESS
2024 Reflect and renew this fall at Gallery@501, Strathcona County
2024 깨어진 한의 항아리, 손정숙 [Son Jeong-Suk], The Korea Times Daily
2024 Plenty on off for Culture Days, Theodora MacLeod, The Sherwood Park News
2024 residual han - guest artist mihyun maria kim, blogTO
2023 Kingston Prize Art Exhibition announce Toronto Artist as winner, Met Radio
2022 (UN)FAMILIAR RESEMBLANCES: CIRCULARITY OF (UN)KNOWING, Dana Snow, Femme Art Review
2021 Exploring Asian Heritage Through Art: Korean-Canadian Artist mihyun maria kim on transgenerational trauma, SHEDOESTHECITY
2020 Remembering Four Sisters, Lakeview Village
2020 Collision Artist Spotlight: maria kim, AKIN Collective
2020 Resident Artist Spotlight: mihyun maria kim, Mississauga Living Arts Centre
2018 Artist Spotlight: mihyun maria kim, Interview by Viviane Tabach, PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program
2017 PROFILE MARIA KIM by MARIETA FIGUERAS, Interview by Maria Figueras Bonachi
2015 Maria Kim, Queen West Art Crawl
2005 Porto, Hélio. Dr. Edebrando Dias. Medico do PSF--Novo Horizonte e o Grupo de universitarios de Coreia. A Minuscula, Itarare, Sāo Paulo, 24-30 August 2005, p.13.
WRITING & PUBLICATIONS
Carried. PATINAPATINA Issue 01. Edited by Dan Cui. Toronto, Patinapatina, 2024, p.60-73. Book.
The Measure of Han. Toronto, OCAD University Open Research Repository, May 2023
Artist Spotlight: Roman Bicek. Leipzig, PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program, 4 March 2019
Artist Spotlight: Ludmila Hrachovinova. Leipzig, PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program, 2 March 2019
Artist Spotlight: Ece Canguden. Leipzig, PILOTENKUECHE International Art Program, 3 February 2019