Meet the Artist
Nicole Ji Soo
Kim
Interdisciplinary
“Sometimes through exaggerated performances of day to day activities, sometimes through interventions in familiar spaces, I investigate what is bland and dull; what is boring; ennui; what is nothing; and emptiness. I carry an interdisciplinary practice to provoke something deeper in my mundane, perhaps ordinary life. In investigating my everyday, I also investigate my identity, culture and an obsessive desire to find home and comfort in the space that I occupy.”
Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an emerging interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, ON. Her art education began at School of the Arts Institute of Chicago and has completed her BFA at OCAD University in 2020. She has shown in group shows since 2018 in venues such as Xpace, Beaver Hall Gallery and OCADU as well as various online platforms. In 2018 she was published in the Six Hundred Winter Issue V.2. Nicole Ji Soo is currently showcasing the process of her work 'Typing the Oxford English Dictionary from Z-A backwards' as part of Roundtable Residency 2020.
School of the Arts Institute of Chicago
Painting and Drawing
Major Transferred
conceptual art making lists drawing
2020, Social Distance Gallery
Instagram Platform
2020, GradEx Fundraiser
OCAD University Great Hall, Toronto, ON
2020, QuaranTonics
Instagram Platform
2019, Ada Slaight Studios Celebration
OCAD University Room 490
2019, I Blink my Eyes to Keep the Time
Beaver Hall Gallery, Toronto, ON.
2019, Passing (A Public Intervention)
NE Corner of Yonge and Dundas Square, Toronto, ON
2019, Look Inside
OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2019, Painting in the Expanded Field
OCAD University 4th Floor Red Staircase
2018, Expedition Elsewhere (Collaboration with Sonia Beckwith-Cole)
Xpace Cultural Centre, Toronto, ON.
2014, Creative Honors Scholarship
SAIC
