Meet the Artist

Sophia Kyungwon

Kim

Drawing and Painting

“As a heterosexual feminist full of maternal instinct who is struggling to find my place between the art spirit and patriarchal capitalistic reality, I consider where women can stand when motherhood is forced by society or one's maternal instinct without any alternative. I find the answer in mother nature and convert it into art with inspiration from the unnoticed existences. One tiny leaf that barely bloomed from a dying tree, stumps, and fungi bloomed beautifully on the ground or the tree barks. All organisms in nature inspire me as infinite beings, which gives me the power to live by showing how to do their best to the life that seems to have stopped.I paint the images representationally but also recreate them through interpretation, focusing on the movement of my hands and enjoying intuitive decisions while working. The spontaneous variations created by the physical properties of paints and brushes help me transform the objects in the images into living subjects, which make the moment that I work as an artist shine.”

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2002 Korea National Police University Bachelor's Degree in Public Administration2002-2013 Served in Korea National Police2013 Stay-at-home mother of three children2021. 07- Selected OCAD U Featured Artist at Partial Gallery2022 OCAD University Bachelor's Degree of Fine Arts (Drawing and Painting) with Distinction
OCAD U - Faculty of Art
Drawing and Painting
Major Completed, 2022
OCAD U - Faculty of Design
Minor Completed, 2022
Korea National Police University
Public Administration
Major Completed, 2002

Oli Painting Drawing Brush Strokes Gesture Drawing

2021, Looking Out While Looking In
OCAD University & Southern University New York - Virtual
2021, Gestures
Twist Gallery - Toronto, Canada
2020, Art in the time of Coronavirus - from the Drawing and Painting program at OCAD U
Virtual-Toronto, Canada
2019, Unknowable Unknowing - OCAD University & Toronto Biennial of Art
Toronto, Canada
2019, OCAD University First Year Self Portraits
Ada Slaight Galleries - Toronto, Canada
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