Jena H. Kim 김제나
Lives and works in New York, USA, and Seoul, Korea
Education
1998 BFA; Painting and Drawing, Cooper Union School of Art and Science, New York, NY, USA
Solo and Two-person Exhibitions
2011 Jena H. Kim: The Last Stage, Next Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 Illusive Dimensions: Jena H. Kim and John Il Ma, Tenri Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2010 Jena H. Kim and Hayoung Kim: The First Circle, Next Door Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Notion of Framing, Void Gallery Initiative, Seoul, Korea
2005 Boxes, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
2003 Invented Situations, LMCC-55 Wall/The Regent Wall Street, New York, NY, USA
Group Exhibitions
2013 Turn Inside Out, Next Door Gallery and Project Broom, Seoul, Korea
2012 Infinity of Stories, Gallery Ho, New York, NY, USA
2011 Become We, Gallery 4 Walls, Seoul, Korea
2010 Where to from Here, Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Winter Special: Oddinary Days, PKM Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2009 Three Persons Exhibition, Paik Hae Young Gallery, Seoul, Korea
New York 9 + one, Cais Gallery, Seoul, Korea
For Excellence: The 11 KAFA Awarded Artists, Museum of Art, Seoul National University, Seoul, Korea
2008 Flight of the Mechanical Bumble Bee, WCO Center, New York, NY, USA
2007 Winter 0708, Art Gate Gallery, New York, NY, USA
2006 Starting at the Edge, Mushroom Arts, New York, NY, USA
2005 The Riddle of Style: The Young Overseas Artist Exhibition, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
2004 Vanilla Bomb, Pillow Lavås Collective Exhibition, California Biennial, Orange County Museum of Art Newport Beach, CA, USA
Hung Jury: 15 Contemporary Artists Make Their Mark, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA, USA
1st Han Yongjin Award Four Persons Exhibition, Space World, New York, NY, USA
2003 Weight as Real, The Queens Council on the Arts, Long Island City, NY, USA
2002 Queens International, Queens Museum of Art, Queens, NY, USA
Awards
2007 Smack Mellon Artist Studio Program, New York, NY
2004 8th KAFA (Korea Arts Foundation of America) Award
2004 Graham Foundation's 21st-Century Lakefront Park Competition, 'Recommended Scheme' Award
2004 1st Han Yongjin Art Award sponsored by Segye Times, New York, NY
2004 12th Annual Korean Cultural Center Juried Art Exhibition, New York, NY
Residency/Studio Programs: Paik Hae Young Gallery (2009), The Elizabeth Foundation of the Arts (2009), Studio Program, Smack Mellon (2007)
Art Fairs: Worlds Apart Fair-Singapore (2013), Art Gwangju (2012), T-ART in Taichung (2012), Spoon Art Fair (2012), Doors Art Fair (2011), Art Fair Kyoto (2011), Doors Art Fair (2010), KIAF (2010)
Born in 1973 in Busan, Korea
2000 MFA; Painting and Printmaking, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT, USA