Cecilia Kim

Cecilia Kim is a video artist living in Indiana, United States. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim has also lived in Australia, England, and Singapore. Kim’s artistic practice sources from connections with close friends and family, through shared conversations and labor. As a Korean woman reclaiming her origins beneath her transnational identity, her work is a constant search for home and places of belonging. Kim’s video work blurs the boundaries between the real and imagined, combining documented and constructed imagery. Language is a significant part of the work through written and spoken text. The intimate narratives map emotions and the passage of time on a deeply personal scale.

Kim was a Hamiltonian Artists Fellow, WPA Wherewithal Grantee, and Trawick Prize recipient. Her work has been shown in the Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington Biennial; The Immigrant Artist Biennial; The Kreeger Museum, DC.; and Pluripotent Art Space, Korea. She has been a resident at Banff Centre for Arts and Creativity, Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and KH Messen. Kim received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.

Bio courtesy of the artist.