Mi-Hyun KIM
Introduction
Mi-Hyun Kim was born in 1962 in Seoul, South Korea.
She has been living and working in Paris since 1985, the year she moved to France to studying film semiotics. In 1990, she produced her first short-film and graduated from Paris III University with a master's degree in cinematography.
She discovered photography, and it became a new way to narrate her stories. She studied this subject at the EFET Paris School and then pursued with master courses of science of photography at Paris VIII University.
In 1993, she joined the Métis Agency and took part in the Photographic Mission of the Conseil Général de Seine Saint-Denis which theme was architecture. For this event, she produced her first Polaroid print transfer on aquarelle paper.
Mi-Hyun Kim is working on still life variations with sophistication. Fruits, flowers, common objects adorn a lyrical emphasis in her photographs. She knows how to give us a sensitive emotion able to translate fragrance and taste from each item.
She knows how to enshroud each item with a subtle sweetness that animate them in a way, conveying sometimes odours, sometimes tangible sensations, and always demanding an almost physical attachment to her universe.
The relevance of her approach of inanimate objects is echoed in her documentary images. A hugging couple, glimpsed in a distance, seem to come off the pages of a book, and this lonely drinker took refuge and seems to be appeased in the photographer's universe. The power of her images resides in the fact the subject seems to settle himself in it; she never forces her regard to the world but welcomes it affectionately.
Biography
Solo exhibitions
2014
- Au Seuil?, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2013
- Au seuil de l'amour, L'appartement, Paris, France
2011
- Les Journées Particulières LVMH, Dom Pérignon, Hautvillers, Abbey, France
2009
- Huang Shan, les montagnes sacrées, Philippe Chaume Gallery, Paris, France
2000
- Dom Pérignon, Imperial Garden, The Palace Hotel Beijing, Beijing, China
- Dom Pérignon, Xintiandi Gallery. Shanghai, China
1999
- Nature Morte, L?abattoir, Chalon-sur-Saône, France
- Dom Pérignon, Rodin Museum, Paris, France
- Dom Pérignon, Shilla Hotel, Seoul, South Korea
1997
- Café, La Grande Epicerie, Au Bon Marché, Paris, France
- Nature Morte, Samsung Photogallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Nature Morte, Studio Rouchon, Paris, France
1994
- Nature Morte, Korean Cultural Center, Paris, France
1992
- Transparence, L'appartement, Chatillon, France
Group exhibitions
2014
- La tête dans les nuages, Montparnasse Museum, Paris, France
2013
- Art Busan, with baudoin lebon, Busan, South Korea
2012
- Art Paris Art Fair, with baudoin lebon, Grand Palais, Paris, France
- Art O'Clock, with baudoin lebon, La Défense, Paris, France
- Photo off 2012, La Bellevilloise, with baudoin lebon, Paris, France
- Une collection, La Galerie du Théâtre, Gap, France
- Journée Nomades, baudoin lebon, Paris, France
2011
- Documents TERRE, House of Culture of Amiens, France
2010
- 14e Festival des Chroniques Nomades, Honfleur, France
- Néo-Graphie, Art Contemporain Coréen, International city of Arts, Paris, France
2009
- Ulsan International Photography Festival, Ulsan, South Korea
- Art Paris Art Fair, with Philippe Chaume Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2008
- Paris Photo, with Philippe Chaume Gallery, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
- Beyond the Iconic : Contemporary photographs of Paris, Los Angeles Public Library, Central Branch, Getty Gallery, Los Angeles, USA
- Art Paris Art Fair, with Philippe Chaume Gallery, Grand Palais, Paris, France
2007
- L''eau, origine de la vie, for BMW Hydrogène, Paris Photo, Carrousel du Louvre, Paris, France
2006
- De la pub comme d'un Art, Festival Nicéphore + 166, Cultural center Georges Brassens, Clermont-Ferrand, France
- KIAF (Korea International Art Fair), with Lumière Gallery, Seoul, South Korea
2005
- Trois photographes Coréens, La Galerie du Théâtre, Gap, France
2004
- 10 years of photographics missions in Seine-Saint-Denis Paris 8 University, Forum Culturel, Blanc-Mesnil, France
2001
- Bars Ambulants à Séoul, Festival of Photography, Biarritz, France
2000
- Des Européens à Paris, Mois de la Photo, Hôtel de ville, Paris, France
- Dom Pérignon, Mois de la Photo, Hôtel Scribe, Paris, France
- Restaurant Alain Ducasse, New York, USA
1997
- Images Sensibles, Fnac Etoile, Paris, France
- Exhibition and auction of photographies for the Secours Populaire Français
- La Lune dans tous ses états, The Focale Gallery, Angers, France
1996
- France, New Visions, Aperture's Burden Gallery, New York, USA
- Photography, New Visions, National Museum of Contemporary Art, South Korea
- Nature Morte, The Focale Gallery, Angers, France
- Métis, Eleven Contemporary French Photographers, The Transco Tower Gallery - East Gallery, Houston, USA
- Architectures, 10 jeunes photographes de Paris 8, Espace Renaudie, Aubervilliers, France
1995
- Les Sciences pour l'Ingénieur au CNRS, par les photographes de Métis, Fnac Forum and Fnac Micro, Paris, France
- Quatre murs, une fenêtre, Public Library of Informations (BPI) of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Métis, Eleven Contemporary French Photographers, SF Camerawork, San Francisco, USA
- Architectures, Médiathèque de l'Espace Michel Simon, Noisy-le-Grand, France
1994
- Paris la nuit, les photographes de Métis, Mois de la Photo, Carnavalet Museum, Paris, France
- Le Monde Végétal d'un oeil à l'Autre, Rouchon Studio, Paris, France
- Regards, Architectures, Department hotel, Bobigny, France
public collections
- National Museum of Contemporary Art, Seoul, South Korea
- Carnavalet Museum, Paris, France
- Public Library of Informations (BPI) of Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France
- Conseil Général de Seine Saint-Denis, France
- Samsung Photogallery, Seoul, South Korea
- Galerie du Théâtre, Gap, France
- Dom Pérignon Collection, LVMH Foundation
- BMW Collection
- Alain Ducasse, New York, USA
Exhibitions
gallery exhibition
LEAVES OF GRASS
