IM Hyun Hee
ARTWORKS
ARTIST'S STATEMENT
One autumn, I got a lodge in the middle of the mountain. Turning over to the changed bed, I come out, and in the forest where nothing can be seen, sounds of loud water are winding all over the place. Imagining a large water stream rising up and down the wooden pillars in a place surrounded by the darkness I have an illusion that my clothes would get wet at any moment. The next day I woke up and come outside, and there was a small creek far away from the lodge. Instead of the loud bangs I heard last night, there is a small stream of water flowing with almost no sound. Where was I standing last night. On the canvas, the image I wanted to deliver may resemble the place of that day. It is a space that is not seen but can be sure that it exists. The image may be the shape of a flash which was passed in an instant when I blinked my eyes or the appearance of a heavy chunk which hides its energy behind a thin clothes laid one over another. Flowing lines of paints erase and cover the foregoing lines, and leave traces. And as the traces gather, unseen and hidden landscape appears.
BIOGRAPHY
EDUCATION
2009 MA Fine art, Chelsea college of art and design London UK
2004 BA Painting and Printmaking, Ewha woman’s universeity Seoul Korea
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2017 Black flowers. UM gallery, Seoul, Korea
2014 HyunHeeIm solo exhibition, Daedam gallery, Damyang, Korea
2014 A thousand flowers, Gallery button, Seoul, Korea
2010 Honey, Im 10Vyner St Gallery, London, UK
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2018 Journey of Mind, artbn, Seoul, Korea
2016 Abstract Spring. Spoon art show, Ilsan, Korea
2015 Shanghai artfair. Shanghai, China
2015 KIAF. Seoul, Korea
2015 Chung-ju international artfair, Chung-ju, Korea
2015 Affordable artfair, Seoul, Korea
2014 Small painting for Christmas, Posco Museum, Seoul, Korea
2014 Report of mantisangsung Our monster, Seoul, Korea
2014 Crescendo, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea
2013 Who draws, Gallery button, Seoul, Korea
2013 Blank, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea
2013 Chulgugion, Seungmi Building, Seoul, Korea
2012 Sweet, 38 Gallery Epoque, Seoul, Korea
2012 Trace of being, Gallery Grimson, Seoul, Korea
2012 Theory of desire, Lina Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 I love dream, Gallery Yedam contemporary, Seoul, Korea
2011 Eutopia, Hanwon Museum, Seoul, Korea
2011 Cutting edge, Seoul auction Holim art center, Seoul, Korea
2011 Here and Now, Grimson gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 5 female artists from Korea, Koningsby Gallery, London, UK
2010 New Normal Life, KIMI, Seoul, Korea
2010 The 5th View finder of Yap, Jung Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2010 4482, Barge house, London, UK
2010 Face me and you Space hole and corner, Seoul, Korea
2009 Gift, 10 Vyner St Gallery, London, UK
2009 Going postal, ICA Gallery, London, UK
2009 Condensation, Bodhi Gallery, London, UK
2009 Collision, Gallery77, London, UK
2009 Distorted, space Waterloo Gallery, London, UK
2007 The 10th Seoul fringe festival Team preview, Seoul, Korea