Draft:Sung Hwan Kim 2

Sung Hwan Kim (born 1975 in Seoul, Korea) is a contemporary artist working across video, performance, installation, drawing, sound, writing, and publishing. He is also a producer, and educator. Since 2019, he has been based in Hawaiʻi, where he has developed A Record of Drifting Across the Sea (2017–), an ongoing film and installation series examining histories of Korean migration to Hawaiʻi and their intersections with Indigenous and migrant communities.^[1]

Kim's work has been the subject of monographic and critical studies, including Janine Armin's Sung Hwan Kim: A Record of Drifting Across the Sea (2025)^[2], and has been discussed in publications such as Artforum ^[3][4][5], Frieze^[6][7][8], ArtAsiaPacific^[9][10], and Afterall^[11]. His mid-career survey was presented at the Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven (2023–24)^[12], and ZKM | Center for Art and Media Karlsruhe (2024–25)^[13], and is scheduled to travel to Bergen Kunsthall in 2026. His work has been exhibited at the Museum of Modern Art, New York^[14], Tate Modern^[15], the Seoul Museum of Art^[16], the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, daadgalerie, and international exhibitions including the Venice Biennale^[17], Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale, and Hawaiʻi Triennial^[18].

Kim received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2021^[19] and participated in the DAAD Artists-in-Berlin Program in 2015^[20]. He also received the Karl Sczuka Förderpreis (2010)^[21], Prix de Rome (second prize, 2007), and the Hermès Korea Missulsang (2007).

References

Monograph

• Sung Hwan Kim. Protected by roof and right-hand muscles. Cologne: Verlag der Buchhandlung Walther König; Van Abbemuseum, Eindhoven; ZKM, Karlsruhe; Bergen Kunsthalle, 2025. ISBN 978‑3‑7533‑0705‑3.

• Talk or Sing. text by Binna Choi, dogr, Stephen Greenblatt, Sung Hwan Kim, Gregg Smith, Catherine Wood. Seoul: SAMUSO Space for Contemporary Art, 2014. ISBN 978‑89‑93535‑28‑0. Distributed by Art Sonje Center.

• 말 아님 노래. 서울: 사무소, 현실문화연구, 2014. ISBN 978‑89‑6564‑107‑0. 배포: 아트선재센터

• Sung Hwan Kim: Source Book 6. Edited by Sung Hwan Kim, Eva Huttenlauch, Nicolaus Schafhausen, and Monika Szewczyk. Rotterdam: Witte de With Center for Contemporary Art (now Kunstinstituut Melly), 2009. ISBN 978‑90‑73362‑86‑4.

Other Publications

• Kim, Sung Hwan. Ua a‘o ‘ia ‘o ia e ia 우아 아오 이아 오 이아 에 이아. Seoul: Seoul Museum of Art(SeMA) and Rasun Press, 2025. ISBN 979‑11‑980575‑4‑9.

• Kim, Sung Hwan. Hair is a piece of head. 13th Gwangju Biennale – GB Commission, Gwangju Biennale Foundation, 2021.

• Kim, Sung Hwan. Ki‑Da Rilke. Berlin: Sternberg Press; Basel: Kunsthalle Basel, 2011. ISBN 978‑1‑934105‑51‑1.

• Kim, Sung Hwan. When Things Are Done Again. Edited by Markéta Strnadová. Prague: tranzit.cz, 2010. English edition. ISBN 978‑80‑8725. Distributed by Tranzit Bookstore.

Bibliography

• Armin, Janine. “Sung Hwan Kim: A Record of Drifting Across the Sea,” One Work Series. London: Afterall Books, distributed by The MIT Press, 2025.
• 재닌 아민. 김성환: 표해록. 한진이, 마야 웨스트 옮김. 서울: 현실문화A, 2025.
• 김민관. "김성환 개인전, 《Ua a‘o ‘ia ‘o ia e ia 우아 아오 이아 오 이아 에 이아》: 불탄 것들을 향한 아카이브 충동과 역사적 얼룩들," 아트신 Art Scene Webzine, Nov. 4, 2025.
• Barcena, Bryan. “NO ALOHA: At the Fourth Hawaiʻi Triennial,” review, Artforum, Mar. 24, 2025.
• Lee, Daehyung. “Sung Hwan Kim’ s solo exhibition traces Korean immigration narratives,” review, stir, Feb. 05, 2025.

• Wetzel, Marie-Dominique. “Zwischen Klatsch und Weltgeschichte – Der koreanische Künstler Sung Hwan Kim.” SWR, November 26, 2024.

• Schmitz, Rudolf. “Sung Hwan Kim – ZKM in Karlsruhe zeigt bisher größte Einzelausstellung in Europa.” Deutschlandfunk Kultur, November 24, 2024.

• Armin, Janine. “Body Double: Sung Hwan Kim’s A Record of Drifting Across the Sea.” Afterall Journal, no. 57 (September 2024): 150–169.
• Kim, Minsun. "Merging boundaries: Sung Hwan Kim at the Van Abbemuseum," review, metropolis M, Mar. 6, 2024.

• ter Borg, Lucette. “Als je over zee gaat verandert alles.” NRC, January 11, 2024.

• Bruinen, Marsha. “Al blijven de beelden ongrijpbaar, als kijker vóél je dat er iets op het spel staat.” De Volkskrant, January 5, 2024.

• Zhang, Lisa Yin. "Top 10 Shows from Across the World in 2022," review, Frieze, Dec. 20, 2022.

• Park, Haeyun. "Sung Hwan Kim at Barakat Contemporary," Critics' Picks, Artforum International, Oct. 30, 2022.

• Chung, Hayoung. "The Best Shows to See in Seoul Right Now," review, Frieze, Aug. 23, 2022.

• Choi, Harry C. H., "Night Crazing: Songs for the Unseen," exhibition text, Barakat Contemporary, 2022.

• Broderick, Drew Kahu‘āina. "Sung Hwan Kim in musical collaboration with David Michael DiGregorio," Hawaiʻi Triennial 2022, catalogue, 2022, 94–95.

• 전민선. "진동하는 경계," 월간미술 (2021년 9월), 110–115. 뉴욕현대미술관(MoMA) 김성환 개인전 리뷰.

• Chung, Hayoung. "Highlights from the Gwangju Biennale," review, Frieze, May 10, 2021

• Chung, Yeon Shim and Kim, Sunjung, et al. “Korean Art From 1953: Collision, Innovation, Interaction,” London: PHAIDON, 2020, 310–312

• Benthien, Claudia, et al. "Works of Literature in Media Art," The Literariness of Media Art, Taylor & Francis, 2019, 208–210
• 강수정. “광장 2부, 한국미술과 사회 1950–2019: 만성적 역사 해석 증후군을 반대하며 – 가뭄 빛 바다.” In 광장: 미술과 사회 1900–2019, exhibition catalogue, 202–203. Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2019.
• Beyn, Ariane. "And who has not dreamed of violence? و منو الما حلم بعنف؟," exhibition text, daadgalerie, 2018
• Wahjudi, Claudia. "Gewalt der Straße," Der Tagesspiegel, Jan. 31, 2018

• Bae, Myungji (배명지). “Reenacting History: Collective Actions and Everyday Gestures” (“역사를 몸으로 쓰다”). In National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea. Exhibition catalogue, 14–19. Seoul: National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, 2017.

• The 57th Venice Biennale. Exhibition catalogue, 160–163. Venice: La Biennale di Venezia, 2017.

• Bang, Hye Jin (방혜진). “Flat Surface, Apparatus of Inefficiency: SUNG HWAN KIM and a Lady from the Sea—12 Minutes, Green Lotte, Flat White Rough Cut” (“납작한 표면, 비효율성의 장치: 김성환과 레이디 프롬 더 씨—12 minutes, Green Lotte, Flat White Rough Cut”). In Emerging Other. Exhibition catalogue, 65–68. Seoul: Arko Art Center, 2016.

• Poli, Francesco, and Francesco Bernardelli. “I musei d’arte contemporanea.” In Mettere in scena l’arte contemporanea, 231. Milan: Johan & Levi Editore, 2016.

• Choi, Binna (최빛나). “FRUITS OF EFFORT” (“노력의 대가”). Asia Culture Center Theater 2015 Opening Festival Review (“국립아시아문화전당 예술극장 2015 개관 페스티벌 리뷰”), 92–97. Gwangju: Asia Culture Center, 2016.

• Finbow, Acatia. “Sung Hwan Kim: Dog Video 2006, From the Commanding Height… 2007, Washing Brain and Corn 2010, Temper Clay 2012.” Case study in Performance at Tate: Into the Space of Art. London: Tate Research Publication, June 2016.

• Rajgopal, Ambika. "Drawing From a Play: Sung Hwan Kim," ArtAsiaPacific, 2016
• Han, Joo. “Life of Always a Mirror: Sung Hwan Kim.” ArtAsiaPacific, web exclusive, 2014.
• 방혜진. “분산과 분신의 축조술.” Art in Culture, December 2014, 76–79.
• 김민관. “김성환 <늘 거울 생활> '적확한, 한정적 문맥의 교신'.” ARTSCENE, October 1, 2014.

• Choi, Binna. “Unhurried Efforts, Rehearsing Death.” In Talk or Sing, 85–107. Seoul: Samuso, 2014.
• Wood, Catherine. “Sung Hwan Kim, Temper Clay.” In Talk or Sing, 7–23. Seoul: Samuso, 2014.
• Jeppesen, Travis. “Openings: Sung Hwan Kim.” Artforum 51, no. 7 (March 2013): 262–263.

• Warner, Nicholas. “Sung Hwan Kim: Tate Modern London 18 July to 28 October.” Art Monthly 360 (October 2012): 36.

• McLean-Ferris, Laura. “Taking a Story for a Walk: Sung Hwan Kim in The Tanks.” Tate Etc., no. 25, Summer 2012, May 12, 2012, 10–11.
• Noble, Kathy. “New Commission: Sung Hwan Kim.” The Tanks Programme Notes, The Tanks at Tate Modern: Fifteen Weeks of Art in Action, July 18–October 28, 2012.

• O’Neill-Butler, Lauren. “Sung Hwan Kim: From the Commanding Heights…” Review. X-Tra Contemporary Art Quarterly 14, no. 3 (Spring 2012).
• Perry, Colin. “Sung Hwan Kim.” Frieze Magazine, no. 141 (September 2011): 208.
• Rawlings, Ashley. “Some Comfort: Sung Hwan Kim.” ArtAsiaPacific, no. 73 (May/June 2011): 106–113.
• Amberg, Annette, and Kim, Sung Hwan. Kunsthalle Basel, exhibition catalogue, 2011.
• Harris, Larissa. Notes by Larissa Harris: Sung Hwan Kim, exhibition catalogue, Queens Museum, 2011.
• Ginwala, Natasha. “…OF CONQUEST, RESONANCE AND FALLING: NOTES ON SOME LEFT.” Web. September 1, 2011.

• Dercon, Chris, and Lorz, Julienne. “Dreamhub – Traumschalte.” Booklet for the album One from In the Room, 1–8. 2010.
• Lorz, Julienne. “Golden Times Part 2: Sung Hwan Kim.” Exhibition booklet. Haus der Kunst, 2010.
• Demeester, Anne. “Plots, Props and Loopholes: An Eye-witness Account of ‘Pushing against the Air.’” In Source Book 6: Sung Hwan Kim, 49–52. Rotterdam: Witte de With, Center for Contemporary Art, 2009.
• Van der Sande, Brigitte. “Witness: Pushing Against the Air by Sung Hwan Kim.” HTV de IJsberg 81, no. 008 (May 2007).
• Hamilton, John T. “Look and See, See and Read.” In Hermès Korea Missulsang Catalogue, 28–33. Seoul: Hermès Korea, 2007.
• Choi, Binna. “She Speaks Serpentine: Scene and Story in the Works of Sung Hwan Kim.” In Hermès Korea Missulsang Catalogue, 20–23. Seoul: Hermès Korea, 2007.

• Choi, Binna. “30.” In Heman Chong: The Sole Proprietor and Other Stories, 51–60. Vitamin Creative Space, 2006.

• Ahn, Soyeon (안소연). “SUNG HWAN KIM and a Lady from the Sea” (“김성환과 레이디 프롬 더 씨”). In Art Spectrum 2006, exhibition catalogue, 12–22. Seoul: Leeum Museum of Art, 2006.

• Gibbons, Joe. “Her: Sung Hwan Kim’s Wormhole.” Exhibition catalogue, A-DA-DADA, Total Museum, 2003.

• Lee, Youngcheol (이영철). “김성환의 비디오-로망 전시에 붙혀” [On Sung Hwan Kim’s Video-Romance Exhibition]. Exhibition catalogue, A-DA-DADA, Total Museum, 2003.

Interview

• Janevski, Ana, "An Evening with Sung Hwan Kim," video interview, Modern Mondays, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, 2021.

• Janevski, Ana, and Martha Joseph. “An Interview with Sung Hwan Kim.” MoMA Magazine. The Museum of Modern Art, June 11, 2021.

• "리움, 작가를 만나다 Leeum Meets the Artists," video interview, Leeum Museum of Art, 2021. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6eTkWfC-f9Q

• "김성환 – GKL아트어라운드 GB아트스쿨 교육영상," video interview, Gwangju Biennale, 2021.

• Friedman, Marissa. "Storytelling in Space and Time: An Interview with Sung Hwan Kim," Press – MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), Mar. 2019.

• "Joan Jonas and Sung Hwan Kim: In Conversation," video, MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), Dec. 3, 2018.

• “Asia Arts Theatre Contemporary Talk: Sung Hwan Kim X Julienne Lorz,” video, Doosan Art Center, 2015.

• Aschenbrenner, Max-Philip. “An interview with Sung Hwan Kim & David Michael DiGregorio,” Asian Arts Theatre Webwhale, Jul. 2015.

• Huberman, Anthony. "Some Stories in a Room: an interview with Sung Hwan Kim," Mousse Magazine, Issue 28, Apr. 11, 2011, 122–128.

Jeppesen, Travis. “Drawing Lessons.” Exhibition text, Wilkinson Gallery, 2016.

• “Sung Hwan Kim, From the Commanding Heights…: A Screening with Glenn Phillips,” Columbia University, co-organized by Asia Art Archive in America, 2015

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