ⓒCopyright 2008 ShonKim

Shon Kim(b.1972), the media artist who lives and works on drawing and experimental animation is more famous in abroad than inKorea. Especially, as if reflecting one of the trends of international Media Art, generalization of media artists' participation in film festivals, Kim also has held screenings and exhibitions at Slamdance Film Festival 2007, San Diego Asian Film Festival 2006, MoMa(NY). Studied Law in Korea, Kim expanded his realm by studying drawing and experimental animation at Chicago Art Institute in 2001 and Cal Arts in 2004. Kim said after finishing studies, her strong artistic impulse of escaping from conventional drawing method had been solidified through "the process of abstract drawing". His works, the outcome of the process, ignore the viewer's standardized expectation for seeing figures and lead us to the "Moving Painting" series. Kim's abstract animation film which starts only after finishing drawing is the result that can be achieved after entirely going through the process of change: from still -image to motion-image and then to time-image.

The figure of motion image reveals the passing-by ambiguous figure which is deformed or transformed. The figure that captures our gaze and the work method that separates act of hand from act of cognition like Live Painting, play the liberal rhythm of music running like water.

Shon Kim_Latent Sorrow 2005

ⓒCopyright 2008 ShonKim

The "Moving Painting No.10" will be presented with the mysterious and unfamiliar background tone done by a music-performing artist couple in Spain. The historical meaning of Kim's works is they remind us of the tradition of animation films like Oscar Fishinger and Walter Ruttmann, the German abstract painter and avant-garde director of the "Opus Series" in the era of geometrical abstraction. I imagine the gentle rhythm of the ocean floating into the artist's studio in west California and wish it could inspire his works even brighter….  I am also looking forward to seeing the works filled with happy-life than inner sorrow.

Written By_ Art Critic IAN

Shon Kim

562 Meyer Lane, Redondo Beach, CA 90278, USA

Tel +1 661 600 3456

shonkim@gmail.com

www.shonkim.com

Education

MFA, Experimental Animation, California Institute of the Arts

BFA, Painting & Drawing, School of the Art Institute of Chicago

Solo Exhibitions

Moving Painting, Feb 22- 27 2006, Kyung-in Museum of Fine Art, Seoul

Group Exhibitions

Circulating Exhibition of Korean Modern Art in Central America, Sep 13-Nov 18 2007, Museo de Arte Contemporaneo, Chile

A Midsummer Night's Dream, 11th Suwon Hwaseong Fortress Theatre Festival, Aug 16-25 2007, S.Korea

Artscape 2007, Jul 20-22 2007, Baltimore

Selected Slamdance Shorts, Jul 11 2007, Hammer Museum, LA

Video/Film Fest, Balatonfured, Hungary 2007, The Hungarian Multicultural Center, Inc

SHORT ATTENTION SPAN CINEMA, Jun 30 2007, IFC Center, NYC

Screening with feature film, May 9-15 2007, IFC Center, NYC

LE CIRQUE DU TITTY! TITTY! BANG! BANG!, May 14 2007, Night Hawks, LA

Project 30, May 2007

The Venturous Vanguard Video Festival 2007, Contemporary MAP, LA

ROK-US Invitational Exhibition by Leading Korean Master Painters, Apr 23-24 2007, Seoul

Spring Salon 2007, Mar 29-Apr 8 2007, Lennox Contemporary, Toronto

NABI SHOWCASE 2007, Jan 12-26 2007, Art Center Nabi, Seoul

Cine+MA: Animation @ New Media Art, Dec 5-20 2006, space Mass, Seoul

TARFEST, Oct 5-8 2006, Miracle Mile District, LA

Video and Animation Exhibition, Sept 22-Nov 10 2006, The Foundry Art Centre, MO

MoMA's tribute to CalArts, Aug 6 & 12 2006, The Museum of Modern Art, NYC

Tour des Artistes, Jun 24 2006, East Village Arts District, Long Beach

All-Media National Juried Exhibition, June 2-30 2006, 621 Gallery, FL

Emerging Filmmakers from CalArts, May 13-14 2006, Edgemar Center for the Arts, Santa Monica

2-D-2, Apr 20-Jun 20 2006, Energy Gallery, Toronto

Behind the Mask, Mar 5-Apr 9 2006, Caladan Gallery, MA

Screenings

Brainwash TV Show and Movie Festival 2007, CA

box[ur]shorts Film Festival 2007, LA, NYC, Basel, Hiroshima

Fort Lee Film Festival 2007, NJ

CyBorg Film Festival 2007, Italy

Maryland Film Festival 2007, MD

Trenton Film Festival 2007, NJ

Calgary Underground Film Festival 2007, Canada

DisOrient Film Festival 2007, OR

Arizona International Film Festival 2007, AZ

FESTIVAL INTERNATIONAL DU FILM SUR L'ART 2007, Montréal

FEST ~ I CULT 2.2, Alaska

Slamdance Film Festival 2007, UT

Odense Film Festival 2006, Denmark

ANONIMUL International Independent Film Festival 2006, Romania

ANIMA MUNDI 2006, 14th International Animation Festival of Brazil

Global Art Film Festival 2006, Hollywood, NY, Sacramento, Rio De Janeiro, San Juan

International Film Festival ART FILM 2006, Slovak Republic

Review of the Experimental Films and Video Art 2006, Poland

Talent Circle Super Shorts Film Festival 2006, London & UK

Puchon International Fantastic Film Festival 2006, Republic of Korea

INDIEFEST 2006, Chicago

Slamdance Anarchy, July 2006

Ottawa International Student Animation Festival 2003, Canada

Awards

San Diego Asian Film Festival 2006, Best Experimental Film

New Jersey International Film Festival 2006, Best Experimental Film / Video

World-wide HIV/AIDS Art Competition, 1^st prize, 2005, Orange County Contemporary Art Center

Experimental Film & Video Festival In Seoul 2005, Fuji Film Eterna Award

Brainwash TV Show and Movie Festival 2006, 2nd Grand Prize

Busan Video Festival 2005, Excellence Award, Alternative Space Bandee

All-Media National Juried Exhibition Award, Top 4, 621 Gallery, FL

52nd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, The Bronze Plaque

53rd Columbus International Film & Video Festival, Honorable Mention

Internationales filmfest Braunschweig 2006, the Leo Award, Special Mention

8th Contemporary Art International Online Juried Exhibition, Special Recognition, Upstream People Gallery, NE

Solarte Exhibition, Finalists, Solarte Contemporary Art Gallery, NM

Boston Motion Picture Awards 2005-2006, Semi Finalist

Akira Kurosawa Memorial Short Film Competition 2006, Preliminary List

Kodak Grant 2004

Merit Scholarship, 2002- 2003, California Institute of the Arts

Collections

Grouper, A Sony Pictures Entertainment Company

The Venturous Vanguard Video Festival 2007 DVD

CJ Cable net

HELLO D

undergroundfilm.org, SF

Undergroundartchannel_off_1℃

ANIMATION DVD, Slamdance Film Festival

FEST ~ I CULT 2 DVD

Asian American Film Archive, California State University San Marcos

DigiChannel

Dovetail

filmfestivalworld.com, Winners Section in Featured Film

Yonsei University Moving Images Anchorage, Seoul

CalArts Film Library