Yuna Kim
Artist from South Korea currently based in East Bay, CA. She loves tea, calm vibes, and tactile feelings of analog things, which often find their way into her work.
She uses various media, including printmaking, drawings, papermaking, animation, and installation to explore her personal history and vulnerability, creating pieces that are both comforting and unnerving.
Yuna graduated from Hong-Ik University with a BFA in printmaking and a BA in art theory and later earned her MFA in print media from the Cranbrook Academy of Art. Her work has been showcased both nationally and internationally, and she has been a resident artist at the Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for Arts and the Vermont Art Studio. In addition to exhibitions, Yuna also collaborates with musicians and companies to create animation music videos and cover art.
▌EDUCATION
Cranbrook Academy of Art, MI
- MFA, Print media , May 2019
Hongik University, Seoul , Korea, Feb 2017
- BFA , Printmaking
- BA, Department of Art Theory
▌SOLO EXHIBITION
2023
• Intimate Gestures: Drawing on Desire, the Closet at Saint Kate, Wisconsin, USA
2022
• Stacking, Collapsing, and Stacking, Eye Lounge, Arizona, USA
▌SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITION
2024
• City of San Ramon Juried Art Exhibition 2024, Dougherty Station Community Arts Center, California, USA
2023
• Fold/Unfold, Eye Lounge, Arizona, USA
• Openness and Well-Being, ASU Harry Wood Gallery, Arizona, USA
2022
• Common Occurrences: Four Korean Artists in the U.S, The Nancy Fyfe Cardozier Gallery, Texas, USA
• Amend, Eye Lounge, Arizona, USA
• Redefining The Creator Economy: A Survey of the Digital Arts, MCC Art Gallery, Arizona, USA
• Evaporation, Herberger Theater Center, Arizona, USA
2020
• COVIDEO-19 NOTES, Undercurrent NYC, New York, USA
• 20th Annual Juried exhibition, Park Central, Arizona, USA
2019
• Experiencing Perspectives, Mercades-benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
• 5 Minute Film Festival, MOCA Tucson, Arizona, USA
• Noul , 1301 Broadway, Michigan, USA
• The Graduate Degree exhibition 2019, Cranbrook Academy of Art, Michigan, USA
2018
• PLENUM, Forum Gallery, Michigan, USA
• PAPERWORKS, The scarab club, Michigan, USA
• New Form, Arrowmont School of Art and Crafts, Tennessee, USA
• Experiencing Perspectives, Mercades-benz Financial Services, Farmington Hills, Michigan, USA
• Is There a Mother in the House? Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, USA
• /Appendix, Forum Gallery, Michigan, USA
• 3th New drawing project, Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, Yangju, South Korea
2017
• Easy come, Easy go, Forum Galley, Michigan, USA
2015
• XVII International Biennale of Engraving of Sarcelles exchange exhibition, France
• Printmaking 2015 : BFA degree show, HOMA, Seoul. South Korea
▌FELLOWSHIP/GRANTS/AWARD
• VSC Artist’s Grants, Vermont Studio Center, 2019
• Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts award, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, 2019
• 1st place New Forms exhibition award, Arrowmont school of Arts and Crafts, 2018
• Elizabeth Hughes Gossett Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2018
• Arrowmont School of Arts and Crafts Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art & Arrowmont school of Arts and Crafts, 2018
• Honorable mention, Chang Ucchin Museum of Art, Yangju, 2018
• Flora Burt International Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2017
• Women’s committee Scholarship, Cranbrook Academy of Art, 2017
• Hongik Academic Excellence Scholarship, Hongik University, 2011-2015
▌ RESIDENCIES
• Kala Art Institute, CA, USA, 2024~
• Vermont Studio center, VT, USA, 2019
• Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, NE, USA, 2019
▌PUBLIC COLLECTIONS
• Chang Ucchin Museum of Art permanent collection, South Korea
▌ ARTIST TALK
• Third Thursday Artist talk, Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts, Aug 15, 2019
▌COLLABORATION
• ‘Show Me the Kibbles’ by Grumpy Kitty Boy, Album Design & Illustration, 2021
• Music video ‘ Train tracks’ by Grumpy Kitty Boy, 2021
• Music video ‘ Dark skies ’ by Grumpy Kitty Boy, 2021
• Music video ‘ Blue eyes ’ by Grumpy Kitty Boy, 2021
• Music video ‘Airplane Wings’ by Grumpy Kitty Boy, 2020