Kim Sun-doo | MetaCanvas Gallery

Kim Sun-doo, who teaches Korean painting at Chung-Ang University, is widely known for the cover of novelist Kim Hoon’s “Namhansanseong” and for the film “Chihwaseon” (Painted Fire), about the life of the Joseon master Owon Jang Seung-eop. Kim ghost-painted for Choi Min-sik, who played Jang, and reproduced Owon’s beautiful paintings on screen, which became a talking point. Exploring various possibilities in the balance between ink and color, brushline and hue, and digging into the essence of traditional painting, Kim drew the attention of the art world early by winning the Grand Prize at the 7th Joongang Fine Arts Prize and the 12th Seoknam Art Prize, and drew great attention again in 2019 with the 68th Seoul Culture Award (fine arts). Having devoted effort to the creative succession of Korean painting on the basis of traditional techniques, Kim has developed a distinctive style that sets the work apart from Japanese and Chinese color painting through the “jangji technique,” in which color is layered and steeped. Kim’s representative works include “Slow Landscape” and “Let Me Show You the Stars.” Rooted in traditional East Asian painting techniques yet combined with a contemporary sensibility, Kim is counted among the leading artists of Korean contemporary painting.

Biography

Graduated from the Department of Korean Painting, College of Art, Chung-Ang University, and its graduate school
Currently Professor, Department of Korean Painting, College of Art, Chung-Ang University

Solo exhibitions

2022 Kim Sun-doo, Gallery Hee, Yangsan
2020 When You Stop, You See the Stars, Hakgojae, Seoul
2019 Art Center Ku, Daejeon
2018 What We Long For Is Always Far Away, Heinmulgyeol Gallery, Seoul
2017 Flowers, Wine and Sound, Emu Complex Cultural Space, Seoul, and others

Group exhibitions

2022 GLOBAL ART FAIR, Marina Bay Sands, Singapore
2019 Landscape Factory, Gallery White One, Seoul
2019 DMZ, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul
2018 New Geumgangsan, Icheon Woljeon Museum of Art, Icheon
2017 Mihwangsa, the Beautiful Temple at Land’s End Village, Hakgojae, Seoul, and others