Kyung-Me
b. 1991 Lives and works in New York, NY
EDUCATION
| 2018 | MFA, Yale School of Art, New Haven, CT |
SOLO & TWO-PERSON EXHIBITIONS
| 2023 | The House in the Trees, Kiang Malingue, Hong Kong |
| 2022 | Sister, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Coniunctio, Kyung-Me & Harry Gould Harvey IV, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2018 | Poor Thing, Kyung-Me & Sydney Shen, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY |
| Theatre of Cruelty, Ashton Hudgins & Kyung-Me, Museum Gallery, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2017 | Copy Kitty, Selena Gallery, Brooklyn, NY |
| 2016 | BAD KOREAN, 17 Essex Gallery, New York, NY |
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2024 | My Story Gallery, High Art & Sister, Seoul, South Korea |
| 2023 | Dwelling, Canal Projects, New York, NY |
| 2022 | Introverse: Allegory Today, curated by Howie Chen and Alex Ito, 80WSE, New York, NY |
| In the Eye of the Beholder, Magasin III, Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm, Sweden | |
| 2021 | Group Show, in lieu, Los Angeles, CA |
| untitled Arrangement, Bureau, New York, NY | |
| The Lonely Ones, online exhibition, cur. by Katelyn Eichwald, Fortnight Institute, New York, NY | |
| 2020 | Until tomorrow: Ten Years of Bureau, Bureau, New York, NY |
| 2019 | Liminal States, Kraupa-Tuskany Zeidler, Berlin, Germany |
| Human Nature, Tiger Strikes Android, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Comfort Zone, One Eyed Studios, Brooklyn, NY | |
| 2018 | NADA Miami, Hotel Art Pavilion, Miami, FL |
| Cat Lady, Teen Party, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Tails, Next to Nothing Gallery, New York, NY | |
| Through Line, Steve Turner Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| Way Out Now, Diane Rosenstein Gallery, Los Angeles, CA | |
| NADA New York, Hotel Art Pavilion, Brooklyn, NY | |
| Wild Seed, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT | |
| 2017 | First Year Retrospective, 17 Essex Gallery, New York, NY |
| CatCatDogDog, Louis Fratino & Kyung-Me, The Bermuda Project, Ferguson, MO | |
| 2015 | The Gates Are Open, Green Gallery, New Haven, CT |
BIBLIOGRAPHY
| 2023 | John Belknap, ‘It’s dark but just a frame: the drawings of Kyung-Me,’ Conceptual Fine Arts, February |
| 2022 | Shannon Lee, ‘Kyung-Me on Depicting the Labyrinth of the Psyche,’ The Amp, December |
| Mira Dayal, ‘Sin and Symmetry: An Interview with Kyung-Me,’ Art in America, December | |
| John Yau, ‘Expressionism Turned Inside Out,’ Hyperallergic, November | |
| 2020 | illustration in 'A Quest to Discover America’s First Science-Fiction Writer,' by Paul Collins, The New Yorker, November |
| Rebecca Storm, 'Kyung-Me & Harry Gould Harvey IV's Coniunctio,' Editorial Magazine, January | |
| Danielle Wu, 'House of Worship,' The Offing, January | |
| Johanna Fateman, 'Coniunctio,' The New Yorker, January | |
| 2019 | Zack Hatfield, ‘Kyung-Me and Harry Gould Harvey IV,' Artforum.com, December |
| illustration series with Kyung-Me, Bomb Magazine, Issue 148, p. 120–123 | |
| 2018 | illustration in ‘Tell Me One More Time What to Do About Grief,’ by Jo Firestone, The New York Times, December |
| Leah Ollman, ‘When the cover of a book becomes postcard art: Captivating messages in surprising packages,’ Los Angeles Times, August | |
| ‘The Hort’s Favorite Artworks from NADA New York’s 2018 Preview,’ Artspace, February | |
| ‘Star Painter Jamian Juliano-Villani’s Favorite Works from NADA New York’s 2018 Preview,’ Artspace, February | |
| 2017 | ‘Kyung Me’s Copy Kitty,’ The Editorial Magazine |
| Rebecca Fulleylove, ‘Kyung Me’s detailed series tells the tale of a cat struggling with identity,’ It’s Nice That, July | |
| 2016 | Danielle Wu, ‘A Good Girl Gone Bad Sketches Her Korean American Experience,’ Hyperallergic, October |
| Rebecca Fulleylove, ‘Kyung Me explores young love in New York through her free-form drawings,’ It’s Nice That, October | |
| Priscilla Frank, ‘Perfectly ‘Bad’ Drawings Depict Your Traumatic Early 20s In Colored Pencil,’ HuffPost, September | |
| Diana Shi, ‘Korean Artist Sketches Awkward Daily Life in Illustrations,’ Vice, September | |
| ‘Preview: Kyung Me’s Bad Korean,’ The Editorial Magazine | |
| Korean Foundation for International Cultural Exchange |
AWARDS
| 2024 | 21st AHL- T&W Foundation Contemporary Visual Art Gold Award |
| 2022 | Picture Collection Artist Fellowship, The New York Public Library |
PUBLICATIONS
| 2020 | Copy Kitty, 2d Cloud, Chicago |
| 2016 | Bad Korean, Spaceface Books |
COLLECTIONS
Baltimore Museum of Art Magasin III, Museum for Contemporary Art, Stockholm Whitney Museum of American Art