South Korea, 1957
Gongsan Kim holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of the Arts and Design at George Washington University. Her work confronts the division of Korea and the repression of human rights in North Korea. Using burned natural materials, simplified forms, and minimal colors, she creates visual poems of lament that both memorialize loss and amplify silenced histories. Through her practice, Kim seeks to bear witness to the past seventy years of division while envisioning a future where freedom and human rights are restored.
A member of Soho20 Gallery in New York since 2012 and A.I.R. Gallery in New York since 2023, she received a Special Award from Passion for Freedom in London (2018). Her work has been exhibited internationally, including in New York, Poland, Denmark, Prague, Italy, Germany, Korea, and Washington, D.C., with solo and group exhibitions.