Resume

Education

2008

펜실베니아 예술대학원 순수미술과 졸업
MFA Fine Art, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts, USA

2005
인디애나 주립대학교 블루밍턴 주최 이태리 피렌체 드로윙 프로그램 수료
BFA Painting, The Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University Bloomington- Florence Summer Drawing Program, Florence, Italy

2005
인디애나 주립대학교 블루밍턴 회화과 졸업
BFA Painting, The Henry Radford Hope School of Fine Arts, Indiana University, Bloomington, IN, USA

Exhibitions

One Person Exhibition

2010

해피 스킨 스튜디오, 봉산문화회관, 대구

Happy Skin Studi O, Bongsan Cuture Center, Daegu, South Korea

2009

독백:익숙함이 낯설게 여겨지는 곳에서..., 올해의 청년작가 초대전, 대구문화예술회관, 대구

Soliloquy:where familiars seems unfamiliar..., 2009 Invitation of Emerging Artists, Daegu Cuture and Arts Center, Daegu, South Korea

2008
Soliloquy:강민정 개인전, 유니세프와 2008 부산국제아트페어 특별전, 벡스코, 부산
Soliloquy:Minjung Kang Solo Exhibition, The Special Exhibition of Korean Artists in BIAF 2008 with UNICEF, Bexco, Busan, South Korea

2007
강민정 개인전, 부산 아리엘 갤러리
Minjung Kang Solo Exhibition, Gallery Ariel, Pusan, South Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions

2010

집과 사람, 아트스페이스 펄, 대구

House and People, artspace Purl, Daegu, South Korea

Summer Artists Residency Program Open Studio: School of Visual Arts, NYC, USA

역대'올해의 청년작가 초대전'-오늘의 청년작가, 대구문화예술회관

The Young Artists of Today, Daegu Culture and Arts Center, Daegu,South Korea
A Book About Death, 브라질문화미술관, 상 파울로, 브라질

A Book About Death, Museu Brasileiro da Escultura, Sao Paulo, Brazil

2009

Na+ㅌ ㅡ ㅁ+Life, DGB 갤러리, 대구

Na+ㅌ ㅡ ㅁ+Life, DGB Gallery, Daegu, South Korea

Sensibility&Harmony, 효고현립미술관, 고베, 일본

Sensibility&Harmony, Hyogo Prefectural Museum of Art, Kobe, Japan

쑈 쑈 쑈전, 갤러리 믿음, 안산

Show Show Show, Gallery Trust, Ansan, South Korea

돌아와 돌아온 TEN전, 파란네모 갤러리, 서울
Coming around Coming back, ParanNemo Gallery, Seoul, South Korea

2008
트웬이 바이 트웬이:107회 졸업 작품 전시회로부터 선발된 작품으로 구성된 전시회, 스쿨 오브 파인 아트 갤러리, 펜실베니아
20/20, Selections from the 107th Annual Student Exhibition, School of Fine Arts Gallery, PA, USA
107회 졸업 작품 전시회, 펜실베니아 예술 대학원
107th Annual Student Exhibition, Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts,
장학재단 주최전시회 입상, 갤러리 128, 펜실베니아

2007
스몰워크 그룹 쇼, 하이와이어 갤러리, 필라델피아, 펜실베니아
Small Works Group Show, Highwire Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
더 스퀘어 붙 쇼 2007년 하반기, 아트 고담, 뉴욕시티
The Square Foot Show 2007 Winter, Art Gotham, NYC, USA
펜실베니아 예술대학원 전시회, 브린크아트갤러리, 필라델피아
PAFA MFA Candidate Show, BlinkArt Gallery, Philadelphia, PA, USA
필라델피아 스케치 클럽 완전한 추상화전 입상
Juried Show: Absolute Abstract, Philadelphia Sketch Club, PA, USA
더 프리빌러쥐 오브 칼라 전, 맨하탄 세계문화 오픈 센터, 뉴욕시티
The Privilege of Color, Manhattan World Culture Open Center, NYC
일본 한국 2007년 교류전, 갤러리 시바야마, 도쿄, 일본
Cross 2007 Japan, Gallery Shibayama, Tokyo, Japan
더 에니그매틱 소올: 강민정 이인전, 시바야마 갤러리, 도쿄, 일본
The Enigmatic Soul, Gallery Shibayama, Tokyo, Japan
제144회 필라델피아 스케치클럽 유화전 입상
Juried Show:144th Annual Exhibition of Small Oil Paintings, Philadelphia Sketch Club, Philadelphia, PA, USA
더 스퀘어 붙 쇼 2007년 봄, 아트 고담, 뉴욕시티
The Square Foot Show 2007 Spring, Art Gotham, NYC, USA
인털-컬쳐얼리즘 전, 한국 문화 오픈 센터, 뉴욕
inter-culturalism, Korea Village Open Center, NY, USA

뉴 페인팅:강민정 이인전, 세컨에비뉴파이얼하우스 갤러리, 뉴욕
New Paintings, Second Avenue Firehouse Gallery, NY, USA

2006
더 스퀘어 쇼, 세러스 갤러리, 뉴욕시티
The Square Show, Ceres Gallery, NYC, USA
펜실베니아 예술대학원 미술전 입상, 갤러리 128, 펜실베니아
Juried Show:MFA & Post-Baccalaureate Program Student Exhibition,Gallery128, PA, USA

Professional Experience

2009~present

외래교수, 대구가톨릭대학교

Lecturer, Reading Painting Theory (Contemporary Art), Daegu Catholic University, South Korea

2007-2008
조교, 정물 유화수업, 펜실베니아 예술대학교
Graduate Assistant, Still life Painting, Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Art, Philadelphia, PA, USA

2007
미술강사, 유태인 취업과 직업 교육 서비스 센터 주최 예술 프로젝트
Art Instructor, JEVS(Jewish Employment and Vocational Service) Art Project, Philadlephia, PA, USA

Artist Statement: Woks 2007-08

My art is about the emotional connection and disconnection between myself in the past and the present, and between myself in the different cultures.

I have been in America about 6 years. In that time, I have learned to communicate with people who have different cultures. In order to fully understand my conversations with them, I need to pay attention to their facial expressions, body gestures, and voice tones. Even though my observation of the situation with people is good enough to overcome the language barrier, it is not enough to overcome the culture barrier. I have experienced isolation and loneliness being a foreigner in a different country and being a stranger in the different culture. Ironically, I get the same experiences whenever I go back to my own country, South Korea. The reason is the disconnection with my own culture by the gap of my existence in that particular place. Psychologically, I become only a fragment in each place.

I believe that the human body is a container that carries the history of life, and also is the witness of life. Our bodies absorb every step we take from time to time. It contains the authenticity of emotion that we have gained through life experiences. Also, our bodies are the initial mediation between our spirit and the physical world. In order to express my inner most feelings and the sense of my own significant individuality, I show the human form as a material entity using my own body as subject matter reflecting my experiences in society’s eyes.

Written by Minjung Kang

Artist Statement Abstract Painting 2006-07

I am naked in front of nature.
I don’t try to understand what is around me.
I absorb what it is and I observe the metropolitan atmosphere to feel emotions of the air.
My physical body is invisible in front of a blank canvas.
My energy flows onto the canvas with full of intuition.

The layers of transparent colors are symbolic of the layers of emotion that is caused by the momentary impulse. These layers are followed by layers of meaning derived from the dialogue between myself and my painting, which takes place during the physical process.
I start to paint with the emotion that I absorb outside of studio. However, the more I paint, the more I react from the painting. I find surprises and pleasures in intimate relationship between me and my painting.

Written by Minjung Kang