Minjung Kim
Minjung Kim (b. 1962) is a Korean-born artist celebrated for her luminous ink works on layered Hanji paper. Rooted in traditional calligraphy, which she studied for nearly two decades, her practice reflects a disciplined yet meditative approach to mark-making. Kim builds her compositions by layering, folding, and burning mulberry paper, using fire and repeated gestures to shape delicate surfaces that reflect rhythm, time, and transformation. The resulting works balance control and spontaneity, evoking both Eastern philosophy and contemporary abstraction. Educated at Hongik University in Seoul, where she completed her BFA and MFA, Kim later continued her studies at the Brera Academy in Milan, deepening her dialogue between Asian and Western traditions.
For more than thirty-five years, Kim has exhibited internationally, with notable presentations at the Princeton University Art Museum, the Langen Foundation in Germany, the Gwangju Museum of Art in Korea, and the Musée des Arts Asiatiques in France. She received particular acclaim during the 2015 Venice Biennale for her exhibition The Light, The Shade, The Depth at Palazzo Caboto. Her work is held in distinguished public collections worldwide, including the British Museum in London, the Leeum Samsung Museum of Art in Seoul, the Musée des Arts Asiatiques in Nice, and the Asia Society Museum in New York.
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Minjung KimRed Mountain, 2025Watercolor on mulberry Hanji paper21 1/8 x 28 7/8 in. (53.6 x 73.4 cm) -
Minjung KimPhasing, 2024mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper59 x 82 5/8 in
150 x 210 cm -
Minjung KimHistory, 2023mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper58 5/8 x 82 5/8 in
149 x 210 cm -
Minjung KimBlue Mountain, 2022Watercolor on mulberry Hanji paper26 3/4 x 51 in. (67.9 x 129.5 cm)
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Minjung KimStory, 2019Mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper55 1/8 x 78 3/4 in
140 x 200 cm -
Minjung KimMountain, 2018Ink and watercolor on mulberry Hanji paper57 x 79 1/8 in. (145 x 201 cm)
Framed Dimensions:
61.5 x 83 5/8 in. (156.21 x 212.4 cm) -
Minjung KimNautilus, 2018mixed media on mulberry Hanji paper80.71 x 56.29 in. (205 x 143 cm)
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Minimal-Maximal
6 Nov 2025 - 30 Mar 2026Hunter Dunbar Projects is pleased to announce Minimal-Maximal , a group exhibition juxtaposing distinct modes of abstraction. The presentation will be on view at Hunter Dunbar Projects in Chelsea from November 6th, 2025 to January 17th, 2026. Minimalism emerged initially in the 1960s, foregrounding an artwork’s formal elements – line,...Read more -
East - West
1 May - 7 Jun 2025Hunter Dunbar Projects is pleased to announce East West , a group exhibition bringing together a group of renowned artists from Asia and the Americas, whose reductionist works find common ground in the minimal and, in some cases, the repetitive. In East West , the dialogues created between the works...Read more
