Minah Kim
Minah Kim is an artist and educator in Philadelphia.
Born and raised in South Korea and living cross-culturally, she grew her interests and concerns in intersectionality, non-verbal languages, displacement, and human isolation as the consequence of societal violence and atrocities.
Majorly using ceramic that carries long memory of human culture and fascinated by the human relationship with vessel-making, she produce object, sculpture, and installation contextualizing inherited human emotions.
Minah Kim has shown my works internationally and nationally, including Plug Gallery (KS, US), Site: Brooklyn (NY, US), District Clay Gallery (DC, US), HOT BED gallery(PA, US), Sacramento Fine Arts Center(CA, US), Asia Contemporary Ceramic Art Academy (Hangzhou, China), c.r.e.t.a. Rome(Rome, Italy), Frankfurt Herbstmesse (Frankfurt, Germany), Seoul Art Museum and Gyeomjae Jungsun Museum (Seoul, South Korea), and Gimhae Clayarc Museum (Gimhae, South Korea). She earned her B.F.A and M.F.A. in Fine Arts and Ceramic Arts at the Ewha Womans University, and an M.F.A. at the University of Arkansas in Ceramic Arts. Minah Kim was awarded as a grantee of the Teaching Artist Fellowship(Center for Craft, NC), Illuminate Arts Grant(PA), Foundation for Contemporary Art Grant(NY), and Artist 360(KS), and was nominated for the Joan Mitchell Fellowship. She completed residencies at MASS MoCA (MA, US), Gimhae Clayarc Museum, Anderson Ranch Art Center, and c.r.e.t.a. Rome. She is a long-term resident artist at The Clay Studio (PA, US).