Bio

Dong Kyu Kim is a mixed-media artist and fashion designer whose works are constructed of paper receipts, tickets, and other materials collected over the past 14 years since relocating to the United States. All his materials are sewn together by hand. Kim’s work explores his relationship to the U.S., the concept of the American dream, and how individual lives are affected by transitions in global economic structures.
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Kim has exhibited in museums and galleries throughout the U.S. He recently received a 2021 New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship Award from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts and his work has received awards from many institutions, including the Florida State University Museum of Arts, FL; Oklahoma State University, OK; Minot State University, ND; and many others. He received a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Fashion Design. 

​Education

2001  Bachelor of Fine Arts in Fashion Design, Kookmin University, Seoul, South Korea

​Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions
2023    Collective Memories, Particle Place, Seoul, South Korea
2022    My Body is a Battleground, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL
             Becoming American, Minot State University, Minot, ND
             Everything Must Go, Marist College, Poughkeepsie, NY
2021     Documented Identity, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2020    Consuming Memories, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
             The Stranger in Heaven, Kreft Center Gallery, Concordia University, Ann Arbor, MI
2019     American Dream, University of Maine at Farmington, ME
             American Stitches, Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan Univ. Ames School of Art, Bloomington, IL
2018     United Stitches, New Jersey Emerging Artist 2018 – 2019, Monmouth Museum, Lincroft, NJ

Selected Group Exhibitions
2023    Fiber Art Now’s eighth annual Excellence In Fibers exhibition
             Forecast//Recast, SDA's juried members' exhibition, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR
2022    CONNECTIVE THREADS, Palos Verdes Art Center, Rancho Palos Verdes, CA
             SDA Member Exhibition: Forecast // Recast, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR
             Monmouth Museum companion exhibit to Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, Lincroft, NJ
             Continuum, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
             NJSCA Artist Fellowship Showcase Exhibition, Artworks Trenton, Trenton, NJ
             Who We Are: Portraying Identity, Cabrillo Gallery, Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
             Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons, MD
2021     No Justice, No Peace: Global Protest, Unrest, and Conflict, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
             The Language of Fiber Arts, University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
             TRICKSTERS & TRANSFORMATION, Textile Arts Los Angeles, CA
             New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
             Distinct, Mount St. Mary’s University of Maryland, Emmitsburg, MD
             Americas 2021: Paperworks, Minot State University, Minot, ND
2020    Material Identity, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO
             R’emerged:A New Jersey Emerging Artists Alumni Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, NJ
             Materials: Hard + Soft,  Pattterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX
             Excellence in Fibers V, Muskegon Museum of Art , Muskegon, MI 
2019    INTERSTATE, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
             Threads & Pigments, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
             Bringing It All Back Home, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
             NJSeoul exhibition, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
             Threaded, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa Community College, AZ
             Form, Not Function: Quilt art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
             Time, Mills Pond House Galllery, Smithtown Township Arts Council, NY
             Mono Prismatic Wave, Queens College of Art Center, Queens, NY
             We The People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, ‘Dennis, MA                                                                     
             New Jersey Crafts Arts Annual: New Directions in Fiber Art , Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
             Objectified 2019, CICA Museum, South Korea
2018     Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
           East Meets West, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
              In Black and White: Art Meets Writing, Springfield Art Association(SAA), Springfield, IL
              Art of Labor, Surface Design Association's 2018 Member Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, CA
              Dressed,  Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
              Fiber Options, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, MD
              Piece of Paper, St. Louis Artist's Guild, MO
              Form, Not Function: Quilt art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
              Migration, Movement, and Memory,  Art School of Colombia County, NY 
              Equality Matters, Conversations on Gender and Race,  Mildred M. Cox Gallery,  William Woods University, MO
              Between Stitches,  NOCCA: Louisiana’s Arts Conservatory, New Orleans, LA
              Time Machines,  Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, Worcester State University, MA
              The paper is the Part of The Picture, Anderson Gallery, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
              Immigration Now, Penn State Abington Art Gallery, Penn State Abington University, PA 
2017      Queens: Envisioning Habitats, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
              EVOLVING, Korea Cultural Center, Washington, D.C
              Dynamic Dimensions, The Belskie Museum of Art & Science, Closter, NJ
2016     Syncretized, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY
2015     Common Interests, Nabi Museum of the Arts, Teaneck, NJ
              Replenished, Hutchins Gallery, Brookville, NY
              Youth Art Award & Invitational Art Exhibition, Jersey City City Hall, NJ
2014      Passion 15, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ 
              Nature within us, Power House Arena, Brooklyn, NY
              Emerging Scape, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2013     The First Sextet, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ

Selected Awards
2022    The Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion & Design, Surface Design Association International EIP, Current Statement Award Winner
             Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE, First Prize
2021     New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship (Crafts), The New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2020    Material Identity, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO, Best in Show
2019     Excellence in Fibers V, Fiber Art Now, Category Award Winner in the Wearables
             Combined Talents, Florida State University Museum of Arts, Tallahassee, FL, First Prize
             Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK, First Prize
             Kreft Juried Exhibition, Permanence and Change, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI, Best of Show
             2019 National Juried Exhibit, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD, First Prize
2018     In Black and White: Art Meets Writing, Springfield Art Association, Springfield, IL, First Prize
2017-2018 Selected participant in New York Foundation for the Arts Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program, Newark, NJ

Artist Talks / Art Demonstrations
2022    Visiting artist, Becoming American, Minot State University, Minot, ND
             Traditions Evolve, Juror-Artist Talk, Surface Design Association
             Artist Talk, My Body is a Battleground, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL     
             Textile Talk, The Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion & Design, Surface Design Association
2021     Bojagi: The Rhythm of Stitching, Youngmin Lee and Dong Kyu Kim, Surface Design Association
             The Sewing Man, Long Island Craft Guild, Melville, NY
2019     The Sewing Man, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2018     The Sewing Man, Monmouth Museum, NJ
             Fashion Memory, Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ 
             The Sewing Man, Newark Museum, Newark, NJ
             The Sewing Man, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY
             The Sewing Man, Penn State Abington Art Gallery @ Penn State Abington University, PA
2017     The Sewing Man, Korean Cultural Center (Art All Night Made in D.C.), Washington, D.C.
 
Publications
2023     “Excellence in Fibers 8.” Fiber Art Now (Winter 2023)
2022     “The Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion & Design.” Surface Design Association International (2022)
2021      “From Confrontation to Catharsis.” Surface Design Association International (2021)
               Kipp, Caroline. “Social Distancing Studio Visits.” carolinekipp.com (March 19, 2021)
2020     “Devotion: Sewing the Sacred.” Surface Design Association International (2020)
               Lazear, Susan. “Fiber Dialogue.” Fiber Art Now (2020 Spring Issue)
2019      “Excellence in Fibers V.” Fiber Art Now (Winter 2019/2020 issue)
2018      “American Dream/The United Stitches: Dong Kyu Kim.” Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review (Vol. 7, Issue 1. Winter 2019)
              “Emerging Artist Showcase.” Fiber Art Now (2018 Spring Issue)

​Career Experience

USA
Fashion Design Director at First Row(Current)
Fashion Design Director at New World Creation of New York, INC 
Fashion Design Director at Wicked Fashion, INC
CHINA
Fashion Design Director at Qingdao Gold Dragon Trade CO., LTD
MEXICO
Fashion Design Director at Groupo Rhinox 
Fashion Design Director at  IFCO
KOREA 
Fashion Product Developer at YUPOONG.INC
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