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.
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
2022    My Body is a Battleground, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL
2022    Becoming American, Minot State University, Minot, ND
2022    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
2020   The Stranger in Heaven, Kreft Center Gallery, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI
2019     American Dream, University of Maine at Farmington, ME
2019     American Stitches, Wakeley Gallery, Illinois Wesleyan University Ames School of Art, IL
2018     United Stitches, NJ Emerging Artist in the 2018 - 2019 Series, Monmouth Museum, NJ

Group Exhibitions
2023 Fiber Art Now’s eighth annual Excellence In Fibers exhibition(upcoming)
2023  Forecast//Recast, SDA's juried members' exhibition, Chehalem Cultural Center, Newberg, OR(upcoming)

2022 The Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion & Design, Surface Design Journal’s Seventh Annual International Exhibition in Print
2022  Voices and Votes: Democracy in America, Monmouth Museum companion exhibit, Monmouth Museum, NJ
2022  Surface Design Association Southwest Regional Exhibition, Tubac Center of the Arts, Tubac, AZ
2022  Traditions Evolve, Northern California SDA's online exhibition, CA
2022   The 35th annual Materials: Hard + Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX
2022  Texas National 2022, Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX
2022  Continuum, Textile Center, Minneapolis, MN
​2022  NJSCA Artist Fellowship Showcase Exhibition, Artworks Trenton, Trenton, NJ
2022  “Who We Are: Portraying Identity”, Cabrillo Gallery,  Cabrillo College, Aptos, CA
2022  Adorned: Inspired by Fabric and Fashion, Annmarie Sculpture Garden & Arts Center, Solomons,MD
2022  Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE
2022  The 6th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston,LA

2021  From Confrontation to Catharsis: the Surface Design Assosiation International Exhibition in Print
2021  "No Justice, No Peace": Global Protest, Unrest, and Conflict, Norfolk State University, Norfolk, VA
2021  The Language of Fiber Arts, University of Incarnate Word, San Antonio, TX
2021  The 29th Annual Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL
2021  TRICKSTERS & TRANSFORMATION, Textile Arts Los Angeles, CA 
2021  New Jersey Arts Annual: ReVision and Respond, The Newark Museum of Art, Newark, NJ
2021  The 34th Annual McNeese National Works on Paper Exhibition, McNeese State University, Lake Charles, LA
2021  215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition of Regional Emerging Artists, Delaware County Community College, DE
2021  Distinct, Mount St. Mary’s University of Maryland, Emmitsburg, MD
2021  36th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
2021  Valdosta National 2021, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA
2021  Americas 2021: Paperworks, Minot State University, Minot, ND

2020  Devotion: Sewing The Sacred, the Surface Design Assosiation International Exhibition in Print
2020  Americas 2020: All Media, Minot State University, Minot, ND
2020  Material Identity, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO
2020  R’emerged:A New Jersey Emerging Artists Alumni Exhibition, Monmouth Museum, NJ
​2020  Texas National 2020, The Cole Art Center, Stephen F. Austin State University, Nacogdoches, TX 
​2020  Materials: Hard + Soft,  Pattterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, TX
​2020  Excellence in Fibers V, Muskegon Museum of Art , Muskegon, MI 

2019  INTERSTATE, Sarah Spurgeon Gallery, Central Washington University, Ellensburg, WA
2019  32nd Annual Northern National Art Competition, Nicolet College Art Gallery, Rhinelander, WI
2019  Beyond the Surface, SDA's Annual International Juried Members Exhibition St Louis Artists’ Guild, St Louis, MO
2019  Threads & Pigments, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
2019  Bringing It All Back Home, Index Art Center, Newark, NJ
2019  NJSeoul exhibition, Bergen Community College, Paramus, NJ
2019  Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK
2019  Threaded, MCC Art Gallery, Mesa Community College, AZ
2019  Americas 2019: All Media, Northwest Arts Center, Minot State University,Minot, ND
2019  Combined Talents, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2019  Internal/External National Juried Art Show, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, MO
2019  Form, Not Function: Quilt art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
2019  Time, Mills Pond House Galllery, Smithtown Township Arts Council, NY
2019  National Juried Exhibit, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD
2019  ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair Gallery, NJ
2019  Mono Prismatic Wave, Queens College of Art Center, Queens, NY
2019  Permanence and Change, Kreft Juried Exhibition, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI
2019  Art on Paper 2019, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, MD
2019  We The People, Cape Cod Museum of Art, ‘Dennis, MA                                                                     
2019  Arnot Art Museum's 76th Regional Exhibition, Elmira, NY
2019  New Jersey Crafts Arts Annual: New Directions in Fiber Art , Montclair Art Museum, Montclair, NJ
2019  Objectified 2019, CICA Museum, South Korea
2019  34th Annual International Exhibition, University of Texas at Tyler, Tyler, TX
2019  Valdosta National 2019, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA

2018  Transformation, 2nd Annual International Exhibition, RE:ARTISTE, New York, NY
2018  215|610 CONTEMPORARY Exhibition of Regional Emerging Artists, Delaware County Community College, DE
2018  Quilt + Resist: Art, Politics, Storytelling, Woman Made Gallery, Chicago, IL
2018  New Directions 18: 34th Annual National Contemporary Art Exhibition @ Barrett Art Center, NY
2018  Empathy: UNCP’s 9th Annual International Exhibition, University of North Carolina at Pembroke, NC
2018  Parsing Sign and Image – National Exhibition, VETS Gallery, Art League Rhode Island, RI
​2018  A Sense of Place 2018, Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, GA
2018  33rd Chelsea International Fine Art Competition collective exhibition @ Agora Gallery, NY
2018  In Black and White: Art Meets Writing, Springfield Art Association(SAA), Springfield, IL
2018  Art of Labor, Surface Design Association's 2018 Member Exhibition, San Jose Museum of Quilts and Textiles, CA
2018  Dressed,  Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ
2018  Fiber Options, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, MD
2018  Piece of Paper, St. Louis Artist's Guild, MO
2018  Form, Not Function: Quilt art at the Carnegie, Carnegie Center for Art & History, New Albany, IN
2018  24th Annual Art Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA
2018  Navigating Elements, 2018 Arts Annual Exhibition, NJ State Council on the Arts, Rowan University Art Gallery, NJ
2018  Migration, Movement, and Memory,  Art School of Colombia County, NY 
2018  Equality Matters, Conversations on Gender and Race,  Mildred M. Cox Gallery,  William Woods University, MO
2018  Between Stitches,  NOCCA: Louisiana’s Arts Conservatory, New Orleans, LA
2018  Material: National Fiber Arts Exhibition,  d’Art Center, VA
2018  Time Machines,  Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery, Worcester State University, MA
2018  The paper is the Part of The Picture, Anderson Gallery, Drake University, Des Moines, IA
2018  Immigration Now, Penn State Abington Art Gallery, Penn State Abington University, PA 
2018 COMPASSION: Is It the Radicalism of Our Time?, Gallery at 14 Maple Morris Art, Morristown, NJ 
2018 East Meets West, Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY

2017  Queens: Envisioning Habitats, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
​2017  EVOLVING, Korea Cultural Center, Washington, D.C
2017  Dynamic Dimensions, The Belskie Museum of Art & Science, Closter, NJ

2016  Syncretized, Space 776, Brooklyn, NY

2015  Four person Group Exhibition, Common Interests, Nabi Museum of the Arts, Teaneck, NJ
2015  Four person Group Exhibition, Replenished, Hutchins Gallery, Brookville, NY
2015  Group exhibition, Youth Art Award & Invitational Art Exhibition, Jersey City City Hall, NJ

2014  Passion 15, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ 
2014  Nature within us, Power House Arena, Brooklyn, NY
​2014  Three person exhibition, Emerging Scape, Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY
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2013  The First Sextet, Riverside Gallery, Hackensack, NJ

Artist Talks / Visiting Artist / Art Seminar
2022  My Body is a Battleground, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL (Artist Talk)
2022  Becoming American, Minot State University, Minot, ND ( Visiting Artist, Art Seminar, Artist Talk)
2022  Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion & Design, with Leisa Rich and Dong Kyu Kim(ZOOM TALK)
2022  Tradition Evolve Talk, Surface Design Assosiation(ZOOM TALK)
2021   Bojagi: The Rhythm of Stitching,Youngmin Lee and Dong Kyu Kim, Surface Design Assosiation(ZOOM TALK)
2021   Long Island Craft Guild, Long Island, NY(ZOOM TALK)
2019  Flushing Town Hall, Flushing, NY(Workshop)
2018  Monmouth Museum, NJ ( Performance and Art Talk)
2018  Fashioning Memory, Paul Robeson Galleries at Express Newark, Rutgers University, Newark, NJ(Panel Discussion)
2018  Newark Museum, Newark, NJ(Workshop)
2018  Islip Art Museum, East Islip, NY(Performance)
2018  Penn State Abington Art Gallery, Penn State Abington University, PA(Performance and Seminar)
2017  Art All Night Made in D.C, Korean Cultural Center, Washington, D.C(Performance)

Awards
2022 The Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion & Design, Surface Design Journal’s International Exhibition in Print / Current Statement Award
2022  Traditions Evolve, Northern California SDA's online exhibition, CA / 3rd Prize
2022  The 35th annual Materials: Hard + Soft, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, TX / 4th Prize
2022  Textiles and Fiber Art Juried Exhibition, Robert Hillestad Textiles Gallery, University of Nebraska-Lincoln, NE/ 1st Prize
2022  The 6th Louisiana Biennial: National Juried Exhibition, Louisiana Tech University, Ruston,LA/ 2nd Place
2021 The 29th Annual Emerald Coast National Juried Fine Arts Exhibition, Northwest Florida State College, Niceville, FL / Best in Show 
2021 New Jersey Individual Artist Fellowship(Carfts), The New Jersey State Council on the Arts
2021 215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition, Delaware County Community College, DE / Third Place Award
2021  Americas 2021: Paperworks, Minot State University, Minot, ND / Merit Award
2020 Americas 2020: All Media, Minot State University, Minot, ND / Best of Show
2020 Material Identity, Artworks Center for Contemporary Art, Loveland, CO / Best in Show 
2019  Excellence in Fibers V / Fiber Art Now / the Category Award Winner in the Wearables Category
2019  Combined Talents, Florida State University Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL / 1st Place
2019  Cimarron National Works on Paper Exhibition, Oklahoma State University, Stillwater, OK / 1st Prize
2019  National Juried Exhibit, The Delaplaine Arts Center, Frederick, MD / 1st Place
2019  Permanence and Change, Kreft Juried Exhibition, Concordia University Ann Arbor, MI / Best of Show
2019  ViewPoints 2019, Studio Montclair Gallery, NJ / 2nd Place 
2019  Internal/External National Juried Art Show, Arts Council of Southeast Missouri, MO / 3rd Place
2019  Valdosta National 2019, Valdosta State University, Valdosta, GA / 4th Place
2019  Art on Paper 2019, Maryland Federation of Art, Circle Gallery, MD / Honorable Mention
2018  215|610 CONTEMPORARY Juried Exhibition, Delaware County Community College, DE / Juror's Choice
2018  In Black and White: Art Meets Writing, Springfield Art Association(SAA), Springfield, IL / 1st Prize
2018  ​24th Annual Juried Art Exhibition, Korean Cultural Center, Los Angeles, CA / 2nd Prize
2018  Time Machines,  Mary Cosgrove Dolphin Gallery @ Worcester State University, MA / 3rd Prize​
2018  38th Annual Juried competition, A Sense of Place 2018, The Gertrude Herbert Institute of Art, GA / Juror’s Award 
2017-2018  Selected participant in NYFA Immigrant Artist Mentoring Program: Newark
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Publish
2023  Fiber Art Now’s eighth annual Excellence In Fibers exhibition(upcoming)
2022  The Fusion of Fiber Arts, Fashion & Design, Surface Design Journal’s Seventh Annual International Exhibition in Print
2021   From Confrontation to Catharsis: the Surface Design Assosiation International Exhibition in Print 
2020  Devotion: Sewing The Sacred, the Surface Design Assosiation International Exhibition in Print
2019   Excellence in Fibers V / Fiber Art Now / Winter 2019/2020  issue
2018   Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review
2018  2018 Emerging Artist Showcase / Fiber Art Now  
2018   Fredericksburg Literary and Art Review
2018  2018 Emerging Artist Showcase / Fiber Art Now 

​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