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Artist Maia Ruth Lee on Finding Meaning in Rootlessness
The Amp May 30, 2023 For artist Maia Ruth Lee, migration has been a constant since childhood. Born in Busan, South Korea, Lee’s first experience... Learn More -
25 Pathbreaking Asian American Artists Whose Names You Need to Know
ARTnews May 27, 2023 As Asian American and Pacific Islander History Month winds down, it’s important to note how many AAPI artists, architects, collectors,... Learn More -
Pacita Abad: Dreams in color
Inquirer.net May 22, 2023 NEW YORK — I don’t remember exactly where I first met the artist Pacita Abad, whether in New York, Washington,... Learn More -
Vivid Colors Erupt At Frieze, Large-Scale Abstract And Figurative Works By Women Artists Wow
Forbes May 18, 2023 Abstraction wrangles with representation, as delicate flowers mingle with bold fruits floating on the textured canvas, guiding our eye on... Learn More
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Layered and Embellished Trapunto Paintings Exude Spirit in Pacita Abad’s First Retrospective
Colossal May 10, 2023 Having created more than 5,000 paintings in her lifetime, traveled the world, and shown in over 200 exhibitions, Pacita Abad... Learn More -
Maia Ruth Lee’s ambiguities in “The skin of the earth is seamless”
ArtAsiaPacific May 10, 2023 For those who have spent time at an airport’s baggage reclaim in a South or Southeast Asian country, Maia Ruth... Learn More -
Maia Ruth Lee Transforms the Materials of Migration
Hyperallergic May 2, 2023 The artist draws inspiration from her own migration to consider both the confinement and freedom associated with a life in... Learn More -
Kang Seok Ho
Artforum May 1, 2023 It takes chutzpah to make a huge painting of an ass in jeans, especially one about seven feet square. But... Learn More
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Coloring in the Margins: Pacita Abad
The New York Times April 25, 2023 On a wintry March day in Minneapolis, a small group gathered underground to look at monumental and hyper-colored works of... Learn More -
The fourth grant recipient is Minouk Lim
Obayashi Foundation April 20, 2023 The Obayashi Foundation has selected the Korea-based artist Minouk Lim as the forth recipient of the “Visions of the City... Learn More -
A Tension in Paint Befitting Our Times
Hyperallergic April 19, 2023 Shortly after I went to see the exhibition Maia Ruth Lee: The skin of the earth is seamless at Tina... Learn More -
First-of-its-kind retrospective of Filipino artist Pacita Abad opens at the Walker
CBS News April 14, 2023 MINNEAPOLIS -- Visitors to the Walker Art Center will soon experience a never-before seen exhibit highlighting the colorful work of... Learn More
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‘Pacita Abad’ at the Walker Celebrates a Life Lived Globally
Racket April 14, 2023 Pacita Abad hated white walls. So, for her retrospective exhibition at the Walker Art Center, the galleries have been painted:... Learn More -
Inside Maia Ruth Lee's Solo Exhibition at Tina Kim Gallery
Women's Wear Daily April 12, 2023 The morning after the opening of her solo exhibition “The skin of the earth is seamless,” Maia Ruth Lee was... Learn More -
Pacita Abad’s Art of Excess
The Wall Street Journal April 7, 2023 A peripatetic life and a more-is-more sensibility were the key ingredients in the career of textile artist Pacita Abad, whose... Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova at Tina Kim Gallery
New York Art Tours February 21, 2023 Titled ‘Precipitation,’ Tania Pérez Córdova’s new body of work at Tina Kim Gallery manifests a rain shower in the gallery,... Learn More
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Critics Picks
Artforum February 10, 2023 Tania Pérez Córdova Museo Tamayo Paseo de la Reforma No. 51 October 1, 2022 - February 26, 2023 “Generalización” (Generalization),... Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova Unveils an Artwork’s Afterlife
Frieze February 10, 2023 Empty window frames cast in bronze, a large floral ceramic vessel and a shelf lined with ice portraits in sunken... Learn More -
Duly Noted: 5 New York Shows I Already Love This Year
Cultured January 26, 2023 There’s simply not enough time to see all the art in the world. In CULTURED’s new monthly column, Duly Noted,... Learn More -
Mire Lee
ArtAsiaPacific January 1, 2023 Mire Lee The abject—in particular the intersection of body horror and sexuality—is integral to Seoul-and-Amsterdam-based artist Mire Lee's exploration of... Learn More
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A Guide to Arts and Culture this December
ArtReview December 7, 2022 From queering Bollywood film-posters and colour-field embroidery to ‘living pictures’ and the Kochi-Muziris Biennale – our editors on what they’re... Learn More -
In Marseille, a vast retrospective celebrates the feminism of Ghada Amer
Africanews December 7, 2022 Female nudes, coloured threads;the first retrospective in France of the Egyptian-Franco-American artist Ghada Amer unfolds in three Marseilles venues. From... Learn More -
Ghada Amer: Fighting for equal rights one stitch at a time
Art Basel November 7, 2022 ‘A Woman’s Voice Is Revolution.’ So proclaims Ghada Amer’s latest garden work, installed in September outside the Museum of Civilizations... Learn More -
One Work: Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
Art in America November 7, 2022 Many of Mire Lee’s sculptures, comprising silicone and other synthetic materials, evoke a mix of the primordial and the postindustrial.... Learn More
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7 Must-See Works to Seek Out at the ADAA Art Show, From Remedios Varo’s Surrealist Scenery to Pacita Abad’s Stunning Sun Goddess
Usa ART News November 3, 2022 The Art Show, the annual art fair (and one of the originals), hosted by the Art Dealers Association, threw open... Learn More -
Jennifer Tee “Still Shifting, Mother Field” at Secession, Vienna
Mousse Magazine October 25, 2022 How can we return to—or redefine—humanity’s place in our natural environment and the cosmos? What are the potentials for an... Learn More -
Mire Lee's Tantalizing Installations Are Charged with Death and Desire
Artsy October 14, 2022 Mire Lee creates carnivorous mechanical sculptures that evoke the vulnerability of the human body. Using clay, steel, pumps, hoses, blades,... Learn More -
8 Standout Artists at the 58th Carnegie International
Artsy September 27, 2022 MIRE LEE Mire Lee’s works can only be regarded as anti-aesthetic. There is horror and gore, but also beauty, as... Learn More
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Alone in a Dirty, Sacred Space
Hyperallergic September 27, 2022 The first time you encounter Mire Lee’s artwork your mind might race toward an unsettling observation that eludes your memory,... Learn More -
Mire Lee’s Visceral Bodies
Ocula September 21, 2022 In Conversation with Stephanie Bailey New York, 21 September 2022 Mire Lee's kinetic sculptures are defined by a visceral, body-horror... Learn More -
Mire Lee's Deep-Rooted Romanticism
Frieze September 9, 2022 by Mire Lee and Alvin Li in Features, Interview Alvin Li Before working with you, I had no idea how... Learn More -
Post-Industrial Grotesque
ArtAsiaPacific September 9, 2022 Mire Lee is an artist who frequently turns to industrial materials and machinery to mine for waste and unexpected byproducts.... Learn More
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Tina Kim Gallery Presents Mire Lee’s “Carriers”
ArtAsiaPacific September 8, 2022 For her first solo exhibition with Tina Kim Gallery, Mire Lee presents “Carriers,” on view from September 15 to October... Learn More -
Ha Chong-Hyun, retrospective
Juliet July 28, 2022 Collateral event of La Biennale di Venezia April 23—August 24, 2022 By Marina Zorz The Fondazione Bevilacqua La Masa is... Learn More -
What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now
The New York Times June 16, 2022 What to See in N.Y.C. Galleries Right Now Minouk Lim: Fossil of High Moon The marks we leave on the... Learn More -
Stories That Need to Be Told | Minouk Lim
Hyperallergic May 26, 2022 Minouk Lim, a video and multimedia artist, has had museum exhibitions throughout Asia and Europe. A decade ago, the Walker... Learn More
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Mire Lee
Korea JoongAng Daily April 21, 2022 VENICE, Italy — Two female Korean artists who rebel against conventional thoughts through art, traveled to Italy to showcase their... Learn More -
The 2022 Venice Biennale Finds Hope at the End of the World
Artsy April 21, 2022 Within the exhibition, technology reminds viewers of the intensities of our bodies and the vulnerabilities of our flesh. Mire Lee... Learn More -
Mire Lee | 3 Artists to Watch at the 2022 Venice Biennale
L'OFFICIEL ART April 20, 2022 Mire Lee’s sculptural installations are often unsightly and heavily material, most often reminiscent of intestines or dissected body parts that... Learn More -
Mire Lee | The Best Art in the 2022 Venice Biennale’s Main Show
Artnews April 20, 2022 Mire Lee This is a Biennale where kink proliferates, from a Mariann Simnett installation involving S&M to a Zheng Bo... Learn More
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Mire Lee | The Milk of Dreams |Tour Cecilia Alemani’s Venice Biennale Exhibition, Coursing with Surrealist Energies and Abounding with Bodies
Artnews April 20, 2022 Mire Lee Remember this name: the Korean artist Mire Lee, who works in Amsterdam, is displaying kinetic sculptures that suggest... Learn More -
Abstractions That Record the Scars of Trauma
Hyperallergic Mire Lee | Preview of the 2022 Venice Biennale Part Two: ‘The Milk of Dreams' The more I learn about artists associated with the Dansaekhwa movement that began flourishing in Korea in the late 1960s,... Learn More -
Pacita Abad Estate Gets Gallery Representation Ahead of U.S. Retrospective
Artnews January 27, 2022 Ahead of a major U.S. retrospective due to open in 2023, the estate of Pacita Abad , a pioneering Filipina... Learn More -
Advisory Perspective: FOG Design+Art: Artwork Selections
Ocula January 20, 2022 Shifting between the realms of contemporary art and design, FOG Design+Art in San Francisco brings over 40 dealers and galleries... Learn More
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The Unseen Professors Leo Amino (1911-1989), Minoru Niizuma (1930-1998), John Pai (b. 1937)
International Examiner January 7, 2022 “When silence is prolonged over a certain period of time, it takes on new meaning.” ― Yukio Mishima Mishima certainly... Learn More -
Mire Lee
Artforum December 3, 2021 THE ARTISTS’ ARTISTS Twenty-three artists reflect on 2021 To take stock of the past year, Artforum asked an international group... Learn More -
Pacita Abad: World Citizen
Ocula November 24, 2021 At the Jameel Arts Centre, located at Dubai's Jaddaf Waterfront, a new solo exhibition has opened featuring works by one... Learn More -
John Yau Connects Three Asian American Modernists
Ocula November 17, 2021 At Tina Kim Gallery in New York, curator John Yau brings together sculptures by Leo Amino, Minoru Niizuma, and John... Learn More
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The Man Who Paints Water Drops
DOC NYC | US Premiere November 17, 2021 Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to announce the U.S. premiere of The Man Who Paints Water Drops, a documentary film... Learn More -
Korean art master Park Seo-bo draws line at NFTs
The Korea Herald November 12, 2021 South Korean art master Park Seo-bo confirmed that he would not allow his works to be produced as NFTs, or... Learn More -
MIRE LEE ON SCULPTING BODY HORROR AND VORE
Art in America November 12, 2021 Mire Lee’s silicone sculptures resemble life forms that defy easy classification. These works, which look a bit like innards, are... Learn More -
Kim Tschang-Yeul: The Stillness of Water
Whitehot Magazine October 31, 2021 Kim Tschang-Yeul: The Stillness of Water Tina Kim Gallery September 19 through October 30, 2021 One of the most singular... Learn More
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Park Seo-bo awarded Geumgwan Order for contribution to Korean art
The Korea Herald October 22, 2021 Korean abstract artist Park Seo-bo was awarded South Korea’s highest cultural honor, the Geumgwan Order of Cultural Merit, in a... Learn More -
HR Giger & Mire Lee
e-flux September 16, 2021 The Schinkel Pavillon brings together the worlds of the late Swiss visionary HR Giger (1940–2014) and the South Korean artist... Learn More -
Mire Lee
CURA.36 July 20, 2021 Mire Lee’s promethean sculptures and installations instill a creeping transgressive horror. Twisted piles of rubber tubing, pools of silicate, and... Learn More -
Vorarephilia: Mire Lee
Mousse Magazine July 20, 2021 ESSAYS Mousse 69 Vorarephilia: Mire Lee by Alvin Li I first encountered Korean artist Mire Lee via an Instagram story—a... Learn More
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A Towering Figure in South Korean Art Plans His Legacy
The New York Times June 16, 2021 SEOUL — In 1951, as the Korean War dragged on, a young artist named Park Jae-Hong headed toward Seoul. The... Learn More -
Best Gallery Exhibitions Summer 2021
Observer June 1, 2021 This summer galleries are opening doors and welcoming in art lovers, we picked out the ones you won't want to... Learn More -
Maia Ruth Lee’s Artworks Pick Up Where Language Falls Short
Hyperallergic May 19, 2021 In The Language of Grief, Lee’s canvases read like a fragmentary novel, building out the story of a year through... Learn More -
'Dansaekhwa' artist Ha Chong-hyun holds exhibition in New York
The Korea Times March 12, 2021 'Dansaekhwa' artist Ha Chong-hyun, 86, is exhibiting his latest works showcasing his 'relationship with color' at Tina Kim Gallery in... Learn More
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Artists We Should Remember in 2021: Davide Balliano
Luxury Magazine February 25, 2021 2021년 우리가 기억해야 할 아티스트 시대에 대한 이해와 감성의 자극, 시각적 충격과 깊은 사유에 이르기까지, 훌륭한 예술 작품의 감상은 누구에게나... Learn More -
Minouk Lim | 13th Gwangju Biennale April 1–May 9, 2021
e-flux February 15, 2021 The Gwangju Biennale Foundation is proud to announce details of the GB Commission and Pavilion Projects, two international programmes which... Learn More -
An Expansive View of Asian Identity at the Asia Society Triennial
Hyperallergic January 13, 2021 Minouk Lim’s “It’s A Name I Give Myself” (2018) probes the scars of war via a compilation of video excerpts... Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova: Sculptures as Events | In Conversation with Lauren Cornell
Ocula January 13, 2021 Take We Focus on a Woman Facing Sideways (2013–2017), most recently recreated for the artist's solo exhibition at the Museum... Learn More
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Kim Tschang-Yeul, 91, Dies; Painted Water Drops Swollen With Meaning
The New York Times January 6, 2021 Hailing from South Korea, he became an international art star with luminous images informed by Eastern philosophy and the trauma... Learn More -
Tania Pérez Córdova: Short Sight Box
Artforum January 5, 2021 “Woman’s head wearing jewellry, preserved as excavated . . .” So begins the description of item No. 122294—a grouping of... Learn More -
A Festival of New Asian Art, Seeking a Direction
The New York Times November 18, 2020 There are, still and all, high points. New Yorkers have had few opportunities before to discover the work of Minouk... Learn More -
At Asia Society’s Inaugural Triennial, Artists Consider the Role of Borders in a Global Society
Artsy November 11, 2020 Korean artist Minouk Lim’s installation, which homes in on the function and consequences of national borders, is arguably the strongest... Learn More
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Kim Tschang-yeul’s spirituality rings through waterdrops
The Korea Herald October 25, 2020 The paintings of water drops by Kim Tschang-yeul are familiar both home and abroad, but how the artist began to... Learn More -
Dansaekhwa artist Ha Chong-hyun presents 'Conjunction' in London
The Korea Times October 7, 2020 Renowned dansaekhwa (Korean monochrome painting) artist Ha Chong-hyun opened a solo exhibition at Almine Rech Gallery London, Tuesday. The artist,... Learn More -
10 Korean Artists Who Are Shaping Contemporary Art
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[Museum of One’s Own] At age of 90, artist pioneers new phase of life
The Korea Herald July 6, 2020 A white porcelain moon jar, which resembles a full moon with its bluish hue, sits alone at the entrance hall... Learn More
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A Major Korean Painter Begins to Get His Due
Hyperallergic March 7, 2020 This is a statement that the Korean abstract artist, Lee Seung Jio (1941-1990), made in 1971, a few years after... Learn More -
WHAT’S UP IN NEW YORK
ArtAsiaPacific March 4, 2020 Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus Feb 20–Apr 4 Tina Kim Gallery Tina Kim Gallery’s retrospective survey of Korean painter Lee Seung... Learn More -
Editors Picks: 12 Things Not to Miss in New York’s Art World This Week
Artnet February 17, 2020 “Lee Seung Jio: Nucleus” at Tina Kim Gallery Though Lee Seung Jio was once deemed “a future giant of Korean... Learn More -
Access to Tools: The Glyphs of Maia Ruth Lee
The Gradient February 7, 2020 “Horoscopes have become a ‘code for feelings’ in our everyday lives, which I think is really interesting. I think about... Learn More
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What to See Right Now in New York Art Galleries
The New York Times January 15, 2020 We are playing historical catch-up at the moment, driven partly by the art market’s incessant quest for fresh products, but... Learn More -
Kim Tschang-Yeul: New York to Paris
The Brooklyn Rail December 6, 2019 The Korean painter Kim Tschang-Yeul is part of a generation that traveled outside East Asia in the 1960s and ’70s... Learn More -
Kim Tschang-Yeul: Art Without Ego
Ocula November 22, 2019 Kim Tschang-Yeul turns 90 this December, following an illustrious career that played a crucial role in bringing post-war Korean painting... Learn More -
A Modern Trompe L’Oeil Painter
Hyperallergic November 9, 2019 Kim Tschang-Yeul (b. 1929), a towering figure of Korean modern art, is best known for his trompe l’oeil depictions of... Learn More
