Shinae Kim
Shinae Kim is a Canadian painter of Korean descent. She creates work that moves between figuration and abstraction, an excited celebration of the sensuality of oil paint and, indeed, of the life it depicts. There is joy here. There is death and mourning here. This is work that depicts an almost electrified urgency beneath the skin of everyday life.
How does she do it? She works alla prima in oil, her colours mixed one by one. Her canvases are created using several layers, one on top of the other, of oil paint in a full colour palette. The gestural brushstrokes and the complex, intricate balance of these colours are vitally important to her work. But her real gifts reveal themselves in the articulation of her imagination, its array of rich subjects – migration, family history, the sensation of deracination and of tragedy - the varied responses to the world and about the people who dwell in it.
EDUCATION
2019-2023 Honours BFA Drawing and Painting with Distinction, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
Nov. 2023 Project 31, OCAD University, Torontok ON
Nov. 2023 The Diaspora Story, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
Sep. 2023 Han-Soom-Gyeol: Exhibition Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Korea-Canada Diplomatic Relations, Papermill Gallery, Toronto, ON
Sep. 2023 Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island, BC
Sep. 2023 Tonic: Nuit Blanche Emerging Artist Exhibition, 401 Richmond, Toronto, ON
Aug. 2023 Vice Versa, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, ON
Jul. 2023 Summer in the City, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, ON
Jul. 2023 Impact 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition, Parkview Gallery, Toronto, ON
Jul. 2023 Emerging Now, Bauxi Gallery, Toronto, ON
Jul. 2023 62nd Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, ON
Jun. 2023 Artist's Choice, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, ON
May. 2023 Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Apr. 2023 What the Thunder Says, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Apr. 2023 Paraline, Midnight Arcade, Toronto, ON
Mar. 2023 Show Your Resistance, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Feb. 2023 Pencil Drawing Group Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Jan. 2023 Iridescence, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
Dec. 2022 Why We Rely, Carbonic Coffee, Toronto, ON
Oct. 2022 Abstract Painting Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Jun. 2022 The Archive of Merit: From OSA to OCAD, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, ON
Apr. 2022 Blueprint for a Collective Home, Great Hall, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Aug. 2020 First-Self: Investigating Cultural Appropriation, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Feb. 2020 Shape Shifter, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Oct. 2019 Looking In Open House, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
Sep. 2019 Face 2 Face, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
COLLECTIONS
Asia Pacific Museum of Peace
ARTIST TALK
2023 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
JURIES
2023 APEX Art International Exhibitions Competition, New York, NY
AWARDS & GRANTS
2023 Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalist, SSNAP, Salt Spring Island, BC
2023 Partial Gallery Career Launcher Award, Partial Gallery, Toronto, ON
2023 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Career Launcher Award, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2022 Andre Beaulieu Bursary for Young Visual Artists, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2021 Frances Lea Ziegler Memorial Scholarship, OCAD University, Toronto, ON
2021 Av Isaacs Bursary, OCAD University, Toronto, ON