- 2019
- Winning the Arts Award at the 2nd INCANATION Cultural Arts Foundation in Korea
- 2014
- First place “2014 Emerging Artists juried show”, Palais de Seoul, Korea
KIM DEOK HAN
KIM DEOK HAN
Kim Deok-Han (b. 1981) is of a newer generation and expresses the sense of “淡” through his use of a traditional material: lacquer. The artist overlays lacquer in multiple colours and repetitively peels them off, leaving only traces of each layer. This laborious process usually takes six to twelve months, as time and patience is required to allow each coloured layer to dry completely before another is applied. The artist explains that his process creates a record of time and space. By peeling off and leaving just traces of any one layer, he captures their accumulated presence and reveals individual moments of the past in the plane of a single painting. At the same time, using the ancient technique of lacquer work ensures that his painting will be preserved for thousands of years. Kim’s meditative approach to the material he uses, and his choice of earthy colours inspired by traditional Korean hanbok dresses, creates striking and thought-provoking paintings.
ARTWORKS
ARTICLES
GALLERY EXHIBITIONS
AWARDS
MAJOR EXHIBITIONS, COLLECTIONS
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2024
- TRACE OF TIME, Whitestone Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
TRACE OF TIME, Whitestone Gallery, Beijing, China - 2023
- [LOOKING INTO TIME_ with The Balvenie Whisky & Morphosis Architects], TREEHOUES SEONGSU, Seoul, Korea
Time traveling to my own heritage, GRAPHIC, Seoul, Korea - 2020
- OVERLAID [迭色] . Whitestone Gallery, Taipei, Taiwan
Journey Through the Veil of Time, LEEUNGNO MUSEUM, Daejeon, Korea - 2019
- DIVISION, CICA MUSEUM, Gimpo. Korea
- 2018
- OVERLAID, Gallery Palais de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
- 2016
- EMPTY = FULL, Gallery Palais de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
- 2014
- SIMPLE IS NOT SO SIMPLE, Gallery Palais de Seoul, Seoul, Korea
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2023
- KEEM&KIM'S GLOWING OVERLAID HOUR, ARTBASE 26SQM [GIZI FOUNDATION], Seoul, Korea
- 2022
- 'Moon's Heart, Sun's Heart' 45th Anniversary Exhibition with Sun Hwa-rang, Sun Hwa-rang, Seoul, Korea
- 2021
- Masters – DANSAEKWHA, Herald Art Day Gwanggyo Center, Suwon, Korea
Intermixture Vol. 2, Whitestone Gallery, H’QUEENS 7F Hong Kong - 2020
- Painting and Existence: Chinese, Japanese and Korean Abstract Painting Travelling Exhibition’/ Tang Comtemporary, Beijing, China
- 2019
- 'Empty fill: Physical properties and spirituality of Korean art, Park Yeo-sook Gallery, Seoul, Korea
DAAM[담, 淡], Whitestone Gallery, H’QUEENS 7F. Hong Kong
Korean Contemporary Artist Exhibition, Hong Kong Korean Cultural Center, PMQ. Hong Kong
ART FAIR
- 2019
- KIAF Korea International Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
INDIA ART FAIR [ Korean Cultural Centres] New Delhi, India - 2017
- ART Gwangju 2017, Gwangju, Korea
JEJU International Art Fair, Jeju, Korea - 2016
- Gwangju International Art Fair, Gwangju, Korea
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