Scan our QR code to stay updated with the recent news and upcoming events.
Scan our QR code to stay updated with the recent news and upcoming events.
KeySook Geum (금기숙, 琴基淑) is a Korean artist, designer, and educator. Currently a professor in the Department of Textile Art and Fashion Design at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, she has a doctorate in textiles from Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) and completed a post-doctorate fellowship at the University of Minnesota (Minnesota, United States). Having worked in fashion design and costuming, she began working with wire and art sculptures in 1996.
Constructing both abstract and figurative forms, KeySook Geum has exhibited extensively in Berlin, Vienna, New York, Chicago, New Orleans,Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong. She has also completed major commissions for Argo Group and Royal Caribbean International. Her winter 2014 Wire and Light solo exhibition at Art+ Shanghai Gallery marked her first exhibition in Shanghai.
KeySook Geum (금기숙, 琴基淑) is a Korean artist, designer, and educator. Currently a professor in the Department of Textile Art and Fashion Design at Hongik University in Seoul, Korea, she has a doctorate in textiles from Ewha Womans University (Seoul, Korea) and completed a post-doctorate fellowship at the University of Minnesota (Minnesota, United States). Having worked in fashion design and costuming, she began working with wire and art sculptures in 1996.
Constructing both abstract and figurative forms, KeySook Geum has exhibited extensively in Berlin, Vienna, New York, Chicago, New Orleans,Tokyo, Seoul, and Hong Kong. She has also completed major commissions for Argo Group and Royal Caribbean International. Her winter 2014 Wire and Light solo exhibition at Art+ Shanghai Gallery marked her first exhibition in Shanghai.
| 1955 | Born in Korea |
| 1988 | PhD, Textiles, Ewha Womans University, Seoul, Korea |
| 1988 | Post-Doctoratal Fellowship, University of Minnesota, Minnesota, United State |
Professor, Department of Textile Art and Fashion Design, College of Fine Arts,
Hongik University, Seoul. Currently lives and works in Seoul, Korea.
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
| 2014 | Wire and Light: An Exhibition of Sculptures by KeySook Geum, Art+ Shanghai Gallery, Shanghai, China |
| 2013 | Visible in Invisible, ArtspaceH, Seoul, Korea Dream a Dream, Callan Contemporary, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| 2012 | Moving in Colors, Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States |
| 2011 | Moving, Dancing & Enlightenment, Gallery IHN, Seoul, Korea |
| 2010 | A Window to the Environment, fashion art show, Okura Hotel, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2008 | Moving or Dancing, Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States World Wired Web, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| 2006 | Floral Harmony, Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea |
| 2005 | Mind Over Matter, Body Under Design, The Goldstein Museum, Minnesota, United States |
| 2004 | SOFA Chicago, Midwest Gallery Guide, Chicago, Illinois, United States Sculpt a Pose, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States |
| 2001 | From Fantasy to Reality, Baecksang Memorial Museum, Seoul, Korea |
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
| 2014 | Today Art and Fashion Award and Exhibition (TAFA), Today Art Museum, Beijing |
| 2013 | Hidden Match – An Exhibition of Korea Craft, National Museum of Saudi Arabia, Saudi Arabia Beijing Fashion Art International Exhibition, Aimer Art Gallery, Beijing, China International Fashion Art Exhibition, State University of Technology and Design (SUTD), St. Petersburg, Russia World Jewelry Facets, Swarovski Elements 2014 S/S, Horim Art Center, Korea |
| 2012 | International Fashion Art Biennale, Seoul Museum of Art (SeMA), Seoul, Korea Swarovski Elements, Lotte Cinema Avenuel, Seoul, Korea |
| 2011 | Study the Old and Create the New, Korean Cultural Center China, Beijing, China Scripted Fashion: Calligraphy on Fabric, The Fashion Gallery at the Hong Kong Polytechnic University, Hong Kong |
| 2007 | Fashion Art from Korea 2007, Turkey Folklore Museum Gallery, Turkey GEUM-HONG & FRIENDS, Gana Art Space, Seoul, Korea |
| 2006 | Wired Imagination, Andrew Bae Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States Fashion Art from Korea 2006, Beijing Korean Culture Center, Beijing, China |
| 2005 | Grand Opening Exhibition of Gallery Bienvenu, New Orleans, Louisiana, United States Fashion is Art: Honoring the Visionaries with the Tribute to Excellence Award, The Walker Art Center, Minnesota, United States Air of the East: Fashion Art Exhibition, Universitat der Kunste Berlin, Germany |
| 2004 | Fashion Art, Hong Kong Arts Center, Hong Kong Metal Style, Le Conservatoire des Ocres et Pigments Appliqués, Roussillon-Vaucleuse, France |
| 2003 | Korea-Japan Textiles, Tigerman Gallery, Chicago, Illinois, United States Daegu Textile Art Documenta, Daegu, Korea, Korea Fashion Art, Design School Gallery, Vienna, Austria |
| 2002 | Air of Korea, Nepal Art Council, Kathmandu, Nepal Art to Wear, Hitotsubashi Kinen Kodo, Tokyo, Japan |
| 2001 | Baeck Sang Memorial Hall, Seoul, Korea Busan Fiber & Fashion Art Festival, Busan, Korea |
| 2000 | Air of the East, Parsons School of Design, New York Gwangju Biennale, Art to Wear Pavillion, Gwangju, Korea |
| 1999 | Body and Light, Seoul Metropolitan Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea Fashion Art, Haus der Kulturen, West Berlin, Germ |
| 1998 | Body and Cloth Narratives, Dong-A Gallery, Seoul, Korea |
| 1997 | Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea Korean Society of Costume, Seoul, Korea Fashion Art Festival, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea |
| 1996 | International Art to Wear Exhibition, Denmark National Museum, Copenhagen, Denmark |
| 1995 | Gwangju Biennale, Gwangju, Korea |
| 1990 | SKIN Exhibition, Dongduck Gallery, Seoul, Korea Silvermine Guild Arts Center, New Haven, Connecticut, United State |
