Cecilia Kim is a video artist working in South Bend, Indiana. Born in Seoul, South Korea, Kim has lived in Australia, England, Singapore, and the United States. She received her MFA from Virginia Commonwealth University and BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago.  
 
Kim’s video installation work deals with spaces of otherness. Her practice involves intimate relationships with friends and family, and exchange for gestures of vulnerable honesty. Kim investigates structures of belonging,  as she reclaims the Korean origins beneath layers of her transnational, nomadic life. Language is a significant part of the work through written and spoken text. Kim examines the failures of language, contemplating what is lost through translation.

Kim is a 2021-23 Hamiltonian Artists Fellow and WPA Wherewithal Grantee. She was awarded The 19th Trawick Prize: Bethesda Contemporary Art Award. Her work has been shown in solo and group shows including Museum of Contemporary Art Arlington’s 2022 National Biennial, The Immigrant Artist Biennial, Hamiltonian Artists (Washington, D.C.), The Anderson (Richmond, VA), Kaplan Gallery (Rockville, MD), and Pluripotent Art Space (Seoul, Korea). Kim has participated at Ox-Bow School of Art and Artists’ Residency, Corsicana Artist and Writer Residency, and Virginia Center for Creative Arts Residency. She currently teaches at the University of Notre Dame.


email: ceciliakimh@gmail.com


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