Namjoo Kim
201-819-9239
Born in Korea, Joo received her BFA and MFA from Hongik University in Seoul before moving to New York in 1993. At the School of Visual Arts Graduate School, she explored installation and video art, experiences that continue to inform the spatial and reflective qualities of her practice. After working professionally in fashion design as a CAD designer, she returned fully to her own artwork. Since 2010, Joo has been creating paintings on mirrors, using the medium as both material and metaphor to examine themes of identity, memory, and self-reflection. She has exhibited her work in solo and selected group exhibitions in Korea, New York, and New Jersey.
Solo Exhibitions
2024 "vivace" Artfield Gallery ,Seoul
2024 "Water ,Moon, Mirror, Flower" Something Sweet ,Gallery Chang
2024 "vivace" Gala Art Center, Queens, New York
2023 "mirrorscape" Gallery GwangHwaMun,Seoul
2023 "dream in", Gallery H, Seoul
2021 “mirrorscape”, KCC Gallery, Tenafly, New Jersey
1996 School of Visual Arts Gallery, New York.
1993 Chung Nam gallery, Seoul
1991 Now Gallery, Seoul
Artfair
2025 Kiaf Seoul Mizuma& Kips Gallery New York
2023 Kiaf Seoul Mizuma& Kips Gallery New York
Collaboration Exhibition
1996 1st “Voiceless” Noho Gallery,New York
1999 2st “Voiceless” Studioventicinque, Milan,Italy
Group Exhibition
2022 “Hongik Root 41st” HOMA, Seoul
2022 Homage Klimt,ACC Gallery,NJ
2021 “WE RISE” One Art Space, NY,NY
2021 “공감”,Artleon, Seoul
2021 “MORA”,Museum of Contemporary Art,Jersey City,NJ
2021 “Hongik Root 40th” HOMA, Seoul
2020 The Language of Color, Gallery KCC, NJ
2020 The Language of Color, Gallery Elim Pop-up Show, NJ
2020 Holiday Gift, Daall Gallery in Cherryhill,NJ
2019 NJ Seoul: New Art from the Korean Diaspora , Gallery Bergen in Paramus,NJ
2018 3rd.ETUDE "Life in America", Riverside gallery,NJ
2007 Fall Art Show for helping the poorest children with World Vision, ACC gallery, NJ
1998 “On the Threshold”, Generous Miracles Gallery, New York
1997 Group Show, Reggio Gallery, New York
1996 Dialogue-16 Variables Gallery, New York
1996 MFA Special Projects, Visual Arts Gallery, New York
1996 “Seams” Open Studio, New York
1993 Chungnam in the early Spring, Chungnam Gallary, Seoul
1992 “Nature, Human and Art”, Sonamoo Gallery, Seoul
“Sence & response”, Hansun Gallery, Seoul
90’s Art, Course and Group, Chungnam Gallery, Seoul
1991 New Paragon, Na Gallery, Seoul
Message & Media, Kwanhoon Gallery,Seoul
Development and Extention Of Contemporary Art, Kum-Ho Gallery, Seoul
1990 The 9th Korea Art Grand Prize Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Art,Kwachon
Gallery, Seoul
Unwilling a Spring, Now Gallery, Seoul
The 2nd Exhibition of Time & Space, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul
The 3rd Union for the Tomorrow, Chungnam Gallery
The 4th Union for the Tomorrow, Indeco Gallery
“C-516”,Sonamoo Gallery, Seoul
The Cupid, Gallery Doll, Seoul
The Cupid, Gallery Fine, Seoul
The Cupid, sonamoo Gallery, Seoul
1989 The 16th Independents Exhibition, National Museum of Modern Arts, Kwachon
Contemporary Print making of Grand Exhibition, Fine Arts Center, Seoul
Award
1990 Award of the Korea Art Grand Prize Competition, National Museum of Modern Art, Seoul
1989 Award of the National Univ. Art Competition, Seoul
1989 Award of the Contemporary Print Making of Grand Prize Competition, Fine Arts Center,
Seoul
Education
1996 SVA, Master Degree of Fine Arts, New York
1992 Hongik University, Master Degree of Fine Arts, Seoul
1990 Hongik University, Bachelors Degree of Fine Arts, Seoul