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Na Kim (b. 1979) is an artist and designer based in Berlin and Seoul. She collects objects, events, texts, and images found in everyday life, exploring the relationship between discord and order within them. Grounded in the language of design, she experiments at the intersection where it meets the grammar of art, expanding the possibilities of visual thinking through various media. Her work takes form in installations, publications, documentation, and other formats. Kim is represented by Kukje Gallery and runs the project space LOOM in Berlin.


Education
2008 M.Des in Typography, ArtEZ Werkplaats Typografie, Arnhem, The Netherlands
2004 M.F.A. in Visual Communication Design, Hongik University, Seoul, Korea
2000 B.S. in Industrial Design, KAIST, Daejeon, Korea

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2026 Oblique Time, KAIST Art Museum, Daejeon, Korea
2024 Easy Heavy, Kukje Gallery, Busan, Korea
2023 TYVMXZU!!, Efremidis, Berlin, Germany
2023 TESTER, DOOSAN Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 OUTSIDE IN: FFC on 6, 7, 8, ICA, Philadelphia, US
2020 Bottomless Bag, Buk-Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 SET, DOOSAN Gallery, New York, US
2014 THE SHOW-ROOM, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2011 Found Abstracts, Gallery Factory, Seoul, Korea

Selected Group Exhibitions
2019 The Politics of Ornament, Lisbon Architecture Triennale, Lisbon, Portugal
2019 Humanity for Next Generation, Gwangju Design Biennale, Gwangju, Korea
2017 Production City, Seoul Biennale of Architecture and Urbanism, Seoul, Korea
2016 wellknown unknown, Kukje Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2016 Graphic Design, 2005-2015, Seoul, llmin Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Korea Now!, Les Arts Decoratifs, Paris, France
2014 Human, Space, Machine–Stage Experiments at the Bauhaus, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2013 Suitable Forms, Common Center, Seoul, Korea
2013 Design; Another Language, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2013 Memory Palace, V&A Museum, London, UK
2012 Life: A User’s Manual, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2012 Millennium Magazines, The Museum of Modern Art, New York, US
2011 Graphic Design Worlds, Milan Triennale Museum, Milan, Italy

Selected Awards & Residencies
2024 Amant Siena Residency Program, Siena, Italy
2016- Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI), Member
2015 DOOSAN Residency Program, New York, US
2014 Today’s Young Artist Award, Ministry of Culture, Sports and Tourism, Seoul, Korea
2013 Doosan Yonkang Arts Awards, Seoul, Korea

Selected Collections
Die Neue Sammlung–The Design Museum, Munich, DE
MMCA Art Bank, Seoul, KR
MoMA Library, New York, US
Musée des Arts décoratifs, Paris, FR
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, KR
Tartu Art Museum, Tartu, EE