Literature/Visual Art

Ho Bin Kim
hk1983nyu.edu
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ย  ย Ho Bin Kim (b. 1996) is a novelist represented by Curtis Brown (UK/Worldwide) and Duran Kim Agency (Korea). He is also a multidisciplinary visual artist exploring various media experimentally, crossing the boundaries between literature and visual arts. To Ho Bin, everything is literature and he expresses this through different artistic mediums, including painting, video, and installation art. His work aims to break existing conventions and promote a more liberated and authentic way of being, ultimately seeking to transcend metaphysical questions of human existence.

ย  ย In his literary work, he primarily deals with existentialism, absurdism, and nihilism, drawing upon his experiences growing up in Korea, Japan, and the United States, as well as studying in China for five years. He addresses themes of power, oppression, and manipulation observed in these countries through both his writing and exhibitions. Particularly, he uses books, news, and videos from mass media to create satirical narratives that critique the negative effects of mass media, while also conducting social research based on systems related to art, databases, and the relationship between social consciousness and individual identity through media.ย 

ย  ย His work has been exhibited at the 15th Gwangju Biennale German Pavilion, 2nd Seoul Art&Tech Festival as well as various solo and group exhibitions. He also participated in the UNESCO Media Art Residency and Swatch Art Peace Hotel Residency in Shanghai. Currently, he is attending Artist Residency in Enschede (ARE). Through these residency experiences, he has exchanged ideas with various artists, gaining artistic inspiration and pushing self-proclaimed boundaries.

ย  ย Ho Bin Kim is dedicated to expanding his unique worlds of visual art and literature, striving to pioneer new artistic realms. His work transcends existing boundaries, prompting deep reflection in viewers while offering the possibility of a more liberated and authentic existence.ย 

ย  ย Currently, he is working on the โ€œReality Sandwichโ€ documentary series and a three-year film diary project titled โ€œThe Words of a 28-Year-Old Artist.โ€


Solo Exhibition
2024 <Film-Literature/Archival Ghost>, Horanggasy Glass&Base Polygon, Gwangju
2024 ใ€ŠThis is not ใ€ˆMMCA Hyundai Motor Series 2023: Jung Yeondoo - One Hundred Years of Travelใ€‰, but ใ€ˆEntirely Self-Funded Series 2024: Ho Bin Kim - One Hundred days of Travelใ€‰ใ€‹, FF, Seoul
2023 <Ggondae: Revolution>, Gallery P1_Seoul, Seoul
2022 <Ggondae>, Horrangassy Glass Polygon, Gwangju
2021 <SALT>, Junggu Culture Center, Ulsan

Group Exhibition
2025 <B93 Anno Nu>, Kunstenaarsinitiatief B93, Enschede
2025 <Ep.5 Reality Sandwich: ABC Nameless Timeout>, 'Luo Tuo Xiang Zi' Project, Shanghai
2024 <PACER Test>, 15th Gwangju Biennale German Pavilion, Gwangju ย 
2024 <Bad Timekeepers>, TINC (This is Not Church), Seoul
2024 <Encased Narratives: From Gwangju to Bacolod>, Overlab, Gwangju
2024 <Cheon Kyung-Ja Centennial Special Exhibition>, Goheung Art Center, Goheung
2024 <Ep.2 Reality Sandwich: Sรกndwich de Realidad>, KYFF (Korea Youth Film Festival), Seoul
2024 <Walking on the Street>, Third Street Gallery, Shanghai
2024 <Ripple>, ย Lian Gallery (Sigma Gallery & Vanke), Hangzhou
2024 <Edible Enigma>, ย Aspace, New York
2024 <8.8>, Swatch Art Peace Hotel, Shanghai
2023 <Life>, Horanggassy 10th year special exhibition, Horranggassy Base Polygon, Gwangju
2023 <Yellow Peril>, 2nd Seoul Art and Tech Festival Unfold X, Cultural Station 284, Seoul
2022 <Behind the Wall -A Prefabricated Scene>, Asia Culture Center, Gwangju (Script)
2021 <STOOL: the Embroilment of the Tangible, the Animate, and the Literal>, Gallery P1, Ulsan

Research
2024 ย Research trip to Bacolod, Philippines, funded by Overlab Gwangju
2023 ย <Lazy Guyโ€™s Stool>, Literary Magazine, Hae Nam
2022 <Book Reading Man and Woman>, Jeonil building 245, Gwangju
2022 <Throw Away Your Concerns At Me>, Josun University, Gwangju

Residency
2025 Artist Residencies Enschede (ARE), Enschede
2024 Swatch Art Peace Hotel Artist Residency, Shanghai
2023 Seoul Prince Hotel Authorโ€™s Room, Seoul
2023 UNESCO Gwangju Media Art Platform (GMAP), Gwangju
2023 Baekryunjae House of Literature, Hae Nam
2022 Horanggasy Namu Creative Residency, Gwangju





๊น€ํ˜ธ๋นˆ (1996~)์€ ํ˜„์žฌ Curtis Brown (์˜๊ตญ/์„ธ๊ณ„)๊ณผ Duran Kim Agency(ํ•œ๊ตญ)์— ์†Œ์†๋œ ์†Œ์„ค๊ฐ€์ด์ž ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€๋กœ, ๋ฌธํ•™๊ณผ ์‹œ๊ฐ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ๋„˜๋‚˜๋“ค๋ฉฐ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ์‹คํ—˜์ ์œผ๋กœ ํƒ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊น€ํ˜ธ๋นˆ์—๊ฒŒ ์žˆ์–ด ๋ชจ๋“  ๊ฒƒ์€ ๋ฌธํ•™์ด๋ฉฐ, ๊ทธ๋Š” ์ด๋ฅผ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ ํšŒํ™”, ์˜์ƒ, ์„ค์น˜๋ฏธ์ˆ  ๋“ฑ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ๋งค์ฒด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์„ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘์—…์€ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ํ‹€์„ ๊นจ๊ณ , ๋” ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ์ง„์ •์„ฑ ์žˆ๋Š” ์กด์žฌ ๋ฐฉ์‹์„ ์ถ”๊ตฌํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ๊ถ๊ทน์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์ธ๊ฐ„์˜ ์‹ค์กด๊ณผ ๋ฉ”ํƒ€ํ”ผ์ง์Šค(ํ˜•์ด์ƒํ•™)์  ์งˆ๋ฌธ์„ ์ดˆ์›”(ํŠธ๋žœ์„ผ๋“œ)ํ•˜๋Š” ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์„ ๋ชฉํ‘œ๋กœ ํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ย  ย  ๋ฌธํ•™์ ์œผ๋กœ๋Š” ์‹ค์กด์ฃผ์˜, ๋ถ€์กฐ๋ฆฌ์ฃผ์˜, ํ—ˆ๋ฌด์ฃผ์˜๋ฅผ ์ฃผ๋กœ ๋‹ค๋ฃจ๋ฉฐ, ํ•œ๊ตญ, ์ผ๋ณธ, ๋ฏธ๊ตญ์—์„œ ์ž๋ผ๊ณ  ์ค‘๊ตญ์—์„œ 5๋…„๊ฐ„ ์œ ํ•™ํ•œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ๋ฐ”ํƒ•์œผ๋กœ, ๊ฐ๊ตญ์—์„œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜ํ•œ ๊ถŒ๋ ฅ, ์–ต์••, ์—ฌ๋ก  ์กฐ์ž‘ ๋“ฑ์˜ ์ฃผ์ œ๋ฅผ ๋ฌธํ•™๊ณผ ์ „์‹œ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ํ’€์–ด๋‚ด๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํŠนํžˆ ๋งค์Šค ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์˜ ์ฑ…, ๋‰ด์Šค, ์˜์ƒ ๋“ฑ์„ ํ™œ์šฉํ•˜์—ฌ ๋Œ€์ค‘๋งค์ฒด์˜ ๋ถ€์ •์  ํšจ๊ณผ๋ฅผ ํ’์ž์ ์ธ ๋‚ด๋Ÿฌํ‹ฐ๋ธŒ๋กœ ํ‘œํ˜„ํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ณผ ๊ด€๋ จ๋œ ์‹œ์Šคํ…œ, ๋ฐ์ดํ„ฐ๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ๊ธฐ๋ฐ˜์˜ ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ๋ฆฌ์„œ์น˜, ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์‚ฌํšŒ์  ์˜์‹๊ณผ ๊ฐœ์ธ์˜ ์ •์ฒด์„ฑ ๊ฐ„์˜ ๊ด€๊ณ„์„ฑ์„ ์—ฐ๊ตฌํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ย  ย ์ž‘๊ฐ€์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ์ œ 15ํšŒ ๊ด‘์ฃผ๋น„์—”๋‚ ๋ ˆ ๋…์ผ ํŒŒ๋นŒ๋ฆฌ์˜จ, ์ œ2ํšŒ ์„œ์šธ์œตํ•ฉ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ํŽ˜์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ฒŒ๊ณผ ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ๊ตญ์ œ/๊ตญ๋‚ด ๊ฐœ์ธ์ „, ๊ทธ๋ฃน์ „์—์„œ ์ „์‹œ๋œ ๋ฐ” ์žˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ ์œ ๋„ค์Šค์ฝ” ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด ์•„ํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ ์™€ ์ƒํ•ด์— ์œ„์น˜ํ•œ ์Šค์™€์น˜ ์•„ํŠธ ํ”ผ์Šค ํ˜ธํ…” ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ์— ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ–ˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ํ˜„์ œ ์—”์Šคํ—จ๋ฐ์— ์žˆ๋Š” ARE (Artist Residency Enschede) ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ์— ์ฐธ๊ฐ€ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ์ด๋Ÿฌํ•œ ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ ๊ฒฝํ—˜์„ ํ†ตํ•ด ๋‹ค์–‘ํ•œ ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ๋“ค๊ณผ ๊ต๋ฅ˜ํ•˜๋ฉฐ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ์˜๊ฐ์„ ์–ป์—ˆ์œผ๋ฉฐ, ์ด ๊ฐ™์€ ๊ธฐํšŒ๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์Šค์Šค๋กœ ์„ค์ •ํ•œ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ํ™•์žฅํ•ด ์™”์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค..

ย  ย  ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” ์ž์‹ ๋งŒ์˜ ์‹œ๊ฐ์˜ˆ์ˆ  ์„ธ๊ณ„์™€ ๋ฌธํ•™ ์„ธ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ์ƒํ˜ธ ํ™•์žฅํ•˜๋ฉฐ, ์ด๋ฅผ ํ†ตํ•ด ์ƒˆ๋กœ์šด ์˜ˆ์ˆ ์  ๊ฒฝ์ง€๋ฅผ ๊ฐœ์ฒ™ํ•˜๋ ค๋Š” ๋…ธ๋ ฅ์„ ์ง€์†ํ•˜๊ณ  ์žˆ์Šต๋‹ˆ๋‹ค. ๊ทธ์˜ ์ž‘ํ’ˆ์€ ๊ธฐ์กด์˜ ๊ฒฝ๊ณ„๋ฅผ ๋„˜์–ด์„œ๊ณ , ๊ด€๊ฐ์—๊ฒŒ ๊นŠ์€ ์„ฑ์ฐฐ์„ ์œ ๋„ํ•˜๋Š” ๋™์‹œ์— ๋” ์ž์œ ๋กญ๊ณ  ์ง„์ •ํ•œ ์‚ถ์˜ ๊ฐ€๋Šฅ์„ฑ์„ ์ œ์‹œํ•ฉ๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.

ย  ย  ํ˜„์žฌ ์ž‘๊ฐ€๋Š” <๋ฆฌ์–ผ๋ฆฌํ‹ฐ ์ƒŒ๋“œ์œ„์น˜> ๋‹คํ๋ฉ˜ํ„ฐ๋ฆฌ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ์™€ 3๋…„๊ฐ„์˜ ํ•„๋ฆ„ ์ผ๊ธฐ ํ”„๋กœ์ ํŠธ์ธ <28์„ธ ์˜ˆ์ˆ ๊ฐ€์˜ ๋ง>์„ ์ž‘์—… ์ค‘์ž…๋‹ˆ๋‹ค.ย 


๊ฐœ์ธ์ „

2024 <Film-Literature/Archival Ghost>, ํ˜ธ๋ž‘๊ฐ€์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ธ€๋ž˜์Šค&๋ฒ ์ด์Šค ํด๋ฆฌ๊ณค, ๊ด‘์ฃผ

2024 ใ€Š์ด๊ฒƒ์€ ใ€ˆMMCA ํ˜„๋Œ€์ฐจ ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ 2023 ์ •์—ฐ๋‘ - ๋ฐฑ๋…„ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ธฐใ€‰ ย ์•„๋‹ˆ๊ณ  ใ€ˆ๋ณธ์ธ๋ถ€๋‹ด ์‹œ๋ฆฌ์ฆˆ 2024 ๊น€ํ˜ธ๋นˆ - ๋ฐฑ์ผ ์—ฌํ–‰๊ธฐใ€‰ ย ์ด๋กœ๋‹คใ€‹, FF ์„์ง€๋กœ, ์„œ์šธ

2023 <Ggondae: Revolution>, Gallery P1, ์„œ์šธ

2022 <Ggondae>, ํ˜ธ๋ž‘๊ฐ€์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๊ธ€๋ž˜์Šค ํด๋ฆฌ๊ณค, ๊ด‘์ฃผ

2021 <SALT>, ์ค‘๊ตฌ๋ฌธํ™”์„ผํ„ฐ, ์šธ์‚ฐ



๊ทธ๋ฃน์ „

2025 <B93 Anno Nu>, ์ฟค์Šคํ…Œ๋‚˜๋ฅด์‹œ๋‹ˆํ‹ฐ์—ํ”„ B93, ์—”์Šคํ—ค๋ฐ

2025 <Ep.5 Reality Sandwich: ABC Nameless Timeout>, โ€˜Luo Tuo Xiang Ziโ€™ Project, ์ƒํ•ด

2024 <ํŽ˜์ด์„œ ํ…Œ์ŠคํŠธ>, 15ํšŒ ๊ด‘์ฃผ๋น„์—”๋‚ ๋ ˆ ๋…์ผ ํŒŒ๋นŒ๋ฆฌ์˜จ, ๊ด‘์ฃผ

2024 <Bad Timekeepers>, TINC (This is Not Church), ์„œ์šธ

2024 <๊ฐ‡ํ˜€์ง„ ์„œ์‚ฌ: ๊ด‘์ฃผ์—์„œ ๋ฐ”์ฝœ๋กœ๋“œ๊นŒ์ง€>, ์˜ค๋ฒ„๋žฉ, ๊ด‘์ฃผ

2024 <์ฒญ๋…„์ž‘๊ฐ€ 80์ธ, ์ฒœ์žฌํ™”๊ฐ€ ์ฒœ๊ฒฝ์ž ๊ธฐ๋ฆฌ๊ณ , ๊ทธ๋ฆฌ๋‹ค> ๊ณ ํฅ์•„ํŠธ์„ผํ„ฐ, ๊ณ ํฅ

2024 <Ep.2 Reality Sandwich: Sรกndwich de Realidad> KYFF (Korea Youth Film Festival), ์„œ์šธ

2024 <Walking on the Street>, Third Street Gallery, ์ƒํ•ดย 

2024 <Ripple>, Lian Gallery (Sigma Gallery & Vanke), ํ•ญ์ €์šฐ

2024 <Edible Enigma>, Aspace, ๋‰ด์š•

2024 <8.8>, ์Šค์™€์น˜ ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ ๊ตฌ๋ฃน์ „, ์ƒํ•ด

2023 <Life>, ํ˜ธ๋ž‘๊ฐ€์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฌด์ฐฝ์ž‘์†Œ 10์ฃผ๋…„ ๊ธฐ๋…์ „, ํ˜ธ๋ž‘๊ฐ€์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฌด ๋ฒ ์ด์Šคํด๋ฆฌ๊ณค, ๊ด‘์ฃผ

2023 <Yellow Peril>, ์ œ2ํšŒ์„œ์šธ์œตํ•ฉ์˜ˆ์ˆ ํŽ˜์Šคํ‹ฐ๋ฒŒ ์–ธํด๋“œ X, ย ๋ฌธํ™”์—ญ์„œ์šธ284, ์„œ์šธ

2022 <Behind The Wall - A Prefabricated Scene> ์•„์‹œ์•„๋ฌธํ™”์ „๋‹น, ๊ด‘์ฃผ (์Šคํฌ๋ฆฝํŠธ)

2021 <STOOL: the Embroilment of the Tangible, the Animate, and the Literal>, Gallery P1, ์šธ์‚ฐ



์—ฐ๊ตฌ

2024 ํ•„๋ฆฌํ•€ ๋ฐ”์ฝœ๋กœ๋“œ ์—ฐ๊ตฌ ํŠธ๋ฆฝ, ์˜ค๋ฒ„๋žฉ, ๋ฐ”์ฝœ๋กœ๋“œ

2023 <Lazy Guyโ€™s Stool>, ๋ฌธํ•™์†Œ์‹์ง€, ํ•ด๋‚จ

2022 <์ฑ… ์ฝ์–ด์ฃผ๋Š” ๋‚จ์ž ์—ฌ์ž>, ์ „์ผ๋นŒ๋”ฉ 245, ๊ด‘์ฃผ

2022 <์ €์—๊ฒŒ ๊ณ ๋ฏผ์„ ๋ฒ„๋ ค์ฃผ์„ธ์š”>, ์กฐ์„ ๋Œ€ํ•™๊ต, ๊ด‘์ฃผ



๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ

2025 ์•„ํ‹ฐ์ŠคํŠธ ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ ์—”์Šคํ—ค๋ฐ (ARE), ์—”์Šคํ—ค๋ฐ

2024 ์Šค์™€์น˜ ์•„ํŠธ ํ”ผ์Šค ํ˜ธํ…” ๋ ˆ์ง€๋˜์‹œ, ์ƒํ•ด

2023 ์„œ์šธ ํ”„๋ฆฐ์Šคํ˜ธํ…” ์†Œ์„ค๊ฐ€์˜๋ฐฉ, ์„œ์šธย 

2023 ์œ ๋„ค์Šค์ฝ” ๊ด‘์ฃผ๋ฏธ๋””์–ด์•„ํŠธํ”Œ๋žซํผ G.MAP, ๊ด‘์ฃผ

2023 ๋ฐฑ๋ จ์žฌ ๋ฌธํ•™์˜ ์ง‘, ํ•ด๋‚จ

2022 ํ˜ธ๋ž‘๊ฐ€์‹œ๋‚˜๋ฌด ์ฐฝ์ž‘์†Œ, ๊ด‘์ฃผ