Kim, Kwan Soo
1953 born in Seoul
B. F.A. College of Fine Arts Kyung Hee University
MA. Dept. of Fine Art, Hongik, UNIV.

Solo Exhibitions 10 times
Selected Art Fairs and Group Exhibitions
Invited to the Artkorea London 2017 London Le Dame Art Gallery, UK

Art Fairs
Scope Art Show Miami USA 2019
AAF Amsterdam 2019
Art Nordic 2019 Denmark
Art Context, New York 2017
AAF, Hong Kong 2017
AAF Brusel, Belgium 2017
Art Seoul Show, Coex, Seoul
AAF Hampstead London, UK
AAF, Singapore,
Miami Aqua, USA 2016

2016 Special Encore Exhibition from 80’s Hot Korean Contemporary artists (Korea National Museum)
1988 Venice Biennale as a Korean Contemporary young & potential Artist who was specially Invited as representative artist of Korean contemporary art by Venice Biennale Organizer.

More than 100 times he participated in various exhibitions in Korea and overseas.
He is not well known by paintings rather than famous for the installation artwork, one of representative of Korea and abroad as well. In fact, there was a funny story that his works pay attention to sotheby’s director about two decade ago, when Kim was young, Sotheby's director who was fascinated to much by his works, so he ever once visited his studio in order to collect his works, unfortunately after his work was completely dismantled because that was an installation work, so he had an unforgettable experience of losing a chance to sell for him as a big account. His installation as well known to audience titled as ‘Black box’ is became one of legend of Korean contemporary art fields, his works still are evolving far more than incalculable directions beyond unknown world.

Among Critic,
His saying that the black as a rhetoric is that his usage word in his artworks by one of fabricated means, that was adopted by myth or origin of civilization as a metaphoric describing context by he made. The black box is concern both the awe-inspiring to the natural phenomenon, soul, through its ritual approach in terms of the nature, by displaying a feel of subtle yearning in the black box, and was a process to verify the academic code in substance of asking, regarding the vanishing fragments of life.

His works are showing the relations between the boundary of civilization and nature that stands out clearness, is the subject what we have to overcome and compromise, both are a difficult thing for surviving and co-existing with the nature, which is the substance and the reason why it being. His symbolic white birch tree means the epic of civilization we eventually must be return to the innocent of nature.
80’s contemporary art in Korea, as he was successfully debuted by inviting to a great art event in the world, taking the eye of ‘Venis Biennalle’ organizer, it was a topic news in Korea, because he was a young genius artist in Korea. Anyway he has deviated from the past reputation, focusing on new method of art works, therefore majority people who addicts to his magical amending and experimental method on the surface of painting by his exquisite hand by exploring the post- world beyond the limit of art trends, which means his depiction lies in the antipode between reality and artificial by nature and civilization, they lead us to the world of image. Recently his works are sold a lot, acclaimed by collectors and galleries, the public as well.