Moon Hee Kim
Artist Statement:
I am an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is exploring the notion of climate change by combining a wide range of media to create site-specific and site-responsive installations. A technique essential to my practice is producing oil paintings, sculptural objects, and documentary photographs and videos from observing site-specific and site-responsive installations. They are both connected to interpreting my personal experience with a deep social commitment. When interpreting my personal experience visually, still-life paintings and metal sculptures play a major role. My research focus is to explore the notion of Humans and Non-humans’ separation that causes disagreements concerning the concept of climate change. The source of inconsistencies can be examined from the notion of interdependence and pessimism around its inseparability, which is one of the most fundamental issues to global environmental challenges. The emphasis on my artistic practice is on the receptivity and responsiveness of the viewers. I hope to invite them on a journey to experience the standpoint of the socio-political and cultural movements of the period from "'Great Acceleration' to the present day. More than ever, our future depends on our wiliness to participate in public discourse on climate justice and make lifestyle choices. Please join me in pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle through my art.
I am an interdisciplinary artist whose practice is exploring the notion of climate change by combining a wide range of media to create site-specific and site-responsive installations. A technique essential to my practice is producing oil paintings, sculptural objects, and documentary photographs and videos from observing site-specific and site-responsive installations. They are both connected to interpreting my personal experience with a deep social commitment. When interpreting my personal experience visually, still-life paintings and metal sculptures play a major role. My research focus is to explore the notion of Humans and Non-humans’ separation that causes disagreements concerning the concept of climate change. The source of inconsistencies can be examined from the notion of interdependence and pessimism around its inseparability, which is one of the most fundamental issues to global environmental challenges. The emphasis on my artistic practice is on the receptivity and responsiveness of the viewers. I hope to invite them on a journey to experience the standpoint of the socio-political and cultural movements of the period from "'Great Acceleration' to the present day. More than ever, our future depends on our wiliness to participate in public discourse on climate justice and make lifestyle choices. Please join me in pursuit of a sustainable lifestyle through my art.
Artist Bio:Moon Hee is an interdisciplinary artist based in Boston and New York. She has lived in different parts of the world including the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, South Korea and the Mexican Caribbean. Living in various coastal areas of the world, she has faced many challenges due to beach erosion, seawater pollution, and rising seawater temperatures. As an open water scuba diver, she has witnessed a marked decrease in the number of fishes and sea turtles over the last decade.
After receiving a Master of Science degree in Hospitality Marketing Management, her career focus was on sustainable hospitality development. She became passionate about nature conservation and the interrelationship between travel and the local communities through community-based arts activities.
Her works have won numerous awards, which were invited by notable art exhibitions. Moon Hee continues to demonstrate her deeply-held concerns about pressing environmental issues, evoking the relationship between humans and objects affected by issues of climate change, which is one of our major social issues. Her current artistic practice involves still-life paintings, sculptural objects, and documentary photographs and videos from observing site-specific and site-responsive installations.
Moon Hee shows her work regularly at Galatea Fine Art gallery in Boston, and her work has been exhibited at galleries and venues, including the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University Art Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts at Harvard University, Boston City Hall, Kathryn Schultz Gallery and University Place Gallery at Cambridge Art Association, Mana Wynwood Convention Center in Miami, and Vermont Studio Center.
She holds an MFA degree from the SMFA at Tufts University and a BFA degree with Academic Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
After receiving a Master of Science degree in Hospitality Marketing Management, her career focus was on sustainable hospitality development. She became passionate about nature conservation and the interrelationship between travel and the local communities through community-based arts activities.
Her works have won numerous awards, which were invited by notable art exhibitions. Moon Hee continues to demonstrate her deeply-held concerns about pressing environmental issues, evoking the relationship between humans and objects affected by issues of climate change, which is one of our major social issues. Her current artistic practice involves still-life paintings, sculptural objects, and documentary photographs and videos from observing site-specific and site-responsive installations.
Moon Hee shows her work regularly at Galatea Fine Art gallery in Boston, and her work has been exhibited at galleries and venues, including the Aidekman Arts Center at Tufts University Art Gallery, Carpenter Center for the Arts at Harvard University, Boston City Hall, Kathryn Schultz Gallery and University Place Gallery at Cambridge Art Association, Mana Wynwood Convention Center in Miami, and Vermont Studio Center.
She holds an MFA degree from the SMFA at Tufts University and a BFA degree with Academic Honors from Massachusetts College of Art and Design.
