Soo Kim uses photography as her starting point, but imbues her works with elements that challenge the notion of a simple snapshot. Light, shadow, color, mood, or narrative work complicate what we see in any given image and how we understand the visual nature of our environments.
Soo Kim was born in Seoul, Korea. She moved to Los Angles in 1980, where she received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts, and where she now teaches at Otis College of Art and Design. Her work has been featured internationally, including exhibitions at the North Carolina Museum of Art, the Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center, Vassar College, NY, Bandits-mages, Bourges, France, and the Orange County Museum of Art. Soo has a six year old daughter named Chaerim, and makes a lovely cup of tea in her light-filled dining room, where she works, and we always feel at home.
