mihyun maria kim

mihyun maria kim researches (un)translatable affects shaped by languages entangled with unresolved historical grief and transmissions of longing. Her research and creation activities are currently focused on Korean han in relation to Portuguese saudade and German sehnsucht. Exhaustion of the body, repetition of gestures, fragments of hi/stories, and suspended feelings are explored as forms between memory and imagination as interpretations across space and time. Through relational methodology, her multivocal outcomes take in/visible form in poetry, painting, performance/activations, audio/video, site-specific installation, community-based round tables, and public art.

Biography

mihyun maria kim is an interdisciplinary artist who explores intergenerational effects, 'hi/stories' and translatability. She has had solo exhibitions at Strathcona County Gallery, Red Head, and La Figurativa (Spain) and participated in international group shows at Palazzo Ca'Zanardi (Italy) and Centre d'Art Marnay Art Centre (France). Her site-specific works include Tea Cups for a Cuppa Tea at Gibson House and Remembering Four Sisters at Lakeview Village. Maria was in residence at Villa Villekulla in 2024, at the RBC Emerging Artist Network at the Power Plant from 2022 to 2023, and at Can Serrat from 2017 to 2018. She holds a BFA in drawing and painting and an MFA in interdisciplinary art from OCADU.

Recent exhibitions

2025	Illud Tempis, group exhibition, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, CA
2024	Translations of Han, solo exhibition, Strathcona County Gallery, Sherwood Park, CA Patina, group exhibition, Cafeteria, Toronto, CA Lâcher les Mouches, group exhibition, Villa Villekulla, Faucogney-et-la-Mer, FR Residual Han, solo exhibition, Red Head Gallery, Toronto, CA
2023	Finalists in the Kingston Prize for Contemporary Canadian Portraiture Competition, group exhibition, Firehall Theatre, Gananoque, CA Brea[d]th of Han, solo exhibition, John B. Aird Gallery, Toronto, CA Measure of Han, solo exhibition, Ignite Gallery, Toronto, CA
2022	Circularity of (un)knowing, group exhibition, Mayten's Project Gallery, Toronto, CA Tea Cups for a Cuppa Tea, in situ solo installation, Gibson House Museum, Toronto, CA
2020	Single Out, solo exhibition, Collision Gallery, Toronto, CA AKIN Collective, group exhibition, Collision Gallery, Toronto, CA 42e exposition annuelle avec jury de VAM, group exhibition, Art Gallery of Mississauga, Mississauga, CA