Kyungmin Sophia Son is a visual artist, born in 1988, South Korea, currnely living and working in London. Kyungmin graduated her MA in Sculpture from the Royal College of Art (2017), BA (Hons) Fine Art from Goldsmiths College (2014), and recently completed her MRes in Visual Cultures from Goldsmiths College (2020).
Kyungmin works on sculpture and spatial installation consist of multidisciplinary collage, digital imagery and creative writing. Her reserach practice focuses on posthuman discourse, environmentalism, post-Anthropocene and urgent climate change amid the ever growing techno-sphere on the surface of environmental decay. Kyungmin elaborates the status of ‘becoming’ within human and non-human relationships, traversing their expanded meaning within contemporary phenomena. Kyungmin endeavour to dismantle the social and political impact of an ever-expanding techno industry and explore the entanglement of nature, energy cycles and mystery and their transgressing realms and status, from terrestrial to planetary scale.
Kyungmin has been presented her work internationally, exhibitions in Kunsthal Charlottenborg in Coppenhagen DK, Snehta residency and exhibition in Athens GR, Barbican arts trusts, Camden Art centre, Coller Bristow in London GB and The Royal Edinburgh Sculpture Court, Scotland.
Kyungmin Sophia Son
1988. Born, South Korea
lives and works in London
kyungminsophia@gmail.com
+44 (0)7730438253
www.kyungminsophiason.com
www.kyungminsophiason.space
2019 - 2020 Goldsmiths College, Master of research, Visual Cultures
2015 - 2017 Royal College of Art, Master of Arts, Sculpture, London
2010 - 2014 Goldsmiths College of Art, Bachelor of Arts, Fine Art, London
EXHIBITION
2023 Swelled Sun: How to Sense the Invisible, Cylinder, Seoul
2022 - 2023 KCC 2022 Germany X UK, Begin Again, Korean Culture Centre, London
2022 KCC 2022 Germany X UK, Begin Again, Koreanisches Kulturzentrum, Berlin. July - August
2021 Bow Open, About-face: regroup, reorganise, reimagine. Nunnery Gallery, Oct-Dec, London
2019 'Inhale and Exhale' Kunsthal Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019, Copenhagen
2018 Art Works Open, Barbican Arts Group Trust, London
2018 Parlour Geometrique, Chiswick House and Garden, London
2018 Touch me, remind me who I am,SNEHTA Residency, curator Evita Tsokanta, Athens
2017 Show RCA 2017, Degree Show, Royal College of Art, London
2017 Open Studio, Camden Arts Centre, London
2016 Dialogues on the Threshold, The Crypt Gallery, London
2016 The Royal Edinburgh Sculpture Court, Edinburgh
2015 Borders are For Crossing, Studio RCA, London
2015 Running up that Building and Driving into the Pool, London
2014 Collyer Bristow Graduate Award and Exhibition 2014, Curated by Lucy Day & Eliza Gluckman, London, Oct-Jan 2015
2014 Goldsmiths Art Show, Degree Show, London
2011 Transplanted, Goldsmiths Extension Degree Show, London
EXPERIENCE
2022 Selected KCC Open Call Germany X UK 2022 - Begin Again
2019-2020 Junior Fellow, BA Fine Art, Goldsmiths College
2019 DATEAGLE MAGAZINE
2019 Selected Kunsthal Charlottenborg Spring Exhibition 2019, Copenhagen
2018Floorr Magazine interview with Stephen Feather at Floorr. Magazine https://www.floorrmagazine.com/issue-17/kyungmin-sophia-son
2018SNEHTA Residency, Feb-Mar,Athens
2016 Tutorial and Artist Talk, Camberwell College of Arts
2016 Artist Talk and Tutorial, Farnham School of Art
2016 Exchange program, Edinburgh College of Art
2015 Selected Art Slant, Sculpture
2014 Selected Top 50 2014,Blooom Award, Koln, Germany
2014 Selected Collier Bristow Graduate Award and Exhibition
2014 Bloomberg New Contemporary Artist 2014,short listed, ICA
2013 Master Class 2013, with Martha Rosler in New York, NYC
Kyungmin Sophia Son