GJ Kimsunken
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GJ Kimsunken - Works on Paper
ONLINE VIEWING ROOM 28 Jul - 10 Sep 2022An online viewing room featuring GJ Kimsunken's luminous works on paper, concurrently running alongside the artist's solo exhibition of canvas works in the gallery space. ENTER VIEWING ROOM >Read more -
GJ Kimsunken - Figuration
Solo Exhibition 23 Jul - 10 Sep 2022Yi Gallery is pleased to present Figuration, an extraordinary body of new paintings by GJ Kimsunken. This is Kimsunken's first solo show in New York. The opening, at which the...Read more -
Where We Meet Ourselves
Debra Ramsay + GJ Kimsunken Two - Person Exhibition 15 Oct - 21 Nov 2021Yi Gallery is delighted to present a two-person exhibition by Debra Ramsay and GJ Kimsunken in the gallery’s new space, located in Brooklyn’s Industry City. Where We Meet Ourselves features...Read more -
Artists for #StopAsianHate
Fundraising Exhibition 18 Mar - 18 May 2021A horrific and heartbreaking surge in violence against Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders (AAPI) is happening across the US. ‘Artists for #StopAsianHate’ is an initiative to raise funds in support...Read more -
The Art of Quarantine
#ArtKeepsGoing - Also On View via ARTSY 20 Apr - 10 Jun 2020Yi Gallery is pleased to present The Art of Quarantine, an online group exhibition of works made during home quarantine between March and May, 2020. Responding to the conditions of self-isolation, the artists from different parts of the world in this exhibition have continued to create. These new, intimate and richly layered works reflect the psychological conditions surrounding the times we live in. The very act of continuing to work under constraints and social distancing suggests hope, solidarity, healing and possibilities.Read more
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 22. 15, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled (head), 2022
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 22. 12, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 22. 8 (head), 2022
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 22. 16 (legs), 2022
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 22. 13 (shoulder), 2022
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 22. 17, 2022
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 22. 18 (Otherness), 2022
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 21. 2, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 21. 27, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 21. 31 (son), 2021
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 21. 15, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 21. 13, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2021
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled (blue), 2020
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 20.3, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 20.2, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 20.10, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 20. 19, 2020
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 8, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 18. 18, 2018
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 11 (Victor), 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 12, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 14, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 15, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 19, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 20, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 21, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19. 7, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenFiguration 19.1, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2019
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GJ KimsunkenUntitled, 2019
Seoul-born, New Jersey-based artist GJ Kimsunken (b. 1985) creates luminous, minimalistic canvases that obliquely reference the human figure, hovering hauntingly between representation and abstraction. In Kimsunken’s work, he asks questions about our human existence: who we are, why we are and what we are for. With an emphasis on raising the physical matter to the height of the human spirit, Kimsunken investigates the relationship between the paint material and the passage of time. His agonizingly simple gestures result in compositions that are lean and austere, yet immersive and generous in nature. Crafted with humane precision attuned to minute imperfections, Kimsunken’s paintings are thick in texture and succulently layered. These qualities gently reinforce the implication of bodily presence, which Kimsunken examines with subtlety and grace. Kimsunken received his MFA from the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture in 2010, and an BFA from the National Art School in Sydney, Australia in 2008. Kimsunken currently lives and works in New Jersey. His work has been featured in galleries and institutional exhibitions around the world.
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GJ Kimsunken: Figuration at Yi Gallery
Robert C. Morgan, Whitehot Magazine, August 31, 2022 -
GJ Kimsunken: Abstraction and the figure
Michael Brennan, Two Coats of Paint, August 9, 2022 -
Spotlight: South Korean-Born Artist GJ Kimsunken’s Incandescent Canvases Reaffirm the Presence of the Viewer’s Body
Katie White, artnet news, August 5, 2022 -
ARTSPIEL: Where We Meet Ourselves at Yi Gallery
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La mostra alla Yi Gallery Project Room di New York. Le foto di Francesca Magnani.
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「StopAsianHate」ファンドレイジング展 オンラインで開催
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Exhibition Reviews: Artists For #StopAsianHate at Yi Gallery
Elena Martinique, WIDEWALLS, March 24, 2021