Phone: 618/453-4315
Email: cheonae@siu.edu
Office location: Allyn 113
Cheonae Kim is a full time term faculty in Drawing/Painting/Printmaking. She received her MFA from Southern Illinois University Carbondale in 1986. Ms. Kim is an active exhibitor. Her work ranges from small jewel-like paintings to major architectural installations. She is widely represented. Galleries representing her work include Klein Artworks in Chicago, Brian Gross in San Francisco, Gallery Joe in Philadelphia, and Elliot Smith in St. Louis. Major exhibitions include Milwaukee Museum, UCLA Hammer Museum, the Rockford Museum, and the Chicago Cultural Center.
Recent exhibitions include the upcoming solo show of her paintings, "Murmur," at the Zolla Lieberman Gallery in Chicago in April 2009. Opening reception is April 17, 5-8 p.m. She received a five-week artist residency in Cadaques, Spain, for summer 2009.
Professor Kim's third public commission, an installation of two ceramic tiled walls in the therapeutic pool of the Laguna Honda Hospital, San Francisco, CA, was completed in February 2009. Her two previous commissions include the 16th District police station in Chicago and the McCormick West extension in Chicago.
She has an extensive national and international exhibition record. Her exhibitions include: UCLA Hammer Museum; Milwaukee Art Museum; Rockford Art Museum; Glasgow School of Art, Scotland; and Bregenz, Austria. Professor Kim received a National Endowment for the Arts Visual Artists Fellowship Grant for painting in Washington, DC, in 1993.
Website: http://www.cheonaekim.com
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