The 7th series of the Virtual Artist Studio Visit is a tour to Chung-Im Kim’s studio in Cookstown, Ontario.
Chung-Im Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and received MFA at Seoul Women’s University in
Seoul. Kim immigrated to Canada in 1990. Since then, she has been a resident in the Textile Studio at Harbourfront Centre and a freelance designer for over fifteen years. Kim has been teaching in the Textiles department at OCAD University since 1997. She has been working solidly to balance her interests in design, art, and education. For the last ten years, Kim conducted fifteen collaborative course projects with many different institutions such as Baycrest, Toronto Western Hospital, Ontario Science Centre, Women’s Shelter, the Link Community Center in Sutton Ontario, among many. Kim appreciates the opportunity to connect with communities through the course projects, teaching, and own artistic interests incorporating nature, science, and medicine. As an active studio artist, Kim has exhibited her work nationally and internationally, including in Korea, Canada, the United States, England, Holland, Belgium, Australia, France, Italy, and UAE.
Currently, Kim has two art pieces presented in the exhibition Asia-Europe 5 at Poikilo Museum in Finland. 36 artists from Asia and Europe participate in this exhibition and the show will travel in Europe for the next two years
Kim is also represented in the Oeno Gallery in Prince Edward County.
About the <Visual Artist Studio Visit> Program
Considering that social distancing is still necessary to overcome the pandemic, the Korean Cultural Centre Canada presents a series of virtual artist studio visits to connect artists with their audiences safely from home. As the first season of the program, we invite prominent Korean-Canadian artists to show us how they cope with isolation, what new works they envision, how they visualize them. This program will introduce a new episode on the last Thursday of each month.