Kim Myungchan

Kim Myungchan (b. 1992) born in Wonju, Korea; now lives and works in Seoul, Korea. His practice anchors in the liminal space between bodily experience and materiality, employing airbrush painting installations to refract the complex spectrum of human existence and perception in the digital age. Drawing from his diasporic experience, his work deconstructs figurative forms into tremulous fields of visual energy -- a punched eye, a foot caught mid-stride, fragments of organic matter cradled by industrial scaffolds -- inscribing traces of corporeal action into the creative process to forge slow imprints that carry gravity, vulnerability and time.

Kim Myungchan's recent solo exhibitions include "a silver lining" at BROWNIE Project, Shanghai, China (2025); "Synthetic Breath" at YK Presents, Seoul, Korea (2025); "Offline Body" at dive.seoul, Seoul, Korea (2024). His recent group exhibitions include: "Humanic Data" at YK Presents, Seoul, Korea (2024); "Another Materiality" at Hongik Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea (2023); "Presence and Absence" at Heaven Gallery, Chicago, US (2020) and "Missingness" at The LeRoy Neiman Center, Chicago, US (2018). Kim Myungchan received a BFA in Painting at the School of the Art Institue of Chicago in 2018 and a MFA in Painting at Hongik University in 2024. He completed a residency at Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, US in 2020.

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