Biography
Yoonmi Nam’s work considers cross-cultural experiences and a sense of transience through observations of everyday objects and occurrences. In her prints, drawings, sculptural works, and installations, she uses familiar disposable objects and cut flower arrangements as subject matter and explores their materiality, ephemerality, persistence, and the common and extraordinary way we structure our surroundings.
Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Nam received a B.F.A. degree in Printmaking from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea. She moved to the U.S. to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received an M.F.A. degree in Painting/Printmaking in 2000. Nam has received numerous grants and awards to support her studio practice and travel. Some notable achievements include a Solo Exhibition Award from The Print Center in Philadelphia, MI-LAB Artist Residency Award in Japan, The Hall Center Creative Work Fellowship at The University of Kansas, and the Ngawang Choephel Fellowship from the U.S. State Department. Her work is in the collections of the RISD Museum, RI; Spencer Museum of Art, KS; and the Hawai’i State Art Museum, HI; among others, and has shown her work in over 20 solo exhibitions and 180 group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Yoonmi has taught at RISD and Washington University in St. Louis, and currently teaches at the University of Kansas, where she has been a faculty member since 2001.
Born and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Nam received a B.F.A. degree in Printmaking from Hong-Ik University in Seoul, Korea. She moved to the U.S. to study at the Rhode Island School of Design, where she received an M.F.A. degree in Painting/Printmaking in 2000. Nam has received numerous grants and awards to support her studio practice and travel. Some notable achievements include a Solo Exhibition Award from The Print Center in Philadelphia, MI-LAB Artist Residency Award in Japan, The Hall Center Creative Work Fellowship at The University of Kansas, and the Ngawang Choephel Fellowship from the U.S. State Department. Her work is in the collections of the RISD Museum, RI; Spencer Museum of Art, KS; and the Hawai’i State Art Museum, HI; among others, and has shown her work in over 20 solo exhibitions and 180 group exhibitions both nationally and internationally. Yoonmi has taught at RISD and Washington University in St. Louis, and currently teaches at the University of Kansas, where she has been a faculty member since 2001.
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Yoonmi Nam
b. 1974, Seoul, South Korea yoonminam@gmail.com |
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EDUCATION
2000
M.F.A. in Painting / Printmaking, Rhode Island School of Design, Providence, RI (Honors)
Certificate for Collegiate Teaching, Sheridan Center for Teaching and Learning at Brown University, Providence, RI
1997
B.F.A. in Printmaking, Hongik University, Seoul, KOREA
SELECTED SOLO EXHIBITIONS
2019
"For Now", Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
"For a Little While", Bolivar Gallery, Lexington, KY
"Arranged Flowers", Women's Studio Workshop Gallery, Rosendale, NY
"Arranged Flowers", GrayDUCK Gallery, Austin, TX
2017
"Still", The Print Center, Philadelphia, PA
2016
"Momentarily", PLUG Projects, Kansas City, MO
"Temporary Arrangements", Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
"Temporary Still Lifes", CfSHE Gallery at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JAPAN
"for later, for now", Viterbo University Gallery, La Crosse, WI
2015
"A Sense of Transience", The Gallery at Pioneer Bluffs, Matfield Green, KS
2011
“In Between and In Transition”, Upper Art Gallery, University of Dallas, Irving, TX
2010
“Book of Rocks, Flowers, and Birds”, The Front, New Orleans, LA
“Yoonmi Nam: Transient Landscapes”, Beach Museum of Art, Manhattan, KS (exhibition brochure)
2006
“Everywhere and Here: Works on Paper by Yoonmi Nam”, Haydon Art Center, Lincoln, NE
2004
“Bamboo Forest”, The Shaw Center Art Gallery, Lamoni, IA
“Bamboo Forest”, Alexandre Hogue Gallery, Tulsa, OK
2003
“Bamboo Forest”, Fairbanks Gallery, Corvallis, OR
“Small Monotypes”, Jan Weiner Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2000
“Evidence”, Benson Gallery, Providence, RI
SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS
2019
"Mokuhanga - Drzeworyt w Technice Japońskiej 2019", Academy of Art at Krakow, POLAND (forthcoming)
"Material Properties", Paradigm Gallery, Philadelphia, PA (curated by Christopher Jobson, Founder of Colossal)
"The Things We Takeaway", Two-person Exhibition, Coop Gallery, Nashville, TN
"Light/Shade", CfSHE Gallery at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JAPAN
"(Sub)urban Sprawl", Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
"Into the Fold", CfSHE Gallery at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JAPAN
"Degree of Unrecognition", Nature Education Center Gallery, Jagiellonian University, Krakow, POLAND
2018
"Transformative Connections", Yui Gallery, New York, NY
"Welcome to the Neighborhood: Kansas City Artists on the Midwestern Experience", La Esquina Gallery, Kansas City, MO
"Personal | Universal", Penland Gallery, Penland, NC
"Elevation of the Everyday", North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Into the Fold", C.R. Ettinger Studio Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
2017
"Quiet Works", Temple Contemporary, Philadelphia, PA
"(Sub)urban", Stamp Gallery, University of Maryland, College Park, MD
"Beaty of Mokuhanga: Discipline & Sensibility", International Juried Exhibition, University of Hawaii at Manoa Art Gallery, Honolulu, HI
"In Search of Mokuhanga Light: Globalizing Japanese Woodblock Printmaking", Famagusta Gate, Nicosia, CYPRUS
"Augmented Reality", Blue Star Contemporary, San Antonio, TX
"Master Graphics", Haw Contemporary, Kansas City, MO
"Idols and Impossible Structures: New Prints 2017/Winter", International Print Center New York, New York, NY, January 19-April 1, 2017 Link to curatorial essay
"Framework: Interactions with Architectures", North Seattle College Art Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Conspire: Collaboration, Cooperation, Collections", FSU Museum of Fine Arts, Tallahassee, FL
2016
"To Be the Void: Sublimity and Contemporaneity", International Cultural Center of Krakow, POLAND
"Contemporary American Lithography", Museum of Lithographic Art, Tidaholm, SWEDEN
"Contemporary American Prints", Il Bisonte Gallery, Florence, ITALY
"Second Nature", North Dakoda Museum of Art, Grand Forks, ND
"2016 Kansas City Flatfile", H&R Block Artspace, Kansas City, MO
"Contemporary Mokuhanga", Cade Tompkins Projects, Providence, RI
"Pull", Frankie G. Weems Gallery at Meredith College, Raleigh, NC
2015
"Pressure Points", Savery Gallery, Philadelphia, PA
"Tucson National Print Invitational", Davis Dominguez Gallery, Tucson, AZ
"wood+paper+box", Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
"International Mokuhanga Exhibition", Yoh Gallery, Tokyo, Japan
"Botanica", Dedee Shattuck Gallery, Westport, MA
"XX / 7", Fisch Haus, Wichita, KS
"Print Spiral", Akus Gallery at Eastern Connecticut State University, Willimantic, CT
2014
"Wood, Paper, Box: Katie Baldwin, Mariko Jesse, & Yoonmi Nam", Tokyo University of the Arts Art Space, Tokyo, JAPAN
"Jappanned!", Gallery TEN, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
"YWAs: Young Woman Artists", Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
"Under Pressure: Contemporary Printmaking and Changing Landscape", Meramec Gallery of Contemporary Art, St. Louis, MO
2013
"New Prints 2013 / Autumn", International Print Center New York, New York, NY
"Home Maker: Prints of Houses, Houses of Prints", Maass Gallery at Purchase College, Purchase, NY, Curated by Faye Hirsch, Editor-at-Large, Art in America
"Naturaleza Invertida", ATEA, Mexico City, MEXICO
"20 Artists/20 Views", CfSHE Gallery at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JAPAN
"Mokuhanga Innovations: Keiko Hara, Yoonmi Nam, Eva Pietzcker", Cullom Gallery, Seattle, WA
"Mokuhanga Prints: Riding the Great Wave", Richard F. Brush Art Gallery at St. Lawrence University, Canton, NY
"Exhibition of Six Autumn 2012 Mokuhanga Artist Residents", CfSHE Gallery at 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, JAPAN
2012
"Have I Been Here Before?", La Esquina, Kansas City, MO, Curated by Jamilee Polson Lacy, curator-in-residence at Charlotte Street Foundation
"New Prints 2012/Summer", International Print Center New York, New York, NY, Selected by Shahzia Sikander
"Take Shelter", Los Caminos, St. Louis, MO
"Beyond Japan: International Takes on Moku Hanga", Cullom Gallery, Seattle, WA
“Under Construction”, Delaware Center for Contemporary Art, Wilmington, DE
"Yesnomaybe: Collaborative works by Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad, & Yoonmi Nam”, Lawrence Arts Center, Lawrence, KS
2012-2015
Southern Graphics Council International Traveling Exhibition, Beginning in New Orleans, LA
2011
“ME+YOU+ME: Work by Yoonmi Nam & Eric Conrad", Wonder Fair Gallery, Lawrence, KS
“Chain Letter 2011”, Golden Parachutes Gallery, Berlin, GERMANY
“Mokuhanga & Hyogu”, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, JAPAN
“Hanga Ehon: Hand Printed Books”, Yamazaki Art Bookstore Gallery, Kyoto, JAPAN
“Yesnomaybe: Collaborative works by Kristi Arnold, Eric Conrad, & Yoonmi Nam”, Naked City Gallery, Wichita, KS
“Under Certain Conditions: Yoonmi Nam & Eric Conrad”, John A. Day Gallery, Vermillion, SD
“Tempus Fugit”, Scuola Internazionale di Grafica, Venice, ITALY
2010
“Perceptions of Time: Exploring the Past, Present, Future”, Cocoon Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Convergence: Korean Prints Now”, Williams Tower Gallery, Houston, TX
“Nice Place to Visit: Printmaking and the Anxious Landscape”, The Davis Gallery at Houghton House, Hobart and William Smith Colleges, Geneva, NY
2009-2012
“Monumental Idea in Miniature Book”, Traveling Exhibition, Traveled to 19 states and 12 countries (www.mimb.org)
2009
“Makers Without Borders”, Penland Gallery at Penland School of Crafts, Penland, NC
“20/20 Vision: The Second Edition”, The Fire House Gallery, Louisville, GA
2008
“Printmaking After 20 Years”, Kwanhoon Gallery, Seoul, KOREA
“The International Exchange Exhibition of Prints”, Museum of Contemporary Art at Hongik University, Seoul, KOREA
“Ruminant”, Institute of Contemporary Art at Maine College of Art, Portland, ME
“Crossings”, Jack Olson Gallery at Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, IL
“In Between: Exploring Memory, Place, and Identity Through Drawing” The Clara M. Eagle Gallery at Murray State University, Murray, KY
"Janet Turner National Print Competition Exhibition", Janet Turner Print Museum, Chico, CA
2007
“Ad Astra Per Aspera”, Shift Space Gallery, Wichita, KS
“Thresholds”, 6 Gallery, Lawrence, KS
“I’d Rather Be Drawing”, Dennis Morgan Gallery, Kansas City, MO
“Here and Now”, Leedy-Voulkos Art Center & the Cross Gallery, Kansas City, MO
2006
“Waterfall”, Mahan Gallery, Columbus, OH
“Nagasawa Art Park Artist Residents’ Exhibition”, DIC Color Square Gallery, Tokyo, JAPAN
“Transformations”, Spencer Museum of Art, Lawrence, KS
2005
“Foreign Exchange”, Bad Dog Gallery, DeKalb, IL
“13th International Print Biennial Varna 2005”, Graphic Art Gallery, Varna, BULGARIA
2003
“Bi-National Celebration Exhibition”, US Embassy, Asunción, PARAGUAY
“Mostly Square”, Lawrence Art Center, Lawrence, KS
“Taking Shape: 10 Artists Reveal Their Processes”, Salina Art Center, Salina, KS
“Surface – Kiyomi Iwata, John McQueen, Yoonmi Nam, Toshiko Takaezu”, Jan Weiner Gallery at Lula Mac, Kansas City, MO
2002
“Yoonmi Nam & Michael Krueger”, Art + Design Gallery, Lawrence, KS
“Bi-National Celebration Exhibition”, US Embassy, Asunción, PARAGUAY
“Inter – sex – ion”, DNA Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Delta National Small Print Exhibition”, Bradbury Gallery, Jonesboro, AR
“National Prize Show 2002”, Cambridge Art Association, Cambridge, MA
2001
“Invitational”, Hudson B. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“Faculty Exchange Show”, Edinburgh College of Art, Edinburgh, SCOTLAND
2000
“Yoonmi Nam & Amy Borezo”, Hallwalls Contemporary Arts Center, Buffalo, NY
"Invitational”, Hudson B. Walker Gallery, Provincetown, MA
“MFA Exhibition”, RISD Museum, Providence, RI
“Intersection”, Sol Koffler Gallery, Providence, RI
“Bon a Tirér – RISD / Boston University Exchange Show”, Shermon Gallery, Boston, MA
“RISD Alumni Exhibition”, Sol Koffler & Market House Gallery, Providence, RI
ARTIST RESIDENCIES
2019
MI-LAB Artist-in-Residence, Kawaguchiko, JAPAN
2014
Matfield Outpost Artist Residency, Matfield Green, KS
2012
MI-LAB (Mokuhanga Innovation Laboratory) Artist-in-Residence, Kawaguchiko & Tokyo, JAPAN
2011
Frans Masereel Centrum, Kasterlee, BELGIUM
2005
Vermont Studio Center, Johnson, VT
2004
Nagasawa Art Park: Artist-in-Residence for Japanese Style Water-based Woodblock Printmaking, Awaji City, JAPAN
2002
Kala Art Institute, Berkeley, CA