Kim Sooja earned her B.F.A. (1980) and M.F.A. (1984) in Painting from Hongik University and is currently based in New York and Seoul. As of 2025, she is represented by Kukje Gallery.
Kim Sooja,, Thread Routes - Chapter IV,
2014 (film still) ©Kim Sooja Studio
Kim Sooja is featured in an extensive solo exhibition titled 《Kim Sooja. Weaving the World》 from September
22 to January 21, 2018, at the Kunstmuseum Liechtenstein in the Principality of
Liechtenstein, a landlocked microstate in Central Europe.
As the title suggests, this exhibition is a metaphor for the
figurative act of "weaving the world," as presented through the
artist’s performances, installations, sculptures, videos, and photography from
1999 to 2014. Kim Sooja unites various fragmentary observations to form chance
encounters between places and people. Temporality and the metaphorical
complexity of individual experiences, cultural backgrounds, and historical
references create the foundation of this solo exhibition.
Kim Sooja’s video installations 〈Thread Routes〉 series and 〈A Needle Woman〉(1999–2001) are
representative works at the forefront of the artist’s practice, characterized
by the merging of the past and present, and the unification of diverging
cultures and perspectives.