Jong-Sook Kim
Jong-Sook Kim (b.1968) received her BFA, MFA and PhD from Hongik University in South Korea. Her works have been widely exhibited both nationally and worldwide, and a part of them is housed in the permanent collections at the Mogam Museum of Art, Korea National Museum of Contemporary Art and The Beijing Museum of Contemporary Art. The artist reinterprets traditional Korean ink-brush landscape paintings, giving it a modern vocabulary by incorporating Swarovski crystals into it. Her father, who ran a mother-of-pearl workshop, used traditional landscapes and motifs as prototypes for the objects he made. This early memory influenced her to create artworks of her own, onto which she incorporated the iridescence of Swarovski crystals, combining it with Korean tradition. She receives sponsorship from the headquarters of Swarovski in Austria, and has been featured in New York Times for Asia Week New York in 2017. Many luxury hotels and corporate offices in Beijing, Hong Kong, Seoul and New York collect her works. A 4.5m x 4m giant size work is collected by the Seoul Eastern District Prosecutor’s Office. As the Chinese art market paid attention to her career, she attended Art Xiamen 2021 and will also participate in the West Bund Art & Design Fair in Shanghai this year.