Yeonmi Kang

Yeonmi Kang

1968, Seoul, Korea

• 1998-2000 M.F.A. University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (Metals)
• 1991-1993 M.F.A. Seoul National University (Metals)
• 1987-1991 B.F.A. Seoul National University, College of Fine Arts, Department of Craft Arts (Metals)

• 2003-Present Teaching: Seoul National University, KookMin University, Korea
• 2000-2002 Teaching: KookMin University, Konkuk University, Korea
• 1994-1995 Teaching: Kyung-sung University, Korea
• 1993-1994 Teaching : Contemporary Jewelry Design Institute, Korea

• 2000 Yeonmi Kang Art Jewelry Exhibition, Gana Art Space (Seoul, Korea)

• 2001 Jewelry, Introspections and Mediated Interactions, I space (Chicago, IL U.S.A.)

• 2004 Plastic Plastic Plastic, Korean Craft Promotion Foundation (Seoul, Korea)
• Portraits, The Society of Art and Crafts (Boston, MA, U.S.A.)
• SOFA, New York, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• SOFA, Chicago, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• Int. Art + Design Fair NY, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts USA
• PalmBeachContemporary Florida, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• 2003 International Jewelry Exhibition curated by Charon Kransen ,Gallery Materia (Scottsdale, AZ.U.S.A.)
• Forces of Nature, Objects of Desire Gallery (Louisville, KY U.S.A.)
• The beautiful rainbow arisen in Mongolian steppe/ The Mongolian National Modern Art Gallery (Mongolia)
• Suggestion (traveling exhibition)
• 1. Insa Art Center (Seoul, Korea)
• 2. Gallery Pfo (Busan, Korea)
• SOFA Chicago, New York, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• ArtForm Palm Beach, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• Int. Art + Design Fair New York, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• All Mixed Up, Facere Jewelry Art (Seattle, WA U.S.A.)
• 2002 2002 Alchemists, 700 Rings, Insa Art Center (Seoul, Korea)
• Exhibition in Print, Metalsmith (U.S.A.)
• At Beauty's Edge, curated by Charon Kransen Arts, Patina Gallery (Santa Fe, NM U.S.A.)
• Holiday Artist Show, Facere Jewelry Art (Seattle, WA U.S.A.)
• Seoul Metalsmiths Bienalle, Samsung Plaza Gallery, (Bundang, Korea)
• BIJOU, Yaw Gallery (Birmingham, MI U.S.A.)
• Int. Art + Design Fair New York, repr. By Charon Kransen Arts
• SOFA Chicago, New York, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• 2001 Suggestion, Mokkumto Craft Space (Seoul, Korea)
• Nine East/ Nine West, curated by Charon Kransen Gallery DeNovo (Palo Alto, CA U.S.A.)
• New Makers/ Fresh Visions, Facere Jewelry Art (Seattle, WA U.S.A.)
• Artists for the Future, Gallery Gainro (Seoul, Korea)
• Jewelry in Imagination, Craft Space Mokkumto (Seoul, Korea)
• SOFA Chicago, New York, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• 2000 Melting point, Susan Cummins Gallery (Mill Valley, CA U.S.A.)
• International 20th Century Arts Fair at the Armory -New York, Charon Kransen Arts (New York, NY U.S.A.)
• Attitude &Action: North American Figurative Jewelry, (traveling exhibition)
• 1. Atrium Gallery, University of Birmingham (Birmingham, England)
• 2. Jewellery Gallery at DESIGNyard (Dublin, Ireland)
• SOFA Chicago, New York, repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• Drawing the Lines: Selection from Artists Sketchbooks, Society of Art & Craft (Boston, MA U.S.A.)
• M.F.A Thesis Exhibition, Krannert Art Museum (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
• New Metal: Emerging Views, Contemporary Crafts Gallery (Portland, OR U.S.A.)
• 1999 International 20th Century Arts Fair at the Armory -New York, Charon Kransen Arts (New York, NY U.S.A.)
• Craft Forms '99, Wayne Art Center, Ethel Sergeant Clark Smith Gallery (Wayne, PA U.S.A.)
• USA Craft Today '99, Silvermine Guild Galleries (New Canaan, CT U.S.A.)
• National Crafts 1999, Lancaster Museum of Art (Lancaster, PA U.S.A.)
• SOFA Chicago, , repr. by Charon Kransen Arts
• Playful Intent, Craft Alliance (St. Louis, MO U.S.A.)
• SNAG Juried Student Exhibition, Maryville University (St. Louis, MO U.S.A.)
• 1995 The 3rd TOOL Metal, Gallery Yoon (Seoul, Korea)
• 1994~1995 Korean Contemporary Jewelry (Traveling Exhibition)
• 1. Schumuck Museum (Pforzheim, Germany)
• 2. Deutsches Goldschmiedehaus (Hanau, Germany)
• 3. Galerie für Angewandte Kunst (Munchen, Germany)
• 4. Museum für Natur und Stadtkultur (Schwäbisch Gmünd, Germany)
• 1994 The 1st Women Metal Artists, Jewelry House (Seoul, Korea)
• 1993 Metallegefäße, Galerie für Angewandte Kunst (Munchen, Germany)
• Seoul Metalsmiths Bienalle, Galleria Gallery (Seoul, Korea)
• M.F.A. Show, Seoul National University (Seoul, Korea)
• The 8th Korean Crafts, National Museum of Contemporary Art (Seoul, Korea)
• 1992 The 2nd TOOL Metal, Gallery Aju (Seoul, Korea)
• 1991 The 3rd Korean Contemporary Jewelry Competition, Sheraton Walker Hill Gallery (Seoul, Korea)

• 2000 Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award 2000
• 1999 USA Craft Today '99 -The Liquitex Art Award
• 1999 SNAG(Society of North American Goldsmiths) Endowment Scholarship
• "In The Palm of Your Hand" SNAG Juried Student Exhibition- Michael Good Award
• 1993 The 8th Korean National Crafts Exhibition
• 1991 The 3rd Korean Contemporary Jewelry Competition

• 1999 Acquisition Museum of Decorative Arts (Montreal, Canada)

• Art Jewelry Today by Dona Z. Meilach, pg. 141, 2003
• Metalsmith, Exhibition in Print 2002, pg. 28, 2002
• Metalsmith, "Reviews", pg. 48, Spring, 2002
• Crart, , "Portfolio", pg. 86 September 2001
• Art Jewelry Forum News, Spring, 2000
• SNAG News "Art Jewelry Forum Emerging Artist Award" pg. 2, 2000
• The New York Times "At Silvermine, The Art of Craft"- group exhibition review, Sep. 19, 1999
• SNAG News "99 SNAG Educational Endowment Scholarship Awards" pg.4, 1999
• Lancaster New Era "Skill and style-National Craft 99"- group exhibition review, April 22, 1999

I like to transform personal experience, dreams related to human condition in to three- dimensional object jewelry. I question the inevitable fate of human being by exploiting symbolism. Through the everyday journey of transforming questions into objects, I want to be an observer of the unbalanced connection between the world and myself.