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1957 Born in Taegu, Korea

Education

1980/84 Graduated Painting Dpt. of Hong-Ik univ. & Graduate School, Seoul
1984-85 Ecole National Superieure des Beaux-Arts, Paris (French Government's Scholarship)
1992-93 Artists in Residence, P.S.1 Museum, New York
1998-99 World Views-Artists in Residence at the World Trade Center, New York
2000 lives and works in New York

Selected Solo Exhibitions

2000 'A Needle Woman' Rodin Gallery, Seoul 'A Needle Woman' ICC, Tokyo 'A Needle Woman' INOVA, Milwaukee

1999 'A Needle Woman' CCA, Kitakyushu

1997 'Sewing into Walking', MAGASIN, Grenoble 'Deductive Object', Akira Ikeda Gallery, Nagoya 'A Laundry Field / Sewing into Walking, Looking into Sewing' Oakville Galleries ( Centenial Gallery ), Ontario Started Global Project 'Cities on the Move' 'Cities on the Move'-2727 kilometers Bottari Truck-(11 days performance in Korea)

Selected Group Exhibitions

2000 The 3rd Kwangju Biennale 2000,'Human-being and Gender',Kwangju The 5th Lyon Biennale 2000, 'Sharing Exautisms', Lyon 'Barge of Desire', Lyon 'Art Unlimited' Basel Artfair 2000, Basel 'Art and Social Realities' The High Commission for Refugees, Geneva 'The 2nd Taipei Biennial', Taipei 'Today' Korea Comtemporary Sculpture' Moran Museum of Art, Namyangju 'From Here to There' Academie Scholoss Solitude, Stuttgart 'Mutations' Arc en Reve Centre d'Architecture, Bordeaux 'Hypermental'-Entre realite et chmieres 1950-2000, de Salvadore Dali a Jaff Koons, Kusthaus Zurich Echigo-Tsmarigo Necklace Project, Echigo-Tsmarigo 'KIMSCAPE /MINGSCAPE' Kunsthallen Brandts Klaedefabrick, Odense 'Drive' Govette-Brewster Gallery, New Plymouth

1999 'dAPERTutto', The 48th Venice Biennale, Venice 'Artworld in Dialogue'-Global Art Rhineland 2000 Ludwig Museum, Koln Kim Sooja/Jeannette Christensen, Inaugural Exhibition of Kunsthaller, Feldbach The 3rd Asia Pacific Triannial, Queensland Art Gallery, Brisbane 'Cities on the Move' traveled to Louisiana Museum, Copenhagen, Hayward Gallery, London, KISMA, Finland

1998 The 24th SaoPaulo Biennale, Sao Paulo 'Everyday'-The 11th Biennale of Sydney, Sydney 'Echolot', Museum fridericianum, Kassel 'Loose Threads', Surpentine Gallery, London 'Warming', Inougural Exhibition of The Project, New York 'Medialization', Edsvik Art Center, Stockholm, traveled to Eesti KunstMuseum, Tallinn 'Slowness of Speed', National Gallery of Victoria, Melbourne and Artsonje Center, Seoul 'Traditions / Tensions', Art Gallery of Western Australia, Perth and Taipei Fine Arts Museum,

Taipei ''98 Korean Contemporary Art-Poetics of Time,' Ho-Am Art Gallery,Seoul 'Media and Site', Metropolitan Museum of Pusan, Posan

1997 'On life, beauty, translations and other difficulties' -The 5th Istanbul Biennale, Istanbul 'De-Genderism', Setagaya Art Museum, Tokyo 'Bottari'-choreographed by Christopher House, the artistic director of Toronto Dance Theater, conceptual & visual design by Kim Soo-Ja, performed World Premiere at Harvourfront's Premiere Dance theater, Toronto

1996 " Roles of the Couples-Kim Sooja/Kuno Toshinori ", Akira Ikeda Gallery, Taura " Manifesta 1 ", Museum Boijmsans Van Beuningen,Rotterdam " Inclusion / Exclusion", Steirischer Herbst 96, Graz " The Scream-Borealis 8 ", ARKEN Museum of Modern Art, Copenhageu " Traditions / Tensions ", Asin Society, Gray art Gallery, Queens Museum of Art, New York; Vancouver Art Gallery, Vancouver Art Gallery of Western Australia,Perth " Do It (Home Version)", Museum in Progress, Vienna " Home / Salon ", The Clock Tower Gallery, New York " Ceremonial ", Apex Art Curatorial Program, New York " An Aspect of Korean Art in the 1990s ",National Museum of Modern Art, Tokyo and National Museum of Art, Osaka