Seoul-based multidisciplinary artist Dew Kim (b. 1985) centres his practice on defying categorisation,
negotiating between the boundaries of pleasure and pain, sacred and erotic, primordial and
technologically-mediated. Best known for his sculptures which he develops using metalwork, glass, and
prosthetic structures, a core preoccupation for the artist is the sensorial nature of the body. By combining
both high and low cultural references—religion, K-pop, and folk shamanism— Kim’s visual vocabulary deals
with the generation of desire and affect, engaging with queerness as a means of extending possibilities
beyond binaries. In his works, bodies appear abstracted, fragmented, cyborgic, and carnal, pointing
towards the broader potential of post-human, mutable bodies in the future.
Kim has exhibited works at Busan Biennale (2026), Gwangju Biennale Italian Pavilion (2026), CR Collective, Seoul (2026); Seoul Museum of Art (2026); Art Sonje Center,
Seoul (2026); Malta Biennale
(2024); Museum of Contemporary Art, Busan (2024); documenta 15, Kassel (2022); Para Site, Hong Kong
(2022); National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul (2020) among others. His works are in numerous collections including Sunpride Foundation, Hong Kong; The Here and There
Collective, New York; Government Art Bank of National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul;
and Seoul Metropolitan Government, South Korea.
holyhornyhoneydew@gmail.com
@dew_needs_you
한국어 (KR)
Courtesy of the artist and ODDA Korea
Education
2016
MA Sculpture
Royal College of Art, London2013
BFA Metalsmithing and JewelryKonkuk University, Chungju
Solo Exhibitions2027
Algophilia PODIUM, Hong Kong (Forthcoming)2026
SacrificiumCR Collective, Seoul2023
The Last SceneAlternative Space Loop, SeoulI SurrenderVarious Small Fires, Seoul2021
Still Life Overture Theatre Sinchon, Seoul (Theatre Production)When the Water BlushedOsisun, Seoul (Publication)2020
Dear Fearout_sight, Seoul2018
Purple Kissarchive bomm, Seoul
Group Exhibitions2026
The Left Hand of DarknessIlwoo Space, Seoul (Forthcoming)The Look is A Li(k)eGwangju Biennale Italian Pavilion, GwangjuDissident ChorusBusan Biennale, BusanPortraits: OurselvesRanee SeoulBalance in MotionP21, SeoulAmor Ex MachinaSeoul Museum of Art, SeoulN3O_iD011zPfizer Building, New YorkSpectrosynthesis SeoulArt Sonje Center, SeoulBorn Under a Bad SignPhilosopher’s Stone, Seoul2025
Unnatural Selection: I, not ICon_, TokyoEcstacy Protocol
Swivel Gallery, New York
UnHouseFrieze House, SeoulRevisiting the Future: Envolving Forms and IdeasNational Museum of Modern and
Contemporary Art, CheongjuB-Class JokesJeonbuk Museum of Art, WanjuThe Last CarnivalPS Center, SeoulBallet with the DevilPODIUM, Hong KongWhen the Chips are DownSpace Pado, Seoul2024
Anytime Lunatic - Family Abolition
Gallery aM, TokyoHow to Destroy AngelsThe Horse Hospital, LondonVitalis ViolentiaPODIUM, Hong KongDevoted: Religion in Asian American ArtEFA Project Space, New YorkDream House: Inside Music + VideoAsian Arts Initiative, PhiladelphiaMasterful Attention SeekersMuseum of Contemporary Art, BusanDecolonising Malta: Polyphony Is UsMalta Biennale, Valletta, MaltaFever DreamSwivel Gallery, New York2023
TenderingPHD Group, Hong KongLet’s Dance Sufi!Oil Tank Culture Park, SeoulHumanism ReimaginedWWNN, SeoulAutohypnosisG Gallery, Seoul2022
Fanatic HeartPara Site, Hong KongFunky-FunctionsDaegu Art Museum, DaeguTerracotta Friendship: 2022 MMCA Asia Project in Seoul & Kassel with Jatiwangi Art FactoryMMCA, Seoul & Documenta 15, KasselRetrogradeGalerie Du Monde, Hong KongQueer East Film FestivalBarbican Centre, London (Screening)Ziggy StardustN/A, Seoul2021
VU JADEArt Space BOAN, Seoul (Performance)New Rituals of HealingAn artist’s garden at the Kulturforum, Berlin (Screening)Joy of SingingAlternative Space Loop, Seoul2020
Tangible Errord/p, SeoulLooking for Another FamilyNational Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, SeoulNew NormalOld House, SeoulWhen it Waxes, it Wanes: Transcultural TransformationVBKÖ, Vienna2019
The Art of Relief5%, SeoulPERFORM 2019: LinkIn-outIlmin Museum of Art, Seoul & Asia Culture Center, GwangjuCan-Can Boysartbn, Seoul2018
Gender HierarchyGrey Projects, SingaporeBeyond the MoonHaus am Lützowplatz, Berlin2017
Post-Cyber Feminist InternationalInstitute of Contemporary Arts, London (Screening)Uns Gefällt AllesGalerie Bipolar, LeipzigPSi#23 "OverFlow"Kampnagel, Hamburg (Performance)2016
Buenos Aires Biennial of the Moving ImageCentro Cultural Recoleta, Buenos Aires (Screening)ASTERISCO (Festival Internacional de cine LGBTIQ)Casa Brandon, Buenos Aires (Screening)Death & RomancePalazzo Lucarini Contemporary, Trevi (Performance)SWEATCamden Arts Centre, London
Grants/Awards
2026
Project GrantSeoul Foundation for Arts and Culture2024
Project GrantArts Council Korea2023
Project Grant Arts Council Korea2021
Ivancity Queer Culture FundRainbow Foundation Korea2020
Project GrantSeoul Foundation for Arts and Culture2018
Project Grant Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture2016
Emerald Winter Pride Art AwardsWinter Pride UK
Residencies2027
Künstlerhaus Bethanien (Forthcoming)Berlin2025
Suwon Art StudioSuwon2024
K’ARTS StudioSeoul2023
ISCP - DOOSAN Gallery International Residency ProgramNew York2022
SeMA Nanji ResidencySeoul2021
MMCA Residency GoyangGoyang2020
Seoul Art Space GeumcheonSeoul2019
Artist Residency TEMIDaejeon2017
PILOTENKUECHELeipzig
Publications/Press2026
“Korean Biennials Today” (Publication, Sep)e-flux “Devine / Profane: In conversation with Dew Kim” (Interview with Joanna Delia, Sep)The Malta Artpaper “Dew Kim: The Emptied Body, the Temple of Transformation” (Feature Article by Hwang Sujin, Issue.498, Jul) Monthly Art “Dew Kim and Lee Shima: Queer, Inside and Outside the Normal” (Exhibition Review by Nam Woong, Jul)Art in Culture “QUEER ART NOW” (Interview, Aug)SINGLES 2025
“Meet Me in Seoul: Dew Kim” (Interview, Aug)Frieze “Neo Rococo, Swirls of Happiness” (Theme Feature by Haelee Kim, May)Art in Culture 2024
“Masochistic Sainthood” (Feature Article by Alex Yiu, Issue.140, Sep) Art Asia Pacific “FLUX” (Review, Issue.08, Jun)
The Shanghai Literary Review“Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art” (Publication by Andy St. Louis, Jun)SKIRA 2023
“Interview with Dew Kim” (Interview,Issue.07, Dec)ODDA Korea“Holy Horny Dew Kim” (Interview, Nov) BE(ATTITUD) “Where things happen #17” (Feature Article by Elisa Carollo, Sep)Fondazione Imago Mundi “Dew Kim: I Surrender” (Exhibition Review by Taeyi Kim, Issue.134, Jul) Art Asia Pacific “Dew Kim Plays Sub and Dom With the Korean Church” (Exhibition Review by Liz Kim, Apr) Frieze “Horny, Honey, and Holy” (Interview, Mar) Dazed Korea2022
“Apocalypse, Now Queer hope for the end of the world and Dew Kim’s Succulent Humans” (Critic by Andrew Cummings, Feb) The Courtauld“Idologic Syndrome” (Interview with Sunjoo Choi, Jan)Self-published 2021
“The Promise of Parasites: Queer Currents, Currencies of Queerness, and Dew Kim’s Latrinxia: A New Utopia” (Critic by Andrew Cummings, Dec) The Courtauld“Pendulating Identities: The Digital Doubles of Korean Artists” (Critic by Minji Chun, Issue.125, Sep)ArtAsiaPacific 2020
“New Normal” (Exhibition Catalogue, May)6699press“New Normal” (Exhibition Review by Yeonsook Lee, Issue.423, Apr) Monthly Art2019
“Endeavorers for Cruising” (Exhibition Review by Jiyoon Yang, Issue.155, Aug)
Public Art “Can-Can Boys” (Exhibition Catalogue, Jul)Self-published2018
“Poly Voices” (Interview, Issue.3, Oct)Lungs Project “Green/Gonzalez & The Church of Expanded Telepathy” (Interview, Feb) Art Berlin2017
“Ungender, deprogram, urinate: improve your life with post-cyber international feminism!” (Article, Nov) The Guardian “How can feminist & queer practices impact future technology?” (Article, Nov) Dazed Digital2016
“Sticky” (Interview, Issue.1, Nov)SYRUP Magazine“Death & Romance - International workshop in performance led by Franko B” (Catalogue, Oct) Palazzo Lucarini Contemporary
Collections
Government Art Bank -
National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art
SeoulSunpride Foundation
Hong Kong
The Here and There CollectiveNew York
Seoul Metropolitan Government
Seoul