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Biography



OKREAL KIM
Born 1964, lives and work in Daegu, Korea. Director of CAIKOR and Artspace Purl

Education
1996-.2003  Ph.D(ABD)., 'History of Art and Aesthetics' YeungNam University, Daegu, Korea
1992-1995  MA , 'History of Art and Aesthetics' YeungNam University, Daegu, Korea
1984-1988  BFA, Fine Arts, YeungNam University, Daegu, Korea

Professional Experience
1996 – 2006  Independent Curator, Art Critic
2007.8 - 2009.3  Chief Curator in MJgallery
2009 –  Director of Contemporary Art Institute and Art Space Purl

Independent Curating
2006  Soma Condition, Cyber exhibition, okgallery
2004  Yang Sung Ock‟s, Hot meeting, Kwanghwamun gallery, Seoul, Korea
2001  Identity of a painting-Memo one, Daegu arts center, Korea
2001  Beauty, that is, Earth in ceramics, Bitsal museum, Daegu, Korea
2001  Summer history, residency a month in closed school, Sungju, Korea
2000  Dream of the Shinchun river, Shinchun riverside, Daeg, Korea
2000  Paradigm shift, Daegu arts center, Korea
1999  Modern Myths, Daegu arts center, Korea
1999  The Methods of 10 persons, Daegu arts center, Korea
1999  Metaphor of Dismantlement and Nonresistance, Cyber exhibition, www.postgallery.co.kr
1998  Woman of the woman, Daegu arts center, Korea
1997  View of language and communication in the drawing, Daegu arts center, Korea

Artistic Director
2016  Shift Paradim, DAC Spacial Exhibition, Daegu Arts Center, Korea
2014-2016 Gangjeong Daegu Contemporary Art Festival, Dalseong Culture Foundation, Korea
2013 Daegu Contemporary Art2013, Daegu Art Factory, Support as Daegu Foundation for Culture, Korea
2013 Body, Being Here, Daegu Art Museum, Korea
2012 GAP GlassBox Artist Project, Bongsan cultural center, Daegu Korea
2011 ArtDaegu, Special Show, The space aesthetics of the white margin‟ Sam Francis, EXCO, Daegu Korea
2010 ArtDaegu, Special Show, The return of creation, EXCO Daegu, Korea
2009 Young Art Project, 'Garden of Desire', International Show, KT&G, Daegu, Korea
2006 NARA MUSIC PHOTOGRAPHY, National Gug Ak Center, Seoul, Korea

Paper Selected
1995 Nietzsche‟s “The Birth of Tragedy” appeared in the nature of art(Master‟s Thesis, Yeungnam University)
1997 Nietzsche‟s “The Birth of Tragedy” appeared in history make the beginning of nihilism (Korea-Japan student aesthetics society)
2002 Perspectivism of Nietzsche‟s Hermeneutics in life(Eastern aesthetics society)

Press
2016 Daegu Contemporary Art Fesival, Gangjeong / Okreal Kim, Minyoung Park / Published by Minsokwon, Korea
2016 The rader of senses art'purl / Okreal Kim, Myoungju Jung / Published by caikor, Korea
2003 Expression and Communication in the Contemporary /Ok-Real KIM / Published by Yeung Nam University, Korea







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