Now Virtual—Lucy Kim
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC | Please note that this event has been moved to a virtual format.
Each term, Bennington offers a program of five-six lectures by visiting arts professionals: artists, curators, historians and critics, selected to showcase the diversity of contemporary art practices. Designed to enhance a broader and deeper knowledge of various disciplines in the Visual Arts and to stimulate campus dialogue around topical issues of contemporary art and culture, these thematically connected presentations offer students the opportunity to explore ideas from multiple perspectives over the course of the term.
The theme for VALS this term is Looking Forward: Disrupting and Reimagining.
About the Speaker
Lucy Kim (she/her) is a visual artist working in painting, sculpture and biological media. Through an aesthetically and materially wide-ranging practice, she explores the many naturalizing mechanisms that structure day-to-day visual experiences. Using a broad range of materials such as oil paint, silicone rubbers, resins, and live bacteria cells, Kim’s focus is on developing forms that are visceral, tactile, and less vision-centric. She works as a way to better understand and challenge photographic authority, and the biological and socio-cultural systems at work to produce visibility.
Kim was born in Seoul, Korea, and raised between Korea, Myanmar, and the US. She received her BFA in Painting from the Rhode Island School of Design (2001), and her MFA in Painting and Printmaking from the Yale School of Art (2007).
Recent exhibitions of her work were held at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA; Broad Institute of MIT and Harvard, Cambridge, MA; Institute of Fine Arts at New York University, New York, NY; deCordova Sculpture Park and Museum, Lincoln, MA; Tufts University Art Gallery, Medford, MA; Tang Teaching Museum at Skidmore, Saratoga Springs, NY; Brooklyn Academy of Music, Brooklyn, NY; Galerie Pact, Paris, France; Lundgren Gallery, Mallorca, Spain; Lisa Cooley, New York, NY; Fused/Jessica Silverman Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Lyles and King, New York, NY among others.
She is a recipient of the 2022 Creative Capital Award, 2017 ICA Boston James and Audrey Foster Prize, 2014 Artadia Award, 2019 Mass Cultural Council Grant, MacDowell Fellowship, Hermitage Fellowship, and Ellen Battell Stoeckel Fellowship. From 2018 to 2021, Kim was an Artist-in-Residence at the Broad Institute. She is based in Cambridge, MA.
Reviews and features on Kim’s work have been published in The New Yorker, Juxtapoz, Bomb Magazine, The Boston Globe, The Brooklyn Rail, Art Papers, ARTNews, and Artforum, among others. Her work is in the collections of the Institute of Contemporary Art Boston, Kadist Foundation, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, and the New York Public Library.