Artist

Kim, Mi Hyang

Title

Cherry Blossom

Technique

woodcut

relief

Date

2011

Dimensions

37.5cm height x 47.0cm width

Type

print

Accession Number

2016.18.1

Collection

Permanent Collection

Gift of the artist

Kim Mi Hyang creates prints that explore her relationship to the natural world and to her daily experiences through her unique printing process that combines woodcut, engraving and paper casting. Kim’s works are imbued with a dense physicality from the means of their production that acts as an additional layer of sensation seething beneath her images of natural forms, domestic objects and conglomerates of eastern and western landscapes. Kim divides her time between Seoul, Korea, and Vancouver, BC. She holds a BFA (1986) from the Hong Ik (Hongdae) University in Seoul, South Korea, and earned a Master of Printmaking at the Graduate School of Fine Arts, Hong Ik University, in 2001. She has had solo exhibits in South Korea and Japan and group exhibitions in Japan (2001 International Print Biennial, Kanagawa, Prize of Excellence, 2001), South Korea (20th Grand Art Exhibition of Jangang, Prize of Excellence), Canada (three BIMPE awards; First Prize, Open Print Show), Taiwan and the US. Her works are in the collection of the Kyoto Seika University of Japan and the Yokahama Museum. She is a member of the Malaspina Printmakers Society, the Hong Ik Women’s Fine Artists Association and the Chungbuk Printmakers Association.