“Accept North Korea into the nuclear club or bomb it now, 11 Oct, 2006”
160x120cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2007
"Mystery of the poisoned spy, 1 Nov, 2006"
100x76cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2007
"Entertainers' suicides in succession, why?, 10 Feb, 2007"
100x76cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2007
"Dead whale found on the shore of Jeju island, 12 Nov, 2006”
100x76cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2007
"Chaos caused by monster of Blitz, 15 May, 2007"
100x76cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2007
"Headless body found in Thames, 21 April, 2007"
100x76cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2007
" Man hits bus roof after 70Ft death plunge, 29 May, 2007”
160x120cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2007~8
“British teacher found buried in bathtub of sand, 28 March, 2007”
160x120cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2008
“CCTV captures death chase, 19 July 2007”
100x76cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2008
“Crop of dope to help my kids, 26 May, 2008”
160x120cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2009
“Policeman falls to death trying to save suicide-bid youth, 05 Jun 2008”
163x210cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2009
A Delegation 1
50x40cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2009
A Delegation 2
50x40cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2009
A Delegation 3
50x40cm, Digital C-Type Print, 2009
Education
2005-2007 BA (Honours) Photography, London College of Communication, London, UK
1997-2002 BA Visual Communication Design, Kookmin University, Seoul, Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2009 (Title Undecided.) window gallery at Gallery Hyundai, Seoul,
Korea [upcoming]
2009 Ephemera, I-Myu Projects, London, UK
2008 Ephemeral Ephemera, Space VAVA, Seoul, Korea
Selected Group Exhibitions
2009
- Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize Awarded Artists Show, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
- Korean Eye 2009: Moon Generation, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK
- The Cinematic-Montage, Seoul Museum of Art(SeMA), Seoul, Korea
- The Irony, Kimi Art 5th Anniversary, Kimi Art, Seoul, Korea
2008
- The Series of Boundary between Reality and Fantasy: Museum in Gangnamgu Office, Seoul, Korea
- 4482 Contemporary Korean Artists in London, Bargehouse, London, UK
- T.error: Your Fear Is an External Object, Menupont Galeria, Mucsarnok (Kunsthalle) Budapest, Budapest, Hungary
- The 1st Bridge: Scope in The Bridge, Gana Art 25th Anniversary, Insa Art Center, Korea
- Welcome Home Party, Gallery Sun Contemporary, Seoul, Korea
- 30th Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize Selected Artist Show, Hangaram Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
- Lateral Thinkers - from the Mind to the Wall inDarmstadter Tage der Fotografie 2008(Darmstadt days of photography 2008), Mathildenhohe, Darmstadt, Germany
2007
- The Alchemy of Shadows, The 3rd LIPF 07 (Lianzhou International Photo Festival 2007), Lianzhou, China
- 4482 Contemporary Korean Artists in London, King’s Park Studio, London, UK
- Design Made: Hotelida, Hangaram Design Museum, Seoul Arts Center, Seoul, Korea
- Traces of Document (part of Freerange Festival), The Old Truman Brewery, London, UK
- Hills Like White Elephants, SSamzie Space, Seoul, Korea
2006
- An Event in London, The Plum Tree, London, UK
2009
- Young Arts Frontier Grant, Art Council Korea, Korea
2008
- Critical Mass 2008 Finalist, Photo Lucida, US
- 2nd Prize, The 30th Joong-Ang Fine Arts Prize, Korea
- NArt 2008 Grant for emerging artists, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, Korea
Magazines & Cataloques, Web articles
“Ephemeral Ephemera”, Graphic, p.120, 159, Issue 10 on Self-Publishing (Summer 2009), Korea
“Hot Trend of Young Artists”, Monthly Art, p.93, Apr 2009, Korea
“Ephemeral Ephemera”, Photo Box, p.92~97, Mar 2009, Korea
“Photo Art Gallery”, Photographic Art, p.54~59, Mar 2009, Korea
“Emerging Artists”, Art in Asia, p.106~107, Jan-Feb 2009, Korea
“Today’s Flak Photo”, Flak Photo, www.flakphoto.com, 19 Jan 2009, US
“New Artist“, Photonet, p.98~101, Jan 2009, Korea
“Artist Prism“, VM Space, p.118~121, Dec 2008, Korea
“Lives in Paper Stage-Sets”, Photography, p.114~119, Nov 2008, Korea
“Young Artist 2008”, Culture+Seoul, Seoul Foundation for Arts and Culture, p.74~77, Nov 2008, Korea
“Lateral Thinkers - from the Mind to the Wall“ - Darmstadter Tage der Fotografie 2008 Catalogue, p. 48~53; p.199, 2008, Germany
“Szintetikus Világok“, Fotóművészet, p.80, Feb 2008, Hungary
“Artist - Ayoung Kim”, Art Price, p.44~46, Feb 2008, Korea
“Photographer of the future – discovered by Ute Noll”, Photographie, p.60~65, Nov 2007, Germany
Books
- Kang, Sumi (2009) Stages of Ephemeral Images: “Shortcut” of Ayoung Kim, The Photo Montage Works, in The Wonderful Realities of Korean Contemporary Arts, Seoul: Hyunsil Books, p.156~163
- Kim, Ayoung (2008) Ephemeral Ephemera, Seoul: Mediabus, ISBN: 978-89-960226-6-4
Public Collection
2008
- Art Bank, National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea
- Joong-Ang Daily, Korea
- Posco, Korea