EUNJOO KIM is a contemporary painter based in South Korea.Working primarily in oil on canvas, she creates narrative paintings that explore imperfect coexistence through mythic narratives, symbolic landscapes, and recurring fictional characters.Her paintings transform traces of memory, emotion, and connection into living worlds where past, present, and future overlap.Her work has been exhibited internationally in South Korea, Taiwan, Hong Kong, France, and Mexico, and presented at major art fairs including KIAF, Galleries Art Fair, ONE Art Taipei, Art Taichung ,Red Dot Miami .

EducationM.F.A. in Fine Arts,
Keimyung University, KoreaSolo Exhibitions2026 ORBIT, Gallery 41, Seoul, Korea
2025 Strange and Beautiful, Whimsy Works, Taiwan
2025 Uncomfortable Harmony, Clamp Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2022 Planet B70, Starfield Hanam / Hanam Cultural Foundation, Hanam, Korea
2021 Mutants, Artrie Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2021 Magic Girl, Art Nasal, Ulsan, Korea
2019 Girl, Seojin Art Space, Seoul, Korea
2019 M.F.A. Degree Exhibition, Geukjae Museum, Daegu, KoreaGroup Exhibitions2026 ...HAPPILY EVER AFTER (Two-Person Exhibition), Bellvie Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2026 Cupid (Two-Person Exhibition), Kidari Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2026 Gallery Casa Colón Art Week Group Exhibition, Gallery Casa Colón, Mexico2025 FLOATING: THE OCEAN, Gallery HAS, Busan, Korea
2025 RYUNIVERSAL, POSCO The Sharp Gallery, Seoul, Korea2024 Strange and Beautiful (Two-Person Exhibition), Bellvie Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2024 Visual Narratives, Touch Gallery, Hong Kong2023 La Ordinaire Odalisque, Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023 Between the Love, Yin Gallery, Taiwan
2023 Face to Face, Clamp Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2023 Small Wonders, Insa Gallery, Seoul, Korea2022 Blooming MZ, Jeongsu Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2022 Daegu Shinsegae Art Show × Seoul Auction, Daegu Shinsegae Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2022 Shall We, Lee Sang Sook Gallery, Daegu, Korea2021 New Thinking New Art, Namu Art, Seoul, Korea
2021 Maison de Noël, Iham Gallery, France
2021 Magic Girl, Island Girl, DGB Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2021 A Place Where Space Lingers, Space Mutae, Daegu, Korea
2021 NUMOMOMANIFESTO, Ponti Blu Seoul, Seoul, Korea
2021 NFT VILLA, Hamilton Villa (Itaewon) / KOTE (Seongsu), Seoul, Korea
2021 Then and Now, La Femme Museum of Contemporary Art, Cheongju, Korea
2021 2021 HADA Project, Busan Student Arts & Culture Center, Busan, Korea
2021 Individual Perspectives, The ARC Gangjeong Lobby Gallery, Daegu, Korea
2021 Unexpected Discovery, Heyma Cultural Complex, Daegu, Korea2020 ARTFLEX, BT Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2020 Art Talk: Kidnapping the Future, ARKO Art Center, Online Exhibition, Seoul, Korea
2020 Dreams Come True, Gallery Ilho, Seoul, KoreaART FAIRSKIAF, Seoul, Korea
Galleries Art Fair, Seoul, Korea
Art Taipei, Taipei, Taiwan
Art Taichung, Taichung, Taiwan
Red Dot Miami, Miami, USAWorks are held in private collections in Korea and abroad.

ORBIT

RED THREAD

RED THREAD explores the traces left behind by relationships.The red thread is the memory of a connection once shared—a lingering remnant of emotions that resist disappearance.This series became the starting point for my ongoing exploration of relational traces and imperfect coexistence.

CHARACTERS

Three figures inhabit the world of Eunjoo Kim.
Narace, Rubellia, and Selva inhabit Eunjoo Kim’s pictorial world.
Born from different forms of incompleteness, each finds her own way of inhabiting and navigating the world.

NARACENarace is a sea nymph born with wings on her back. Unable to belong to the deep sea because she is different from the other nymphs, she is left alone until one day she encounters strange beings who, like her, do not quite belong.Gifted with the magical ability to grow plants, Narace plants trees upon their bodies and connects their traces, gradually creating a sea of her own. For Narace, incompleteness is not a wound to be hidden, but the beginning of a magic through which new relationships and new worlds can emerge.

RUBELLIARubellia was born in a land where mirages bloom by day and the world freezes by night.Her magic creates illusions and transforms the world around her. Yet these illusions are not simply deceptions; they are a means of survival, created to protect herself. Wandering through a garden of mirages alongside beings who have lost their heads, Rubellia creates a world of her own where desire and choice, beauty and unease coexist.

SELVAFlowers begin to grow from Selva’s mouth. Having lost her voice, she leaves for a forest beyond the map.Where words disappear, other senses awaken, growing into plants and trees. Gradually, the boundary between her body and the landscape dissolves, until Selva herself becomes a forest.For Selva, solitude is both an absence and a space in which she can deepen. New life emerges from the ground she once believed to be desolate, and quiet beginnings appear where she thought everything had ended. Having lost her way, Selva becomes a path herself.

ORBIT

Gallery 41, Seoul, Korea
2026Characters, landscapes, and fragments of memory appear as interconnected traces.
Through their imperfect coexistence, individual stories gradually merge into a shared world called ORBIT.

StatementMy work is a record of beings that continue to exist within imperfection, and of the state of being together without ever fully understanding one another. I call this state “imperfect coexistence” and explore it through painting.My practice began long ago with fragments of a grand and innocent narrative: “magical girls save the world.” I was fascinated by the image of young women becoming heroes, and by the possibility that mythical beings, if they were to appear in reality, might instead become strange and marginal presences. My early work began with questions about difference and otherness, but over time, my attention shifted toward relationships. How do different beings form relationships? Why do some connections endure while others fall out of alignment? And how do the differences and tensions between them give rise to another world?The beings in my paintings do not share the same memories. They pass one another with their own desires and their gazes directed elsewhere. Yet the traces they leave behind do not disappear. They become trees, constellations, and gradually accumulate into a landscape. Through painting, I seek to translate invisible emotional currents and the distances between beings into visual form.In this world, nature is not simply a backdrop but the visible manifestation of traces. Trees grow and connect one being to another, while the sea carries memories and emotions within its currents. Mythic narratives and the realm of nature converge within a single world, where landscape takes shape through the accumulation of the time and emotions left behind by different beings.Classical pictorial compositions, mythic spaces, and anime-inspired figures meet amid lines that cut across the picture plane and gazes that move in divergent directions. These lines divide the landscape, while traces re-emerge between them as trees, constellations, and the sea. Landscape is no longer a background; it becomes a living structure, continually transformed through the accumulation of traces left by relationships and collisions.Within this space, memories of the past, encounters in the present, and possibilities that have yet to arrive are layered onto a single pictorial plane.Ultimately, my paintings are visual records that explore how the traces left by different beings become images, become landscapes, and eventually expand into a living world.__________________________나의 작업은 완전히 이해할 수 없음에도 서로 함께 존재하는 상태, 그리고 불완전함 속에서도 사라지지 않는 생명들에 대한 기록이다. 나는 이러한 상태를 ‘불완전한 공존’이라 부르며 회화를 통해 탐구한다.아주 오래전, “마법소녀들이 지구를 구한다”는 거시적이고 순수한 서사의 파편에서 작업은 출발했다. 어린 여성들이 영웅이 되는 장면과, 신화 속 존재들이 현실에 나타났을 때 오히려 낯설고 주변적인 존재가 될 수 있다는 가능성이 나를 사로잡았다. 초기 작업은 그렇게 서로 다른 존재와 타자성에 대한 질문에서 시작되었고, 시간이 흐르면서 그 관심은 관계의 문제로 이동했다. 서로 다른 존재들은 어떻게 관계를 맺는가. 왜 어떤 관계는 이어지고 어떤 관계는 어긋나는가. 그리고 그 차이와 충돌은 어떻게 또 다른 세계를 만들어내는가.화면 속 존재들은 같은 기억을 공유하지 않으며, 각자의 욕망과 서로 다른 방향의 시선을 지닌 채 스쳐 지나간다. 그러나 그들이 남긴 흔적은 사라지지 않고 나무가 되고, 별자리가 되고, 하나의 풍경으로 축적된다. 나는 보이지 않는 정서의 흐름과 존재들 사이의 거리를 회화적 이미지로 번역하고자 한다.이 세계에서 자연은 단순한 배경이 아니라 흔적이 가시화된 형태이다. 나무는 성장하며 서로를 연결하고, 바다는 기억과 감정을 품은 채 흐른다. 신화적 서사와 자연의 영역은 하나의 세계 안에서 만나며, 풍경은 존재들이 남긴 시간과 감정의 축적으로 형성된다.고전 회화의 구성과 신화적 공간, 애니메이션적 인물들은 화면을 가로지르는 직선과 서로 엇갈리는 시선 속에서 만난다. 직선은 풍경을 가르고, 그 사이에서 흔적은 다시 나무와 별자리, 바다로 확장된다. 이때 풍경은 더 이상 배경이 아니라 관계와 충돌의 흔적이 축적되며 계속해서 변화하는 살아 있는 구조가 된다.이 공간 안에서 과거의 기억과 현재의 만남, 그리고 아직 도착하지 않은 미래의 가능성은 하나의 화면 위에 중첩된다.결국 나의 회화는 서로 다른 존재들이 남긴 흔적이 어떻게 이미지가 되고, 풍경이 되고, 하나의 살아 있는 세계로 확장되는지를 탐구하는 시각적 기록이다.

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PRESS2026Kim Eunjoo Explores the Layers of RelationshipsOrbit; Sea Constellation – Galleries Art Fair Seoul 2026ORBIT, Gallery 41 Solo Exhibition2025How Are Modern Myths Born?...HAPPILY EVER AFTERUncomfortable Harmony, Solo Exhibition2024KIAF 2024 Featured Artist