Kimsooja: Meta-Painting

Kimsooja is an international conceptual artist whose practice transcends distinctions of medium and form through works of painting, sewing, installation, performance, video, light, sound, and architecture. The evolution of her artistic inquiry from the material to the immaterial parallels Kimsooja’s principle of “non-doing” and “non-making”that draws awareness to what already exists without the intent of making it. Her reflection on a myriad of sociopolitical issues and existential borders, from migration and displacement to identity, poverty, religious clashes, and life and death find their origin in the question of the surface in painting. Kimsooja’s work has been the subject of numerous solo exhibitions, biennials and triennials, and large-scale site-specific projects.

Barbara London’s curatorial projects focus on sound art and new media. She joined the curatorial staff at the Museum of Modern Art in the early 1970s, where she founded the video exhibition and collection programs. While at MoMA, she organized many media exhibitions and one-person shows, and led the acquisition of works by Laurie Anderson, Nam June Paik, and John Simon, among others. Her book, Video Art: The First Fifty Years was published by Phaidon in 2020. She also produces the podcast series “Barbara London Calling.” London has taught in the Sound Art Department at Columbia University, and in the Graduate Art Department at Yale.