Shinae Kim

Shinae Kim is a Canadian painter of Korean descent. She graduated from OCAD University in 2023 with an Honours Bachelor of Arts degree in Drawing and Painting with distinction. She was a finalist in the Salt Spring National Art Prize 2023/2024 exhibition. Additionally, she was one of five recipients of the 2024 Cboe Commissioning Program. Her work has been shown across North America with a notable solo exhibition at the City of Toronto Assembly Hall in 2024. Her works have also been collected by the Asia Pacific Museum of Peace, Solar Bank Collection, Power Leaves Corp Collection, among other private collections.  

 

Made with alla prima oil paint, Shinae Kim’s individual pieces reflect a different part of life portraying grief, gratification, and mortality. Her works move between figuration and abstraction. She works with changes in human bonds amongst other themes. Her paintings consist of imaginative stories about migration, family, tragedy, the loss of one’s racial heritage, and the varied responses we may have to the world. Her painterly style is made up of oil pigments with each colours mixed one by one. This creates multiple layers of full colour palettes on her canvases. Each stroke is made with careful consideration creating an intense and complex balance between its undertones giving an illusion of colours that both merge and dissolve at the same time. A fairly new acquisition to the gallery, the artist has had her work, Circe’s Bath, premiere at Christopher Cutts. Her work has also been shown at the gallery’s “The Empty Church” exhibition as well as the “Dec 2024 Holiday Group Show.”

 

Shinae Kim 

 

Education 

2019-2023  Honours BFA Drawing and Painting with Distinction, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

 

Solo Exhibitions

2024 A Glimpse of Blue, City of Toronto Assembly Hall Gallery, Toronto, CA

 

Group Exhibitions

2024 Holiday Group Show, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA 

2024 Colour and Form Society 72nd Juried Show, Etobicoke Civic Centre, Toronto, CA

2024 The Empty Church, Christopher Cutts Gallery, Toronto, CA

2024 63rd Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, CA

2024 Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, CA

2024 Keeping Dreams, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, CA

2024 Chosen Family, Bevy Space, Toronto, CA 

2023 Small Gems, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, CA 

2023 Project 31, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2023 The Diaspora Story, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, CA 

2023 Han-Soom-Gyeol: Exhibition Commemorating the 60th Anniversary of Korea-Canada Diplomatic Relations, Papermill Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalist Exhibition, Mahon Hall, Salt Spring Island, CA

2023 Tonic: Nuit Blanche Emerging Artist Exhibition, 401 Richmond, Toronto, CA

2023 Vice Versa, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 Summer in the City, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 Impact 2023 Annual Juried Exhibition, Parkview Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 Emerging Now, Bauxi Gallery, Toronto, ON

2023 62nd Toronto Outdoor Art Fair, Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, CA

2023 Artist’s Choice, Dignam Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 Graduate Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2023 What the Thunder Says, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2023 Paraline, Midnight Arcade, Toronto, CA

2023 Show Your Resistance, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2023 Pencil Drawing Group Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2023 Iridescence, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, CA

2022 Why We Rely, Carbonic Coffee, Toronto, CA

2022 Abstract Painting Exhibition, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2022 The Archive of Merit: From OSA to OCAD, Ada Slaight Gallery, Toronto, CA

2022 Blueprint for a Collective Home, Great Hall, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2020 First-Self: Investigating Cultural Appropriation, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2020 Shape Shifter, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2019 Looking In Open House, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2019 Face 2 Face, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

 

Collections

Asia Pacific Museum of Peace

Solar Bank Collection

Power Leaves Corp. Collection

Westpark Health Centre Collection

 

Artist Talk 

Sep. 2024 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

May. 2024 Artist Talk, City of Toronto Assembly Hall Gallery, Toronto, CA

Apr. 2024 Artist Talk, Artist Project, Better Living Centre, Toronto, CA

Oct. 2023 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

Jul. 2023 Artist Talk, Toronto Outdoor Art Fair(TOAF), Nathan Phillips Square, Toronto, CA

Jan. 2023 Artist Talk, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

 

Juries

2023 APEX Art International Exhibitions Competition, New York, US

 

Awards

2025 Cboe Commissioning Program Career Launcher Award, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2024 Cboe Commissioning Program Career Launcher Award, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2023 Salt Spring National Art Prize Finalist, SSNAP, Salt Spring Island, CA

2023 Partial Gallery Career Launcher Award, Partial Gallery, Toronto, CA

2023 Toronto Outdoor Art Fair Career Launcher Award, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2022 Andre Beaulieu Bursary for Young Visual Artists, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2021 Frances Lea Ziegler Memorial Scholarship, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

2021 Av Isaacs Bursary, OCAD University, Toronto, CA

Featured Artwork

Shinae Kim

Circe’s Bath

2024
38
 x 44
 in
 (96.5
 x 112
 cm)

Shinae Kim

Saturday’s Inferno

2024
40
 x 50
 in
 (101.5
 x 127
 cm)

Past Exhibitions

Winter Group Show – 2024
2024 Dec 07 - 21
The Empty Church
2024 Jul 20 - Aug 10

Publications

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