Education
2015 MFA, Drawing and Painting, College of Visual Arts and Design,
University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2004 BA, Fine Arts, Kyungsung University, Busan, South Korea
Solo Exhibitions
2025 Lingering Light, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
2024 The Seasons, The Sylvia Wald and Po Kim Gallery, New York, NY
2023 Nocturne, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, TX
2022 Voice of Color, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, TX
2021 Moon Shadow, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, CA
2020 Coalescence, Ro2art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Walk the Sky, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2018 land·scape, Ro2art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2017 Semblance, Magnolias Sous Le Pont, Dallas, Texas
2016 Accumulation, Carillon Gallery, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas
Accumulation, Ro2art, Dallas, Texas
2015 Night Hatching, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Two and Three Person Exhibitions
2021 Threading through the Territories by Bumin Kim & Luisa Duarte, Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, Texas
Uncommon Thread, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2016 Trilogy: Origin, Stands and Alchemy, Union Art Gallery at UNT, Denton, Texas
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 She/Her, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
New Works and Favorites, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2022 Sensate Objects, Schneider Museum of Art, Ashland, Oregon
Broad Strokes, AT&T Showcase, Dallas, TX
Art Market Hamptons, Water Mill, NY
Art Market San Francisco, San Francisco, CA
2021 Tree With Half a Root, Cliff Gallery at Mountain View College, Dallas, Texas
VISIBLE, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2020 Maiden Voyage, Ivester Contemporary, Austin, Texas
From a Distance, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Introductions, K. Imperial Fine Art, San Francisco, California
Back to the Future, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2019 Thingness, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Pulse Art Fair, Miami, Florida
Texas Contemporary Art Fair, Houston, Texas
Chaos, Ro2 Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Assembly: 22nd Annual Members Show, The MAC, Dallas, Texas
Friend of the Artist Exhibition, Ma Fille Art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Shifting Parameters, Five Point Gallery, Torrington, Connecticut
2018 Red Dot Spree, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
OC3: Identified, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
Asian American heritage exhibition, Capital One, Dallas, Texas
Sideshow, Ro2art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
The Women of Ro2, Ro2art Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Aspen Art Fair, Aspen, Colorado
2017 Chaos, Ro2art, Dallas, Texas
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas
2016 The Love of Birds+Art, Texas Woman’s University, Denton, Texas
Dallas Art Fair, Dallas, Texas
2015 Belonging, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Small work exhibition, Limner Gallery, Hudson, New York
UNT Faculty Exhibition, UNT on the square, Denton, Texas
Chaos, Ro2 Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Hybrid Forms: Of Circumstance, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, Texas
2014 The Turn, Cora Stafford Gallery, Denton, Texas
Agent Form, Panhandle House, Denton, Texas
2013 Intersections, UNT on the Square, Denton, Texas
Selected Juried Exhibitions
2024 Juried Exhibition-In-Print, New American Paintings, www.newamericanpaintings.com
2019 Juried Exhibition-In-Print, New American Paintings, www.newamericanpaintings.com
2018 5th Regional Juried Exhibition, Juried by Christian Rees, Artspace111, Fort Worth,
2017 Expo 2017, Juried by Sara-Jayne Parsons, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
4th Regional Juried Exhibition, Juried by Shirley Reece-Hughes, Artspace111, Fort Worth, Texas
Materials: Hard+Soft International Juried competition and Exhibition, Juried by JoAnn Edwards,
Patterson-Appleton Arts Center, Denton, Texas
2016 Expo 2016, Juried by Rachel Rogerson, 500X Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2015 Rising Star, 11 artists selected by 11 galleries, Turner House; Oak Cliff Society of Fine Arts, Dallas, Texas
Art Kudos International Juried Competition and Exhibition, Juried by Charles Long, Artkudos.com
In the Making, Juried by Rachel MacKenna, Michelle Thomas, and Kai Peter Martin, UNT on the Square, Denton, Texas
Expo2015, Juried by Susan Roth and Jordan Roth, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas
Graduate Spring Invitational, UNT Lightwell Gallery, Denton, Texas
2014 5 to watch, Juried by Susan and Jordan Roth, Gallery at Visit at Addison, Addison, Texas
2013 Graduate Fall invitational, Lightwell Gallery at UNT, Denton, Texas
Graduate Spring Invitational, Lightwell Gallery at UNT, Denton, Texas
Toulouse Graduate School Exhibition Encore, UNT on the Square, Denton, Texas
Professional Experience
2020 FB AIR (Artist in Residence), Facebook, Austin, Texas
2019 Artist Member, The Mac, Dallas, Texas
2019 Public Art Project Selection Panel, invited by Arts Council of Fort Worth and Tarrant County, Fort Worth, Texas
2019 Artist Workshop: Painting with textile, Women and Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2019 Artist Talk, Walk the Sky, Women & Their Work Gallery, Austin, Texas
2018 Juror, The Art On-Site Drawing Contest, PSIA: Private Schools Interscholastic Association, ICCS, Denton, Texas
2017 Guest Speaker, Fibers, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
2017 Artist Workshop: Korean Traditional Craft Art, Greater Denton Arts Council, Denton, Texas
2016 Visiting Artist, Tarrant County College, Fort Worth, Texas
2016 Artist member, Greater Denton Art Council
2015 Artist Talk: Night Hatching, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2015 Artist Workshop: Thread Painting, Oak Cliff Cultural Center, Dallas, Texas
2015 Guest Speaker, Drawing II, University of North Texas, Denton, Texas
Awards
2018 Awards to Artists, Business Council for the Arts
2017 Award Winner, 30th Materials: Hard+Soft International Competition and Exhibition,
Juried by JoAnn Edwards, Patterson-Appleton Arts Center
2016 Art Kudos International Juried Competition, Finalist, Artkudos.com
2015 Art Kudos International Juried Competition, Finalist, Artkudos.com
2015 Expo2015, Top5, Juried by Susan and Jordan Roth, 500x Gallery, Dallas, Texas
2014 – 2015 Texas Public Education Grant
2014 – 2015 Paul Voertman Scholarship
2013 Toulouse Graduate School Exhibition, Third Place for Visual Arts
2012 - 2014 UNT Academic Achievement Scholarship
Publications and Press
Glasstire, Five-Minute Tours: Bumin Kim at Anya Tish Gallery, Houston, https://glasstire.com/2025/02/21/five-minute-tours-bumin-kim-at-anya-tish-gallery-houston/, Glasstire, February 21, 2025
Interviews from Yale University Radio WYBCX with Brainard Carey, https://museumofnonvisibleart.com/interviews/bumin-kim/, Yale University Radio WYBCX, December 26, 2024
Sue Taylor, Exhibition “Sensate Objects” Catalog with Essay, https://sma.sou.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Sensate-Objects-web-catalog.pdf, Schneider Museum of Art, October 6, 2022
Chris Becker, In Pieces that Seem to Move, a Texas Artist Weaves a Colorful Story -and Finds Her ‘Voice’, https://www.houstoncitybook.com/bumin-kim/particle-1, Houston City Book, October 4, 2022
Richard Speer, “ Bumin Kim: Moon Shadow review by Richard Speer”, http://kimperialfineart.com/bumin-kim-moon-shadow-review-by-richard-speer/, K.Imperial Fine Art, October 9, 2021
The Korea Times, “SF서 ‘달 그림자’ 개인전 (A Solo Exhibition ‘Moon Shadow’ in SF)”, http://sf.koreatimes.com/article/20211021/1385797, The Korea Times (한국 일보), October 21, 2021
Narong Tintamusik, “The Beautiful Sound of Bumin Kim’s “Coalescence””, https://glasstire.com/2020/11/19/the-beautiful-sound-of-bumin-kims-coalescence/, Glasstire, November 19, 2020
“Top Five Exhibition in Texas”, https://glasstire.com/2020/11/25/top-five-november-26-2020/, Glasstire, November 25, 2020
Featured Artist Bumin Kim, New American Paintings, Juried Exhibition- In- Print, New American Painting, Issue 138, May 21, 2019, 86-89p
New American Paintings, “Artist Bumin Kim”, https://www.newamericanpaintings.com/artists/bumin-kim, New American Paintings, 2019
Bumin Kim “Walk the Sky”, https://womenandtheirwork.org/archive/bumin-kim/, Women & Their Work Gallery, March 2019
“Top Five Exhibition in Texas”, https://glasstire.com/2019/04/11/top-five-april-11-2019/?fbclid=IwAR2B2E8fXRUj4AmYwkXCL910jiHkHveMzzD9MTI1xfIM_qmQjvjD-tFPL-4, Glasstire, April 11, 2019
Featured Artist Bumin Kim, Friend of the artists, Volume 7, October 2, 2018, 60-63p
Scott Gleeson, “Landscapes”, https://www.peripheralvisionarts.org/profiles/bumin-kim, Peripheral Vision Arts, January 28, 2018
Alaena Hostetter, “In the Old Dallas Power & Light Building, Three Art Shows Find Space This Month”, https://www.dmagazine.com/arts-entertainment/2018/04/in-the-old-dallas-power-light-building-three-art-shows-find-space-this-month/, D magazine, April 2, 2018
Sarah Odum, “Materials: Hard+Soft 2017”, http://wedentondoit.com/blog/2017/2/12/materials-hard-soft-2017, We Denton Do It, February 13, 2017
Fresh Paint Magazine, Featured Artists Bumin Kim, Fresh Paint Magazine International Issue.15, October 1, 2016, P.59
Kendall Morgan, “4 Must-see Dallas art gallery shows to check off your list this December”, http://dallas.culturemap.com/news/arts/12-03-15-art-gallery-picks-barry-whistler-erin-cluley/, Culture Map Dallas, December 3, 2015
Teaching Experience
2015 Adjunct Professor, ART1500: Drawing I, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015 Teaching Fellow, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2015 Area Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014 Teaching Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2014 Area Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013 Teaching Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX
2013 Area Assistant, ART1510: Drawing II, College of Visual Arts and Design, University of North Texas, Denton, TX