Eunju Kim

Kim Eunjoo has been working with pencils as a medium for over 20 years. Starting her drawing work during her university days, the artist uses pencils to depict monochromatic figures such as waves, wind, and flowers on the canvas. Gathering small flower petals to create large flower buds, she structurally arranges organic subjects on the canvas, creating a sense of grandeur. The figures, built up layer by layer with thin and clean pencil lines, evoke a sense of rhythm depending on the brightness and angle of the lighting and movement, revealing various subtle changes in muted light. Moreover, in the speed of the pencil lines emerging in her works, the artist's steadfast and unchanging artistic style is evident, characterized by a sense of solidity and firmness in the black lines. Rather than reproducing natural subjects, the artist focuses on the vitality contained within them. The repetitive act of drawing lines with pencils carries the energy of nature itself, and it is also an act of facing the artist's inner nature. Born and based in Busan, Kim Eunju graduated from the Department of Fine Arts and Graduate School at Busan Women's University (now Shilla University). Starting from the Busan KBS Exhibition Hall in 1990, she has held solo exhibitions at various venues including Space World(1995), Jeon Kyungsook Gallery(1997, 1999), Tokyo Mori Galler (2001), Gwanhun Gallery(2002), Songeun Gallery(2005), Hong Kong Shin Hwa Gallery(2010), POSCO Art Museum(2016), Art Sohyang(2018), and Art Project C.O.(2021, 2023). She has also participated in numerous group exhibitions including Daejeon Municipal Museum of Art(2000), Nagasaki Prefectural Art Museum, Japan(2014), Geumho Museum of Art(2015), Busan Museum of Art(2018), Pohang Municipal Museum of Art(2019) and Gallery Huue Singapore (2021) In 2001, she won the Today's Young Artist Award from the Busan Art Association. Her works are held in the collection of the Busan Museum of Art.