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경원대학교 대학원 회화과 석사
경원대학교 회화과 학사

레지던시

2015.01 ~ 2015.12 제13기 국립현대미술관 창동레지던시 입주작가

수상경력

2017​ 제21회 부천국제판타스틱영화제 코리안 판타스틱 관객상 (려행)
2015 제 5회 노동문화상, 노동예술부문, 고려대학교 & 매일경제신문, 서울
2015 제 35회 영평상, 독립예술지원상, 한국영화평론가협회, 서울
2015 제 4회 부일영화제, 유현목예술영화상, 부산일보사, 부산
2015 제 3회 무주산골영화제, 무주관객상(위로공단), 무주산골영화제 조직위원회, 무주
2015 제 56회 베니스비엔날레, 은사자상(위로공단), 베니스비엔날레 조직위원회, 이탈리아
2014 제 40회 서울독립영화제, 한국경쟁 특별언급(위로공단), 한국독립영화협의회, 서울
2014 제 2회 인천다큐멘터리포트, 베스트 러프컷 프로젝트 수상(위로공단), 인천영상위원회, 인천
2012 제6회 시네마디지털서울영화제 버터플라이상

개인전

2019 Ghost Guide, The Page Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2017 MMCA 현대차 시리즈 2017: 임흥순- 우리를 갈라놓는 것들_믿음, 신념, 사랑, 배신, 증오, 공포, 유령, 국립현대미술관, 서울
2017 In Another Country(IM Heung-soon & Hugo Aveta), Bellas Artes, Buenos Aires, Argentina
2015 Staging the singularity of memory, àngels barcelona, Barcelona, Spain
2015 Memento, East Asian Video Frames: Seoul, Pori Art Museum, Pori, Finland
2015 Reincarnation, MoMA PS1, New York, US
2013 Family, Neighbor and History which is a three different way to “Jeju Prayer”, Moonji Cultural Institute ‘Saii’, Seoul, Korea
2011 Prayer, Space99, Seoul, Korea
2009 Invitation to Happiness, Space Croft, Seoul, Korea
2009 Letters from Vietnam, Supplement Space Stone & Water, Anyang, Korea
2006 Memories Of Maggie, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2003 Memento, Ilju Art House, Seoul, Korea
2001 Riding a Scooter, Gallery O2, Seoul, Korea
2001 Dapsimni Useong Tenement-basement No.101, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

단체전

2024 당신을 사랑하지 않는 방법, 수원시립미술관, 수원
2023 시의 정원 Poetic Paradise, 전남도립미술관, 광양
2020 In Pursuit of Images, AA Gallery, London, UK
2019 The Scrap : Happy Together, Seoul
2019 The Coming Community, Sejong Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 Modern Rose, SeMA, Nam Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul
2019 Kyoto Experiment, Kyoto Art Center, Kyoto, Japan
2019 The Square: Art and Society in Korea, MMCA
2019 Beyond The Sun, Incheon Art Platform, Incheon
2019 Contmporary Art Stage, The Page Gallery, Seoul
2019 SASAM ART EXHIBITION-WAKE, Art Space IAa, Jeju, Korea
2018 A Day for Counting Stars: The Story of You and Me, MMCA, Cheongju
2018 Mise-en-Scène : A History of Images, MMCA, Seoul, Korea
2018 Carnegie International, Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh, U.S.
2018 Chang Won Sculpture Biennale, SungSan Art Hall, Chang Won, Korea
2018 State of the Union, Potter Museum of Art, Melbourne, Australia
2018 Gueseong Industrial Complex, CULTURE STATION SEOUL 284, Seoul, Korea
2018 Voiceless – Return of the Foreclosed, Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2018 The Scrap, CULTURE STATION SEOUL 284, Seoul, Korea
2018 Toward Mysterious Realities, Total Museum of Contemporary Art, Space 55, Seoul, Korea
2018 The 70th jeju April 3rd Uprising and Massacre-Forged into Collective Memory, Art Space IAa, Jeju, Korea
2018 Asakusa Entertainments, ASAKUSA, Tokyo, Japan (18 Feb – 4 Mar)
2018 The Dictionary of Evil, Gangwon International Biennale, Gangneung Green City Experience Center, Gangneung, Korea (3 Feb – 18 Mar)
2017 코리아 투모로우 2017 전, 성곡미술관, 서울
2017 ART BUSAN, Bexco Hall 1, Busan, Korea (June 2-5, 2017)
2017 Kino-Pravda: A Tribute to Prokino, ASAKUSA, Toyko, Japan (13 May- 28 May 2017)
2017 Pre-view, Art Space IAa, Jeju, Korea (13 May-25 June 2017)
2017 2 or 3 Tiger, HKW(Haus der Kulturen der Welt), Berlin, Germany (21 April- 3 July 2017)
2017 Evolved Museum: the former Belgian Consulate, Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum Architecture archive Permanent Exhibition, SeMA Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum, Seoul, Korea
2017 SeMA NANJI RESIDENCY 10th Review, Seoul Innovation Park_SeMA Storage, Seoul, Korea
2017 You and I, Millennium Court Arts Centre, Portadown, Northern Ireland, UK
2017 THE MULBERRY FOREST BECOMING OCEAN, Esther Schipper GmbH, Berlin, Germany
2016 Private Square, Wumin Art Center, Cheongju, Korea
2016 TOWARD MYSTERIOUS REALITIES, TKG+, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 ROPPONGI ART NIGHT, The National Art Center, Tokyo, Japan
2016 APAP5(Anyang Public Art Project), Lotte Cinema (Pyeongchon), Anyang, Korea
2016 Taipei Biennale, Taipei Fine Art Museum, Taipei, Taiwan
2016 ALTERNATIVA 2016, Hall 90B, Gdansk, Poland
2016 Border Imag(e)narles, angels barcelona-espai2, Barocelona, Spain
2016 Women at Work, Edith-Russ-Haus, Oldenburg, Germany
2016 Land of Happiness, SeMA, Buk Seoul Museum of Art Exhibition Hall 1,2, Seoul, Koera
2016 Art Plants, SeMA Nanji Residency, Seoul, Korea
2015 Evolved Museum: the former Belgian Consulate, SeMA, Nam-Seoul Living Arts Museum, Seoul, Korea
2015 Post Trauma, Citizens Hall Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2015 Artist File-Next Doors, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Gwacheon, Korea
2015 MMCA Residency Changdong Report, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Place and Road, Jeju Culture Art Center, Jeju City, Jeju-Do, Korea
2015 How come would you be here, Nowhere, Seoul, Korea
2015 New Media art from Korea-The Future is Now, La Friche Belle de Mai, Marseille, France
2015 New Media art from Korea-The Future is Now, Korean Cultural Centre, Budapest, Hungary
2015 Artist File-Next Doors: Contemporary Art in Japan and Korea, The National Art Center Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
2015 56th Venice Biennale​, Arsenale (international exhibition), Venice, Italy
2015 Media Salon de SeMA : SeMA’s New Acquisitions 2014 Ⅱ, Buk Seoul Museum of Art, Seoul, Korea
2015 Sharjah Biennale12, SAF Art Spaces, Sharjah, UAE
2015 Third Generation in Global Perspective: Past and Present in Contemporary Video Art, Amelie A. Wallace Gallery, SUNY College at Old Westbury, US
2014 New Media art from Korea-The Future is Now, Fondazione MAXXI, Rome, Italy
2014 Rethinking the Asia Pivot: Challenging Everyday Militarisms & Bridging Communities of Women, Douglass Student Center, Rutgers University, New Brunswick, US
2014 Journal of The Plague Year, ARKO Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2014 Gwangju Biennale Special Project-Sweet dew​​, Gwangju Museum of Art, Gwangju, Korea
2014 Camellia Has Fallen: Contemporary Korean Artists Reflect on the Jeju Uprising, Sonoma County Museum, Santa Rosa, US
2013 ANIMISM, Ilmin Museum of art, Seoul, Korea
2013 The Hidden Cost of Prosperity, Korean Cultural Centre, London, UK​
2012 How to Dream Otherwise, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2012 PLAYTIME, Culture Station Seoul 284, Seoul, Korea
2012 Seoul Photo Festival, Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea
2012 Cabinet of artists, 175 Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Up in the Air: From Yeoido to Incheon, ilmin Museum of art, Seoul, Korea
2011 Thank You (Kim Min-kyung, IM Heung-soon Cooperation), Gasi-li Art Center, Gasi-li, JeJu-Do, Korea
2011 Reflections of an Outsider on “Outsiders”, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2011 TV Commune, NJP Art Center, Yongin, Korea
2011 Asian Arts Space Network, Asia Cuture Complex, Gwangju, Korea
2011 Housing Project, EON Gallery, Seoul, Korea
2011 Art Fresh, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2011 The Sociological Imagination of the City, Seoul Art Space_Geumcheon, Seoul, Korea
2011 No Excavation, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2011 INTERVIEW, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2011 The eye of a needle, Space 99, Seoul, Korea
2011 Brave Citizens, Art Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
2010 The 8th Gwangju Biennale-10,000 Lives, Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea
2010 Media-Archive Project(Public Art Itda), Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
2010 Gyeonji-dong No.99, space99, Seoul, Korea
2010 Day of Confidence, Art Space Pool/ Kkool, Seoul, Korea
2009
Media-Archive Project, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Theater Project, Samsung Theatre, Busan, Korea
The secret of longevity, Bukchon Art Museum, Seoul, Korea
No. 85 Crane : A history of ‘Mangloo’, Peace Museum, Seoul, Korea
VIDEO : VIDE&O, Arko Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Made in Korea (Magic Moment: Korean Express), Sinn-Leffers Department, Hannover, Germany
Korea-Vietnam Peace Project, Supplement Space Stone & Water, Anyang, Korea

2008
Homecoming Box, Peace Museum, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Sungsan SH Apartment Public Art Project 2, Sungsan SH Apartment, Seoul, Korea

2007
Activating Korea: Tides of Collective Action(Video Screening), Govett-Brewster Art Gallery, New Plymouth, New Zealand
Stone·Orchid·Flowers- Bloom from Stone, alternative space Art forum Rhee, Bucheon, Korea
Asia Art Festival-Peach Flower, Apricot Flower, Changwon Multiculture & Art Center, Changwon, Korea
Speak Again, Dongduk Art Gallery, Seoul, Korea
A Taepyung-dong tale, Seongnam Art Center, Seongnam, Korea

2006
We, Another ‘we’, Kookmin Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Public Moment: AFI, Alternative Space in the Loop, Seoul, Korea

2005
Human rights Now-Just Lying There, Chohung Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Family-Imagination Community, Ssamziegil Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Against Translation(Mixrice), Total Museum, Seoul, Korea
Mapping on the Root, K-art space, Seongnam, Korea

2004
Aarhus Festival of Contemporary: Minority Report, Aarhus, Aarhus Museum, Denmark
Gwangju Biennale P-3 : Minority, 5.18 Freedom Park, Gwangju, Korea
Asia Video Conference, Selasur Sunaryo Art Space, Bandung, Indonesia
The 2th Busan Biennale, Busan Metropolitan Museum, Busan, Korea
Avicon-Video Art Channel vol.29, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan
Body Around: Korean Media Art Today, Korea Cultural Center, LA, USA
Prohibited Imagination, Korea Democracy Foundation Gallery, Seoul, Korea
On the Border of Salim, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2003
Video Document, Ilju Art House, Seoul, Korea
Asia Video Art Conference, Pola Museum Annex, Tokyo, Japan
Dutch-Korea Contemporary Art: FACING KOREA, Media Art Center Montevideo, Amsterdam, Netherlands
Media Art Biennale, Inchon Art Culture Center, Inchon, Korea
Discover of life of Seoul, Ssamziespace·Alternative space in the Loop, Seoul, Korea
Marx Communale Conference, Ehwa-Samsung Education Culture Center, Seoul, Korea

2002
Remediating TV, Ilju Art House, Seoul, Korea
Eye of 1000, Road of 1000, Kwanhun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
LocalCup, SsamzieSpace, Seoul, Korea
Healing Society Project, Gwanghwamun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
The 4th Gwangju Biennale P-1, Biennale Hall, Gwangju, Korea

2001
Imagination on the Public Design, Seoul Art Center, Seoul, Korea
Wind Wind Wind, Gwanghwamun Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Ghost Returned, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
A day, O2 Gallery, Seoul, Korea

2000
Gasman Flaner-Reportage Art and City, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea
Shinsadong-Yakult Aunt, Wooduk Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Happy Image, Boda Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Mother, Dam Gallery, Seoul, Korea
Oksang Girl-Jiha Man, Insa Art Space, Seoul, Korea
Exploration of the Mode of Life Culture Project, Seongnam Culture Center, Seongnam, Korea
Anti-Chosunilbo, Alternative Space Pool, Seoul, Korea

1999
The New Year’s Card of Three Hundred artists, alternative Space in the Loop, Seoul, Korea
The 1st Art Exhibition in Factory(Hyunjudong Project), Samea Factory, Ichon, Korea
The Photograph Looks at Us(Hyunjudong Project), Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea
Space and Meaning, Moran-market (Seongnam Project), Seongnam City hall,Seongnam, Korea
Aspects of Seongnam the past Presents, Seongnam City hall, Seongnam, Korea
Inchon Post-Dialogue, Inchon Art Culture Center, Inchon, Korea
Good Morning 2.5th Gwangju Biennale, Namu Gallery, Seoul, Korea
An Exception a Postal Card, 21century Gallery, Seoul, Korea

1998
Sungnam and Environment Art (Seongnam Project), Seongnam City hall, Seongnam, Korea
Media and City (Seongnam Project), Seoul Metropolitan Museum, Seoul, Korea
From Bokjung to Ori, Samsung Plaza Gallery, Seongnam, Korea
Place/ Placement/ Dis-place-ment, Hansung University, Seoul, Korea
Supplement of Supplement, Kyungwon University, Seongnam, Korea
Art Circumference, Dukwon Gallery, Seoul, Korea

작품소장

퐁피두 센터, 파리, 프랑스
로스엔젤레스 카운티 미술관, 로스엔젤레스, 미국
샤르자 아트 파운데이션, 샤르자, 아랍에미리트
서울시립미술관, 서울, 한국
국립현대미술관, 한국
평화박물관, 서울, 한국

추가정보

1969년 서울에서 태어나 경원대학교 미술대학 회화과와 같은 대학원 회화과를 졸업했다. 노동자로 살아 온 가족에 관한 이야기를 시작으로 점점 더 소외되어가는 노동자 계층과 지역, 이주, 여성, 공동체 문제에 관심을 가지고 현대 예술로서의 다큐멘터리 영화와 공공미술, 개별작업과 공동작업, 전시장과 극장 그리고 생활현장을 오가며 다양한 형태의 작업을 만들어 오고 있다.

2001년 첫 개인전 <답십리 우성연립 지하 102호>를 대안공간 풀에서 개최했으며 광주비엔날레(2002, 2004, 2010), 부산비엔날레(2004) 등 국내외 단체 전시에 참여했다. 동시에 성남프로젝트(1998-1999), 현저동프로젝트(1999), 믹스라이스(2002-2004), 보통미술잇다(2007-2011) 등의 미술가 그룹 활동과 공공예술 프로젝트를 통해 여러 분야와 장르를 작업에 끌어들여 주민 스스로 이야기 할 수 있는 방법들을 모색해 왔고, 그 중 외국인 이주노동자, 임대아파트 주민들과 함께 만든 영상/ 영화작업들이 서울독립영화제(2003 믹스라이스 특별전, 기획/제작 믹스라이스, 연출: 타킨아웅칸 외 7인), 부산국제영화제(2010 오디션, 기획/제작 보통미술잇다, 연출: 김민경)에 초청되었다.
2010년 부터 2014년 까지 금천구에 위치한 금천예술공장 입주작가로 머무르고 오가며 지역주부들(금천미세스)과 함께 미술, 영화, 투어, 퍼포먼스, 리서치 등 커뮤니티아트 프로그램을 진행해 왔다. 금천미세스는 2013, 2014년 연속 금천예술공장 입주작가로 선정되었고 현재까지 활동을 이어가고 있다.

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2009년 첫 촬영 된 <비념>(2012)을 시작으로 <위로공단>(2014/2015), <려행>(2016) 총 세 편의 장편 다큐멘터리를 연출했다. '제주 4·3'을 다룬 첫 장편 다큐멘터리 <비념>(2012 기획/제작 김민경, 연출 임흥순)은 2012년 전주국제영화제, DMZ국제다큐멘터리영화제 등'장편경쟁부문에 초청되었고, 2013년 4월3일 전국 22개관에서 개봉했다. 여성노동을 주제로 만든 <위로공단>(2014/2015 기획/제작 김민경,임흥순 연출 임흥순)은 2014년 부산국제영화제를 시작으로 국내외 다양한 영화제에 상영되었으며, 제56회 베니스비엔날레 (2015, 베니스)에서 은사자상을 수상했다.
최근 샤르자비엔날레(2015, 샤르자), MoMA PS1(2015, 뉴욕), 국립신미술관(2015, 도쿄), 테이트 모던(2015, 런던), 몬트리올국제영화제(2015, 몬트리올), 상하이국제영화제(2015, 상하이), 링컨센터(2016, 뉴욕), 이미지페스트발(2016, 토론토), 퐁피두센터(2016, 파리) 등 전시, 영화제, 스크리닝을 통해 국내외 작품이 소개되었다,

현재 영화제작사 반달BANDAL Doc 공동대표(김민경, 임흥순)로 있으며, 최근 탈북여성들과 함께 만든 <려행 Ryeoheang>에 이어 아시아, 전쟁, 여성을 키워드로 네 번째 장편영화 프로젝트 <환생 Re Born>을 마무리 중이다.