FUTURE FAIR 2022


Myeongsoo Kim
May 5-7, 2022

Myeongsoo Kim, Desolate Landscape_03, 2022
Clear varnished archival cut-out pigment print, 40 x 60 inches

FUTURE FAIR

Location: Chelsea Industrial
535 W 28th St.
New York City

VIP Preview:
Wednesday, May 4, 2022, 4-8pm

Public Days:
May 5-7, 2022

Rivalry Projects is delighted to announce our participation in Future Fair 2022 with multimedia artist Myeongsoo Kim. The 2022 iteration of Future Fair will be taking place May 4-7 at Chelsea Industrial in New York’s gallery district. 

Often informed by personal travels, Myeongsoo Kim’s practice operates at the juncture of sculpture, found objects, and photography in creating minimalist, altered landscapes. Their simplicity and straightforwardness opens up space for the artist - and others - to consider place, cosmology, the extraterrestrial, and what it means to be “alien.” Kim’s landscapes are often sourced from American National Parks and monuments, allowing his exploration-driven process to de-contextualize and reframe topographies, geology, and human absence to space both real and imagined. 

Drawing on his background as an architect, Myeongsoo Kim’s art practice employs natural elements and ephemera recontextualized within museological tableaux. Through this, Kim’s work questions it’s own relationship to display and narrative, and the landscapes created through his work are untethered to time, space, or place. At close consideration, Kim’s landscapes reveal a soft introspection tied to loss and displacement. 

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About the Artist

Myeongsoo Kim (b. 1980, Shinpoong, Korea; lives and works in Brooklyn, New York) studied architecture in Korea before coming to the United States in 2002. In 2009 he received a BFA followed in 2011 by an MFA, both from Yale. Since 2011 Kim has been actively producing and exhibiting work in Brooklyn. 

Most recently, Kim’s solo exhibition Desert Ocean was on view at the Yeh Art Gallery at St. John’s University (Jamaica, Queens, New York) and participated in the 2019 BRIC Biennial in Brooklyn and the Brave New World Photo Festival at the Seoul Museum of Art in Seoul, Korea.