Sung Hwan Kim intertwines video, performance, music, drawing, and architectural elements to offer a complex visual storytelling that explores the relationships between social structures and embedded history, memory, migration, and psychological traces. Based in New York, Berlin, Honolulu, and Seoul, he assumes alternating roles as a director, editor, performer, composer, and poet.
His major solo exhibitions and screenings have been held at institutions including the Seoul Museum of Art (Seoul, 2024), ZKM Center for Art and Media (Karlsruhe, 2024), Van Abbemuseum (Eindhoven, 2023), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (New York, 2021), daadgalerie (Berlin, 2018), Artsonje Center (Seoul, 2014), Tate Modern (London, 2012), Kunsthalle Basel (Basel, 2011), and Queens Museum (New York, 2011). He has also participated in numerous international exhibitions, including the Venice Biennale (2017), Gwangju Biennale, Busan Biennale (2022), and Hawaiʻi Triennial (2022). His works are included in the permanent collections of the Leeum Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Tate Modern, and Van Abbemuseum.
김성환 작가는 영상, 퍼포먼스, 음악, 드로잉, 건축적 요소를 결합하여 사회적 구조와 그 안에 내재된 역사, 기억, 이주, 심리적 흔적의 관계를 복합적인 시각적 스토리텔링으로 탐구합니다. 작가는 뉴욕, 베를린, 호놀룰루, 서울을 기반으로 활동하며 연출가, 편집자, 퍼포머, 작곡가, 시인 등 다양한 역할을 아우르고 있습니다.
주요 개인전 및 스크리닝을 개최한 기관으로는 Seoul Museum of Art (서울, 2024), ZKM Center for Art and Media (카를스루에, 2024), Van Abbemuseum (아인트호벤, 2023), The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) (뉴욕, 2021), daadgalerie (베를린, 2018), Artsonje Center (서울, 2014), Tate Modern (런던, 2012), Kunsthalle Basel (바젤, 2011), Queens Museum (뉴욕, 2011) 등이 있습니다. 또한 베니스 비엔날레 (2017), 광주 비엔날레, 부산 비엔날레 (2022), 하와이 트리엔날레(2022) 등 다수의 국제 전시에 참여했습니다. 그의 작품은 Leeum Museum of Art, The Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), Tate Modern, Van Abbemuseum등에 소장되어 있습니다.