Ku-Lim Kim - Artist Info

About Ku-Lim Kim

Name variants

Kulim Kim, Kim KuLim
  • Biography

    Artist Kim Ku-lim was born in Sangju, Gyeongsangbuk-do in 1936. After dropping out of college he decided to move to the U.S., where he ended up at the Art Students League of New York. While there, he participated in group exhibitions alongside contemporaries that included Bruce Nauman.

    On returning to his native Korea, he expanded his sights from painting to include performance and video art, and became a major player in collectives like the AG Group and the associative Fourth Group. His “The Meaning of 1/24 Second” (1969 ) was the country’s first experimental video that strung together seemingly unrelated, yet arguably critical, images at 24 frames per second.

    Sources include:
    http://english.seoul.go.kr/

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