Jongsook
Kim, born in South Korea, received her BFA, MFA and PhD from Hongik University
in South Korea. Her works have been widely exhibited both nationally and
worldwide, and a part of them is housed in the permanent collections at the
Mogam Museum of Art and The Hoseo National Museum of Contemporary Art.
The
artist reinterprets traditional Korean ink-brush landscape paintings, giving it
a modern vocabulary by incorporating Swarovski crystals into it. Her father,
who ran a mother-of-pearl workshop, used traditional landscapes and motifs as
prototypes for the objects he made. This early memory influenced her to create
artworks of her own, onto which she incorporated the iridescence of Swarovski
crystals, combining it with Korean tradition.