Jung S Kim is a Korean-American photographic artist based in New Jersey. She holds a BFA in Fine Art Photography from Chung-Ang University in Korea. In 2001, she immigrated to the United States, where she continues to create staged self-portraiture exploring identity, cultural dissonance, and the space between belonging and estrangement.
Kim’s work has been shown at institutions such as the Griffin Museum of Photography, The Center for Fine Art Photography, Filter Photo Festival, Humble Arts Foundation, and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She was selected for Photography NOW at the Center for Photography at Woodstock and invited to the New York Times-Lens Portfolio Review.
Internationally, her exhibitions include Rencontres d’Arles, the 3rd Asian Women Photographers Showcase at the Obscura Festival, the Kwangju Biennale, and the Daegu Photo Biennale, as well as the Seoul Museum of Art and Daelim Museum in Korea.
She has received multiple awards, including the Robert Cornelius Portrait Award, Julia Margaret Cameron Award, Grand Prix Juror Award, Director’s Choice from C4FAP, and the AHL Foundation Visual Arts Award. Her series Circle was published by Editions Bessard (Paris) as Zine Collection No.10.
Her work is included in the collections of FNAC (France), Imago Mundi Collection (Italy), the Center for Photography at Woodstock (USA), Daelim Museum, and Samtan Art Mine (Korea).
