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Jimin

Shim

I am a Korean artist currently completing an MA in Contemporary Art Practice in the UK. I work across sculpture, installation and video, exploring gendered power relations taken for granted in everyday life. Drawing on personal experiences and observations, my work transforms and rearranges familiar objects and situations to reveal the social rules and hierarchies embedded within them. Through the properties and formal contrasts of materials, I explore themes of visibility, exposure and control, drawing attention to sensory states emerging from the contrast between the material and immaterial, and instability. Moving between the personal and political, I question what is accepted as universal truth or common sense, inviting viewers to see the familiar from different perspectives.

Disciplines: Mixed Media

Location: Glasgow

Materials: Casting, Objects

I am a Korean artist currently completing an MA in Contemporary Art Practice in the UK. I work across sculpture, installation and video, exploring gendered power relations taken for granted in everyday life. Drawing on personal experiences and observations, my work transforms and rearranges familiar objects and situations to reveal the social rules and hierarchies embedded within them. Through the properties and formal contrasts of materials, I explore themes of visibility, exposure and control, drawing attention to sensory states emerging from the contrast between the material and immaterial, and instability. Moving between the personal and political, I question what is accepted as universal truth or common sense, inviting viewers to see the familiar from different perspectives.

Previous Experience

Education 2026 — Master of Letters in Contemporary Art Practice, The Glasgow School of Art, UK 2025 — Fashion Styling & Multimedia Intensive Programme, Istituto Marangoni Milano, Italy 2024 — BFA in Western Painting and Art Management, Kyonggi University, South Korea Group Exhibitions 2026 — City Noise, ZiMMT, Leipzig, Germany 2026 — Thundering | ഇടി മുഴക്കം | 우뢰같은, The Barnes Garage Gallery, Glasgow, UK 2024 — 2024 National Exhibition, Art Space Sinsaok, Seoul, South Korea Residency 2027 — Saruya Artist Residency, Fujiyoshida, Japan (upcoming, March 2027)

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