Oan Kim

Oan Kim is a French photographer, video artist, and musician born on April 2, 1974, in Paris, France. Recent solo shows include Digital After Love (Paris), Street Life (Seoul), Life on Loop (Paris), De Paso en la Tierra (Sevilla and Madrid), White Box (New York).
He is currently represented by Agence Myop. He studied photography at the École nationale supérieure des Beaux-Arts followed by musical composition at the Conservatoire National Supérieur de Musique et de Danse de Paris (CNSMDP).
Over the years his photographic work has developed an approach to the medium that is neither strictly documentary, nor purely conceptual, re-questioning the balance of these elements with each new series he produces.
He has had more than a dozen gallery and museum solo exhibitions since 2000 in Paris, New York,Los Angeles, Séoul, and Macao, and has taken part in many group shows around the world.
In 2009, he published "Je suis le chien Pitié" by Actes Sud in collaboration with Laurent Gaudé.
In 2018, he released "Digital After Love" with Actes Sud.
He has received several grants or commissions from CNAP, FIACRE, SCAM, and Macao Museum of Art. In 2018 he won the Prix Swiss Life from the Fondation Swiss Life for his work on the project Digital After-Love, que restera-t-il de nos amours ?.
He is the son of French-Korean painter Kim Tschang Yeul.
Solo Shows and Projects.
2021
"The Man Who Paints Waterdrops", Official Selection, 2021 Hot Docs International Documentary Festival.
"The Man Who Paints Waterdrops", Official Selection, 61st Krakow Film Festival.
2019
Street Life, Galerie Baudoin Lebon
Digital After Love, Galerie Iman Farès
2018
Digital After Love, Cité de la musique, Paris
2013 
Kim Kim Gallery, Douglasism, Amado Art Space, Séoul
Nuits Photographiques, "Bain de Foule", Prix du Festival, festival du film photographique, Arles
2012
Nuits Photographiques,"Bain de Foule", Prix du Festival, festival du film photographique, Paris
2011
White Box, New York
Galerie La Petite Poule Noire, Paris
The McKinney Contemporary, Dallas
Musée Whanki, Séoul
2010 
Galerie La Petite Poule Noire, Paris
2009
Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, programme du Méjan, Le Capitole, Arles
Pyo Gallery LA, Los Angeles, USA
2008 
Pyo Gallery, Séoul, Corée du Sud
2007 
Centre Culturel Coréen, Paris
2006
Macau Museum of Art, (avec Frank Lei), Macao
2005
Pyo Gallery, Séoul
The Annex, New York
2003 
SungKok Museum, Séoul
Lee Hwaik Gallery, Séoul
2002
Musée Kumho, Séoul
Galerie Hedaes Sevira, Paris
2001
SeoHwa gallery, Séoul
Group Shows and Projects.
2020
"SINE DIE", Agence Myop, Chronique en images de la vie au temps du coronavirus, L'Obs
"Sine Die", André Frère Éditions, France, 2020.
2019
Tbilissi Photo Festival, projection, Géorgie
Festival OVNi, Nice
Myop in Arles, Rencontres photographiques, Arles
Take (    ) at face value, Korean Cultural Centre Australia, Sidney
Galerie Baudoin Lebon, Busan Art Fair, Busan, Corée du Sud
2018
Myop in Arles, Arles
2016
"SAM", Peter Kim, Myung-Ok Han, Oan Kim: Art-cade, Galerie des Grands Bains Douches de la Plaine, Marseille. 
Commissariat: Michel Enrici
Myop in Paris, Hotel de Sauroy, Paris
2015 
Myop in London, Galerie Seen Fifteen, Londres
2014
Site Whanki, Wave, Musée Whanki, Séoul
MYOP in Arles, Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles
Histoires, les Nuits Photographiques, Pavillon Carré de Baudoin, Paris
2013
Homage à Whanki, Musée Whanki, Séoul
Prix Arte Laguna, exposition des finalistes, Arsenale, Venise
De Paso en la Tiera, Quartiers de la création, Nantes
De Paso en la Tiera,El Ayuntamiento, Bilbao
2012
VAFA 2012 Festival, Macao
'Your invisible shadow, Kumho Museum, Séoul,   Corée du Sud
De passage sur terre, Séville, Alméria, Espagne
'Via Torografica, Madrid
2011
Life On Loop", Nuit Blanche, Paris
Rencontres Photographiques d’Arles, Off, Agence Myop
Dancing to the rhyme, Kumho Museum, Séoul
Se Vende Toros, Séville
2010 
Melon Rouge Fringe Festival, Phnom Penh, Cambodge
Life On Loop, avec Jungwan Bae, Pyo Gallery LA, Los Angeles
2009
Etre jeune en France, Caixa Cultural, Rio de Janeiro, Sao Paulo, & Brasilia Brésil
Galerie Lipao-Huang, Art Show, AVIFF, Cannes
2008 
Micro Narrative, Musée d’art moderne de Saint Etienne
Mary Had a Little Lamb, Musée Sunje, Kyung Ju, Corée du Sud
2007
Micro Narrative, Oktober Salon, Belgrade, Serbie
Projection de l’agence M.Y.O.P, Rencontres photographiques d’Arles
No Where/ Now Here,IM Art Gallery, Séoul
2006 
Vanitas, Espace Sol, Séoul
KIAF, Séoul
2005
KIAF, Pyo Gallery, Séoul
2004
How do you see the future, Sungkok Art Museum, Séoul
Territoire de Jeunesse, Saint-Omer, France
Shinchon Art Festival, Séoul
2003 
Surf Culture, The Contemporary Museum, Honolulu
2000
Capitale Jeunesse" », mois de la photo à Paris, Mairie du 13ème arrondissement
Visa pour l’image, projection, Perpignan.
1998
food, shelter, clothing, Musée de la ville de Séoul, Corée du sud
Diplômés 97, ENSBA, Paris