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Vorlage:Refimprove Mikyoung Kim is an international Landscape Architect with work throughout the U.S., the Middle East and South Korea. Kim has designed a number of public spaces that merge sculptural experience with sustainable landscape strategies, including the ChonGae Canal Restoration Project - Source Point Park in Seoul, Korea (2005), the Crown Sky Garden in Chicago, IL (2012), the Anaheim Regional Transportation Holographic Arts Commission (In Progress), and Pier4 Seaport Plaza in Boston, MA (In Progress). Kim's background in music and the fine arts shapes the public work that she has completed.

Life

Mikyoung Kim was born in Hartford, Connecticut to Korean parents and lived there throughout her childhood in a modernist home. From the age of 6, Kim was a serious pianist and continued her passion for performing into her early twenties at Oberlin Conservatory. As a daughter of a ceramicist and the architect, Tai Soo Kim, her early life was filled with music and the arts.

Mikyoung’s training included studying sculpture at Oberlin College and then design at Harvard Graduate School of Design. Her early work involved the use of fluid materials and casting - “a lot of poured materials, like concrete and plaster with the body as an armature.”[1] At Harvard, she studied concurrently at the GSD and at the MIT VES (Visual and Environmental Studies) department, developing designs, sculpture, installations and videos. While at Harvard, she was the Norman T. Newton Scholar and received the Jacob Weidenmann Prize for Design.

In 1994 she received a professorship at Rhode Island School of Design and opened her own firm in Boston, MA. She was Department Head at RISD for five years and has taught a variety of design and sculpture studios and seminars. Since 2012, Kim has held a Professor Emeritus position.

She is representative of a new generation of artists, philosophers and designers who are interested in the inhabitation and transgression of numerous professional and cultural boundaries. As an Asian American, she may also be seen as representative of the increasing hybridization of design, as practice becomes ever more internationalized.[2]

Current Work

At Play

Early projects by Kim focused on children and the way sculptural engagements could spark the imagination and offer more inventive ways of learning through play.

Sustainability and Hydrology

The focus on hydrology as an important component of public space has driven Kim’s work since the mid 1990s. With the ChonGae Canal in Seoul, Korea, Mikyoung Kim won this major commission through an international competition. The city transformed this polluted historic riverway to a Class II rating and accomodates up to 22,000 tons of surficial and sub-surficial runoff from the city.

Light and Color Installations

Kim's work with various lighting and holographic technologies defines many of her art installations. Projects include the Pendulum Project (2012), at Dulles Airport, the Kaleidoscope Project at the Washington D.C. Bridge Tender's House, and the Anaheim Regional Transportation Intermodal Center in California. Projects at the Dunkin Donuts Center in Providence, RI, the New Jersey Environmental Laboratories, and a Federal Courthouse in Wheeling, WV the GSA experimented with light, color and innovative technologies.

Publications

Online

Magazine

Print

  • Richardson, Tim. Futurescapes: Designers for Tomorrow's Outdoor Spaces. New York: Thames & Hudson, 2011.
  • "Projects." Paisea #18 Landscape & Art Sept. 2011.
  • Frieze, Charlotte M., and Charles A. Birnbaum. Private Paradise: Contemporary American Gardens. [New York, N.Y.]: Monacelli, 2011.
  • "Oral History Interview." Interview by Avis Berman. Archives of American Art's U.S. General Services Administration. 14 Oct. 2009.
  • Foley, Roger. A Clearing in the Woods: Creating Contemporary Gardens. New York: Monacelli, 2009.
  • Halsey III, Ashley. Art Project to Add Psychedelic Touch to Staid Bridge. The Washington Post. 16 Oct. 2009.
  • Revkin, Andrew C. Peeling Back Pavement to Expose Watery Havens. The New York Times 17 July 2009: A4.
  • Carlock, Marty. Illuminating Knowledge: Bar Codes Grow Big in a Library's Sculptural Lanterns. Landscape Architecture Magazine Feb. 2009: 96-101.
  • Levitt, Rachel. It's About Time. Boston Magazine. Fall 2008.
  • Grozik, Michael. On the Fence. Dwell Sept. 2008: 128+.
  • Carlock, Marty. Visual Fugue. Landscape Architecture Magazine Apr. 2008: 2-8.
  • Broome, Beth. A fence wraps the forest in the sound of music. Architectural Record Mar. 2008: 75-76.
  • Commissions. Sculpture Magazine Nov. 2007: 21.
  • JA. Garden Design. Poet Modern Nov. 2007: 80.
  • Khiu, Jacqueline. Performance Piece. Surface Magazine The Annual Avant Guardian Issue: 95-96.
  • Dickinson, Emily, and Mikyoung Kim. My Business Is Circumference. Washington, DC: Grayson, 2002.
  • Bennett, Paul. Playtime in the City. Landscape Architecture Magazine Sept. 1999.
  • Lewitt, Sol. Between Exhibition and Meditation. Pages Paysages 2002: 96-101.
  • Crandell, Gina. Seoul Sculpture. LandFORUM Oct. 2001: 80-85.
  • Mola, Francesc Zamora., and Julio Fajardo. Star Landscape Architecture: The Stars of Landscape and Land Art. Singapore: Page One, 2010.
  • Remarkable Landscape Architects

in: Environment + Architects

  • Abandoned DC Structure Lights Up

in: Surface Magazine

  • A View from Below: ASLA Award

in: Landscape Architecture

  • The Other Side of the Fence

in: Architectural Record

  • Centerfold

in: Interior Design Magazine

  • Liquid Light

in: Sculpture Magazine

  • Design between disciplines

in: Architecture Boston

  • Moylan Elementary School

in: Modern Landscapes

  • Contemporary Landscapes

in: LandFORUM Magazine

References

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  1. ↑ Marty Carlock: Visual Fugue. In: Landscape Architecture Magazine. April 2008 (mikyoungkim.com [PDF]).
  2. ↑ Do-Kuen Jung: Mikyoung Kim Monograph. Grayson Publishing, Washington, D.C. 2002, ISBN 0-9679143-8-8, S. 7–9.
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