Oksun Kim has spent the last 20 years of her life photographing women, transnational couples and foreign residents living in Jeju Island. Kim’s work is marked by the aimless gaze which is juxtaposed with the gaze directed at the subject. She powerfully captures the nuanced situations and details. The mixed world in her photographs urges the viewer to reorganize one’s perspective and senses to open up and to embrace life that is full of diversity. She majored in photography at the Graduate School, Hongik University. She has been featured at MMCA, Leeum, SeMA in Korea and in overseas art museums in Chelsea, Houston, Santa Barbara, Taiwan, Hong Kong, Buenos Aires and Santiago, including MoMA PS1. Kim has been awarded the Dong Gang Photography Award and Daum Artists Award, and her published collections of photography include The Shining Things, No Direction Home, Hamel’s Boat and Happy Together.
