Profile - Una Kim

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Education
M.F.A. 1990 Painting Parsons School of Design, New York, New York
Summer 1989 Painting & Drawing Chautauqua Art Institute, Chautauqua, NY
B.F.A. 1986 Studio Art University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA
Areas of Specialization: Painting, Drawing, and Life Drawing

Professional Experience
2004 Adjunct Professor, Portland State University
Portland, OR (Painting)
1999-
Present Adjunct Professor, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR (Drawing)
2000-
Present Adjunct Professor, Portland Community College, Cascade, Portland, OR (Drawing, Beginning and Advance Painting)
Summer, 2002 & 2003 Adjunct Professor, Portland Community College, Rock Creek, Portland, OR (Watercolor)
1999-
Spring, 2002 Instructor, Multnomah Art Center, Portland, OR (Life Drawing, Figure in Watercolor)
1996-
1999 Artist-in-Residence, E-Land Group, Seoul, Korea (Painted and lived in Korea for three years on E-Land Arts Grant)
1995-
1996 Design Consultant, Lee’s Pottery, Paramount, CA (Designed new line for upcoming year)

Grants/Fellowships/Honors
2002
1996- 1999
Murdock/Burn Grant
E-Land Group Arts Grant, Seoul, Korea
Artist-in-Residence
1988, 89 Helena Rubinstein Foundation Grant
1989 Korean Embassy Grant
1986 George Page Scholarship
1985 Korean Senior Citizens Organization Grant
1983- 1986 Dean's list

Selected Solo Exhibitions
2004 Portland Community College, Rock Creek Gallery, Portland, Oregon.
2001 Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
1999 Silk Road Gallery, Portland, OR
Gallery at Whipping Post Editorial, Portland, OR
1998 Gallery at the Federation of Korean Artistic & Cultural Organizations, Seoul, Korea (catalogue)
Yun Gallery, Kyungki, Korea
1990 Gimbel Library, Parsons School of Design, NY, NY

Selected Group Exhibitions
2003
2002
Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR, Gallery artists
Women Tree Gallery, Portland, OR, Juried exhibition
Black Crow Gallery, Portland, OR, Juried exhibition, Oregon Women's Caucus for Art, members' exhibition. 'Erotic Neurotic Art'
Multnomah Art Center, Portland, OR, Juried exhibition.
Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR (Invitational), 'Hyperbolic Realism'
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center (IFCC), Portland, OR, 'Women & Violence'
2001 Faculty Exhibition, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR (Invitational)
2001 Daegu Culture & Arts Center, Daegu, Korea (invitational)
2001 Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, OR Live Auction by the Oregon Council of Hispanic Advancement
2000 Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR (invitational)
1999 Faculty Exhibition, Clackamas Community College, Oregon City, OR (invitational)
1996 Second Annual Evans Silent Auction, Los Angeles, CA (juried)
Art Space, San Luis Obispo, CA (invitational)
1992 First Street Gallery, Soho, NY (national juried)
1991 Bowery Gallery, Soho, NY (invitational)
1990 Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY (juried)
1989 Exhibition Center, P.S.D., NY, NY (juried)

Selected Bibliography
(Reviews/Articles/Catalogues)
Asian Reporter, July 2, 2002. Current News.
The Oregonian, July 26, 2001. About Town. “Portland Women Artists Will Show Works in S. Korea.”
Asian Reporter, July 20, 2001. “Cutting Edge Feminist Work in Korea.”
Color reproduction.
Karrin Ellertson, “Between Cultures, Often Eloquently,” The Oregonian, August 21, 2000, Entertainment. Review. B & W reproduction.
CAA News, Volume 25, Number 1, January 2000. Show announcement with B & W Reproduction.
Ria Roncales-Goodwin, “Women in Art,” Asian Reporter, December 18, 1999, 14. Interview article with B & W reproduction.
Polly Campbell, “Faculty Art Offers Insight for Students,” The Oregonian, September 30, 1999. Review.
Yeoseong Dong-a, Monthly, November, 1998. Show Announcement with color reproduction.
Una Kim: Recent Works, Exhibition catalogue. 1998.
Meehee Kim, the Korea Times, October 23, 1998. Interview with color reproduction.
Soo Lee, Sports Chosun Daily, October 21, 1998. Interview with B & W reproduction.
Edward Kim, “Bright, Stark Female Imagery Captures Plight, Frustration of Korean Women,” The Korea Herald, October 17, 1998. Interview with color reproduction.
Glen Starkey, “ARTernatives Brings L.A.’s Best,”San Luis Obispo Chronicle September, 1996, 48. Review.
Unknown, the Duke University Chronicle, February 11, 1990. Interview.

Seminars and Lectures
2002 Panelist, “Mother and Art Making,” National Women’s Caucus for Art Conference, Philadelphia, PA.
2001 Chaired a seminar, “Women Artists and Feminism.” At Daegu Culture & Arts Center, Daegu, Korea.
2001 Lectured at WCA, "Art and Pornography."

Publications
“Letters from New York,” Komerican Monthly, regular column of color reproductions of paintings with essays, monthly, June 1991-1993.

Gallery Representation
Currently represented by Broderick Gallery, Portland, OR

Professional Service
President of Oregon Women’s Caucus for Art.
Curated an exhibition with the theme, ‘Women and Violence,’ at IFCC, Portland, OR.
Cultural Consultant to the Federation of Korean Artistic and Cultural Organizations, U.S.A.
Member of College Art Association

Selected Collections
Hallie Ford Museum, Salem, OR
Interstate Firehouse Cultural Center, Portland, OR
Donat Wald Associates, Santa Monica, CA
Bank of America, Seoul, Korea
Bank Plus, Los Angeles, CA
Chautauqua Art Institution Permanent Collection, Chautauqua, NY
The FKACO of USA, L.A., CA
Teachers College, Columbia University, NY, NY

Commissions
Mural at Bethlehem Lutheran Church, Portland, OR

Travel
2001 Traveled in South Korea
2000 Traveled in British Columbia, Canada
1999 Traveled in Kyoto and Osaka, Japan
1998 Traveled in Hong Kong, China
1990 Traveled and studied in Europe

Foreign Language
Fluent in Korean



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