Artist Statement/ Biography

Nicole Ji Soo Kim’s artistic process is heavily intertwined with her day to day life. Currently rooted in a personal work of mourning, she explores connections between grief and indifference. She invites a nihilistic approach as a rather positive framework for these experiences, giving meaninglessness meaning and significance. Nicole emphasizes the need for compassion towards a collective grief surrounding the human condition: the day to day exhaustions in relation to the mundanity of life through ephemeral effects of abstract drawings, performances and public interventions. A desire for direction, order and balance are frequent themes in her work.

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Nicole Ji Soo Kim is an interdisciplinary artist based in Toronto, Canada. Her art education began at School of the Arts Institute of Chicago, completing her BFA at Ontario College of Art and Design University in 2020. She has shown in various group shows and participated in Toronto based Roundtable Residency (2020). She is currently a recipient of the Explore and Create: Research and Creation Grant funded by Canada Council for the Arts.