Kim Ji-min (illustrator)

Kim Ji-min is a South Korean picture book illustrator, author and print maker. Her best-known works include Hyde & Seek and ''The Seven Hours Itch.''

Career

Kim won the Books New Talent category as well as the Overall Winner New Talent at the UK Association of Illustrators AOI World Illustration Awards with Hyde & Seek. She also won the Purple Island Award at the Nami Concours in 2017 and the BIB Golden Apple the same year with Hyde & Seek. She participated in a seminar held during the BIB in 2019, and presented her views on picture books as objects of art. Hyde & Seek was invited to join Le immagini della fantasia 37, an exhibition touring five cities in Italy in 2019.

Awards

2016 The AOI World Illustration Award, Overall New Talent and Book category for Hyde & Seek
2017 The Nami Island International Picture Book Concours Purple Island award for Hyde & Seek
2017 The Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Golden Apple Award for ''Hyde & Seek''

Works

2017 The Seven Hours Itch
2017 ''Hyde & Seek''

Activities

2020 Participated in the group exhibition Picturebook: Play & Link at Dongdaemun Design Plaza DDP Design Week
2019 Hyde & Seek invited to join Le immagini della fantasia 37, an exhibition touring five cities in Italy
2019 Presented "The Picture Book as an Art Object" at a seminar held during the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava
2018 Conducted the workshop, "Creating Three-Dimensional Books of Self-Portraiture with Author Kim Ji-min," at the Kurume City Art Museum in Japan
2018 Touring exhibition of award-winning works at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava of five Japanese cities, including the Kurume City Art Museum, Nara, and Chiba
2018 Exhibition by invitation, The Picture Book as an Art Object, at the Kwanjeong Library Small Gallery, Seoul National University Central Library
2017 Solo exhibition, The Picture Book as an Art Object, GalleryMEME
2017 Participated in the Tokyo Art Book Fair in Japan
2017 Participated in the Seoul Illustration Fair
2017 Participated in the Codex Book Fair in San Francisco, U.S.A.
2016 AOI World Illustration Awards, exhibition at Somerset House, London
2016 AOI World Illustration Awards, Books category, New Talent Overall Winner
2015 Participated in the London Illustration Fair