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At Art Basel Miami Beach, Tina Kim Gallery showcases works by leading modern and contemporary artists, many of whom are currently the subject of solo exhibitions at the gallery and major institutions worldwide. Featured artists include Pacita Abad, Ghada Amer, Davide Balliano, Tania Pérez Córdova, Gimhongsok, Ha Chong-Hyun, Kang Seok Ho, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Kim Yong-Ik, Kwon Young-Woo, Maia Ruth Lee, Lee ShinJa, Park Seo-Bo, Kibong Rhee, and Jennifer Tee.
In the Meridians sector, we are delighted to present an installation of large-scale tapestries from the 1980s by the pioneering Korean fiber artist Lee ShinJa.
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The late Filipina-American artist Pacita Abad created vibrant textile works inspired by the diverse cultures she encountered during her travels. Her trapunto-style paintings, known for their unique method of stitching and padding, maximize color and texture through adornments like sequins, beads, and buttons.
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Egyptian-born artist Ghada Amer is known for her longstanding advocacy of women’s agency and liberation in her artistic practice. Her monumental “Paravent Girls” bronzes, commissioned for her 2023 retrospective at the Mucem in Marseilles, were recently on view at the Domaine National du Palais-Royal in Paris as part of Art Basel in October.
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Italian-born artist Davide Balliano merges painting with the physicality of sculpture, skillfully layering gesso and plaster to create intricate grayscale patterns of arches and circles that recall classical architecture. The imperfections on the surface of the paintings—made through Balliano’s process of layering and scraping—serve as traces of past gestures, revealing an ongoing process of transformation and renewal.
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Gimhongsok's balloon sculptures are abstractions of figures who have entered, impacted, or perhaps exited the artist’s life. Incorporating a textural contrast between the smooth, colorful balloons—inflated by the artist’s contacts, and then cast in bronze—and rough stone base, the works represent all of the relationships, both heavy and light, that comprise an individual life.
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Dansaekhwa painter Ha Chong-Hyun is currently the subject of a solo exhibition at our New York gallery that celebrates 50 years of his widely acclaimed “Conjunction” series. In Ha's practice, oil paint is pushed from the back to the front of the artwork, merging the weave and texture of the burlap fabric with the paint itself.
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In his contemplative paintings, the late Korean artist Kang Seok Ho focuses on cropped details of people’s clothing and transforms anonymous portraits into intimate studies of texture and color. Using a layered painting technique, he captures the subtle variations in light and shadow, creating compositions that are sometimes likened to landscapes due to their depth and detail.
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Suki Seokyeong Kang’s practice—spanning sculpture, painting, video, installation, and performance—is rooted in a distinctly Korean artistic genealogy, separate from that of Western minimalism. The visual language of her “Mat” series is derived from a traditional Korean system of musical notation that developed during the Joseon Dynasty. Kang takes the idea of the jeong, or one cell in a grid, and uses it as a metaphor for the place of an individual in society. This notion is further reinforced by her use of the hwamunseok, a reed mat used in a traditional Korean court dance, where a dancer performed within the space of the mat.
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Kim Tschang-Yeul, one of the most influential 20th-century Korean painters, was born in the North of a then-Unified Korea and migrated to the South later to escape the Communist regime. He studied in New York and later settled in Paris, where he began developing his signature waterdrop motif. Kim’s hyperreal drops navigate between diverse modes of abstract expressionism, minimalism, and photorealism. Kim referred to his unceasing act of painting as a remedy for him to erase traumatic memories of the Korean War.
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A contemporary and fellow member of the Dansaekhwa movement, Kwon Young-Woo further explores the possibilities of traditional Korean paper as a medium—layering, ripping, and painting it to create experimental works that highlight the material’s form.
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Born in Korea and based in Colorado, Maia Ruth Lee's ongoing “Bondage Baggage” series explores themes of diaspora, displacement, and migration. In this series, Lee's canvases are first tied with rope, imitating the methods used by Nepalese migrants to transport their belongings. After being stained with colored ink, these canvases are unfurled into flat paintings, bearing a lasting imprint of the binding process.
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Our booth will feature sculptures by the Berlin-based Korean artist Mire Lee, whose Hyundai Commission installation recently opened at Tate Modern’s Turbine Hall in London to critical acclaim. Lee’s practice draws on primal bodily experiences to create works that both attract and repulse the viewer, using industrial materials to evoke the forms and sensations of living organisms.
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Lee ShinJa is a pioneering first-generation Korean fiber artist and educator, celebrated for expanding the possibilities of fiber art. Her work has been featured in major solo exhibitions at institutions such as Gallery Hyundai, Seoul Arts Center, and the MMCA, which hosted her 2023 retrospective Threadscapes. She has also participated in prominent group exhibitions and biennials, with her works housed in collections like the National Museum of Korea and the Seoul Museum of Art. Tina Kim Gallery held her solo exhibition, Weaving the Dawn, on August 22, 2024, highlighting her decades-long career.
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Art Basel Miami Beach: Meridians
Booth M2We are delighted to present an installation for the Meridians sector featuring a group of large-scale tapestries from the 1980s by Korean fiber artist Lee ShinJa. With a career spanning over six decades, Lee is recognized in Korea as a pioneering artist who has redefined the boundaries of her medium. In 2023, these tapestries were highlighted in her highly anticipated retrospective at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Gwacheon, Korea. Combining a painter's sense of freedom with virtuosic technical precision, Lee interweaves colored threads to capture the ephemeral nature of light, translating its fleeting quality into cascading, abstract forms.
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Our presentation also includes works by the late Dansaekhwa master Park Seo-Bo, renowned for his “Ecriture” series. These monochromatic relief paintings are created by engraving repeated lines into the canvas, often integrating Korean hanji paper. This process allows Park to achieve a meditative rhythm through the act of layering and redrawing, an approach rooted in Buddhist and Taoist philosophy.
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Mexican artist Tania Pérez Córdova's quiet and contemplative works relate to temporality and the lifespan of objects. With her installations having often been likened to film sets, she uses language to situate each work within a larger narrative, forgoing the autonomy of objects in favor of their integral role within a nexus. On display in Miami are works from her “Contour” series, created by pouring molten bronze into outlines of doors and windows drawn in sand and inspired by the artist’s memories.
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Kibong Rhee—recently featured in a solo exhibition at the gallery this fall—achieves a perfect sense of the ephemeral in his hazy, dreamlike landscape paintings, in which he layers painted plexiglass and sheer fabric above canvas in order to create a convincing optical depth that draws the viewer in. Informed by the foggy and humid landscape surrounding the artist’s studio in Korea, the scenes in these works appear to be in the process of either disappearing and taking form, capturing a between a moment in time and space.
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The theme of migration shapes the practice of Dutch artist Jennifer Tee and her "Tampan Tulip” collages. Assembled from tulip petals, the series references Indonesian tampan cloths, ceremonial textiles used during rites of passage like birth, death, or marriage. Bearing the traditional motif of a ship, the series is also tied to Tee’s own Chinese-Indonesian heritage, symbolizing her family members’ journey from Indonesia to the Netherlands.
Art Basel Miami Beach 2024: Booth D16 | Meridians M2
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