Hee Sook Kim has been the recipient of several prizes including the Fleisher Art Memorial Wind Challenge Award (Philadelphia), the Special Prize Arte Laguna (Venice), a Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (New York), a Leeway Foundation Grant (Philadelphia), a State Foundation of Culture and Arts Acquisition Award (Hilo, Hawaii), Honorary Mention in the Encyclopedia of Living Artists, and a Merit Award from the Central Pennsylvania Festival of the Arts. Her Solo Exhibitions include Galerie Böhner (Mannheim, Germany), Causey Contemporary (New York), Colorida Gallery (Lisbonm Portugal), Black Box Gallery at Johnson State College (VT), Cantor-Fitzgerald Gallery at Haverford College (PA), Center for Contemporary Printmaking (Norwalk, CT), Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (Korea), Artside Gallery, Dam Gallery (Seoul, Korea), Chi Gallery (New York), Abbei Gallery (Cologne, Germany), Art Museum in University of New Mexico, Helene Center for the Visual arts (IA), Kansas City Artists Coalition (Kansas City), Tyler School of Art (Philadelphia), LaGuardia Gallery of Fine Arts (New York), Metrolex gallery (Lexington, KY), TMCC Main Gallery (Reno, NV), Bleecker Street Gallery (Carrboro, NC), Artsforum Gallery (New York), and Phillips Museum of Art, Franklin and Marshall College (Lancaster, PA), Marwick-Boyd Fine Arts Center (PA), Newspace Gallery (CT), Municipal Gallery (Atlantta, GA), Kwanhoon Art center (Seoul), Yoon Gallery (Seoul). She had two person shows at Allens Lane Art Center (Philadelphia), Indiana Polis Art Center, Lincoln Center (Colorado), and Museum of Natural Sciences (North Carolina). Her work appeared at exhibitions at Osaka City Museum, the Fukuoka Prefectural Museum and the Doyusha Gallery (Japan), Bronx Museum, the Drawing Center, Asian American Art Center, Bronx River Art Center, and the Queens Museum (New York), Walter Wickirser Gallery, Art Mora (New York), Korean Cultural Center (Washington DC). Additionally, her work has been shown at National Museum of Modern Art (Korea), Seoul Art Cosmos Center (Korea), Taipei City Museum of Art (Taiwan), and Le Centre d'Estudis d'Art Centemporari (Barcelona, Spain), Galleria de Marchi (Bologna, Italy), and Ulft, Netherlands. Ms. Kim’s pieces are in many collections throughout the United States, Korea, Japan, and Taiwan and numerous reviews were published nationally and internationally including Philadelphia Inquirer.
