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EDUCATION

         

COLUMBIA UNIVERSITY’S TEACHERS COLLEGE

EdD (in progress) in Art and Art Education

    

ART CENTER COLLEGE OF DESIGN  

Master of Fine Art (MFA), Graduate Fine Art 

       -Thesis: “The Invisible Jewel Shining the Visibility.” 

       -Advisor: Professor Diana Thater, Profossor Patti Podesta 

       -Practice emphasized on video/film installation and criticism

 

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA 

Bachelor of Arts, Studio Art

        -Thesis: “A Little Contemporary Voice.”

        -Advisor: Professor Charles Long

        -Cum Laude

        -Dean’s Honors Award

        -Chancellor’s Honors List

 

 

 

RESEARCH INTEREST

 

         Contemporary studio art teaching in higher education 

         College Teaching Preparation in MFA Program

 

TEACHING INTERESTS

 

         Teaching creativity through video art and graphic design

         Integrated art and environment (Installation) 

         Interdisciplinary Practice: Studio Art, Design, and Technology 

         Traditional Media with Digital Art 

 

         DEVELOPED COLLEGE ART CURRICULA: 

          -College Teaching Preparation Concentration in MFA (CTPM) with 7 theory-based courses

          -Foundation of Video Art in the Age of YouTube

          -Contemporary Video and Time-based Experimentation 

 

 

PROFESSIONAL EXPERIENCE

 

ARC 201-N01 Digital Video – Hudson County Community College, New Jersey                            2020                 

Adjunct Instructor

ARC 107-N01 Print Design – Hudson County Community College, New Jersey                              2020

Adjunct Instructor

ARC 201-01 Digital Video – Hudson County Community College, NJ (Journal Square Campus)       2019  

Adjunct Instructor          

ARC 201-N01 Digital Video –Hudson County Community College, New Jersey (North Campus)      2019                 

Adjunct Instructor

         Through lecture, demonstration, and project-based coursework, students will learn

  • the foundational skills of capturing and editing moving images,

  • the contemporary context of video as well as it historical origins,

  • overview discursive video artist practices and understand the role of time-based media in the creation, presentation, and interpretation in contemporaneity,  

  • how to integrate art and technologies as a significant element in the evolution of art and creativity,

  • the aesthetic and critique skills, and enhance their ability to develop robust concepts, all as applied to practices within the realm of visual arts

Creative Technologies Exhibition “DeCentralized” – Teachers College, Columbia University              2019                                  

Macy Art Gallery

Curator 

  • Organized exhibition showcasing technology-infused contemporary work of instructors, visiting artists, students in the Art and Art Education Program

  • Featured works explored the possibilities of collaboration to revisit definitions, straddle divides, and transform communities into vibrant spaces for collective authorship and artistic creation  

  • This event included the Creative Technologies symposium V for discussion around technology, art, and educational environment in the 21stcentury 

Multiple-Prism – New York, NY                                                                                                   2019    

Curator 

  • Organized online art gallery exhibit that features video artworks by artists and graduate students around NYC

A&HA 4073 Video Art – Teachers College, Columbia University                                        Summer 2019

Course subtitle: “Contemporary Video and Time-based Experimentation”

Adjunct Instructor

A&HA 6907 Studio Work: Digital Media – Teachers College, Columbia University                   2018-2019

Adjunct Instructor

A&HA 4073 Video Art Course – Teachers College, Columbia University                                  2018-2019

Course subtitle: “Contemporary Video and Time-based Experimentation”

Adjunct Instructor

  • Graduate-level studio art course integrating lecture and seminar

  • Teaching included foundational skills of capturing and editing moving images; historical and contemporary contexts of video; the impact of art and technologies as a significant element of art making in the 21st century; various visual languages with time-based media; video and 

  • environment  

Praxis of Artist and Educator – Teachers College, Columbia University                                               2018

The Smith Learning Theater 

Curator 

  • Curated contemporary artworks from NYC studio art faculty, MFA graduates, MFA students, and Teacher’s College Students

  • Organized discussions around preparation, pedagogy, and practices in the college studio art classroom between participants and Columbia University’s faculty and students during the event

Light Year: Addressing Home II – Brooklyn, NY                                                                                2018

Co-Curator with Leo Kuelbs & Richard Jochum

  • Addressing Home II presented video responses (projected on the wall of Manhattan Bridge, New York) to the question of what home means to them by students of the Art and Art Education program at Teachers College, Columbia University. 

  • As part of their coursework assignments for their video art class (instructed by: Dahye Kim), the novice video makers were asked to envision places we call home.  

CONFERENCE PRESENTATION

 

          Kim D (April, 2019). Foundations of Video Art in the Age of YouTube.

          17th Biennial Foundation in Art: Theories and Education (FATE) Conference, Columbus, Ohio. 

          Kim D (February, 2019) Preparing MFA Students to Teach College Art.

          College Art Association (CAA) Conference, New York, New York 

          Kim D (April, 2017) Making New Time: Rethinking through Re-skilling. 

         16th Biennial Foundation in Art: Theories and Education (FATE) Conference, Kansas City, MO

          Art School Critique 2.0 Symposium, 2016

          Creative Technology, Teachers College, Columbia University

          (Student Observing Presentation/Essay)

 

 

 SOLO EXHIBITION 

 

         2020  Untitled, Media Art Gallery, Columbia University’s Teachers College (Expected)

         2020  Sound, Gallery C (Macy Galley), Columbia University’s Teachers College 

         2017  OFF, NO, NO, ON Cross Media Gallery, Columbia University’s Teachers College  

         2016  On My Way Home  Street between Aventino and Netflix, Los Gatos, California

         2015  Once Upon This Time The Raymond Gallery, Art Center College of Design, California           

         2015  Expanded Journey The Goodan Family Graduate Art Gallery, Art Center College of Design

         2014  Metaponds: Fantasy of Yesterday I’ve Forgotten The Raymond Gallery, 

                   Art Center College of Design, California                                                                                 

         2014  Fourish a.m. The Ralph M.Parsons Foundation Graduate Art Gallery, 

                    Art Center College of Design, California                                                                                   

         2014  Naf a morf seirotS The Main Gallery, Art Center College of Design, California                   

         2014  Rhapsody of Yesterday Studio A9, Art Center College of Design, California                          

         2011  Black Veil  The Ralph M.Parsons Foundation Graduate Art Gallery, 

                    Art Center College of Design, CA, 2011                                                                               

         2011  Mystic Forest (site specific installation), Phyllis Gill Gallery, Riverside, California  

                           

         

GROUP EXHIBITION 

 

         2020  Digital Art Show  The Bogart, Brooklyn, New York

         2020  HCCC Art Faculty Show  Dineen Hull Gallery, New Jersey

         2019  Creative Technologies: DeCentralized  Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University

         2019  Mitte Media Festival  DNA Galerie, Berlin, German 

                                                       Fata Morgana Galerie, Berlin, German

                                                       Benhadj&Djilali Galerie, Berlin, German

         2019  Vengeance is Mine Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, New York  

         2019  Multiple Prism Online Art Gallery

         2019  Tech/No/Fear (Myers Art Prize) Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University

                   Juried by Jennifer Mock, Associated Director of Education and Public Program 

                   at the Miriam and Ira D. Wallach Art Gallery, Columbia University

         2018  Constructing a Praxis of Artist/Educator The Smith Learning Theater, 

                   Columbia University 

         2018  Light Year: Addressing Home II  Manhattan Bridge, Brooklyn, New York 

         2018  Creative Technology/ Art and the Digital Future  Azarian Mccullough Art Gallery, 

                   New Jersey 

         2018  Studio Art Faculty Exhibition  Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University 

         2018  Art and Art Education Faculty Biennale Exhibition  Macy Art Gallery 

                   Columbia University

         2018  September Premier  Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University 

                   Juried by Teachers College, Columbia University’s Art Faculty                                      

         2018  Myers Art Prize Exhibition  Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University

                   Juried by Teachers College, Columbia University Art Faculty

         2017  Crossing Boundaries: Art and the Future of Energy

                   National Juried Exhibition, Pensacola Museum of Art, Florida 

         2017  Something meaningful  Collaboration of Art Students, Online Gallery 

         2017  September Premier  Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University 

                   Juried by Teachers College, Columbia University Art Faculty                                      

         2017  FATE Biennial Juried Member Exhibition  Kansas City Art Institute Crossroads                 

                   Gallery, Juried by Daniel Reneau and Melaney Mitchell, Kansas City, MO

         2016  Studio Works Exhibit  Myers Media Studio Gallery 

         2016  Themis and Aphrodite (Myers Art Prize) Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University, 

                    Juried by Teachers College, Columbia University Art Faculty

         2016  September Premier  Macy Art Gallery, Columbia University,

                   Juried by Teachers College, Columbia University Art Faculty                                      

         2016  Multiple Feeds Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California                                        

         2015  Chestnut: An Exploration of Narrative  Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California 

                    Juried by Walter Maciel of Walter Marciel Gallery, 2015       

         2015  Out There  Gallery 825, Los Angeles, California   

                   Juried by Francisco George and William Escalera              

         2015  MFA Open Studios Exhibition Graduate Art Studios, 

                   Art Center College of Design, California                                                                               

         2014  MFA Open Studios Exhibition Graduate Art Studios, 

                    Art Center College of Design, California                                                                                                            

         2012  The International VIP MFA Art Fair  New York, NY 

                    Juried by Kate Fowel, Roselee Goldgerg, Matthew Higgs, O Zhang, Joachim Pissaro, 

                    Diana Al-Hadid

          2011  University of California Thesis Show

                    UCR/California Photography Museum, California                                                                    

          2010  Drawing Show  Phyllis Gill Gallery, University of California, California            

          2010  Between Two Points  Phyllis Gill Gallery, University of California, California            

          2005-2006 UCLA Spring Festival of World Music and Dance (Ethnomusicology Annual Events)

                    Korean Traditional Dance and Kayagum (instrument) playing

 

 

AWARDS/GRANTS 

          

           2020 

           2019 John F. Listone Memorial Scholarship

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2019 Myers Art Prize (Macy Gallery Permanent Collection):

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2019 Provost’s Grant for Professional Development: 

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2018 Myers Art Prize (Macy Gallery Permanent Collection):

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2017-2018 Gold Scholarship: 

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2017 Provost’s Grant for Professional Development: 

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2018-19 Minority Scholarship: 

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2016 Myers Art Prize (Macy Gallery Permanent Collection): 

                    Columbia University, Teachers College

           2011-2015 MFA Scholarship, MFA Department Scholarship:

                    Art Center College of Design

           2002 UC Regent Scholarship: 

                    University of California

 

 

Skills: Mac OS X; Microsoft Windows, Office; Adobe Creative Cloud Applications including Premier, Photoshop, Illustrator, InDesign; Final Cut Pro; Light Installation; Digital Photography; Oil Painting, Watercolor, Traditional Drawing Technique, Woodworking; Korean traditional instrument, Kayagum, Korean traditional dance; Piano

Organizations and memberships: Foundations in Art: Theory and Education (FATE) Member,

The College Art Association (CAA) Member, Los Angles Art Association Artist, Leo Kuelbs Collection (LKC) Video Artist 

© 2025 DAHYE KIM.

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