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About Ara Kim : “Don’t be satisfied with your current status and choose the situation that will require you to challenge yourself.” This statement has always influenced her greatly whenever she was faced with a challenging opportunity or a dilemma between certain choices. In Korea, she was educated as a prepared technician that would meet the society’s requirements and expectations, but as the universe claims, nothing is truly absolutely beneficiary. Korea’s linear educating system has, at times, obstructed my pursuit of investigating her own color, and in this kind of circumstances, have always challenged herself to experience various tasks in order to strengthen her own unique expressions.
STATEMENT OF ART:
When I design something, there should be a reason about why I designed like that. If there is no reason, I think that is a craft, not design. I try to research about people's life and figure our the concept or basement for design. The design is closely related to human and their life and this is the difference between art and design. Art tends to focus on the feeling or emotion of artist, but design tends to focus on user's behavior or their needs.

ORGANIZATION:
NYSID

EDUCATION:
2014, Furniture desin,BFA, Huypsung university, Korea
2017, Interior design, MFA, NYSID, New york/USA

EXPERIENCE:
2014-2016, furniture designer, Furniture firm,Seoul in Korea

PRIVATE EXHIBITIONS:
2014, Between furniture and craft, Huypsung art hall, Korea

MIXED EXHIBITIONS:
2014, Infinite, KOFURN (Korea furniture exhibition), with other 15 people.

EVENTS:
2014, Infinite, Promoter, KOFURN (Korea furniture exhibition),

AWARDS:
The 49th Gyeonggi Art Contest Exhibition-PublicSubscription: Special Prize in Crafts
The 11th GFDC (Gyeonggi Furniture Design Contest):Winning Prize
2013 Kofurn (Korea International Furniture & Interior Fair): Special Prize

PRESS APPEARANCES:
2014.03 / The greed table / Design journal/ 03/ Korea

LANGUAGE SKILLS:
English, normal talk/ Korean, native

COMPUTER LITERACY:
3D MAX, make interior rendering/ Autocad/ photoshop/illustrator

COURSES, SEMINARS AND WORKSHOPS::
Association Welfare Institutes for the Disabled
: Workshop “Furniture for the Disables” (40hrs)

HOBBIES:
Going to museum, making collage

CLIENTELE:
2014, Private space for celebrities in Korea , furniture stylist.

WEB SITE:
http://blog.naver.com/susanara

PORTFOLIO URL:
http://blog.naver.com/susanara

REGISTRATION DATE:
2017-03-13 01:39:06

COUNTRY/REGION:
United States of America

ACCOUNT TYPE:
Academic

Awards received by Ara Kim


Greed Table and Chair

Silver A' Design Award Winner for Furniture Design Category in 2016
Ara Kim for Huypsung University in South Korea



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