Cherin Kim

Cherin Kim (b. Kobe, Japan) is a Korean fiber artist based in Chicago and Yokohama. Her large-scale textile portraits investigate memory as a vessel for identity construction by reproducing figures and texts from personal and public historical documents. Drawing on her own upbringing as a Korean born and raised in Japan, her work raises questions about how diasporic individuals construct cultural identities in relation to fractured conceptions of “home”. Kim is currently attending the School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her Bachelor of Fine Arts in Studio. She is a recipient of the SAIC Creative Honors Scholarship (2022), SAIC Contemporary Practices Scholarship (2023), SAIC Fashion BodyBuilder Award for Accessories/Headwear/Footwear (2024) and the SAIC Travel Scholarship (2024). Her work has previously been shown in group exhibitions at SAIC (Chicago, IL), the Siragusa Gallery (Chicago IL), and the DragonFLY Gallery (Chicago, IL), and will have her first solo exhibition at the CICA Museum (Gimpo, South Korea) in 2025.