SCAD deFINE ART artist talks: Cindy Ji Hye Kim and Holly Hendry

Join Cindy Ji Hye Kim and Holly Hendry for two artist talks that examine the motivations behind their new exhibitions, presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024. Kim addresses the psychological motifs that inform her otherworldly paintings and new site-specific mural in Silhouettes in Lune. Hendry offers insight on the installation of Watermarks in the museum’s street-facing vitrines, with each sculpture appearing to reveal an imaginative view into the inner workings and infrastructure of the building’s systems and networks.

About the artists
Through drawing, painting, and sculpture, Cindy Ji Hye Kim (b. 1990, Incheon, Korea; lives and works in New York) explores the anatomy of images. The artist often works in the monochromatic grisaille palette, a preliminary underpainting scheme designed to disappear when painted over with color. Kim likens the grayscale painting process as a metaphor in her work, in which she renders subjects fading away into the unconscious in fleeting scenes of memories, dreams, and myths. Using figurative representation as a visual instrument for depicting both truth and fiction, Kim creates a poetic tension between what is remembered and forgotten. Kim received her B.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2013 and her M.F.A. from Yale School of Art in 2016. She has presented recent solo exhibitions at Kunsthall Stavanger, Norway; Casey Kaplan, New York; Francois Ghebaly, Los Angeles; and MIT List Visual Art Center, Cambridge. Kim’s work has been featured in Artforum, Art in America, ArtAsiaPacific, BOMB Magazine, the Brooklyn Rail, Cultured Magazine, The New York Times, and The New Yorker. Her work is held in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Collection Majudia, Montreal; Sifang Art Museum, China; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Providence.

Holly Hendry (b. 1990, London) received an M.A. in sculpture from the Royal College of Art, London, and a B.A. from the Slade School of Fine Art, London. She has presented solo exhibitions in the U.K. at De La Warr Pavilion, Bexhill-on-Sea, and Yorkshire Sculpture Park, Wakefield. Her work has also been included in group shows at Yorkshire Sculpture Park and Somerset House, London. Hendry’s installation Deep Soil Thrombosis was included in the Biennale de Lyon 2019. The artist was chosen by Helen Pheby, head of curatorial programme at Yorkshire Sculpture Park, and Selfridges as the inaugural artist for the co-curated Art Block in the store’s London flagship in 2018. For the Liverpool Biennial the same year, Hendry created Cenotaph, a monumental sculpture that was included in the Biennial’s touring program and shown at The Tetley, Leeds. Hendry’s work is held in the U.K.’s Arts Council Collection, Government Art Collection, and British Council Collection, as well as in the collection of the FRAC Grand Large, Dunkerque, France.

This event is free and open to the public and is presented as part of SCAD deFINE ART 2024.