Kim Dooha

Contemporary Artist — Photography & Installation

[email protected] Sakai, Osaka, Japan Seedoo Inc.

Kim Dooha works across photography and site-specific installation, exploring how objects, bodies, and natural forms undergo dissolution. Beginning with childhood deprivation — a lost relative with no surviving photograph — Kim developed a practice of radical non-retouching: projecting personal interiority onto subjects while preserving their material truth unaltered. Working between Korea and Japan, Kim occupies a diasporic position where every subject is seen twice — as projection and as irreducible material fact.

Education

Daekyeung University — Broadcasting & Entertainment Production, Korea

Solo Exhibitions

2025	kimdooha展	KAZE ART PLANNING	Osaka
2025	ordinarygirl	Ueda Gallery	Tokyo
2023	Neighborhood Organic Crops	Borumsan Art Museum	Gimpo
2022	Another Self-Portrait	&ISLAND	Osaka
2022	BLOOM	COEX	Seoul
2022	Shinka Tomoko × Kim Dooha	KAZE ART PLANNING	Osaka
2022	May Excitement	BE= Lab & Gallery	Osaka
2022	Two Photographers' Self-Portraits	Nagatei Gallery	Tokyo
2021	kimdooha展	KAZE ART PLANNING	Osaka
2021	oh1980s展	3 venues, Kitahama	Osaka
2021	MARISHOO展	Tsutaya Books	Osaka
2021	Another Self-Portrait	Nagatei Gallery	Tokyo
2021	MARISHOO展	BE= Lab & Gallery	Osaka
2020	MARISHOO展	Umeda Tsutaya Books	Osaka
2020	Play29's Fair	Tsutaya Books	Osaka
2020	Another Self-Portrait	BE= Lab & Gallery	Osaka
2020	May Excitement	Kyoto Photography Art Exhibition	Kyoto
2020	Age 29, Let's Play with Photography	SPECTACLE KITAHAMA	Osaka
2019	ordinarygirl	BE= Lab & Gallery	Osaka
2019	ordinarygirl	SPECTACLE KITAHAMA	Osaka
2019	ordinarygirl	Tsutaya Books	Osaka
2019	Season 2	4 venues, Kitahama	Osaka
2019	ordinarygirl	Abeno Harukas Art Gallery	Osaka
2018	BOTTON KITAHAMA	8 venues, Kitahama	Osaka
2018	ordinarygirl	Gallery Kaze	Osaka
2018	Organic Crops	Borumsan Art Museum	Gimpo
2018	ordinarygirl	SPECTACLE KITAHAMA	Osaka
2016	Town Organic Crops	Borumsan Art Museum	Gimpo
2016	The Warmest Conversation	Jeju Arts & Culture Center	Jeju
2016	Spring Again	Dulhana Gallery	Jeju
2015	ordinarygirl	Salad & Mimi	Jeju
2015	wool	Damhwahun	Jeju
2015	Organic Crops	Marado Jajangmyeon Restaurant	Jeju
2014	The Warmest Conversation	Canon Gallery	Seoul
2014	ordinarygirl	Canon Gallery	Seoul
2014	ordinarygirl	Gallery Topic	Seoul
2014	ordinarygirl	SETEC	Seoul
2014	ordinarygirl	BK Gallery	Cheongdo
2007	LOFTD Space Exhibition	LOFT:D	Seoul
2006	Showcase Space Exhibition	Showcase	Gyeongju

Group Exhibitions & Art Fairs

2025	Spring	Artesian	Jeju
2022	Two-Person Exhibition	KAZE ART PLANNING	Osaka
2022	Two Photographers' Self-Portraits	Nagatei Gallery	Tokyo
2022	ART OSAKA 2022	CCO Creative Center Osaka	Osaka
2021	NEW YEAR 2021	KAZE ART PLANNING	Osaka
2020	ART OSAKA	Yamakawa Building	Osaka
2020	AiPHT PLUS	Park Hotel Tokyo	Tokyo
2020	3 Parsons Exhibition	KAZE ART PLANNING	Osaka
2020	Art Breeze	Korean Cultural Center Osaka	Osaka
2020	Gift展	BE= Lab & Gallery	Osaka
2020	Christmas Fair	Tsutaya Books	Osaka
2020	ART NAGOYA 2020	Hotel Nagoya Castle	Nagoya
2019	City as Nature Festival	Chidori Bunka	Osaka
2019	Fragments of Memory 2	SENSART GALLERY	Nabari
2019	AiPHT	Park Hotel Tokyo	Tokyo
2019	Fragments of Memory	Sixième Ginza	Tokyo
2019	ART OSAKA 2019	Hotel Granvia Osaka	Osaka
2018	How are you, PHOTOGRAPHY?	Gallery Main	Kyoto
2017	LEICA OSCAR BARNACK	COEX	Seoul
2016	Jeju Art Bargain	Dulhana Gallery	Jeju
2016	Pa Exhibition	DDP Billboard Gallery	Seoul
2015	Birth of a Scene	Gallery Lux	Seoul
2015	Tea Time	Gallery Topic	Seoul
2015	Yooiye 3-Person Exhibition	Gallery Philmuk	Seoul
2015	Peace Flag Exhibition	Pony Park	Jeju
2015	Jeju Peace Festival Photo Exhibition	Coffee Museum	Jeju
2014	SEOULPHOTO 2014	COEX	Seoul
2014	HIAF	Hongik University Museum	Seoul
2014	Yooiye 3-Person Exhibition	Shinsam Studio	Jeju
2013	SEOULPHOTO 2013	COEX	Seoul
2013	Seoul Pyeongchang Biennale	Alpensia	Pyeongchang
2011	SEOULPHOTO 2011	COEX	Seoul
2010	SEOULPHOTO 2010	COEX	Seoul
2010	Christmas Exhibition	Mio Gallery	Seoul
2009	SEOULPHOTO 2009	COEX	Seoul
2009	LOFTD展	Art & Dream Gallery	Seoul
2009	SOMERSET展	Somerset Palace Seoul	Seoul
2009	SIPA	Seoul Arts Center	Seoul
2005	Emission	Monghwan	Seoul
2005	Hongdae	Grimgol	Seoul

Publications

2014	ordinarygirl 1: Beopul	ISBN 978-89-96691-11-2
2019	ポトンソニョ (JP ed.)

Collections

Borumsan Art Museum, Gimpo
Goobne Chicken HQ, Korea
Seven Springs, Korea
D-Tower, Korea

Selected Series

Another Self-Portrait (2019–) — archival pigment, body dissolution
Flowers fall (2019) — macro, 40 works, wilting flowers
Bloom (2018) — macro, dark ground, 10 works
ordinarygirl (2014–15) — non-retouched female portraits + projection
Organic Crops (2012) — Phase One IQ180, large-format vegetables
DOL (2012) — B&W stone typology, diptych
wool (2009) — film photography

Installations

Large-scale murals (Organic Crops) — 6+ sites, JP & KR
DDP Billboard, Seoul — public art
Multi-venue urban: Kitahama 8-venue (2018), 4-venue (2019)

Biographical Note

Born 1980, Gyeongju, Korea. Founded LOFT:D artist collective, Seoul (2004). Active in Seoul (2004–16), Jeju (2015–16), Osaka/Japan (2017–present). 40+ solo exhibitions, 40+ group exhibitions across Korea and Japan (2005–2025). Cameras: Phase One IQ180, Canon 5D III, film. Print: archival pigment.