Jin Soo Kim

Jin Soo Kim is an installation artist who lives and works in Chicago, Illinois.

Early life Jin Soo Kim (born 1950) is a South Korean installation artist recognized for her work exploring immigrant cultural identity and labor. Kim's upbringing in post-war Korea and observation of traditional gender inequality motivated her to live a different life based on deep interests in arts since adolescence. Having studied at Western Illinois University while working as a nurse, she earned an MFA in 1983 from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago,

Though her art was not exhibited widely in the 1980s because it differed so widely from the popular styles, she began exhibiting at the Chicago Cultural Center and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago. Kim then began to exhibit commercially. She focuses on installation art, whose freedom and ephemerality has engaged her.