Kim Ji-min

Kim Ji-min is a South Korean picture book illustrator, author and print maker. Her best-known works include Hyde & Seek and The Seven Hours Itch.

Career Kim won the Books New Talent category as well as the Overall Winner New Talent at the UK Association of Illustrators AOI World Illustration Awards with Hyde & Seek. She also won the Purple Island Award at the Nami Concours in 2017 and the BIB Golden Apple the same year with Hyde & Seek. She participated in a seminar held during the BIB in 2019, and presented her views on picture books as objects of art. Hyde & Seek was invited to join Le immagini della fantasia 37, an exhibition touring five cities in Italy in 2019.

Awards 2016 The AOI World Illustration Award, Overall New Talent and Book category for Hyde & Seek 2017 The Biennial of Illustrations Bratislava Golden Apple Award for Hyde & Seek

Works 2017 The Seven Hours Itch (Hand crafted) 2017 Hyde & Seek (HANSOL SOOBOOK PUBLISHING CO)

Activities

2020 Participated in the group exhibition Picturebook: Play & Link at Dongdaemun Design Plaza DDP Design Week 2019 Hyde & Seek invited to join Le immagini della fantasia 37, an exhibition touring five cities in Italy 2018 Touring exhibition of award-winning works at the Biennial of Illustration Bratislava (BIB) of five Japanese cities, including the Kurume City Art Museum, Nara, and Chiba 2017 Solo exhibition, The Picture Book as an Art Object, GalleryMEME 2017 Participated in the Tokyo Art Book Fair in Japan 2017 Participated in the Seoul Illustration Fair 2017 Participated in the Codex Book Fair in San Francisco, U.S.A. 2016 AOI World Illustration Awards, exhibition at Somerset House, London 2016 AOI World Illustration Awards, Books category, New Talent Overall Winner