Kim Byoung Jin : Unknown

Chapter II is pleased to announce Unknown, a solo exhibition by Kim Byoung Jin, at its Yeonnam-dong space in Seoul from 13 November to 24 December 2026. As an artist in the 9th cohort of the Chapter II Residency (2025–26), Kim Byoung Jin presents a new body of work created during his residency.

Kim Byoung Jin recreates in painting objects and spaces encountered in everyday life that are obscured or covered, focusing on subjects that exist beyond the visible surface yet whose identities remain unknown. For the artist, these scenes reveal the boundary between the visible and the invisible, while evoking death as something that exists yet can never be fully confronted. Through these obscured scenes, he invites the viewer to imagine an absent presence, using this as a point of departure for a painterly inquiry into the relationship between life and death.

Kim Byeong Jin(b. 1988) received his BFA and MFA in Western Painting from Ewha Womans University, where he is currently pursuing a PhD. He has held solo exhibitions at INDIPRESS (2024), Mistake Museum (2021), Art Space O (2019), E-Land Space (2018), and Palais de Seoul (2017), among others. His group exhibitions include those at Daejeon Shinsegae Gallery (2026), Chapter II (2025), Horanggasi Namu Creative Studio (2021), Youngeun Museum of Contemporary Art (2021, 2018), Space K (2019), Palais de Seoul (2017), and Art Center White Block (2015).