Education

1996 • Bachelor of Fine Arts, Studio Arts, University of California at Los Angeles

Selected solo + collaborative exhibitions

2019 • Our Only Guide Is Our Homesickness, Skid Row History Museum and Archive, Los Angeles, CA (collaboration with Dogs in the House)

2018 • Home Is Where the Heart Is: Living in the Streets of Los Angeles, LSH Collaboration Laboratory, Los Angeles, CA

2010 • El poder revolucionario de la risa de la mujer (The Revolutionary Power of Women’s Laughter), Blue Dot, Los Angeles, CA

2005 • In Between, The Ven, Los Angeles, CA (collaboration with Shannon Dill)

2004 • You Are Here, Sweeney Art Gallery, University of California at Riverside, CA

2003 • You Are Here: Contemplating LA in Motion, Upstairs at the Market, Los Angeles, CA

Selected Performances + interactive events

2017 • Ktown Is My Town: 24 Hour Project, various locations, Koreatown, Los Angeles, CA

2015 • K-Town Is My Town: A Neighborhood Observed, Los Angeles, CA

2013, 2016 • 30 Sentences, various locations, Los Angeles, CA

Selected group exhibitions

2017 • IN-BETWEEN, Korean Cultural Centre India, New Delhi, India

2015 • 24 Hour Project, Helsinki Design Week, Helsinki, Finland

2005 • Drive Time, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Chaffey College, Rancho Cucamonga, CA

2002 • The Great Silence, Beyond Baroque, Venice, CA

Grants + Awards

2023 • LA2050 Grant, Goldhirsh Foundation

2022 • Humanities for All Project Grant, California Humanities

2018 • Mental Health & Wellbeing Grant, Los Angeles County Department of Mental Health, California Mental Health Services Authority

2001 • Jury Award: Grand Prize (in collaboration with Shannon Dill), The Reddish Show, Globe Gallery

Presentations + Lectures

2022 • Images of home: Art exploring Lao and Korean immigration and integration, 53rd Annual American Art Therapy Association, Minneapolis, MN

2022 • Walk the Talk Archive, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Virtual

2022 • Ethics in Qualitative Public Health Research, USC Department of Preventive Medicine, Virtual

2021 • Faculty Talks, Loyola Marymount University Art Therapy Research Institute, Virtual

2017 • IN-BETWEEN, Korean Cultural Centre India, New Delhi, India

Media

Schaefer, Matt. Host. “part 2: the ‘in-between’ stories that define us.” How We Get By. 2021 May 4.
Schaefer, Matt. Host. “part 1: the ‘in-between’ stories that define us.” How We Get By. 2021 April 27.

Reynoso, Naibe. Presenter. “LAPD Skid Row History Museum and Archive: Dogs in the House” LA ArtZone. LAChannel36. 2019 Oct.

Popli, Bhumika. “Welcome the new wave: International group of artists takes Delhi by storm.” Sunday Guardian Live, 2017 Sep 9.

Larkin, Eric. “The Auctioneer by Joan Samson & the art of Helen H Kim.” DWARF + giant. 2015 Oct 26.
Speakman, Georgii. Host. “Helen Kim: creator of #ktownismytown – a neighborhood observed.” The People Series. 2015 May 15.

Public Collection

Claremont Colleges Library, Claremont, CA