Tchah-Sup Kim
South Korean artist
Tchah-Sup Kim (Korean: 김차섭; Hanja: 金次燮, 10 June 1940 – 28 August 2022) was a Korean painter and printmaker.
In 1990, Kim and his partner and artist Myong Hi Kim (1949–) bought an abandoned school building near Chuncheon, Gangwon Province in South Korea, as their studio space. Since then, the couple has worked between Korea and the US.
Early life
Kim was born in Yamaguchi Prefecture, Japan, while his father worked on, most likely managed, the construction of an airfield for the Imperial Japanese Army Air Force near Nagoya. In the winter of 1944, Kim and his family fled Japan to Korea, traveling to his father's hometown, Angang near Gyeongju City in North Gyeongsang Province. By August 1945, Korea gained its independence from Japan. In 1950, the Korean War began, which led the family to flee from and return to Angang.
Kim began to take an interest in drawing and painting early in elementary school. Because art classes were not offered at the time when Kim attended middle school in Angang and high school in Gyeongju, he had largely taught himself art and was encouraged to study it in college by his teachers. Kim was accepted into Seoul National University in 1959 and graduated in 1963. In 1961 and 1962, Kim was awarded at the annually-held, government-hosted National Art Exhibition.
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