ART FAIRS
Frieze New York 2026
May 13 – 17, 2026
Booth A9
The Shed
We are delighted to return to Frieze New York with a presentation of international artists engaging with material, memory, and cultural histories through their respective practices.
Artists on view will include Pacita Abad, Pio Abad, Ghada Amer, Davide Balliano, Chung Seoyoung, Ha Chong-Hyun, Suki Seokyeong Kang, Kim Tschang-Yeul, Maia Ruth Lee, Mire Lee, Lee ShinJa, Tania Pérez Córdova, Kibong Rhee, Jennifer Tee, Jane Yang-D’Haene, and Livien Yin.
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TEFAF New York 2026
May 15 – 19, 2026
Booth 358
Park Avenue Armory
We return to TEFAF New York with a selection of artists from our program who helped define the postwar period of Korean art, as well as other influential figures from the twentieth century and beyond.
Our booth will highlight pioneering Dansaekhwa figures Park Seo-Bo (1931–2023) and Kwon Young-Woo (1926–2013), with a special focus on Ha Chong-Hyun (b.1935). In anticipation of Ha’s first-ever North American museum retrospective—set to open at the Asian Art Museum of San Francisco this September—our presentation includes early and recent examples of the artist’s acclaimed Conjunction series. Additionally, the hyperrealistic water droplet paintings of Kim Tschang-Yeul (1929–2021) will be featured along with the work of fiber artist Lee ShinJa (b. 1930), who joined Tina Kim Gallery in 2024 and had her first North American institutional solo exhibition this past year at the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive.
Accompanying this selection, our booth will present a curated assemblage of works by acclaimed twentieth-century and contemporary artists, including the liminal, fog-veiled landscapes of Kibong Rhee (b. 1957), small paintings and sculptures by French American artist Louise Bourgeois (1911–2010), and the minimalist stone-carved forms of Japanese American sculptor Minoru Niizuma (1930–1998).
Our presentation also includes a work from the Door to Life series produced by Filipina American artist Pacita Abad (1946–2004), inspired by her trip to Yemen in the spring of 1998. More works from this series are currently on view in our gallery exhibition, Pacita Abad: Door to Life, further shedding light on the artist’s vibrant and multicultural oeuvre.
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CURRENT EXHIBITION
Pacita Abad: Door to Life
April 30 – June 20, 2026
Opening reception: Thursday, April 30, 6–8pm
We are pleased to present Door to Life, its third solo exhibition of works by the visionary artist Pacita Abad (1946–2004) which highlights a series of works the artist made after a trip to Yemen in the spring of 1998. For years after, Abad created artworks across scale and media that drew tremendous inspiration from the architecture and decorative arts across the country. Including the debut of the artist’s never-before-seen qamariya paintings — references to the traditional stained glass windows of Sanaa — the exhibition will bring together the multiple bodies of work that comprise the holistic Door to Life series for the first time.
Abad was a pioneering artist known for her rigorous political engagement and radical embrace of global arts and crafts practices, which she encountered throughout decades of extensive travel. Born to a politically-active family in Batanes, the northernmost province of the Philippines, Abad came to the United States in 1970 where she studied at Lone Mountain College in San Francisco before embarking on her decades of nomadic travel to 62 countries across Asia, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, the Caribbean, and Africa. Although she took courses at The Art Students League and the Corcoran School of Art, Abad stated, “Traveling for me is my art school.” Abad’s practice was distinctly porous, accumulating layersof material, technical, and formal influences throughout her 32-year-long career. Her practice was profoundly influenced by the artisans, seamstresses, craftspeople, journalists, and everyday people she met across her travels. Abad considered her practice to be global rather than defined by any single artistic style or national identity.
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PAST ASIA WEEK NEW YORK EXHIBITION
Suki Seokyeong Kang: Our Spring
March 12 – April 25, 2026
Opening Reception: Thursday, March 12, 6-8pm
Poetry and Musical Performance Opening Event: Thursday, March 12 at 6:30pm (kindly RSVP)
Dear Suki: Poetry Gathering Closing Event: Saturday, April 25 at 12pm (kindly RSVP)
We are honored to present a solo exhibition of the late Korean artist Suki Seokyeong Kang (1977–2025), Our Spring, on view from March 12 through April 25, 2026. Coinciding with the one-year anniversary of the artist’s untimely passing, this exhibition stands as both a memorial and a celebration of her singular artistic vision. The presentation brings together significant sculptural and two-dimensional works from the last decade of the artist’s life and will mark the New York debut of pieces from some of Kang’s most influential series. The exhibition follows Kang’s critically acclaimed surveys at the Leeum Museum of Art (2023) and the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (2025), highlighting the enduring and global resonance of her practice.
Collectively, these works showcase the artist’s profound consideration of human existence through her artistic practice, which honors the precarious yet beautiful balance required to stand alone, while also acknowledging the necessity of leaning on one another. This exhibition serves as a tribute to Suki Seokyeong Kang’s legacy—a reminder of her commitment to creating spaces where the past and present, and the individual and the collective can coalesce into a harmonious equilibrium.
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About the Gallery
Tina Kim Gallery is widely recognized for its unique programming that emphasizes international contemporary artists, historical overviews, and independent curatorial projects. The gallery has built a platform for emerging and established artists by working closely with over twenty artists and Estates, including Pacita Abad, Ghada Amer, Tania Pérez Córdova, and Mire Lee, amongst others. Our expanding program of Asian-American and Asian diasporic artists, including Maia Ruth Lee, Minoru Niizuma, and Wook-Kyung Choi, evince the gallery’s commitment to pushing the conversation beyond national frameworks.
Founded in 2001, the gallery opened the doors to its ground-floor Chelsea exhibition space in 2014. The gallery was instrumental in introducing Korean Dansaekhwa artists such as Park Seo-Bo, Ha Chong-Hyun, and Kim Tschang-Yeul to an international audience, establishing public and institutional awareness of this critically influential group of Asian Post-War artists. The gallery partners regularly with prominent curators, scholars, and writers to produce exhibitions and publications of rigor and critical resonance.