Mari Kim
| Mari Kim | |
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October 2013
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| Native name | 마리킴 |
| Born |
Kim Mari (김마리) Busan, South Korea |
| Nationality | South Korean |
| Known for | Contemporary art, pop art, animation |
| Website | marikim |
Mari Kim (Hangul: 마리킴) is a South Korean contemporary artist and animator from Seoul, South Korea. She is known for the big-eyed, cartoon-like female characters in her pop art paintings, called "eyedolls". Her work was popularly recognized after her 2011 collaboration with the K-pop girl group 2NE1, directing the animated music video for their single "Hate You". The single topped charts and the music video, with eyedoll action heroines portraying each of the four members, received over twenty million YouTube views.
Kim was born in Busan as Kim Mari (김마리). Due to her father's job, the family moved often and she became close to her younger brother, Nara, as friendships were hard to maintain with the relocating. She consoled herself with crayons, drawing "everything and anything" and found her passion for art. She said, "I always liked fantasizing as a child."
During high school she read a lot of teen novels and comics. As her interest in art developed, she was unsure of making it a career. Her parents had artistic interests in photography, sketching and embroidery but hoped that she would pursue medicine or law. They compromised when she found a course of studies in visual arts through computers. After high school, she moved to Melbourne, Australia, and attended RMIT University where she received a master's degree in multimedia design and creative media in 2006, after which she specialized in digital art.
She developed a love of Australia and stayed there for about a decade, along with her brother. She eventually returned to Seoul seeking an urban art scene in a familiar place.
In addition to her art work, she has been an adjunct professor for Catholic University of Korea since 2007.
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