Jeong Han KIM
Jeong Han Kim(b. 1971) is an artist whose work explores the intersection of art and cognitive science. He was an artist-in-residence at the Lower Manhattan Cultural Council with support from the Rockefeller Brothers Fund and the Asian Cultural Council, and he served as a Fulbright Visiting Scholar at DXARTS, University of Washington in Seattle. His work has been exhibited internationally, including at Infosphere (ZKM, Germany), Media City Seoul, and WhiteBox (New York City). Kim holds a Ph.D. in Cognitive Science from Seoul National University and an MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was appointed a UNESCO Expert on the Diversity of Cultural Expressions (2024) and on AI & Culture (2025). In collaboration with the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea, he developed an art appreciation program for visually impaired audiences. Kim is currently a professor in the Department of Painting at Seoul National University and will be a Clark Fellowship Visiting Scholar in Fall 2025.
BirdMan’s Irises: Ophthalmic Surgery 2024–2025 Series
Digital Print, 48 cm × 48 cm, 2025
BirdMan’s Irises: Ophthalmic Surgery 2024–2025 Series extends perception beyond the human, into the sensory realms of other creatures. Using medical imagery of irises from both human and nonhuman sources, the artist constructs a speculative “third eye”—a visual organ that attempts to imagine a visual system of another being, one that humans can never experience, and to seek a form of coexistence beyond perception.
Entanglement of the BirdMan and Loads: Binocular Rivalry,
2025, single channel video, 21min 11sec
Entanglement of the BirdMan and Loads: Binocular Rivalry presents two different images to each eye, inducing a phenomenon known as “binocular rivalry,” where the brain cannot process both images simultaneously and instead unconsciously selects one to perceive. This choice happens not through conscious judgement, but through involuntary cognitive processes. As a result, even when sharing the same visual field, each viewer may experience a different image. By drawing attention to this perceptual mechanism, Kim reveals how the visual experiences we take for granted are in fact unstable and deeply subjective.
