Pop icon Kim Wan-sun opens first New York solo show as painter

Kim Wan-sun, a South Korean pop singer of the mid-1980s and early 1990s, has opened her first solo exhibition in New York as a painter. The debut exhibition marks the 40th anniversary of the singer’s debut, running from Friday to March 31 at the Tenri Cultural Institute in Manhattan, New York. The exhibition title “Icon On Demand” refers to Kim’s past as a pop star driven by public demand, while hinting at her move to take control of her own image as an artist, according to the artist's agency,

By The Korea Herald