Kim En Joong

The South-Korean Kim En Joong (b. 1940) grew up in a society shaped by Confusianism and Buddhism. From 1959-1963 he studied at the Art Academy of Seoul and proceeded to specialize in art education. Kim came into contact with Catholicism when giving drawing lessons at the Catholic Seminary in Seoul. After becoming a Christian he moved to Fribourg in Switzerland in1969 to study theology. A year later Kim entered the Dominican order. In 1974 he became a priest and since 1975 he has lived and worked in a Dominican monastery in Paris, France. Kim’s reputation as an artist has grown over the years. He has shown his work in churches, monasteries and also in the cathedrals of San Francisco (2002), Paris (2003), Chartres, Amiens, Metz and Évry (2005). The artist also has had retrospective shows in museums in France and Korea. He created windows for a church in Angoulême (1989) as well as for the cathedrals of Évry and Chartres (2006). Other windows can be found in the St. JosephChurch in Paris (2005), the monastery of Ganagobie, and the churches of Thorigné and Craintilleux (France). www.kimenjoong.com