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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Run》, 2022.07.20 – 2022.09.07, Museumhead Today, disasters have become an everyday occurrence. How Jung Eugene's solo exhibition, 《RUN》 (2022) would approach and escape the disaster that has become a daily routine, but has lost its sense of reality. In the exhibition, Jung Eugene creates a kind of theme park by combining and exaggerating various scenes of disasters.
2022.07.18
Exhibitions “Little Giants: The 90s Generation at KOO HOUSE Museum” on View Through February 1, 2026, at KOO HOUSE Museum KOO HOUSE Museum presents 《Little Giants: The 90s Generation at KOO HOUSE Museum》, an exhibition featuring ten notable Korean artists born in the 1990s, on view through February 1, 2026.
2025.11.18

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Submersible》, 2020.04.01 – 2020.05.05, Kumho Museum of Art Kumho Museum of Art presents Seeun Kim’s solo exhibition 《Submersible》 from April 1 to May 5.
2020.03.30
Articles Artist Yaloo: Exploring the Poetic Possibilities of Digital Media Yaloo (b. 1987) has continuously explored the poetic possibilities of digital media through digital moving images, including projection-mapped sculptures, media façades, and VR. Her work draws on a wide range of timeless cultural elements—her own identity, myths, folktales, science and technology, and K-culture—to construct poetic narratives that unfold immersively through technological media.
2025.10.20

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Masquerade》, 2022.04.13 – 2022.07.31, MMCA, Gwacheon At a time when the COVID-19 pandemic has made mask -wearing part of our daily routines, the MMCA Collection Exhibition 《Masquerade》 showcases contemporary artists’ in- depth explorations of the symbolic meaning of covering one’s face.
2022.04.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Night Landscape》, 2022.05.11 – 2022.07.31, Space ISU At night, a world entirely different from the day unfolds. When darkness descends and the streets grow quiet, the things that slumbered in daylight awaken and begin to move. The chirping of insects is heard; the smell and texture of the air are felt; trees and buildings appear larger.
2022.05.11
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Good Sleep, Bad Sleep, and Bizaare Sleep The dramatic rescue of 33 miners trapped 700 meters underground for 69 days; I watched the scene live on the internet in Amherst, a small town in Eastern U.S.
2012
Articles [Critique] 'Animatus' : Hyungkoo Lee’s Pygmalionic Desire Hyungkoo Lee’s ‘Animatus’ Series reveals, with striking unfamiliarity, the (il)logical skeletal structures concealed within the exaggerated gestures characteristic of famous Walt Disney and Warner Brothers characters—Mickey Mouse, Bugs Bunny, Donald Duck, Goofy, and so on—by applying human craniology to their forms.
2022.11.01

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Reflections on a Korean Urn, A Meditation on the work of Yeesookyung John Keats’s enigmatic, much pondered, and often challenged words about the virtues of ‘beauty’ and ‘truth’ as they are embodied in art – in this case an imaginary classical Greek vase – point to a fundamental dichotomy that has driven the work of Yeesookyung from the outset.
2012
Exhibitions 《My Own Blind Spots》, 2019.09.21 – 2019.11.02, Commonwealth and Council (LA) Inhwan Oh’s 《My Own Blind Spots》 couples video surveillance with a meditation on the order of seeing and being seen to reveal processes of social and cultural subversion synced across two galleries: Commonwealth and Council and Baik Art.
2019.09.20