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New Artists

Articles Artist Eugene Jung’s Post-Apocalyptic Landscapes Reflecting Reality Eugene Jung (b.1995) creates post-apocalyptic environments through sculpture and installation that respond to contemporary catastrophes. The desolate landscapes crafted by the artist are at times infused with a cartoon-like worldview.
2025.05.01
Articles Artist Inhwa Yeom: Reconstructing Minority Experiences through ‘3D Performative Apparatus–Environment’ Inhwa Yeom (b. 1991) has been reconstructing the experiences of historical minorities through technology, devising ways to embrace the actions, reactions, and expressions of diverse beings. To this end, she has been developing an XR-based “3D Performative Apparatus–Environment,” leading audiences to experiences of “becoming other beings” through cognitive, psychological, and physical participation.
2025.10.20

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Moulage Mélancolique》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.11.15, Project Space Sarubia Hannah Woo’s solo exhibition 《Moulage Mélancolique》 is being held at Project Space Sarubia. Woo is an artist who employs her own intuitive sculptural language. Letting herself be released into and surrendering to an unknown world generates internal waves during the creative process and enables free imagination.
2019.10.14
Exhibitions 《Woo Hannah: Ma Moitié》, 2020.09.23 – 2020.10.27, SongEun Artcube SongEun Artcube presents the fourth solo exhibition of Hannah Woo, an artist who has worked extensively with fabric as her primary material in various installation projects. This exhibition foregrounds “Designer Hannah Woo” as a central identity.
2020.09.20

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Then, Fly Away》, 2019.11.07 – 2019.12.19, DOOSAN Gallery (New York, USA) DOOSAN Gallery New York presents Hayoun Kwon’s solo exhibition, 《Then, Fly Away》, from November 7th to December 19th. Kwon, who is the 2017 recipient of the 8th DOOSAN Artist Award, lives and works between France and South Korea.
2019.11.06

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Son Donghyun’s Contemporary Exploration of Traditional Painting Son Donghyun (b. 1980) has been reinterpreting the styles of East Asian traditional painting from a contemporary perspective. While traditional painting often embodies an interest in nature, Son’s work reflects the lives of contemporary figures.
2025.02.04
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《YOU, Live!: Twelve-Door Handles》, 2019.10.18 – 2020.01.19, Ilmin Museum of Art 《YOU, Live!: Twelve-Door Handles》 marked artist Yoon Young Park’s first solo exhibition in nine years. Having worked between Korea and Canada, Park garnered significant attention in the Korean art world in the late 2000s for her distinctive storytelling methods and her expansion of the possibilities within the Korean painting medium.
2019.10.18
Activities Gangnam-gu–Gangnam Cultural Foundation opens the public art project 《LOVE YOUR DEPOT_Gangnam Pavilion》 at Gungmaeul Park in Suseo-dong Gangnam-gu (Mayor: Jeong Soon-gyun) and its affiliate Gangnam Cultural Foundation (Chairman: Choi Byung-sik) are presenting 《LOVE YOUR DEPOT_Gangnam Pavilion》 at Gungmaeul Park in Suseo-dong starting on the 18th.
2021.11.20

Established Artists

Activities Heinkuhn Oh selected as recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award Heinkuhn Oh has been selected the recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award. Dong Gang Photography Award is presented annually by Dong Gang Museum of Photography to an artist who has made note-worthy contribution to the development of photography in Korea and has had extensive activity in the past ye
2011.07.01
Articles [Critique] Others and Me: On the Impossibility of Relations and Communications For the exhibition at PLATEAU in the summer of 2014, Inhwan Oh produced the project Guard and I, a work that unveils the tension between individual identity and social norms, critically examines the institutional order of a museum, and exemplifies Oh’s persistent attempts to communicate with others on an intimate level, even if the relationship is temporary.
2015