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New Artists

Articles Artist Sijae Jang’s Informel Sculpture: Strange and Uneasy Sensations When Familiarity Collapses Sijae Jang (b. 1993) focuses on precarious scenes from everyday life—such as faded objects, cracks in broken building facades, and demolition sites—translating the tense gazes and emotions they evoke into the language of sculpture.
2025.09.08
Exhibitions “PANORAMA” on View Through October 16, 2025, at SONGEUN SONGEUN is presenting the group exhibition 《PANORAMA》 through October 16. Part of the Korea Arts Management Service’s “Korean Artists Today” initiative, the exhibition brings together eight artists and collectives whose practices expand the possibilities of contemporary art, serving as a platform for long-term international engagement. Rather than adhering to a set theme, the show highlights each artist’s distinct voice.
2025.09.02

Emerging Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10
Articles [Column] Hannah Woo: Reanimating the World Hannah Woo’s fabric sculptures and “drawings” are perhaps direct descendants of craft-based productions that have occupied a peripheral position within the history of art—a history recorded and remembered predominantly by men.
2023.03.03

Mid-Career Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] [Jinsook Lee Meets Contemporary Artist] Sculptor Ham Jin (Chosun Ilbo Topclass 2011.08 edition) Ham Jin is a sculptor born in 1978, who graduated from Kyungwon University's College of Fine Arts. At the age of 22, in 1999, he held his first solo exhibition at Sarubia Project and has since presented five solo exhibitions, including at PKM Gallery. His work has been featured in significant group exhibitions at institutions
2011.08.01
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] PERIGEE ARTIST #5 Yoo Seungho : "Shaking your Hair loose"-Childishly and Splendidly Frolicking YOO Seungho has created diverse works with characters and images. On display at this exhibition are his recent pieces that are an extension of his previous works.
2015.06.04
Exhibitions 《Choe U-Ram : Stil laif》, 2016.11.01 – 2017.02.12, Daegu Museum of Art Daegu Museum of Art presents a solo exhibition by Korean artist Choe U-Ram, internationally recognized for creating “anima-machines,” or mechanical life-forms. Combining distinctive imagination with computer programs and technology, this exhibition was organized to shed light on Choe’s works as statements about our times.
2016.11.01

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Nine Dragons in Wonderland》, 2022.12.15 – 2023.02.10, The Page Gallery The Page Gallery presents 《Nine Dragons in Wonderland》, a solo exhibition by Yeesookyung (b. 1963), from December 15, 2022, to February 10, 2023.
2022.12.17
Exhibitions 《One: Do Ho Suh》, 2018.10.10 – 2019.05.05, Brooklyn Museum (Brooklyn, NY) At a time of mass global migration, the loss of leaving one's native country and searching for a permanent home have become universal issues. 《One: Do Ho Suh》 features a single, large-scale work by Korean-born artist Do Ho Suh, whose work engages with migration and cultural displacement.
2018.10.01