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New Artists

Exhibitions “Young Korean Artists 2025: Here and Now” on View Through October 12, 2025, at MMCA Gwacheon The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA) presents 《Young Korean Artists 2025: Here and Now》 until October 12 at its Gwacheon branch. This exhibition is the 22nd edition of 《Young Korean Artists》, a regular program by the MMCA and the longest-running initiative in Korea supporting emerging artists.
2025.04.29
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 《Cold Rub》, 2023.02.03 – 2023.03.11, PHD Group (Hong Kong) Eunsae Lee's solo exhibition 《Cold Rub》 will be held at PHD Group in Hong Kong from February 3 to March 11, 2023. In her decade-long exploration of painting, Eunsae Lee has engaged with figures and objects to mine relationships between gaze, desire, and consumption.
2023.02.01
Articles [Column] Heemin Chung’s Paintings: Groping for Material to Refine Painting Yellow imitated gold. When a 15th-century Venetian painter discovered yellow pigment, he broke away from the old technique of painting gold to replicate golden objects or symbols.
2023.03.01

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions “Korea Artist Prize 2025” on View Through February 1, 2026, at MMCA Seoul The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea (MMCA), in partnership with the SBS Foundation, presents 《Korea Artist Prize 2025》 exhibition until February 1, 2026, at MMCA Seoul.
2025.09.09

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Somewhere Underneath》, 2014.12.04 – 2014.01.31, HADA Contemporary (London) HADA Contemparary presents the first UK solo exhibition by Ham Jin (b.1978). He has been best known for his dark and whimsical sculptures, which often incorporated banal objects transforming them into subjects of his wild creativity. This exhibition will bring all new works by the artist that clearly denotes his progression into abstraction that embody the boundless fragile unconsciousness and its beyond.
2014.12.01
Articles [Essay] Story of Mutant 'Lion' 2024.01.04
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《The Last Leaves》, 2014.05.30 – 2014.07.05, Perigee Gallery Perigee Gallery, which opens this year, presents its inaugural exhibition with a solo show by artist Kira Kim titled 《The Last Leaves》.
2014.05.20
Exhibitions 《We must run WWW》, 2022.12.16 – 2023.02.05, Daejeon Museum of Art In 2022, the Daejeon Museum of Art explored the overarching theme of the “city,” revisiting both the tangible and intangible values that shape urban life. Within cities that have grown and evolved under the banner of a “better future,” hope and despair, virtue and vice, wealth and poverty coexist—revealing that the challenges facing humanity persist under different names.
2022.12.15

Established Artists

Articles Artist Chung Seoyoung Captures the ‘Sculptural Moments’ from the Objects Playing a leading role in the establishment of “Korean Contemporary Art” as a new category of contemporary art in the 1990s, sculptor Chung Seoyoung (b. 1964) has been addressing fundamental questions concerning sculpture itself by incorporating the unrealistic gaps in the rapidly changing atmosphere of Korean society into her sculptures. In particular, the artist has garnered attention for her practice of reassembling and transforming everyday commodities found in industrialized societies, such as Styrofoam, plastic, plywood, and sponges, into a sculptural state.
2024.07.16
Exhibitions 《2015 Artist of the Year - Sora Kim》, 2015.10.12 – 2015.12.05, Korea Cultural Centre, London Selected by the Korean Cultural Centre United Kingdom (KCCUK) as the 2015 Artist of the Year, Sora Kim’s solo exhibition will open October 12th to December 5th at the exhibition space inside KCCUK. Conducted by the KCC during the Frieze art fairs in London,
2015.10.12