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New Artists

Articles Artist Jeong Juwon: Translating the Traces of Life’s Landscapes into Painting Jeong Juwon (b. 1992) has translated her personal narratives onto canvas by observing the place she stands and the circumstances surrounding her. In particular, through her experience of living in a four-generation household, she has metaphorically expressed complex emotions and reflections on human life and death, growth and aging, care and dependence.
2025.11.17
Articles Artist Taewon Ahn: Exploring Identity Between the Internet and Reality Taewon Ahn (b. 1993), also known by the name ppuri, has been transforming rapidly circulating digital images—such as internet memes—into physical forms through painting and sculpture. Ahn regards the internet not merely as a virtual space, but as a new kind of material network shaped through the interactions between humans, environments, and technology. Within this framework, the artist sensually explores and expresses the complex relationships that emerge in digital space.
2025.05.19

Emerging Artists

Articles [Column] Kim Heecheon: Beyond the Consensus in a Racing World Kim Heecheon (b. 1989) graduated from the Department of Architecture at the Korea National University of Arts. He has held solo exhibitions at notable institutions, including Hayward Gallery (2023), Art Sonje Center (2019), Asian Art Museum of San Francisco, DOOSAN Gallery New York (2018), and Common Center (2015).
2023
Articles Artist Jeong Young Ho: On the Gap Between Screen-Mediated Images and Lived Reality Jeong Young Ho (b. 1989) works primarily with photography, focusing on how contemporary technological apparatuses influence the ways we understand and perceive the world. In particular, he continues to explore the gap between electronic, mediated experiences—circulated through networks, servers, and screens—and direct, unmediated perception through the naked eye.
2026.05.11

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Choe Sooryeon Recontextualizes Traditional "Oriental" Clichés Choe Sooryeon (b. 1986) observes the aspects of so-called "Oriental-style" imagery and how it is consumed, reflecting these observations in her paintings. To do so, she collects traditional cliché images shared across Northeast Asia from classic Korean and Chinese films. Based on these images, her paintings reveal themes of sorrow, femininity, disconnection from reality, inner Orientalism, doubt, ignorance, and absurdity.
2025.02.18

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Mapping, Grouping, and Categorizing Donghyun Son Perhaps it was the most natural flow of thought. I was thinking of his work all throughout watching the movie Deadpool. In Deadpool, there is a protagonist whose actions break the conventional stereotypes, constantly making jokes with various references.
2016
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Essay] The Emancipated Player, Music by Other Means: Notes on Byungjun Kwon (Monthly Art, September 2019) My grandmother taught piano. As a child I’d go to her house after school with neighborhood friends and take turns at the piano for thirty minutes each. I was eager to play difficult, impressive pieces,
2019.08.25
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 《Middlemen》, 2022.09.01 – 2022.11.13, Art Sonje Center Art Sonje Center is pleased to present Heinkuhn Oh’s solo exhibition 《Middlemen》 from May 3 to June 17, 2012, which shows portrait photographs of soldiers. This is the first time to present a portrait series of soldiers portraying
2012.05.03
Exhibitions 《Square Square》, 2012.04.05 - 2012.06.12, Atelier Hermès On April 5, 2012, the contemporary art space Atelier Hermès, located on the third floor of Maison Hermès Dosan Park, is transformed into a plaza.
2012.04.03
Activities The 21st Monthly Art Awards
2025.12.01