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New Artists

Articles Artist Jungin Kim’s ‘Open Paintings’: Imagining Through Landscapes of Fragmented Memories Jungin Kim (b. 1991) has been creating what he calls “open paintings,” in which seemingly unrelated fragments of memory are placed together on a single canvas, prompting viewers to lose their way within the work and imagine their own stories. These fragments of memory, akin to pixels, are regarded as individuals; through the process of grafting them onto the canvas, an image of “solidarity” emerges.
2025.11.03
Articles Artist Sejin Hong: Exploring the Space Between Perception and Reality Sejin Hong (b. 1992) begins her work by examining how perception is newly constructed through technology and the environment within her own experiences. Having lost her hearing as a child and lived with a cochlear implant as a prosthetic device, she has continued to create paintings that fill the gaps of missing information between the real world and herself with new sculptures or forms.
2025.11.03

Emerging Artists

Activities 10 Artists to Watch This Year, Selected by Kiaf SEOUL The Galleries Association of Korea officially announced the 10 semifinalist artists for ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’ on July 3, ahead of the upcoming Kiaf SEOUL 2025 in September. This program signals a new chapter in the art scene by highlighting emerging talents.
2025.07.15
Articles [Column] Woo Hannah Brings ‘The Great Ballroom’ to Frieze Seoul Fabric is a familiar material to the artist Woo Hannah. It has given rise to irrepressible stories of chaotic and campy creatures.
2023.10.10

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Gala Porras-Kim Explores the Life of Relics Within Institutional Spaces Korean-Colombian artist Gala Porras-Kim (b. 1984) has been interested in how traces of past civilizations are defined and reinterpreted within contemporary contexts.
2025.01.14

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Sejin Park》, 2013.05.16 – 2013.06.13, DOOSAN Gallery DOOSAN Gallery Seoul is pleased to present the solo exhibition of Sejin Park, an artist who presents the world we reside in through landscapes, from May 16th to June 13rd, 2013. Sejin Park focuses on people we encounter in our daily lives, and the shapes of spaces. The sceneries she presents begin with our vicinity, including ourselves, and leads onto faraway, indistinct places. Various landscapes that were too familiar within and therefore eluded our eyes, places that we cannot see and are thus visible only in imagination; these locales are created through spots and traces of paint.
2013.05.16
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Pre-Established Artists

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
Exhibitions "Scoring the Words" on View Through November 20, 2022, at Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun Main Branch At the Seoul Museum of Art’s Seosomun Main Building, the group exhibition “Scoring the Words“ will be held from September 1 to November 20, 2022. The exhibition will be part of the museum’s exhibition series, which began in 2014, engaging with non-Western regions. This year, the series will focus on Asia.
2022.09.19

Established Artists

Articles [Essay] [Artists of Our Time Met by Lee Jin-sook] Painter Suh Yongsun Painter Suh Yongsun begins each day by painting a self-portrait in the morning. He prepares his paints at night and paints the portrait as if writing a diary. In the self-portrait, the artist is kneeling, painting as though in disciplined practice. The posture is almost combative, conveying serious reflection and persistence.
2011
Activities Photographer Atta Kim’s Photo Book Published in the United States A photo book by photographer Atta Kim titled The Museum Project has recently been published in New York. ‘The Museum Project’ is Kim’s representative body of work. The series consists of photographs created by shaving the heads of male and female models,
2005.04.04