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Young Artists

Articles [Column] Moka Lee, a Portraitist of the Social Media Age: “I Capture the Hidden Stories Within Photographs on Canvas” “Rising star.” Though a familiar expression, it is difficult to find a more fitting term to describe Moka Lee, a 1996-born artist who has yet to reach thirty.
2025
Articles [Critique] Fictional Universe and Players: Clues for Experiencing Miryu Yoon’s Paintings Miryu Yoon, who has been actively showcasing her work through solo and group exhibitions for about three years, is a rare female artist who creates large-scale figurative paintings centered on human subjects. Since there were already several well written critiques about Yoon, I initially intended to write this piece in an interview format.
2025

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS on View Through May 9, 2026, at WWNN WWNN presents a group exhibition 《URBAN CONSCIOUSNESS》 on view through May 9. The city is no longer just a physical backdrop. It is a cognitive field where sensation, memory, power, technology, and desire overlap, continually reshaping a shared mental structure. It does not simply sit behind experience. It quietly organises how perception and thought take form.
2026.04.21
Articles Artist Nosik Lim: Paintings Traces of Sensations Collected Through Bodily Experience Nosik Lim (b. 1989) creates paintings that translate moments perceived, felt, and captured through the body onto the canvas. The artist states that his geographical background has had the greatest influence on his practice. His paintings begin with a process of retracing everyday spaces tied to personal memories, including places from his childhood.
2025.07.07

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Future Scape Set: Project IF》, 2024.10.11 – 2024.11.03, Seoul National University Powerplant The 21st century is no longer an era of prediction. Change is no longer linear—it collides, shifts, and at times surpasses the speed and perception of human experience. Pandemic, war, climate crisis, the deluge of information—the future has already arrived, yet we remain unable to fully grasp it, lingering in a state of anxiety.
2025.05.14

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] The Contemporaneity of Dongyanghwa (Eastern Painting) ― An Essay on Kim Jipyeong’s Work Painting is a slow medium. But it wasn’t slow to begin with. It has simply maintained its own steady rhythm and pace. What has truly accelerated is the dizzying speed of modern civilization, driven by the relentless progress of technology and industry. These developments have swiftly transformed
2025

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Okul [School]_What Do People Learn》, 2021.11.04 – 2021.12.11, PIBI Gallery From November 4th to December 11th, PIBI Gallery hosts Yang Ah Ham’s solo exhibition titled 《Okul [School]_What Do People Learn》. Ham raises questions about various problems inherent in national and social
2021.11.04
Exhibitions 《Yeondoo Jung: Building Dreams》, 2025.05.17 – 2026.01.25, Peabody Essex Museum (Salem) Yeondoo Jung presents his solo exhibition 《Yeondoo Jung: Building Dreams》 at the Jeffrey P. Beale Gallery of the Peabody Essex Museum (PEM) in Salem, MA, USA. Working across various media including photography, video
2025.05.15

Established Artists

Activities The 21st Monthly Art Awards At the 21st Monthly Art Awards ceremony held at the Sungkok Art Museum on December 1, 2025, Monthly Art (Representative: Lee Ki-young) honored Kim Beom in the Artist category, Lev AAN in the Criticism category, and ten outstanding exhibitions including the Best Exhibition award for Art Sonje Center’s 《Adrián Villar Rojas: The Language of the Enemy》 (2025).
2025.12.01
Exhibitions 《2012 Korea Artist Prize》, 2012.08.31 - 2012.11.11, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea Co-organized by the National Museum of Contemporary Art, Korea, and the SBS Foundation, the annual “Korea Artist Prize” serves as a stepping stone for promising Korean artists as they progress into the international art scene, assisting them in the realization of their potential and promoting the vision of Korean contemporary art.
2012.08.29