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[Critique] Sorcerer/Hunter/Stroller, Miryu Yoon
During her time in graduate school, Miryu Yoon developed an interest in subcultures such as biker gangs and pseudo-religions. According to the artist, there was a phase when she delved into what she refers to as “dark paintings.”
2023
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Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim receive $250,000 Heinz Awards
The American artists Jennie C. Jones and Gala Porras-Kim were revealed as the winners of this year’s Heinz Awards for the Arts on Tuesday (17 September). The awards, bestowed by the Pittsburgh-based Heinz Family Foundation since 1993, come with an unrestricted cash prize of $250,000 for each artist.
2024.09.17
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[Critique] Air of Suspicion: into the gap of time
I remember Sunny Kim always looking somewhere far away. Her paintings were creating a thick border neither here nor there. This place was the land and the sea; something alive and dead; and possibly you and me. Or perhaps none of these.
2017
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[Critique] Korea Artist Prize 2017 – Critique 1
Song Sanghee is an artist who exemplifies the growth and development of Korean art venues since the 2000s. Around the turn of the millennium, Song took part in various activities at alternative art spaces, which were then beginning to flourish, helping to reinterpret the legacy of Minjung art (or “People’s art”) and feminist art. She soon began gaining renown for her agile experimentations
2017
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Heinkuhn Oh selected as recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award
Heinkuhn Oh has been selected the recipient of the 10th Dong Gang Photography Award. Dong Gang Photography Award is presented annually by Dong Gang Museum of Photography to an artist who has made note-worthy contribution to the development of photography in Korea and has had extensive activity in the past ye
2011.07.01
Exhibitions
《My Names》, 2019.10.16 – 2019.12.11, Smith Gallery at Davidson College (North Carolina, U.S.A.)
In conjunction with the Baik Art Residency, the Smith Gallery will feature 《My Names》, a video installation by South Korean artist Inhwan Oh. The project began at a residency in 2010 at the Residency in Kyoto Art Center, Japan. The first video is an interview of Japanese women, who have changed their (family) names multiple times; the other video is a documentation of the artist’s performance, writing and erasing—through the act of ironing—the names of women introduced in the interview.
2019.10.15
