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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Winter bud》, 2025.04.10 – 2025.05.03, Gongjaksaebang In December 2023, I saw a magnolia bud at a park nearby my house. What an unexpected bloom, even if the climate change made the weather warmer than before. While searching on the Internet, I
2025.04.10
Articles Artist Seo Minwoo: Exploring the Spatial Performance of Sound Seo Minwoo (b. 1994) has developed a practice that visualizes and tactilizes auditory experience through what he calls “sound sculptures,” created by interweaving sound and form. He encodes elements of music, noise, and sculpture, and produces sonic objects by imagining both the corporeal core of music and the hollow interior of sculptural forms.
2026.01.26

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “The 23rd SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition” on view through February 24, 2024, at SONGEUN The SONGEUN Art Award Exhibition is a showcase of the latest works by leading emerging artists in contemporary Korean art in one place. This exhibition features the diversity of contemporary Korean art through the paintings, sculptures, installations, videos, and sound works of 20 young artists born between 1979 and 1990.
2023.12.13
Exhibitions 《NEW INDÉPENDANT: BEING-SENSE》, 2024.08.28 – 2024.09.18, Yangpyeong Art Museum One of the most important roles of a contemporary art museum is to reflect the discourse of its time through new artworks. In practice, however, this requires considerable deliberation. It is often more stable, in many respects,
2024.08.28

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Punch-Drunk》, 2023.08.04 – 2023.09.22, Small Museum Bogugot Omyo Cho’s solo exhibition, 《Punch-Drunk》, is currently being held at Small Museum Bogugot, located at 373 Munsusan-ro, Wolgot-myeon, Gimpo-si, Gyeonggi-do, Korea.
2023.08.06

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Won-Kyung》, 2012.11.15 – 2012.12.22, DOOSAN Gallery New York DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce the first New York solo exhibition of Korea-based painter Sejin Park’s 《Won-Kyung》, from November 15 to December 15, 2012. The exhibition features Park’s paintings full of emotion reflecting her dedicated devotion of expressing one’s landscape of mind using delicate brush strokes and sensitive colors.
2012.11.15
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles Artist Gwon Osang Redefines Sculpture Through Photography Gwon Osang (b. 1974), known for his so-called "photo-sculptures," has continuously questioned the identity of sculpture while exploring new structural forms.
2024.12.17
Activities CHANEL x Frieze Select Six Artists for ‘Now & Next’ Project Global luxury brand CHANEL and Frieze, one of the world’s three major art fairs, present the fourth season of the “Now & Next” video series, which highlights the perspectives and voices of contemporary Korean artists.
2025.08.04
Articles [Critique] Charged Zero
2020.03.05

Established Artists

Activities [Seoul International Print Biennale] Grand Prize Awarded to Lee Inhyeon for 'Cabernet Sauvignon 1' At the 10th Seoul International Print Biennale, hosted by The Dong-A Ilbo and sponsored by the GeoPyung Group and Eagon Window & Door Systems, the Grand Prize was awarded to Lee Inhyeon (38, Korea) for his work 'Cabernet Sauvignon 1'. The piece, distinguished by its expressive color diffusion, was commended for its sensitive articulation of a distinctly Korean emotional landscape.
1999.11.26
Exhibitions 《Signs of Bugahyeon-dong》, 2022.10.14. - 2022.11.10, Hapjungjigu The network of connections that once seemed capable of extending endlessly in every direction has been helplessly ‘locked down.’ As parts of the vast structures surrounding us became paralyzed, humanity retreated into individual spaces, taking refuge in the unit
2020.05.06
Activities [Culture] Venice Biennale
2003.06.09