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New Artists

Articles Artist Rhee Donghoon: Exploring New Relationships Between Sculpture and Painting Rhee Donghoon (b.1991) navigates between the traditional mediums of sculpture and painting, continually exploring the relationship between the three-dimensional and the two-dimensional. His practice involves closely observing living subjects such as plants, trees, and human figures, which he carves into wooden sculptures. These sculpted still lifes then become the subjects of his paintings.
2025.04.22
Exhibitions 《Room with Flowers》, 2019.10.17 – 2019.11.23, DrawingRoom "The artist first references the form of an object, then invites viewers to consider the form, rhythm, and volume of the sculpture itself. The process becomes a struggle with the material… ultimately a tug-of-war between ‘appearing as wood’ and ‘not appearing as wood.’"
2019.10.15

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Hannah Woo’s Hybrid and Horizontal World Woven in Fabric Hannah Woo (b.1988) presents works that transcend genre boundaries—from two-dimensional pieces to sculptures and installations—using fabric as her primary medium to explore situations where opposing forces and entities such as the living and the inanimate, the protector and the protected, aging and youth, pain and ecstasy, merge and complement one another.
2025.05.01
Exhibitions “Landing Point” on View Through February 17, 2024, at ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL ARARIO GALLERY SEOUL presents group exhibition “Landing Point” through February 17. This exhibition comprehensively presents the works of 13 distinguished contemporary Korean and Japanese painters through the entire gallery space.
2024.01.24
Articles [Critique] Mire Lee: Carriers
2020.07.23

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions Kim Chunsoo’s Solo Exhibition “Low-cut, Low-pass” on View Through October 2, 2018 at Ilwoo Space The Ilwoo Foundation, part of the Hanjin Group, is hosting a solo exhibition, "Low-cut, Low-pass," by artist Kim Chunsoo (38), at Ilwoo Space, located in the lobby of Korean Air's Seosomun Building on the first floor.
2018.08.30

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Golden Age》, 2007.11.16 – 2008.01.06, Arario Gallery Cheonan Through our lived experiences in the real world, we acquire concepts, values, knowledge, and worldviews. Thus, the totality of an individual’s thoughts is always deeply related to the real world that person inhabits. Perception itself is formed in relation to this reality. Painting, too, is grounded in an awareness of the real world.
2007.11.16
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Pre-Established Artists

Activities Gangnam-gu–Gangnam Cultural Foundation opens the public art project 《LOVE YOUR DEPOT_Gangnam Pavilion》 at Gungmaeul Park in Suseo-dong Gangnam-gu (Mayor: Jeong Soon-gyun) and its affiliate Gangnam Cultural Foundation (Chairman: Choi Byung-sik) are presenting 《LOVE YOUR DEPOT_Gangnam Pavilion》 at Gungmaeul Park in Suseo-dong starting on the 18th.
2021.11.20
Articles [Critique] How to inhabit Cyber Culture? It is indeed digital ‘revolution’, how rapid and immense changes the Internet communication network has brought into our lives—our way of thinking and our life styles. So-called, N-generation has witnessed the explosive growth of the IT industry in the 90’s.
2004

Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Echography of Exhausted Materials Where do a black sphere brutally made of 16 tons of cast iron and less than 1 gram of coal tar solution meet? Where do an old railroad sleeper—its entire body cracked open and its crevices soaked with thick black grease—and a pitch-black lump of coal, so dense that there is not even space to stick a needle, find a point of contact?
2014
Articles Artist Do Ho Suh Weaves Shapes of Memories Known for his fabric sculptures that reconstruct to scale homes, artist Do Ho Suh (b. 1962) works across various media, creating drawings, film, and sculptural works that confront questions of home, physical space, displacement, memory, individuality, and collectivity. Over the past three decades, he has built an international reputation for his intriguing and creative works.
2024.07.02