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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Typojanchi 2021: A Turtle and a Crane》, 2021.09.14 – 2021.10.17, Culture Station Seoul 284 Letters are alive. And to be alive is to move slowly, at length, lightly, and high. Under the poetic title 《A Turtle and a Crane》, the 7th Typojanchi revisited the vitality of type and the liveliness of visual language under the theme “Letters and Life.” Spanning the entire Culture Station Seoul 284, this
2021.09.14
Exhibitions 《She seemed devastated, when I was weeping with Joy: A story that ends from the beginning》, 2025.05.05, Apartment of Art, Munich Last year, as part of our residency program (in collaboration with Taipei Artist Village, the Munich Department of Arts and Culture, and Goethe-Institut Taipei), Eunju Hong spent three months at Treasure Hill Artist Village in Taipei. The exhibition at Apartment der Kunst is based on the artist’s time there. It was during this stay that she first encountered the world of traditional East Asian theatre and puppetry.
2025.05.05

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Black Sun》, 2018.11.01 – 2028.11.17, Onground 2 I’m at a museum in Kyoto, Japan. Currently, it is hosting an exhibition of Japan’s national treasures. I find myself unable to leave the Buddhist art section. Despite their age, the large-scale Buddhist paintings possess a solemnity and sanctity that is deeply moving.
2018.10.31
Articles Artist Boma Pak: Expressing Marginalized Beings Through Diverse Media and Identities Boma Pak (b. 1988) creates space for ephemeral substances—like light and air—and for beings considered “feminine” or peripheral, by working through a variety of media including drawing, objects, spontaneous actions, and scent, as well as multiple layers of identity.
2025.08.11

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions "off-site" on View Through October 8, 2023, at Art Sonje Center Art Sonje Center will present off-site, an exhibition by six artists, from August 18 to October 7. off-site utilizes spaces such as the museum’s theater, backstage area, garden, stairways, and mechanical rooms to build a new sense of space and artworks.
2023.08.16

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

Exhibitions 《HYUNDAI 50 Part II》, 2020.06.12 – 2020.07.19, Gallery Hyundai Part two of Gallery Hyundai’s 50th anniversary exhibition, 《HYUNDAI 50》, highlighting the works by artists whom the gallery has started working with from the mid-1980s to the present. Over seventy works by thirteen foreign artists and sixteen Korean artists who share a part of the gallery’s history are presented
2020.06.10
Exhibitions 《Snaplife》, 2014.05.30 – 2014.08.02, Sungkok Art Museum Jina Park (b.1974) portrays on canvas instant, coincidental moments of ordinary and usual situations that she snapshots with a camera and reconstructs into paintings.
2010.11.10

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《With no Head nor Tail》, 2024.03.21 – 2024.04.20, Tina Kim Gallery Tina Kim Gallery is pleased to announce Chung Seoyoung (b. Seoul, 1964)’s 《With no Head nor Tail》, from March 21 to April 20, 2024. This marks the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery since 2017.
2024.03.20
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