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Articles [Review] A Flower Which Can't Even Be Seen: Excavating Footprints The solo exhibition of Sungoo Im's 《A Flower Which Can't Even Be Seen: Excavating Footprints》, aims to explore the language and structure of Yi Sang's poem, "Cliff", leaving behind traces of the drawings which cross boundaries of the two dimensional and the three dimensional.
2022.08.31
Exhibitions 《Selected Young JEONBUK Artists 2022》, 2022.03.18 - 2022.07.24, Jeonbuk Museum of Art Initiated in 2015 and now in its eighth year, 《Selected Young JEONBUK Artists 2022》 is an exhibition that provides a platform for emerging artists from the Jeonbuk region to engage with diverse social issues of contemporary art and to develop new aesthetic modes of thinking.
2022.03.16

Emerging Artists

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
Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Aedong》, 2019.03.07-2019.04.14, DOOSAN Gallery New York DOOSAN Gallery New York presents Youngzoo IM’s solo exhibition titled 《Aedong》, from March 7 to April 13, 2019. IM has collected and documented stories and scenes of urban legends, superstitions, pseudo-sciences and pseudo-religions spread throughout society, and has realized them through various mediums such as video, painting, installations, and publications.
2019.03.05

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 《There Before : 20 Years of Vision at DongGang Museum of Photography》, 2025.10.24 - 2026.04.12, DongGang Museum of Photography, Yeongwol-gun To celebrate the 20th anniversary of its opening, the DongGang Museum of Photography presents the special exhibition 《There Before : 20 Years of Vision at DongGang Museum of Photography》, held across Exhibition Halls 1 and 2.
2025.11.12
Exhibitions 《Suejin Chung》, 2024.08.22 – 2024.09.21, The Page Gallery The Page Gallery is pleased to present a solo exhibition by Suejin Chung(b.1969, Seoul) from August 22 to September 21, 2024. The artist has garnered recognition from the art scene since her early career, with paintings based on her distinctive visual theories. Chung's first solo exhibition at The Page Gallery will feature 22 of the artist's latest paintings.
2024.08.22

Established Artists

Articles Artist Bahc Yiso Stood on the Border and Looked Through the Gaps in the World With ‘Honesty’ in His Heart Bahc Yiso (1957-2004) was one of the most prominent artists who played an important role in the Korean art scene, working as an artist, curator, and critic from the 1980s to the early 2000s. Bahc Yiso, whose work since the 1990s has been characterized by conceptual attitudes and features of contemporary art, contributed greatly to the formation of the postmodern discourse in the Korean art world, died at a young age in 2004 after suffering a heart attack.
2024.08.20
Exhibitions 《Korea-Australia Partnership Exhibition New Romance》, 2015.09.22 - 2016.01.24, The inspiration for this exhibition was William Gibson’s 1984 novel Neuromancer. A seminal science fiction work on cyberpunk culture, this novel provides a multi-dimensional depiction of cyberspace through the combination of diverse and lively images.
2015.09.20