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New Artists

Exhibitions 《Mechanics of Stress》, 2023.03.08 – 2023.04.05, DOOSAN Gallery Production of innovative technology requires not only extensive labor but also vast material inputs. In the process, harmful substances, many of which cause serious physical damage and illness to workers, are generated. Yet these health issues are often silenced, dismissed as individual misfortunes, or obscured by layers of gender and social inequality.
2023.03.07
Exhibitions 《Dark Factory》, 2025.06.05 – 2025.06.12, MMCA, Changdong Residency Curated by Andrew Cummings and Julia Colletti, researchers-in-residence of the 23rd Changdong Residency at the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, the exhibition 《Dark Factory》 unfolds through site-specific installations and the flickering rhythms of projected images,
2025.06.05
Articles [Critique] Winter Bud
2025

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
Articles Artist Ahra Kim: Reinterpreting Tradition in a Contemporary Artistic Language at the Intersection of Architecture, Sculpture, and Painting Ahra Kim (b. 1989) has developed a practice that moves across the boundaries of architecture, sculpture, and painting, exploring new formal languages at their intersection. In particular, she has focused on the structural aesthetics of traditional Korean architecture and interprets them through abstraction.
2026.04.06

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Green Screen》, 2022.08.23 – 2023.01.29, Leeum Museum of Art Sojung Jun is an artist working in diverse mediums including video, sound, sculpture, and publication, to create non-linear space and time that evokes new perceptions of history and the present. Exploring ways in which change of physical boundaries penetrates everyday sensual experiences, she traces the scenes, moments, and voices of the people excluded from our contemporary sense of speed.
2022.08.20

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Garden》, 2018.11.22 – 2018.12.22, One and J. Gallery One and J. Gallery will present Kang Seung Lee’s solo exhibition, 《Garden》, opening on Thursday, November 22. In this exhibition, Kang Seung Lee will showcase drawings, installations, and video works that honor and document the lives of Derek Jarman (1942–1994) and Oh Joonsoo
2018.11.20
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Pre-Established Artists

Activities A glow-in-the-dark skateboard rink in front of an outlet mall… Koo Jeong A's "NEGAMO" In the outdoor space in front of the main entrance of ‘Time Villas’, a Lotte Premium Outlet that opened on September 10 in Uiwang, Gyeonggi Province, a distinctive structure has taken its place.
2021.10.13
Exhibitions 《Chemical》, 2021.05.26 – 2021.06.30, DOOSAN Gallery DOOSAN Gallery presents 《Chemical》, a solo exhibition of new works by Hyungkoo Lee from Wednesday, May 26 to Wednesday, June 30, 2021. As DOOSAN Residency New York’s first resident artist, Lee participated in DOOSAN Gallery New York’s inaugural exhibition 《D AiR》 in 2009 and held the solo exhibition 《Eye Trace》 at DOOSAN Gallery Seoul in 2010.
2021.05.25

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《RENT》, 2022.10.14. - 2022.11.10, Amado Art Space 《RENT》 is an exhibition that explores the capitalist use of land and the idea of private land ownership through the language of painting. In our contemporary world, where everything is commodified based on the principles of capital, the land is also predominantly perceived solely
2022.10.07
Activities Kim Sooja Wins the 34th Fukuoka Prize Kim Sooja gained international presence as an artist for her work based on Asian culture during the 1990s, when modern art broadened its Western-centric horizons to include more diverse cultures.
2024.05.29