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2016.01.01

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New Artists

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 Artist Jo Jae's Abstract Painting: At the Intersection of Reality and the Digital World Jo Jae (b. 1990) focuses on the ways in which the real and digital worlds expand through processes of mutual imitation, leading to the dissolution of boundaries between them. Interested in the intersection of reality and the virtual, the artist materializes fragmented digital images—circulated through screens—into the forms of painting and sculpture, thereby physically visualizing the interaction between the two realms.
2025.06.30

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Sculptural Performance, Performative Sculpture Moon Sujin tests premises or assumptions we think we already know. She does so by applying artificial force to materials such as soil or plaster, or by performing, through the body, biases or perceptions that go routinely overlooked.
2022
Exhibitions "Tenses" on View Through July 5, 2025, at Whistle Whistle presents a group exhibition 《Tenses》 curated by KIM Sung Woo (Curator / Founder of Primary Practice).
2025.06.10

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《How Are you Feeling Today?》, 2023.03.16 – 2024.02.12, Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art (GMOMA) Gyeonggi Museum of Modern Art presents its Collection Exhibition 2023 titled 《How Are you Feeling Today?》. This exhibition will summon the works related with the theme of ‘consolation’ amid our collection formed through 15 years of collecting history at GMoMA.
2023.03.16

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Essay] Story of Mutant 'Jaguar' From this time, I would like to explain how various animals in the work, from the tire mutant series to the recently started New mutant series, are revealed in the author’s work under the theme ‘Story Of Mutant’. This time, as the first, we introduce the Jaguar series, an early works.
2020.12.21
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven》, 2025.09.04 – 2025.11.02, Culture Factory Hyundai Motor Company announced on Wednesday, September 3, that 《Hyundai Translocal Series: Entangled and Woven》, the first exhibition of the Hyundai Translocal Series, will be presented from Thursday, September 4 to Sunday, November 2 as a special exhibition of the Cheongju Craft Biennale 2025.
2025.09.03
Articles [Review] Abstraction that Occupies the Surface and Taps the Space The solo exhibition 《LUCID》 by Nakhee Sung at PIBI Gallery successfully transfers the spatial sensibility constructed within her two-dimensional works to the exhibition space itself. At the same time, by placing two earlier works at the end of the show, the exhibition hints at the continuity of her artistic trajectory
December, 2020

Established Artists

Activities REAL DMZ PROJECT 2015: Lived Time of Dongsong The REAL DMZ PROJECT Committee is pleased to present the 《REAL DMZ PROJECT 2015: Lived Time of Dongsong》. From August 13th to 23rd, 2015, this contemporary art festival will take
2015.08.11
Activities Korean Artists to Shine at the Venice Biennale Main Exhibition Contemporary artists Yeesookyung (54) and Sung Hwan Kim (42) have been invited to participate in the main exhibition of the world’s most prestigious art event, the Venice Biennale.
2017.02.14