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Carefully curates and introduces three representative artists from the Korean contemporary art scene each week since the 2000s.

Mid-Career:
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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《Soft and Hard》, 2024.09.02 – 2024.10.19, Seojung Art Seojung Art Seoul presents 《Soft and Hard》 from September 2 to October 19, a group exhibition that examines our “existence” and the different “bodies” of artistic subjects.
2024.09.01
Articles [Critique] The Artsy Vanguard 2025: Moka Lee Moka Lee’s image of youth is shaped by mobile screens and social media. Born at around the start of Gen Z in Korea, she differs from those born in the early 2010s (Gen Alpha), who grew up with smartphones.
2024

Emerging Artists

Articles [Critique] Pictorial Space: Constructed and Extended Scaffolding is a “temporary structure installed to aid construction works in higher altitudes.” It is typically erected temporarily during construction processes and gets dismantled upon the construction’s completion. Scaffoldings serve as an essential structure during the process of construction as it bridges between
2023.05.05
Exhibitions 《Two-side Love》, 2024.10.23 – 2024.11.23, G Gallery She is the woman hanging from the 13th floor window. Her hands are pressed white against the concrete molding of the tenement building. She hangs from the 13th floor window in east Chicago, with a swirl of birds over her head. They could be a halo, or a storm of glass waiting to crush her.
2024.10.20

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions “Korea Artist Prize 2023” on View Through March 31, 2024, at MMCA Seoul The National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA), Seoul will host the Korea Artist Prize 2023 from October 20, 2023 to March 31, 2024.
2023.10.25

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989》, 2023.10.21 – 2024.02.11, Philadelphia Museum of Art Korean contemporary artists Suki Seokyeong Kang, Hayoun Kwon, Do Ho Suh, Michael Joo, Byron Kim, Park Chan-kyong, Yeondoo Jung, and Kyungah Ham are participating in the group exhibition 《The Shape of Time: Korean Art after 1989》 at the Philadelphia Museum of Art. This exhibition marks the first large-scale Korean contemporary art show in the United States since 2009, presenting diverse works by 28 artists that encapsulate their collective memory of the significant societal changes occurred during the late 1980s in Korea.
2023.10.20

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Pre-Established Artists

Activities 120 Million Won ‘BTS Painting’ A 120 million won ‘BTS picture’ appeared. This is a new oil painting by Hong Kyoungtack, who is a representative artist of domestic con
2019.07.12
Activities Photographer Won Seoungwon Selected as the Recipient of The 23rd DongGang Photography Award This year’s recipient of The 23rd DongGang Photography Award, Won Seoungwon, has consistently presented highly elaborate digital “composite prints,” in which she meticulously cuts and assembles countless individual images—photographed by herself—on a computer to construct a single scene drawn from memory or imagination.
2025.04.18

Established Artists

Activities Presidential Commendation in the Visual Arts Category of the Republic of Korea Culture and Arts Award Professor Koo Bohnchang (62), of the Department of Photography and Media Arts at Kyungil University, has received the Presidential Commendation in the visual arts category at the 47th Republic of Korea Culture and Arts Award.
2015.11.16
Activities Kang Hong-Goo (Seoul) Wins the 7th DongGang Photography Award Kang Hong-Goo (52, photo), a Seoul-based artist, has been selected as the recipient of the 7th DongGang Photography Award at the 2008 DongGang Photo Festival. Although Kang majored in Western painting at the graduate school of Hongik University, he has pursued photographic practices that merge diverse media,
2008.06.12