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

Mid-Career:
3 K-Artists This Week

Artist_K-Artist Artist Choi Sujin: Weaving Sensations of Everyday Life and Traces of Time into Painting
2026.08.03
Artist_K-Artist Artist Yooyun Yang: Capturing Contemporary Anxiety Through Light and Darkness 2026.08.03
Artist_K-Artist Artist Mackerel Safranski: Exploring the “External Body” Formed Through Relations with Others 2026.08.03

Mid-Career
K-Artists Library

Artist_K-Artist Artist Yona Lee Dismantles Spatial Boundaries Through Everyday Objects
2025.04.15
Artist_K-Artist Artist Ahnnlee Lee’s Paintings: ‘Gestures’ Formed in Relationship with Natural Objects
2025.03.11
Artist_K-Artist Artist Woosung Lee: Portraying the Youth of Today’s Society
2025.03.04
Artist_K-Artist Artist GaHee Park’s Idealized Eroticism: Normalizing the Taboo
2025.03.04
Artist_K-Artist Artist Chu Mirim’s Painting: Capturing Digital Nostalgia and Urban Sensibility
2025.02.25
Artist_K-Artist Artist Jeongsu Woo’s Allegorical Paintings of Contemporary Times
2025.02.18
Artist_K-Artist Artist Jang Pa’s Paintings on Otherized Senses
2025.02.18
Artist_K-Artist Artist Choe Sooryeon Recontextualizes Traditional "Oriental" Clichés
2025.02.18
Artist_K-Artist Artist Lee Eunsil Reveals Primal Desire Through the Form of Korean Painting
2025.02.11

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Young Artists

Articles Artist Jinhee Kim: Revealing the True Self Through Light and Mundane Everyday Life Jinhee Kim (b. 1990) has continued a painting practice that captures light and trivial everyday moments, transforming the daily lives of the self, others, and the collective “we” into imaginative images. Having spent many years abroad, the artist seeks to reveal through painting how the distinct traits and minority status of an individual, different from the majority, endlessly operate across time and space to shape reality.
2025.11.24
Exhibitions “Take My Eyes Off” on View Through July 20, 2025, at Buk-Seoul Museum of Art Buk-Seoul Museum of Art presents a group exhibition 《Take My Eyes Off》 on view through July 20. 《Take My Eyes Off》 is an exhibition that examines painting―entangled in a turbulent affair with ‘vision’ and ‘image’―and highlights the strategies of contemporary painting.
2025.05.06
Exhibitions 《Go Up to Your Neck in Love》, 2021.10.16 – 2021.11.02, Onsu Gonggan
2021.10.15
Exhibitions 《Light and Crystalline》, 2020.03.26 – 2020.04.25, ONE AND J. Gallery
2020.03.24
Exhibitions 《I swim to cry》, 2020.05.14 – 2020.06.17, SONGEUN ARTCUBE
2020.05.10
Activities ARKO Art Center Launches ‘2025 ARKO DAY’ Amid Busy September Art Fair Season
2025.08.26

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Glow Breath Warmth》, 2020.12.28 – 2021.02.10, WESS Keem Jiyoung’s solo exhibition, 《Glow Breath Warmth》, will be held at WESS from December 28 to February 10.
2020.12.26
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
Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published
2024.06.10
Articles Artist Seoul Kim: A Meta-Exploration into Painting as a Classical Medium
2026.03.16
Exhibitions "Tenses" on View Through July 5, 2025, at Whistle
2025.06.10
Exhibitions 《Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age》, 2022.10.28 – 2023.01.08, Ilmin Museum of Art
2022.10.26

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Shamanism, Engineering, and Art – The Transitional Domains in Beak Jungki’s Works The "artist as shaman" was one of the most popular artistic models of the 20th century, favored by both art professionals and the general public. It is ironic that at a time when avant-garde art—destructive and iconoclastic in nature—was gaining momentum
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Activities 240 Million KRW in Support… Who are the Winners of the 8th DOOSAN Yonkang Arts Award?
2017.10.20
Articles [Critique] The Age of Darkness Seen through a Digital Mirror
2020
Exhibitions 《The First Here, and the Last on the Earth》, 2024.10.11 – 2024.11.03, Oil Tank Culture T1 2024.10.10

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critiqe] Kang Seung Lee's Gardens of Hope, Ex-votos of Symptoms: Paganism and Queer There are two people: Derek Jarman (1942–1994) and Oh Joon-soo (1964–1998). The two both died in the mid-1990s due to AIDS-related complications. The two were also involved in a gay rights movement prior to their demise.
2019.06.13
Activities Noblesse Collection Participates in “West Bund Art & Design” with 10 Korean Artists
2022.11.11
Articles Suki Seokyeong Kang’s ‘Paintallation’: On the True View
2025.01.28
Activities White Cube Seoul Opening Exhibition… Spotlight on Korean Artist Lee Jinju 2013.10.02

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Pre-Established Artists

Activities Im Sunny, Selected as a 6th Artist-in-Residence at the 2015 Incheon Art Platform. We would see in our coded viewpoint based on what's already domesticated and learned in this society. Im Sunny looks for the invisible power through the various media, such as image, painting and drawing.
2015
Articles [Critique] Painting as an Active-Passive Collaboration: An Aesthetic Discourse on Sunny Kim’s Paintings, Practices, and Ways People’s attitude towards art tends to be more conservative than progressive. This is especially true when it comes to painting, with its long history and ingrained values. For the majority of people, any painting by Leonardo da Vinci is automatically a masterpiece, by default.
2017
Exhibitions 《OLD & NEW: Creating the New by Honoring the Old—Contemporary Artists Celebrate Kansong》, 2016.09.10 - 2016.10.23, Kansong Art Museum
2016.09.08
Activities Minouk Lim Received Asia Arts Game Changer Award
2024.05.16
Articles [Critique] The Questions Raised by Park Meena’s Painting
2024
Articles [Column] Meeting Yeondoo Jung, an Artist of Media
2018.08.04

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Songs from knee to nose》, 2016.05.25 – 2016.07.10, MMCA, Gwacheon 《SONGS FROM KNEE TO CHIN - A PROJECT BY SORA KIM》 is a prologue to the special exhibition that will celebrate the 30th anniversary of the MMCA Gwacheon as well as a sound performance project by Sora Kim that is being held for the first time in the newly refurbished Gallery 1 space of the museum.
2016.05.25
Exhibitions 《Kibong Rhee – the Cloudium》, 2012.05.18 - 2012.07.15, ARKO Art Center The 2012 exhibition 《Arko Artist of the Year: Kibong Rhee – the Cloudium》 examines the practice of Kibong Rhee, who has consistently maintained a distinctive body of work grounded in sensory perception since the 1980s.
2012.05.11
Exhibitions 《Tschoon-su Kim》, 2019.05.01 - 2019.06.20, Gallery Shilla
2019.04.29
Exhibitions 《MOCA Collection: Abstract It!》, 2011.03.25 - 2011.05.25, National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Korea
2011.03.23
Activities Noblesse Collection Participates in “West Bund Art & Design” with 10 Korean Artists
2022.11.11
Exhibitions Gana Art Collection “80 Urban Reality” on View Through August 4, 2024, at Seoul Museum of Art, Seosomun Main Branch
2023.06.05