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Young Artists

Articles [Critique] What if – Jihyoung Han Solo Exhibition 《Them So Good》 (BYFOUNDRY, 2023) What if I could live as a different being for a few hours? What if I were multiplied or disappeared? What if I lived in a world where only women exist? What if furs grew suddenly all over my body and horns appeared on my head? What if either I or you transformed into a half-human, half-animal creature? What if I became one of them or fell in love with them?
2023.11.10
Articles [Critique] What to Do After Photography: Critical Review of the Exhibition 《Super-fine》 at Ilmin Museum of Art "Understanding photographic media, whether old or new, is completely impossible unless one captures its relationship with all other media."[1] This statement by Marshall McLuhan, made in passing while organizing the complex structure of the media world, provides an important clue for understanding contemporary art mediums, despite being originally addressed in a different context.[2]
2021

Emerging Artists

Activities Grim Park, Nohwan Park, and Donghoon Rhee Named Finalists of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’ Following its successful conclusion, Kiaf SEOUL announced the three final winners of the ‘2025 Kiaf HIGHLIGHTS’: Grim Park (THEO), Nohwan Park (Space Willing N Dealing), and Donghoon Rhee (Gallery SP).
2025.09.16
Exhibitions 《Korean Traditional Painting in Alter-age》, 2022.10.28 – 2023.01.08, Ilmin Museum of Art Korean traditional painting refers to “hwa” (畵, painting) as distinct from “suh” (書, calligraphy) among “suh-hwa” (書畵) that make up a significant branch in Korean traditional art. In other words, Korean traditional painting is a modern genre distinct from traditional art and naturally,
2022.10.26

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Fun and Games》, 2024.02.24 – 2024.04.06, Perrotin New York Perrotin is pleased to present 《Fun and Games》, an exhibition of new paintings by GaHee Park. On view through April 6th, the exhibition consists of nine artworks that showcase her hyperstylized romantic scenes, where art history's favorite still life subjects appear to have soured.
2024.02.22

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Somewhere Underneath》, 2014.12.04 – 2014.01.31, HADA Contemporary (London) HADA Contemparary presents the first UK solo exhibition by Ham Jin (b.1978). He has been best known for his dark and whimsical sculptures, which often incorporated banal objects transforming them into subjects of his wild creativity. This exhibition will bring all new works by the artist that clearly denotes his progression into abstraction that embody the boundless fragile unconsciousness and its beyond.
2014.12.01

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Pre-Established Artists

Activities Minouk Lim Wins the Hermès Missulsang Artist Minouk Lim (40) has been selected as the winner of the “2006 Hermès Missulsang (Kore0a Art Prize),” awarded by Hermès Korea to emerging Korean artists. Jury chair Seol Won-ki (professor at the Korea National University of Arts) stated that the decision recognized “Lim’s strong potential for future development and her engagement with the pressing issues of contemporary society.”
2007.03.07
Exhibitions 《Sensory Garden: Night Falls, Light Fulls》, 2021.09.01 – 2021.12.31, Asia Culture Center The exhibition 《Sensory Garden: Night Falls, Light Fulls》 was designed to provide visitors with an opportunity to appreciate a peaceful walk despite the overwhelming challenges we have all faced with the COVID-19 pandemic which has taken over the world. We hope that our visitors will be able to open all their senses to fully experience the feast created by poetry, music, scents, art, and light at night through the brilliant artworks set up along the trail of the Asia Culture Center (ACC).
2021.09.01

Established Artists

Exhibitions “INKONG ARCHIVE” on View Through May 10, 2025, at PIBI Gallery PIBI Gallery will present a special exhibition, 《INKONG ARCHIVE》, from March 26 to May 10, showcasing archival materials and artworks from Inkong Gallery, one of Korea’s first-generation contemporary art galleries that paved new paths in the Korean art scene.
2025.03.18
Activities Do Ho Suh’s Public Figures to Be Displayed at the Smithsonian The Smithsonian’s National Museum of Asian Art (NMAA) in Washington, D.C., USA will install Do Ho Suh: Public Figures, a sculptural work by the renowned Korean contemporary artist Do Ho Suh (62).
2024.03.03