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New Artists

Exhibitions 《My Early Adulthood Pilgrimage Is Wrong, As I Expected》, 2021.02.09 – 2021.02.23, Instant Roof In 2020, artist Hyun Nahm embarked on a trip to Japan, undertaking a "pilgrimage" to locations featured in the anime adaptation of the light novel My Teen Romantic Comedy SNAFU (commonly abbreviated as OreGairu), a series he has long admired.
2021.02.07
Exhibitions 《Exoskeleton》, 2024.04.26 – 2024.06.08, P21 Their internal anatomy externalised, exoskeletons are both haven and spectacle, offering shelter and concealment for the animals they encase. Our perceptions, often focused on our external existence, obscure our enigmatic
2024.04.25

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions “Architecture, Space Time Scenarios” on View Through July 7, 2024, at SeMA Seosomun Main Branch The Seoul Museum of Art presents “Space Time Scenarios” from April 4 to July 7 at its Seosomun Main Branch.
2024.04.02
Exhibitions 《Seoulites》, 2021.07.16 – 2021.09.09, Museumhead Love is a confrontation of two parties, who stand facing one another. They meet, experience an overflowing of emotion, and, in some cases, end up going their separate ways—all while facing one another.
2021.07.16

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Then, Fly Away》, 2019.11.07 – 2019.12.19, DOOSAN Gallery (New York, USA) DOOSAN Gallery New York presents Hayoun Kwon’s solo exhibition, 《Then, Fly Away》, from November 7th to December 19th. Kwon, who is the 2017 recipient of the 8th DOOSAN Artist Award, lives and works between France and South Korea.
2019.11.06

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Orange Sleep》, 2023.01.05 – 2023.02.12, ONE AND J. Gallery When done alone it would be just daily routine whereas with two people, it becomes an event. Sleep is the state required for survival, a part of normal life, an act bearing a sexual image.
2023.01.01
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Pre-Established Artists

Articles [Critique] Good Sleep, Bad Sleep, and Bizaare Sleep The dramatic rescue of 33 miners trapped 700 meters underground for 69 days; I watched the scene live on the internet in Amherst, a small town in Eastern U.S.
2012
Articles [Critique] Dream of the Extended Automata: Choe U-Ram's Mechanical Life Forms Consequently, each part contains in itself springs whose forces are proportioned to its needs. Let us consider the details of these springs of the human machine. Their actions cause all natural, automatic, vital, and animal movements. Does the body not leap back mechanically in terror
2013

Established Artists

Articles [Column] Do Ho Suh’s "House Built from Memory" - A Private Space That is Both Solid and Fluid Do Ho Suh (b.1962) has continuously translated his spatial experiences across major cities such as Seoul, New York, and London into architectural installations.
2021
Articles Artist Yoon Dongchun Wittily Satirizes the Absurdities of Society by Looking at Everyday as Art Representing the pluralistic trend of Korean contemporary art in the 1990s, artist Yoon Dongchun (b. 1957) has developed a consistent body of work under the theme of “the everydayization of art, the artification of everyday life.” The keyword “everyday” that runs through his work refers to the zeitgeist of our lives in Korea’s modern society, an exploration of the unique characteristics of Korean contemporary art that has adopted Western art, and a search for an alternative methodology of contemporary art by deconstructing and reconstructing the hierarchy between artist, artwork, and audience.
2024.07.23