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Young Artists

Articles Artist Gijeong Goo: Exploring the Human-Machine-Nature Relationship Between Reality and Virtuality Gijeong Goo (b. 1990) has been working on recreating real-life landscapes as digital images based on 3D rendering, and translating them into physical spaces through video and installation. Encompassing multilayered experiments with media, Goo's practice navigates the boundaries between reality and virtuality, exploring the relationships among humans, machines, and nature.
2025.05.19
Articles Artist Eunsi Jo: Exploring the Meaning of Existence through 'Irresistible Structures' and the Principle of 'Resemblance' Eunsi Jo (b. 1999) focuses on “irresistible structures” beyond human control—such as family, the food chain, and natural disasters—as well as on the principle of “resemblance.” Drawing on the interrelations between the individual and the community, and between the part and the whole, she presents distinctive paintings that unfold the meaning of existence through forms resembling signs, symbols, and diagrams.
2025.11.03

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《The Raw》, 2022.05.03 – 2022.05.29, Incheon Art Platform As part of the Emerging Curator Training and Support Program at Incheon Art Platform, four participating curators present the culminating group exhibition 《The Raw》. Beginning with the entrenched and stereotyped notions of love shaped by patriarchal structures,
2022.05.03
Exhibitions 《Flags》, 2019.01.31 – 2019.02.23, DOOSAN Gallery New York This was the headline of an article featuring interviews with Korean secondary school students serving in the Youth Assembly. When I read the article some time ago, I was reminded of a conversation I had with my mother two years ago.
2019.01.31

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Yona Lee’s object lessons In Yona Lee’s work, the quotidian takes on new forms. Chairs, fans, lamps and beds are placed into looping metal structures, forcing a new perspective on an ordinary thing. Stainless steel tubes interlink with one another,
2025

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Essay] Artist Kim Jipyeong Embraces Both Korean Traditional Art and Contemporary Art Korean traditional painting has undergone various changes in response to the country’s tumultuous history. However, it wasn’t until the mid-1990s that the genre’s medium, technique, and subject matter began to undergo a rapid transformation.
2022.10.22

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions “Cloud Walkers” on View Through January 8, 2023, at Leeum Museum of Art Leeum Museum of Art is holding the exhibition “Cloud Walkers“ from September 2, 2022 to January 8, 2023. The exhibition features forty-five artworks by twenty-four artists from various fields, including contemporary art, architecture, design, music, and literature.
2022.09.19
Activities Gwon Osang participating in the Arcane art collaboration Riot Games announced on the 18th that it will present artworks inspired by the League of Legends (LoL)-based animation ‘Arcane’ in collaboration with six contemporary artists.
2021.10.18

Established Artists

Activities Do Ho Suh Wins Storefront for Art and Architecture’s Artist of the Year Award Do Ho Suh, recipient of the 2013 Innovator of the Year Award in Art from WSJ. Magazine, recently held a solo exhibition at Storefront for Art and Architecture.
2015.04.12
Activities Photographer Atta Kim’s Photo Book Published in the United States A photo book by photographer Atta Kim titled The Museum Project has recently been published in New York. ‘The Museum Project’ is Kim’s representative body of work. The series consists of photographs created by shaving the heads of male and female models,
2005.04.04