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New Artists

Articles Artist Sungsil Ryu: Satirizing Reality through Black Comedy and Fictional Characters Sungsil Ryu (b. 1993) employs black comedy to incisively examine capitalism and individual secular desires that dominate today’s political and social issues in Korea. Through performances, videos, and installations that adopt the format of one-person media broadcasts, the artist satirizes the entangled relationship between Korea’s unique traditional and folkloric values and its neoliberal social structures.
2025.05.26
Articles [Critique] “Why My Sculpture Is Pictorial” The wooden sculptural works of his that I remember have rough surfaces that are neither sufficiently polished nor fully colored. The sculptural forms, which look as if they have been summoned from a tree trunk standing in the ground with a sincere gaze, support a three-dimensional sense that rotates in the verticality of a cylinder.
2022.03.04

Emerging Artists

Exhibitions 《Here and There》, 2025.03.20 – 2025.04.30, Galerie Lelong & Co. (Paris) "I dream a lot" says Hyunsun Jeon. In her paintings, she tries to capture the diffuse feelings that persist when you wake up, when what remains of your dreams are impressions, colours and hybrid shapes – impossible syntheses of real memories. But Jeon's painting, however dreamlike, is above all driven by a concrete quest: what is an image, what is representation ?
2025.03.18
Activities Hyunsun Jeon Wins Excellence Award at the 20th SongEun Art Award Hyunsun Jeon Wins Excellence Award at the 20th SongEun Art Award The 20th SongEun Art Award has announced its winners, naming artist Youngjoo Cho as the grand prize recipient.
2021.01.11

Mid-Career Artists

Articles Artist Choe Sooryeon Recontextualizes Traditional "Oriental" Clichés Choe Sooryeon (b. 1986) observes the aspects of so-called "Oriental-style" imagery and how it is consumed, reflecting these observations in her paintings. To do so, she collects traditional cliché images shared across Northeast Asia from classic Korean and Chinese films. Based on these images, her paintings reveal themes of sorrow, femininity, disconnection from reality, inner Orientalism, doubt, ignorance, and absurdity.
2025.02.18

Late Mid-Career Artists

Activities 'Youngjoo Cho Wins Grand Prize at the 20th SongEun Art Award' Youngjoo Cho, a media artist, was selected as the Grand Prize winner at the 20th SongEun Art Award. Other winners included Ifie Sin, Jong Oh, and Jeon Hyunseon, who each received Excellence Awards.
2021.01.10
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《SUMMER CINEMA : Rho Jae Oon Project in Avenuel》, 2024.10.11 – 2024.11.03, Lotte Gallery Avenuel Rho Jae Oon (b. 1971) creates video works and web-based films by collecting and re-editing images, texts, and sounds gathered from the internet, grounded in his understanding of the history, techniques, and meanings of cinema.
2019.06.20
Articles Artist Jina Park Reconstructs Fleeting Fragments of Everyday Life Through Painting Jina Park (b. 1974) captures countless fleeting moments of everyday life through photography and reconstructs them into paintings.
2024.12.10

Established Artists

Exhibitions 《To Breathe – Constellation》, 2024.03.13 – 2024.09.23, Bourse de Commerce – Pinault Collection As part of the 《Le monde comme il va》 exhibition, South Korean artist Kim Sooja presented a carte blanche entitled 《To Breathe – Constellation》 from March 13 to September 23, 2024.
2024.03.10
Articles [Review] A Wish for a Harmonious World – Ik-Joong Kang Solo Exhibition 《The Moon Is Rising》 (Gallery Hyundai, 2022) Ik-Joong Kang’s solo exhibition 《The Moon Is Rising》, held in Korea for the first time in 12 years, presented a large number of works featuring the moon jar alongside his pixel-like formal structures, prompting curiosity about the relationship between these two motifs.
2022.12