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Mid-Career:
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Young Artists

Exhibitions 《We Go》, 2024.03.20 – 2024.04.20, DOOSAN Gallery Kwon Hyun Bhin’s solo exhibition, 《We Go》, envisages movements of objects that have seemingly come to an end. In the title, “we” encompasses the various subjects that a sculpture involves, and “go” represents the many kinds of movements that a sculpture necessitates. Identifying these often requires a few shifts in timeline and adjustments in spatial distance.
2024.03.20
Articles [Column] Moka Lee, a Portraitist of the Social Media Age: “I Capture the Hidden Stories Within Photographs on Canvas” “Rising star.” Though a familiar expression, it is difficult to find a more fitting term to describe Moka Lee, a 1996-born artist who has yet to reach thirty.
2025

Emerging Artists

Articles Artist Kyungmin Sophia Son: Imagining the World After the Anthropocene Kyungmin Sophia Son (b. 1988) is based in London, UK, and works across sculpture, painting, digital imagery, and installation. Within the context of technology’s impact on the Earth, she examines the position of the human, transhumanism, and the complex relationships among diverse species, exploring the challenges faced by a post-Anthropocene world.
2026.04.13
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

Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Merry Shaman’s Theory of Non-discriminating Equality When I first heard about the artist IM Youngzoo, I was on the subway to Incheon and reading her book Odd Rock Force. Not knowing whether she is funny, serious, or smart, I was astonished by her unusual intelligence making mutual
2018

Late Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《My Art is My World - Encounter of the Two Worlds》, 2010.08.27 - 2010.10.10, Gana Art Center What should art think about now, and along what path should it proceed? The past century was, for humanity, a century of trials unprecedented in history. It was such a distinctive era that it necessitates recognition as a separate term—[20th-century human]. It produced a new type of human: one who had “
2010.08.25

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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《Resight/Remind》, 2015.05.21 - 2015.06.28, Gallery Lux For several years, a photography open call titled “Gallery Lux Emerging Artist Award” had been held, but it was temporarily suspended due to circumstances. Following the relocation of Gallery Lux to Ogin-dong, the exhibition 《Resight/Remind》 was organized, bringing together ten artists who had previously been
2015.05.19
Articles [Critique] Minouk Lim’s “Media” Art In The Legend of Angels, French philosopher Michel Serres evokes the world as a vast array of flows: “Winds generate flows of air in the atmosphere; rivers draw flows of water across land; glaciers carve hollows through mountains
2015

Established Artists

Articles [Review] The Power to Spin on Its Own – Reading Park Chan-kyong’s 《Farewell 安寧》 From May 25 to July 2, 2017, Park Chan-kyong held a solo exhibition at Kukje Gallery K2. This solo show, the first in five years, presented thirteen new works. These included the three-channel video-audio work
2017
Exhibitions 《My Own Blind Spots》, 2019.09.21 – 2019.11.02, Commonwealth and Council (LA) Inhwan Oh’s 《My Own Blind Spots》 couples video surveillance with a meditation on the order of seeing and being seen to reveal processes of social and cultural subversion synced across two galleries: Commonwealth and Council and Baik Art.
2019.09.20