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New Artists

Articles [Critique] Strangers' things: why Moka Lee is a social media scavenger The Korean artist creates haunting art using anonymous selfies.
2025
Exhibitions 《Memory Beneath The Ego, Fantasy Above the Ego》, 2023.09.21 – 2023.11.26, SNUMoA From September 21 to November 26, 2023, the Seoul National University Museum of Art (Director: Sangyong Sim) presented the exhibition 《Memory Beneath The Ego, Fantasy Above the Ego》, focusing on surreal and imaginative art by young contemporary artists.
2023.09.20

Emerging Artists

Activities “Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art,” the First English-language Anthology Focusing on Contemporary Korean Artists from the Millennial Generation, Has Been Published Skira editore and SONGEUN announced the publication of Future Present: Contemporary Korean Art by Andy St. Louis, a survey of Korean artists from the Millennial Generation.
2024.06.10
Articles [Column] The Eye of an Observer Searching for Treasures Cho Ho Young’s works are filled with a sense of bustle. Because she visually translates what she feels about the countless movements—namely “verbs”—performed in everyday life, a distinctive energy generated from these actions radiates from her work.
2019

Mid-Career Artists

Exhibitions 《Korea Artist Prize 2024》, 2024.10.25 – 2025.03.23, MMCA, Seoul The four participating artists in the 《Korea Artist Prize 2024》 exhibition are Hayoun Kwon, Yang Jung-uk, Jiyoung Yoon, and Jane Jin Kaisen. Jiyoung Yoon uses the language of sculpture to focus on the unseen psychology and attitudes of people facing particular situations and events. Infused with stories, her sculptures portray the dynamism of diverse internal states ranging from irreversible sacrifice to earnest prayer.
2024.10.23

Late Mid-Career Artists

Articles [Critique] Between the Peripheral and the Central Searching for the unfamiliar in the most familiar places. We tend to take things for granted, even when they are solely personal.
2013.10.31
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Pre-Established Artists

Exhibitions 《echowords》, 2013.10.10 - 2013.11.08, DOOSAN Gallery DOOSAN Gallery New York is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of Yoo Seungho, 《echowords》, from October 10 to November 8, 2013. The exhibition occupies his recent series of drawings which wittily create the interrelation between text and images in a visual world.
2013.10.08
Articles [Critique] Electric Animism LOn entering the gallery, viewers find themselves plunged into a sci fi pseudo-ecology, the creation of sculptor Choe U-Ram. Scientific explanations, not captions, accompany the works; mechanical organisms creep along through the
2009, 1월
Articles [Critique] Charged Zero
2020.03.05

Established Artists

Activities Monthly Art Selects ‘Best of Young Korean Artists’ The January issue of Monthly Art featured a selection titled ‘Best of Young Korean Artists.’
2003.01.07
Articles [Review] Suh Yongsun’s Drawing of the City: Between Utopianism and Its Reality Not long ago, Korean Colored Painting—The World of Court Painting and Minhwa, a comprehensive study of Korean folk painting, was published after more than ten years of planning.
2015
Articles [Critique] Truth or Rule
2016